1. Incorporation into the church
2. Cleansing from Original Sin
3. Indelible Mark
4. Regeneration (symbolism of water)
5. Enlightenment
6. Justification (righteous)

What is the connection between Confirmation and Baptism?

What does Confirmation deal with?

1. Confirmation of one's baptism into the community and is anoiting with Chrism and laying on of hands
2. The Holy Spirit; what happened to the Apostles at Pentecost happens to us

1. Sealed with the Holy Spirit in the anointing with Chrism (symbolism of oil)
2. What happened to the Apostles at Pentecost happens to us
3. Indelible Mark (the power of the Holy Spirit)
4. Perfects the "Deputation to Cult"

1. All sacraments are geared towards this
2. Is the completion of the sacraments of initiation
3. In other sacrament we celebrate the power of Christ, in this we celebrate the person
4. Is the highest form of the Church's worship
5. Most efficacious symbol of our union with God the Father, through Christ, in the Spirit
6. Is a memorial of the Paschal Mystery (life,death, resurrection)

1. Healing was an essential aspect of Christ's ministry and tremendous sign of God's Kingdom
2. The Church continues Jesus' ministry by commending sick to the suffering and Glorified Lord
3. Often delayed until closer to death

1. Change that occurs (across) the whole substance
2. In the consecration, the reality of bread and wine cease to be and are replaced by the reality of Christ (body, blood, soul, and divinity)

1. Taking
2. Blessing
3. Breaking
4. Sharing

1. Male and Female: The love of God is mirrored in the spousal love of men and women
2. Proper context for sexual relationship
3. Covenant vs Contract
4. Agape Love

1. Marriage is intended to be a mutual commitment of self to another
2. Cannot be dissolved (except under special circumstances)

1. The mission of Christ to the Apostles is continued in the Church until Christ comes again
2. Contains three levels

1. Deacon (Diakonia)
2. Priesthood (Presbyterate)
3. Bishops (Episcopacy)

1. The reality of Sin
2. Celebration of God's unbounded mercy
3. Conscience (turning into the Voice of God)
4. Ten Commandments and the Greatest Commandment

1. To see the world and ourselves in a new way
2. Prayer, action, or work of service
3. Call to continue to conversion

1. The ministry of the church
2. Only God forgives
3. Priest; Christ brings pardon (remission)

1. Open invitations to experience relationship more deeply though symbolic experience
2. Human desire to express this relationship
3. Surrender to God
4. Make sacred our lives and calls us to mission and to extend grace into the world around us
5. Calling to recognize each human life as sacred

1. Enable us to situate ourselves as subjects withing a socially/culturally organized world (American flag)

1. Fitting together
2. Crystallization
3. Recognition
4. Submission to the communal "other"

1. Baptism
2. Confirmation
3. Eucharist

1. These are sacraments that celebrate the different ways in which God calls Christians to carry out their loves of faith
2. The sacraments reflect the way that God loves us (gift of self) and call us to relationship

1. Marriage
2. Holy Orders

1. Sacraments that celebrate God's healing mercy through Christ's presence and the grace of the Holy Spirit
2. These sacraments continue Jesus' healing ministry and offer forgiveness of sins and loving support from the community

1. Reconciliation
2. Annointing of the Sick

1. Body of Christ
2. Bride of Christ
3. Communion of Saints
4. People of God
5. Pilgrim Church
6. Servant
7. Leaven in the World
8. Temple of the Spirit

1. Institution
2. Mystical Communion
3. Sacrament
4. Herald
5. Servant
6. Community of Disciples

1. Visible/Hierarchical Structures
2. Emphasis on authority
3. Bonds of union are external
4. Ordained: teach, rule, sanctify
5. "Perfect Society'

1. Wisdom
2. Knowledge
3. Understanding
4. Cousel (Right Judgment)
5. Piety
6. Fortitude
7. Fear of the Lord

1. Affects our human nature
2. The radical power is taken away (the individual is now bound to the Community of Faith that rejects sin)
3. Is clensed away during Baptism

1. Unites the Church
2. Directs our concern for the poor
3. Helps us prepare for and focus on our eschatological end (God)
4. Prepares us for union with God