Sacrament Of Confirmation Paper

As I first began volunteering and focused on the task of cleaning up, I worked a pasta dinner where I was able to realize how Confirmation fit into my work. I was able to be lucky enough to work along side one of my friends and with the people of her parish to make the pasta dinner possible. This pasta dinner was the biggest fundraiser of the year and demanded us to be dedicated enough to the service. Throughout the night I went around serving and cleaning up meals. We ended up running out of pasta and supported one another throughout the night to keep going, even as people grew impatient. Us volunteers not only comforted one another, but the people at the pasta dinner so that there would not be an upset. The Catechism teaches that one of the effects of confirmation is that “it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ (CCC 1303). This effect of a “special strength” causes a bond of trust to form, similar to what I experienced the night of the pasta dinner. We gained …show more content…
I was lucky enough to participate in keeping my city clean by removing graffiti from city property and picking up cigarette butts from the sidewalks. My friend Mia and I spent a great deal of time trying our hardest to remove graffiti from a dumpster when a man approached her and told us that we would not be able to remove the graffiti and that we should give up. This hurt a little since we were spending a lot of time attempting to remove the graffiti and the word was barely fading, but this did not stop us. We persevered and ended up fading the paint enough so that it was not as noticeable as when we started and then moved on to removing more graffiti. It reminded me of how through confirmation we are strengthening our faith and given the wisdom to practice our faith more religiously/