ST MARY MACKILLOP PARISH, BIRKDALE
  • Home
  • Our Parish
    • Our Patron
    • Parish History
    • Parish Councils
    • Safeguarding
    • Columbarium
    • Our Parish School
  • Mass & Prayer Times
  • Ministries
  • Sacraments
  • Young Adults
  • NEWS
  • Contact
    • Forms & Downloads
    • Privacy Policy
    • Bequest
    • St Mary MacKillop School

The sacrament of confirmation

19/8/2018

0 Comments

 
Dear friends

Next week is we will celebrate the sacrament of confirmation in our Parish. This is a momentous occasion for the life of those to be Confirmed and also for their sponsors, family, friends and the life of the Church.

The sacraments of baptism, confirmation & holy orders are all sacraments that cannot be repeated. These sacraments change our very being and therefore our relationship to God and the world. Perhaps, baptism is the most dynamic change that we ever experience. In baptism we are born into eternity, we are refreshed and washed in the life-giving waters of the Trinity, we become the Church; the mystical Body of Christ.

In the sacrament of Confirmation our candidates will receive a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The sacrament “does” what it says, it confirms the candidates’ baptism. That is why the renewal of the candidates’ baptismal promises is so important. The renewal of baptismal promises is a significant event in the life of the Church and the candidates are further initiated into the Church as they speak for themselves. These promises made in a public forum in front of a bishop is a moment of great joy.

​The candidates will receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and like the Pentecost event will be commissioned to go and, “spread the Good News to all nations”. Let us pray this week for all our candidates, their sponsors and their families.

God bless
Fr Thomas
Newsletter
Top of the page
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

St Mary MacKillop Catholic Parish
​Pastor: Fr. Frank Jones
Associate Pastor: Fr. Prem Rethnamony 


12 Hardy Road, Birkdale QLD 4159
Phone: 07 3822 2139      |       Fax: 07 3822 4060
Email: birkmmack@bne.catholic.net.au


Office Hours:   Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9am to 1pm​
Emergency Contact: (07) 3207 4566

ADMIN LOGIN
  • Home
  • Our Parish
    • Our Patron
    • Parish History
    • Parish Councils
    • Safeguarding
    • Columbarium
    • Our Parish School
  • Mass & Prayer Times
  • Ministries
  • Sacraments
  • Young Adults
  • NEWS
  • Contact
    • Forms & Downloads
    • Privacy Policy
    • Bequest
    • St Mary MacKillop School