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2 Accepting God’s Call
Your Confirmation will strengthen the relationship with God that began
at your Baptism.
   • Understand the ways God has called human beings throughout the ages
• Explore the covenant between God and his people
• Understand that responding to God’s call means par cipa ng in the sacramental life of the Church and being faithful to Catholic beliefs, the Commandments, Jesus’ law of love, and
the Bea tudes.
Objectives
This lesson will help the young people
• Gain insight into God’s call to each of us
  Key Ideas
• In Con rma on, we are strengthened to make our own commitment to the special rela onship with God that began at Bap sm.
• Our rela onship with God requires being faithful to Catholic beliefs.
• Our rela onship with God also calls for us to follow the Commandments, Jesus’ law of love, and the Bea tudes.
• Our rela onship with God calls for us to par cipate in the sacramental life of the Church.
Background and Insights
Responding to God’s Love
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us:
“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he  nd the truth and happiness he never stops searching for:
‘The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists, it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him
in existence. He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator’” (CCC, 27).
In this unit, the young people learn that God has been revealing himself and reaching out in love to human beings throughout history. Evidence for this is recorded in the Bible:
In each of the covenants (solemn agreements) God has made with humanity, he offers a promise and calls for a response to his promise. God promised Noah and Abraham good things and asked that they be faithful to him. God promised the Hebrew people a land of their own and asked them to obey the Ten Commandments.
Then God made a covenant that is for all people: God sent Jesus to save all people from sin and
to make it possible for them to have eternal life. What response does this call for? At Pentecost, the Jews who saw what happened when the Apostles received the Holy Spirit asked Peter and
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