Page 3 - Gifted with the Spirit Senior High
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                                   We Pray
  Leader: Let us pray that each Con rma on candidate this year, in our parish and around the world, will be prepared to meet the challenge of mature discipleship in Christ.
All: Come, Holy Spirit,  ll the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the  re of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth. Amen.
With a partner, discuss which of the ? situa ons below represents a fully
Catholic response by a teen in real life.
Talk about what you might try to do in each
situa on and what you might advise a friend
1 to do in similar circumstances.
REBECCA plays guitar in a rock group. Her parish music director asks her to join the parish folk group that plays for the Saturday evening liturgy. Rebecca thinks the other players in her rock group will probably make fun of her for ge ng involved in Church music
2 but she decides to give it a try.
NATHAN pulls his family’s ancient van into the driveway. He is relieved to  nd that no one else is home. He plans to pretend that he knows nothing about the dent in the bumper. Any one of the family’s three teen drivers could have caused it. Besides, he tells
3 himself, it isn’t as if the van is such a great car.
MOLLY pretends not to see Jada, her top academic rival, as Jada arrives at school. Halfway up the sidewalk, Jada, who is hurrying, loses her balance and falls. Molly takes a photo with her cell phone and, before Jada can even get up, Molly is pos ng the
4 photo online.
ALEX and STEPHEN are good friends. They have been invited to a party where they are pre y sure there will be alcohol. If Alex’s baseball coach  nds out he was at a party where alcohol was served, Alex will have to sit out the next three games. Alex does not want to drink anyway. But Stephen says that Alex is being boring and mocks him for not wan ng to go. Alex decides to go to the party but is determined not to drink.
       Activity 1
     The Journey of Initiation
In the early Church, those who wanted to become members of the Christian community were called catechumens. They prepared to become fully initiated members of the Church in a process called the catechumenate.
Catechumens worked closely with their sponsors, learning about God’s promise throughout history and about its ful llment in Jesus as Lord and Christ—the Messiah. They learned about the life, teachings, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus.
They also learned how the power
of Jesus was still present within
the community of his followers. The catechumens participated in serving the needs of the community. They learned how members of
the community shared the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They listened to Jesus’ voice in the words of their teachers. Through the Gospels, they heard Jesus’ voice echoing the words of the prophets. They saw how God guided the decisions of the community’s leaders.
At various stages in this process of initiation—of developing the life
of faith in and through Christ and the early Church community—the catechumens were interviewed to see if they were making progress in the Christian way of life.
Finally, during the Easter Vigil, those to be baptized were fully initiated. What we now know
as three separate sacraments— Baptism, Con rmation, and the Eucharist—were all celebrated together to initiate catechumens into the Church.
In Baptism, they walked into a pool of water and were immersed as a symbol of dying with Christ. After
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