Please read the handouts (can be found on the handouts page)
on Confirmation by Bishop Sheen and James Seghers. In light of the readings, answer
the following two questions with a short essay for each.
(Each question must have a response of at least 200 words.)
1. How do you see the Gifts of the Holy Spirit working in
your life?
I see
the Gifts of the Holy Spirit working in my life through my faith. I have been
practicing the Catholic faith since I was baptized as a baby. I have been
attending mass almost every Sunday since then. Of course when one is younger,
mass is not really taken all too seriously. Partly because a five year old does
not really know what is going on symbolically throughout the mass yet. But
through the years of going to mass and attending Catholic school, I came to
know the meaning of mass. During Confirmation, the Holy Spirit is working to
bring the person being confirmed closer to God and to better understand his
ways and works. Every gift is hopefully being explored by the confirmed and is
being strengthened and used daily. The Holy Spirit is an important aspect of
the trinity, bringing the seven important spiritual gifts one needs to be truly
one with God. My faith has grown
stronger by attending mass and it has to be because the work of the Holy Spirit
in my life strengthening my faith in God. The Holy Spirit has helped me grow
stronger through my prayers and grow closer in my relationship with God.
2. Which Gift of the
Holy Spirit do you think you need the most in your life today?
The
gift of courage is what I need most in my life today. I need to be brave. I
need to have courage to face my future which is frighteningly growing closer
every day. High school is finally ending and a new chapter of my life is
unfolding. I don’t know exactly what is going to happen yet and that is scary.
I do not know which college I am going to yet. I am sure of my major but what
if I do not like it when I start. I will be living away from my parents for the
first time, which does not sound too bad right now but it is still something new
that I have never really experienced. My grandmother is possibly moving back to
the Philippines in next year or so and that thought is always haunting me, bringing
me to tears sometimes. The idea of having to be so independent in basically
half a year from now makes me nervous. Courage is a gift of the Holy Spirit
that I definitely need right now. Everything in my life is about to break away
from a pattern that has pretty much been my life for eighteen years. It sounds over dramatic but it really is different from what I have been experiencing. 
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