What does it mean, concretely, for the baptism of Christ and the church movement is that confirmation? What makes? What makes more than the baptism? We are immersed in the works of God Now let's see how God works
God is love: the three people working in perfect union. But - as we believe that talking about - their joint action is not the same: everything starts from the Father, everything is made by the Son sent by the Father, everything is brought to completion by the Holy Spirit sent by the Father and the Son.
So the Father creates the world, it creates through the Son, and to make it gush forth life. Always will. To use an image, the traditional analogy: the Father is like the arm from which the strength and movement and the Son is like running your hand, the Spirit is like the finger that refines and completes. So the divine persons form a whole, always act together and do the same thing in the same order, but at different stages: the Father designs, the Son creates, the Spirit perfects. ...
The Holy Spirit is therefore the artist gives the finishing touches to the works of love del Padre e del Figlio, esegue le rifiniture.
Così è per la chiesa. La pentecoste è il compimento della pasqua. Alla risurrezione, i discepoli riconoscono Cristo, credono in lui, sono "battezzati" da questo incontro personale con il Risorto; ma restano limitati, paurosi, tappati dietro i loro muri. Il dito di Dio, lo Spirito Santo, li metterà "a punto" con la pentecoste. E questa "messa a punto" continua oggi per noi attraverso la nostra pentecoste: la confermazione.
Con il battesimo entriamo a far parte della famiglia di Dio, "passiamo dalla morte alla vita", diventiamo dei "viventi": è iniziata la nostra risurrezione.
Con la confermazione lo Spirito ci rende "vivificanti", diffusori di life. In other words, baptism is born of God makes us, makes us children of the Father in Jesus' confirmation by the witness and the spread of this life that is in us, makes us spiritual fathers and mothers, in imitation of Mary, mother of the church.
Through baptism we are "called" and justified, to be glorified (Rom. 8:29-30), with confirmation are "sent" to make disciples of all nations (Mt 28:19) and to this end are clothed with power (Luke 24 , 49).
Through baptism we become "disciples", we are the church that hears the word and meditating in his heart and put it into practice, with confirmation, without ceasing to be disciples, we are "prophets", we are the church who speaks, who Jesus Christ announced that catechizes, reaching their seats, their languages \u200b\u200band their cultures, all nations that are under heaven, and above all the peoples of our living and working environments, so different and so in need of God
As baptized Christians, the church is for us a family, a house, where we served, fed, educated and consulates (pampered), washed and made white and edited ... with the risk of being simple consumers, as confirmed, the church became a labor camp, an 'assumption of responsibility for a community to animate, to guard, to expand, to multiply actively, each according to his ability and grace received.
The Spirit makes us active and responsible members of the life and mission of the church and building a more just and fraternal society. With the baptism
"we put on Christ" (Gal 3:27) because he lives in us. With the confirmation, we are now able to radiate, like the saints, from which came the power of the Spirit that benefits everyone.
Finally, the baptized person professes the truths of faith, penetrates it confirmed. Jesus had predicted: "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth ... and he will shew you things to come" (Jn 16.22, cf. Jn 14:26).
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