Confirmation Gifts

Confirmation strengthens a baptized person with the gift of the Holy Spirit, empowering them for their mission to spread and defend the faith. According to the USCCB, "Confirmation is the sacrament in which a baptized person is sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit" (USCCB, p. 183). The Acts of the Apostles recounts, "Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit" (Acts 8:17).