A New Field Guide to Confirmation (with Colin MacIver)
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Confirmation can be a powerful turning point in our relationship with Christ. Today, Jeff and Colin MacIver from Ascension talk about the beauty of the sacrament of Confirmation and point us to a new resource- The Catechist’s Field Guide to Confirmation- that will prepare confirmation candidates for an impactful encounter with the Holy Spirit.
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The sacrament of Confirmation is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is permanent, it makes a powerful and lasting change in the soul.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show, episode 179, a new field guide for confirmation with Colin |
| 0:08.7 | MacGyver. |
| 0:09.7 | Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:18.6 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff |
| 0:25.3 | Kaven show. The evening in my life that I remember more than any other evening as far as having an impact on my relationship |
| 0:37.1 | with the Lord was in 1971 when I was confirmed. |
| 0:43.6 | I was confirmed in May of 1971. |
| 0:46.2 | And I remember that night very well. |
| 0:47.9 | And if I forget all I have to do is look at my book |
| 0:50.2 | because there's a picture of me standing there |
| 0:52.4 | as a young man with a new Bible and it was that night that something happened to me that changed my life forever and I got a hunger for the word of God that night and I remember saying to my dad |
| 1:04.9 | dad what just happened I was confirmed what happened and my dad said well |
| 1:09.7 | you're you're an adult in the church and that's about all I knew. |
| 1:13.8 | I memorized a few of the questions that the Bishop might ask. |
| 1:17.6 | He didn't ask me any questions. |
| 1:19.4 | But that night, I took that Bible and I put it on my bedstand and there I looked at it, I smelled it, my hands |
| 1:27.2 | went through it. There was something special about that night for me. |
| 1:32.4 | I look back now and I see that the seeds of hunger |
| 1:35.6 | for God's word, I think were put into my heart |
| 1:39.6 | in a big way on the night that I was confirmed. We're going to be talking today with Colin |
| 1:44.4 | MacGyver. Colin MacGyver is a friend of ours at Ascension Press and he |
| 1:49.1 | has devoted himself to teaching. In fact he teaches at St. Scholastica Academy. Where is that? |
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