The RITE

of the
SACRAMENT
of
CONFIRMATION

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 RITE OF CONFIRMATION
Within the mass
INTRODUCTORY RITES
Commentator: Let us all stand.

GREETINGS

Bishop: In the name of the Father, and of the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen.
Bishop: Peace be with you.
All: And with your spirit.
PENITENTIAL ACT
Bishop: Brethren, let us acknowledge our sins, and
so prepare ourselves to celebrate the
sacred mysteries.
Bishop: I confess to almighty God…
All: …and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I
have greatly sinned, in my thought and in
my words, in what I have done and in what
I have failed to do, Through my fault,
through my fault, through my most
grievous fault.
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 Therefore, I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints, and you, my
brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the
Lord our God.

Bishop: May almighty God have mercy on us,

forgive us all our sins, and bring us to
everlasting life.

All: Amen.
Bishop: Glory to God in the highest…
COLLECT
Bishop: Let us pray.
Grant, we pray, almighty and merciful God,
that the Holy Spirit, coming near and
dwelling graciously within us, may make of
us a perfect temple of his glory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity
of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and
ever.
All: Amen.

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 Commentator: Please be seated and let us now
listen to the readings.

I. LITURGY OF THE WORD

FIRST READING
Acts 2: 1-4

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,

they were all in one place together. And
suddenly there came from the sky a noise
like a strong and driving wind, and it
filled the entire house in which they were.
Then there appeared to them tongues of
fire, which parted and came to rest on each
of them. And they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and begun to speak in
different tongues, as the spirit enabled
them to proclaim.

The word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

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RESPONSORIAL PSALM:

R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face

of the earth.

1. Bless the LORD, O my soul!

O LORD, my God, you are great indeed!
You are clothed with majesty and glory,
robed in light as with a cloak.

R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face

of the earth.

2. You fixed the earth upon its foundation,

not to be moved forever;
with the ocean, as with a garment, you covered it;
above the mountains the waters stood.

R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face

of the earth.

3. You send forth springs into the watercourses

that wind among the mountains.
Beside them the birds of heaven dwell;
from among the branches they send forth their
song.

R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face

of the earth.

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 SECOND READING
Galatians 5:16, 22.225

A reading from the first letter of Saint Paul to the

Galatians.

Brothers and Sisters, live by the Spirit and you will

certainly not gratify the desires of the flesh. The
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and
self-control. Now, those who belong to Christ have
crucified their flesh with its passion and desires. If
we live in the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit.

The word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

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GOSPEL John 20:19-23
Priest/Deacon: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit.
Priest/Deacon: A reading from the holy Gospel
according to John.
All: Glory to you, O Lord.
Priest/Deacon: On the evening of the first day of
the week, when the doors were locked,
where the disciples were for fear of the
Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you”.
When he had said this, he showed them his
hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced
when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them
again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has
sent me, so I send you.” And when he had
said this, he breathed on them and said to
them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins
you forgive are forgiven them, and whose
sins you retain are retained.”

Priest/Deacon: The Gospel of the Lord.

All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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 Commentator: Please remain standing.

After the Bishop blesses the people with the Gospel Book,

Commentator: Please be seated.

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 THE RITE OF CONFIRMATION

(Presentation of the Candidates for Confirmation)

Commentator: We shall now have the

Presentation of Candidates by Rev. Fr.
(Parish Priest)
_________________.

Parish Priest: Most Reverend Danilo B. Ulep, the

parish of ___________ presents to you
these _____ young men and _____
women who have prepared for and are
now ready to receive the Sacrament of
Confirmation.

Commentator: As a sign of our approval, let us

give our candidate a round of applause
by clapping our hands.

Commentator: Let us now listen to the Homily.

HOMILY

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 Commentator: May we now ask all the candidates
for confirmation to light their candles.
Candidates for Confirmation, please
stand. We shall now have the Renewal
of Baptismal Promises. Parents and
visitors, please remain seated.
RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL PROMISES

(After the Homily, the candidates stand. The Bishop, seated and with
the miter and crosier, leads the candidates in the renewal of their
Baptismal promise. All others in the assembly remain seated.)

Bishop: Before you receive the Holy Spirit, I ask you

to renew the profession of faith that you
made in Baptism, or that your parents and
godparents made in union with the whole
Church.
Bishop: Do you reject Satan and all his works and
all his empty promises?
Candidates: I do.
Bishop: Do you believe in God, the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth?
Candidates: I do.

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Bishop: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, His only
Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin
Mary, was crucified, died, and was buried,
rose from the dead, and is now seated at the
right hand of the Father?
Candidates: I do.
Bishop: Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the
Lord, the giver of life, who came upon the
apostles at Pentecost and today is given to
you sacramentally in confirmation?
Candidates: I do.
Bishop: Do you believe in the holy Catholic
Church, the communion of saints, the
forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the
body, and life everlasting?
Candidates: I do.
Bishop: This is our faith. This is the faith of the
Church. We are proud to profess it, in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
All: Amen.
Commentator: May we ask everybody to stand. We
shall now have the Laying on of Hands.

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 LAYING OF HANDS
(The Bishop puts aside the miter and crosier; he stands and says)

Bishop: My dear friends, in baptism, God our

Father gave the new birth of eternal life to
his chosen and out the Holy Spirit to
strengthen his sons and daughters with
His gifts and anoint them to be like Christ,
the Son of God.
All-powerful God, Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ,
by water and the Holy Spirit,
you freed your sons and daughters from sin
and gave them new life.
Send your Holy Spirit upon them to be their
Helper and Guide.
Give them the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of right judgment
and courage,
the spirit of knowledge and reverence.
Fill them with the spirit of wonder and awe
in your presence. We ask this through
Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.

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 THE ANOINTING WITH CHRISM
Bishop: N_________, be sealed with the gift of the
Holy Spirit.
Candidates: Amen.
Bishop: Peace be with you.
Candidates: And with your Spirit.

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 PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
Bishop: My dear friends, let us be one in prayer to
God our Father as we are one in the faith,
hope, and love his Spirit gives.

Response: Lord, hear our prayer.

Leader: For these our brothers and sisters in God,
confirmed by the gift of the Spirit, that they
may give witness to Christ by lives built in
faith and love. Let us pray to the Lord.
All: Lord, hear our prayer.
Leader: For our parents and godparents who led us
in faith, that by word and example they
may always encourage us to follow the way
of Jesus Christ. Let us pray to the Lord.
All: Lord, hear our prayer.
Leader: For the holy Church of God, in union with
our Pope, Francis, Most Reverend Danilo
B. Ulep our bishop and all the bishops, that
God, who gathers us together by the Holy
Spirit, may help us grow in unity of faith
and love until his Son returns in glory. Let
us pray to the Lord.
All: Lord, hear our prayer.
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Leader: Enkindle to all our teachers and school
students entrusted to them and as they
facilitate the acquisition of their knowledge,
may they lead us by their good examples. Let
us pray to the Lord.
All: Lord, hear our prayer.
Leader: For all men of every race and nation, that they
may acknowledge the one God as Father and in
the bond of common brotherhood seek his
Kingdom, which is peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit. Let us pray to the Lord.
All: Lord, hear our prayer.
Leader: Make us share with others the new life you give
us today and never let us turn away from you,
because of sin. Let us pray to the Lord.
All: Lord, hear our prayer.
Bishop: Father, hear our prayer for these children
and their families. May Jesus come to them
today more fully. May his life in them bring
your spirit of love to all those around them.
We ask you this through your Spirit of
Love.
All: Amen.
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 II. LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Commentator: Please be seated for the
Liturgy of the Eucharist.

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS

Bishop: Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours

may be acceptable to God,
the almighty Father.

All: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your

hands, for the praise and glory of his
name, for our good and the good of all
his holy Church.

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 PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS

Bishop: Receive in your mercy, O Lord,

the prayers of your servants
and grant that,
being conformed more perfectly to your
Son,
they may grow steadily
in bearing witness to him,
as they share in the memorial of his
redemption,
by which he gained for us your Holy
Spirit.
Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

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 PREFACE I OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
(THE SENDING OF THE SPIRIT BY
THE LORD UPON THE CHURCH)

Bishop: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.
Bishop: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
Bishop: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right and just.
Bishop: It is truly right and just, our duty and
our salvation,
always and everywhere to give you
thanks,
Lord, Holy Father, almighty and eternal
God,
through Christ our Lord.
Ascending above all the heavens
and sitting at your right hand,
he poured out the promised Holy Spirit on
your adopted children.
Therefore, now and for ages unending, with
all the host of Angels, we sing to you with
all our hearts, crying out as we acclaim:
SANCTUS
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts…
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 EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II
Bishop: You are indeed Holy, O Lord, the fount of all
holiness.
Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray,
by sending down your Spirit upon them like
the dewfall, so that they may become for us
the Body + and Blood of our Lord, Jesus
Christ.
At the time he was betrayed and entered
willingly into his Passion,
He took bread and, giving thanks,
broke it, and gave it to his disciples,
saying:

TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT

OF IT,
FOR THIS IS MY BODY,
WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.

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 In a similar way, when supper was ended,
he took the chalice and, once more giving
thanks, he gave it to his disciples, saying:

TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK

FROM IT,
FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY
BLOOD,
THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND
ETERNAL COVENANT,
WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR
YOU AND FOR MANY FOR THE
FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.

Bishop: The mystery of faith.

Commentator: Please stand.
All: We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess
your Resurrection until you come again.

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Bishop: Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of
his Death and Resurrection, we offer you,
Lord, the Bread of life and the Chalice of
salvation,
giving thanks that you have held us worthy
to be in your presence and minister to you.
Humbly we pray that, partaking of the Body
and Blood of Christ, we may be gathered
into one by the Holy Spirit.
Concelebrant: Remember, Lord, your Church,
spread throughout the world, and bring
her to the fullness of charity, together
with Francis our Pope and Danilo our
Bishop and all the clergy.
Remember also, Lord, your servants
whom you have been pleased to confirm
today by bestowing the Holy Spirit and
keep them in grace.

Concelebrant: Remember also our brothers and

sisters who have fallen asleep in the
hope of the resurrection, and all who
have died in your mercy.
Welcome them into the light of your
face. Have mercy on us all, we pray,
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 that with the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother of God,
with Blessed Joseph, her spouse, with
the blessed Apostles, and all the Saints
who pleased you throughout the ages,
we may merit to be coheirs to eternal
life, and may praise and glorify you
through your Son, Jesus Christ.

Bishop: Though him, and with him, and in

him, O God almighty Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all
glory and honor is yours, forever and
ever.
All: Amen.

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 III. THE COMMUNION RITE
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Bishop: At the Savior’s command and formed by
divine teaching we dare to say:
All: Our Father…
Bishop: Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil,
graciously grant peace in our days, that, by
the help of your mercy, we may be always
free from sin and safe from all distress,
as we await the blessed hope and the coming
of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
All: For the Kingdom, the power, the glory are
yours now and forever.
Bishop: Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your
Apostles: Peace I leave you, my peace I give
you, look not on our sins, but on the faith of
your Church,
and graciously grant her peace and unity in
accordance with your will,
who live and reign forever and ever.
All: Amen.

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 Bishop: The peace of the Lord be with you always.
All: And with your Spirit.
Bishop: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

AGNUS DEI
All: Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the
world…..
Bishop: Behold the Lamb of God,
Behold him who takes away the sins of the
world.
Blessed are those called to the supper of the
Lamb.
All: Lord, I am not worthy
that you should enter under my roof, but only
say the word and my soul shall be healed.

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 PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Bishop: Let us pray.

Accompany with your blessing from this

day forward, O Lord,
those who have been anointed with the
Holy Spirit
and nourished by the Sacrament of your
Son,
so that, with all trials overcome,
they may gladden your Church
by their holiness
and through their works and their charity,
foster her growth in the world.
Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.

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 IV. THE CONCLUDING RITES
Bishop: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit.
Bishop: Blessed be the name of the Lord.
All: Now and forever.
Bishop: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
All: Who made heaven and earth.

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SOLEMN BLESSING AT THE END OF THE MASS
(The Bishop, with hands extended over the newly confirmed, says,)

Bishop: May God the Father almighty bless you,

whom he has made his adopted sons and
daughters, reborn from water and the Holy
Spirit, and may he keep you worthy of his
fatherly love.
All: Amen.
Bishop: May his Only Begotten Son,
who promised that the Spirit of truth would
abide in his Church, bless you and confirm
you by his power in the confession of the
true faith.
All: Amen.
Bishop: May the Holy Spirit,
who kindles the fire of charity in the hearts
of disciples,
bless you and lead you blameless and
gathered as one into the joy of the Kingdom
of God.
All: Amen.

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 Bishop: And may almighty God bless you, the
Father, + and the Son, + and the Holy +
Spirit.

All: Amen.

Bishop: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord by

loving
and serving one another.

All: Thanks be to God.

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