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Gifts of The Holy Spirit
By Peace | June 7, 2008
Just went to St Anthony’s Church website to see their photographs again. My computer has lots of problems since Monday. Reformat already and all the photographs I saved previously was gone. So now I had to go back there to save some photographs.
As I was looking through the photographs, I was taken back by this photo. It was what I dreamed of, the colour of the wall exactly the same in my dream — the day was Wednesday. I was dreaming, and then when I awoke, it was raining so heavily. It was about 6am. Both Richard and I woke up to close the windows. It was a special day because it was Chinese calendar 1st May, the day I asked for a mass for the souls (my mother, my godmother and I contributed the money for this mass). It was the death anniversary, don’t know how many years already, for my 4th aunt, maternal aunt, my mother’s sister. She died of cancer.
I had forgotten the dream, but it involves walls, and the most striking things I remembered was the colour of the walls and people around. Really no idea what the dream was about now and even on that day when I was awoken by the rain. I can only know it was a coloured wall, ‘orangish yellow’ wall, and it was this one shown above.
When I was young, sometimes I see certain things, I have the feeling that I had ’seen before’. I can still remember the moment now. It was the sight of a plug and wire, at the position of my old Boon Lay house kitchen which I had the experience like that. That was my first time having this kind of experience.
Dreaming of Confirmation and catechism matters as well. Before all these, I had always had dreams. Now that I think back, it was all real, not ‘coincidence’. It was the ’spirit’ telling me something.
So I looked at Sacraments, Confirmation and it was written as below (taken from St Anthony website): The roots of confirmation are found in Acts of the Apostles 8:14 - 17, “Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.” See also the Gospel of Saint John, chapter 14 where Christ speaks of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles.
In the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, Confirmation, known also as Chrismation, is one of the seven sacraments instituted by Christ for the conferral of sanctifying grace and the strengthening of the union between individual souls and God.
From this fact, Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:
* it roots us more deeply in the divine filiations which makes us cry, “Abba! Father!” (Romans 8:15); This is true, I experienced it, it was touching, real touched.
* it unites us more firmly to Christ; This I also felt. My first time was seeing the cross, with the body of christ on it. That was what I know, and I prayed to Jesus…
* it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us;
* it renders our bond with the Church more perfect; Well, learning, and what interest me are the altar boys, the colours of the ‘vestments’, the ‘rituals’ and all the signs and symbols, ‘interesting’, all so ‘foreign’ to me. I do not want to just ‘accept’ something without any meaning to it.
* it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word And action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross. Yes, I am proud to be a Roman Catholic, knowing it is the truth and the real powerful God, one real and true God in this world, the creator of this world. It is so pathetic how the truth is twisted and how Catholics all ‘cancelled’ their names and divert away from Catholicism or even become ‘unbelievers’, so scary….
And as mentioned, I really, really feel so grateful, so feel honoured to receive and be a witness of Christ, and even to SEE and HEAR it for myself. Indeed it was amazing, unbelievable, ONLY I was ‘aware’ of it. These are special gifts given to me by the Holy Spirit, the gifts of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control.
Sacraments of Initiation
Meaning of Sacraments
The Seven Sacraments
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