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(August 2020) Baptism & Confirmation GO MAKE DISCIPLES August 2020, No. 4 BAPTISM & CONFIRMATION Do you know the date of your Baptism? It was the greatest day of your life! Baptism is the primary IN VIRTUE OF BAPTISM sacrament which leads us into relationship with WE BECOME MISSIONARY God through Jesus Christ; we are spiritually born “ DISCIPLES, CALLED TO “ again, as we die to the old, unredeemed self and rise in the power of Jesus’ death and resurrection. BRING THE GOSPEL Baptism literally changes our identity; we become an TO THE WORLD. adopted son or daughter of the Father. God loves us so, that who Jesus is by nature, i.e. the Son, is generously shared - POPE FRANCIS with us in the waters of Baptism. Our sonship or daughtership in the Father is called the divine filiation. Through Baptism, Christ welcomes us into the Church, His Mystical Body; from the Church, we hear God’s saving Word, we share in the sacraments, we receive moral YEARLY FORMATION direction and enjoy the prayers of the saints in the sacred communion of Christ’s Bride. NEWSLETTER TOPICS The Church is our Mother, our family, our home—the sacred place where we become the missionary disciples, the saints that God calls us to be. Like any good mother, the Church EASTER 2020 births, feeds, heals, forgives, directs, and loves us unto eternal life. It all begins in The Paschal Mystery Baptism. JUNE 2020 Evangelization JULY 2020 In this first sacrament, we are washed clean of original sin. We are born into a fallen Discipleship world, warped and misshaped by generations of sin, selfishness, and wrong moral choices. Moreover, we experience that fallen nature within us; left to our own devices, we AUGUST 2020 will often choose naturally for selfishness over God and others. Christ saves us from all of Baptism and Confirmation that—the unredeemed self—as He picks us up and puts us on the path of salvation, SEPTEMBER 2020 grace, and holiness. Reclaiming Sunday OCTOBER 2020 Originally the final anointing of Baptism, the sacrament of Confirmation has evolved over Interior Life: Prayer the centuries as a completion of the first sacrament and a full reception of the Holy Spirit. NOVEMBER 2020 Our participation in the grace of Pentecost, Confirmation powerfully equips us to go Interior Life: Mortification forth as missionary disciples to live out the Great Commission of witnessing to Jesus and DECEMBER 2020 His saving Gospel. These two sacraments are fundamental, joining us to Christ and the Confession Church and grounding our very being in the universal call to holiness and our life as JANUARY 2021 participation in the Blessed Trinity. Goodness FEBRUARY 2021 Beauty MARCH 2021 A NOTE FROM BISHOP HYING Truth APRIL 2021 New Methods DIOCESE OF MADISON Page 1 GO MAKE DISCIPLES August 2020, No. 4 Both Baptism and Confirmation specifically SANCTIFYING GRACE empower us, through grace, to be missionary disciples. As missionary disciples, we are called to AND EVANGELIZATION bring the gospel to the world through the work of LINDSAY FINN evangelization. This mission we are given in Baptism is not accomplished by following a For many of us, the two most important days of our program or prescribed set of instructions. lives are ones that we have no memory of. On the Missionary disciples know Jesus Christ as their day of our birth, we took our first breaths in the beloved, and they desire to make him known to world, and on the day of our Baptism—for many of others. us as infants—we were re-created as beloved children of our Heavenly Father and called into the Pope Francis has preached, “No one is saved by family of the Church. This was accomplished himself. We are the community of believers, we are through the gift of sanctifying grace. the People of God and in this community we share the beauty of the experience of a love that On this day of our Baptism, we were taken up into precedes us all, but that at the same time calls us a story and adventure, which is the mystery of God to be “channels” of grace for one another, despite 4 made man in Jesus Christ. As St. Ambrose wrote in our limitations and our sins.” his Treatise on the Sacraments, “See where you are baptized, see where Baptism comes from, if not Having meditated on the graces given to us in from the cross of Christ, from his death. There is these great sacraments and given gratitude to God the whole mystery: he died for you. In him you are for them, we should spend time praying about who redeemed.”1 in our life God wants us to share him with—boldly, in word and action. The gift of faith given to us in Baptism is meant to grow into adulthood, with the Easter Vigil calling There is no greater gift to have received than to be forth our recommitment to our baptismal called into God’s family at Baptism, set free from promises.2 In Confirmation, the gifts and graces of original sin and destined for life eternal in heaven. our Baptism are increased and deepened. These The more one embraces this sacramental reality, sacraments are given to help us live within the the more one’s life changes—pushing one forward story of our salvation, in union with Jesus Christ. in the adventure of making the mystery of Christ known to others. A particular effect of the sacrament of Confirmation __________________________ is a “special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread [1] St. Ambrose, De sacr. 2, 2, 6 and defend the faith by word and action as true [2] CCC 1254 witnesses to Christ, to confess the name of Christ [3] CCC 1303 boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross.”3 [4] General Audience, 15 January 2014 DIOCESE OF MADISON Page 2 GO MAKE DISCIPLES August 2020, No. 4 FURTHER STUDY TIPS FOR PARISH LEADERSHIP RECOMMENDATIONS Spend this month considering the profound mission you CATECHISM were entrusted with at the day of your Baptism, which • Baptism, 1213 - 1284 was strengthened in your Confirmation. Pray about the • Confirmation, 1285 - 1321 gifts and effects of Baptism and Confirmation daily. Make a plan to go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, as TO READ it will help to activate more of the baptismal graces in • Pope Paul VI, Voi Forse Sapate your life. • Marcellino D’Ambrosio, Confirmation and Our Lord's Baptism Consider what your engagement with families bringing • Pope Saint John Paul II, 09 1998 Audience on Confirmation their children to your parish for these two sacraments of • Pope Francis, 01 2014 Audience on Baptism and initiation. Talk with your parish and school staff about the New Evangelization how to best teach about this precious gift. • Pope Francis, 12 2020 Homily - Baptism of Our Lord • St. Ambrose, On the Mysteries and Treatise on If you or others in your family were received into the the Sacraments Church at Baptism but were never Confirmed, know that • Scott Hahn, Swear to God it is never too late to approach the subject. Reach out to • Archbishop Luis Martinez, The Sanctifier your Pastor to begin the conversation about what the process looks like at your parish. AUDIO + VIDEO • Fr. Mike Schmitz, We Must Go Out • Bishop Barron + Word on Fire, The Sacraments FORMATION IN THE PARISH QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR PERSONAL REFLECTION LEADERSHIP MEETINGS - What does it mean to be an adopted son or daughter - What stands in the way of you fully and enthusiastically of God? When’s the last time you went to Confession living your life as a baptized and confirmed Catholic? and restored that relationship? - What gaps do our parishioners and families have in - Do you think of Baptism as the greatest gift you have their knowledge of the sacraments? How can we share ever received? about them more effectively? - How do you live differently each day as a baptized - What can we do to help our parishioners understand person? the great gift they have received at Baptism and - If you are a parent, how are you helping to nurture the Confirmation, as well as the demands it places on graces and gifts given at Baptism to your children? them? What is the day of your baptism? How can you celebrate it each year as a little feast day? DIOCESE OF MADISON Page 3 GO MAKE DISCIPLES August 2020, No. 4 TIMELINE UPDATES AND ACTION ITEMS • Principals and school staff members should be preparing for the SOWDI year, which will consist of studying along with these monthly newsletters according to an adapted schedule. • This summer, pastors and the parish Evangelization Lead will begin to invite staff and/or parishioners to join your Evangelization Team. Take advantage NOW of 3 months FREE training courses for your parish staff and leaders at Revive Parishes. Start with the course on missionary discipleship, and then we would recommend the course on evangelization. Browse the other courses available and ask other key leaders in your parish or school to take the course most applicable to them. Beginning Advent 2020, the Bishop is asking every parish to make concerted efforts to help all members of their community to do four things: (1) re-claim Sunday as the Lord's day; (2) pray 15 minutes every day, especially with Scripture; (3) observe Fridays as days of penance throughout the year; (4) make a monthly confession. Reflect on your own fidelity to these basic Catholic practices and start thinking about how they could be cultivated more effectively in your own parish and/or school.
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