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When we are Baptised as children, we do so on the
understanding that our parents and godparents will bring us up in the faith
to profess it for ourselves when we reach adulthood. Confirmation is when we
formally take our Baptism vows for ourselves. The adult Christian would come
before the Bishop after due teaching, and in sacramental Confirmation, the
Bishop lays his hands on the candidate saying "Receive the Holy Spirit."
Each Christian should keep a personal Rule of Life. There are notional
Christians who use the label for themselves, but whose practise of the faith
in any real terms is indistinguishable from a nothing faith. Being a
Christian is often misunderstood by them as just being "good." One can be
"good" in works, thoughts or deeds without necessarily being a Christian.
One can be a good father, mother, worker, citizen etc. and have no faith or
belong to another faith. If you are a Christian, you will in some measure
keep and adapt the rule of life on the page below.
As each class develops the content of the class will form another page
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