english

CO NF IR M AT IO N B O O K

Edited by

YOUCAT Team, Augsburg

Bernhard Meuser
Nils Baer

Translated by Frank Davidson

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Content
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1. Getting St ar ted
rmation 9
1.1 Marat hon and Confi
we r 10
1.2 Fully wired for po in you? 11
th e power of God with
1.3 Do you want to feel
12
1.4 God—as your Coach
d YO UC AT 13
1.5 The Bible an
tra ini ng plan 14
1.6 Four steps—t he

2. What We Can Know

abou t God 16
2.1 Why many people
don’t want to know abo
2.2 And what if I can ut God 17
’t find God? 18
2.3 The mir acle of the
little grain of sand 19
2.4 The end of the litt

CONTENT
le gray brain cells 20
2.5 A God who reveal
s himself, and a book like
no other 22
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3. Why the World Is Broken 24
3.1 The South Sea paradise 25
3.2 “I don’t do the good I want to do, but instead I do
the bad things I don’t want to do” 26
3.3 So will it always be that way? 27
3.4 An engineer explains original sin 28
3.5 The key to paradise 29

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han a M e re M a n
s — M o re t
4. Jesu 1
r a film 3 ghts of G
od 32
A g re at idea fo th e th o u
4.1 any film—
tter than Lazarus
34
4.2 Be a by? 32 s tor y of
d — a B e — th e
4.3 Go nd ye t so
divin ab o u t 3 5
S o human a d d o e s not know
4.4 that Go
suffer ing
4.5 No
ie? 36
Jes us Have to D
5. Why Did ? 37
tually suffer
1 W h at did Jesus ac
5.
ller punch 40 is deat h? 41
5.2 The ki h im se lf mean by h
did Je su s an monk,
5.3 What ba ll pl ay er, a Fr ancisc
ale voll ey
5.4 A fem to Hitler 41
an w h o re fused to bow
m
and a mys tery 44
In pl ac e of ot her s—a
5.5

6. The Comeback of Jesus—or the Story

of the Resurrection 46
6.1 The destruction of a legend 47
6.2 Let’s get out of here! 48
6.3 A world religion is born 49
6.4 A twinge of doubt—a “flash mob” of God? 51
6.5 Scenes from a comeback 53
6.6 And what does Jesus’ comeback have to do with us? 55

7. In Search of the Holy Sp

irit 56
7.1 The most sensible religion in
the wor ld 57
7.2 One, two, or three? Or what?
57
7.3 The great Unknown 58
7.4 The Holy Spirit and your hea
rt—
Pentecost for you and me as
well 59
7.5 Why not hing seems to satisfy
my heart 60
7.6 Make me beautiful wit hin 61
7.7 The fruits of the Holy Spirit
63

uch wit h
r— S t a y ing in To
ye
8. Pr a iving God 68
h e L
t 69 9
hat is pr
ayer? Teresa 6
8.1 W y w it h Mot her
o pr a
ar ning t 71 wor ld 75
8.2 Le f Pr ayer
L it t le S hool o
c
t p r a y e r s in t he
8.3 A t impor t
an
T h e two mos
8.4
9. The Church—a Home for You and
Me 78
9.1 The Church is not a club for the
perfect 79
9.2 If you want to underst and the
mys tery of the Church 80
9.3 You are the body of Christ 81
9.4 You are the temple of the Holy
Spir it 82
9.5 You are the People of God 83
9.6 A little bit of organization 83

God 86
—the Generosity of
10. Eucharist
iendship? 88
Li tt le gi ft s to nurture fr
10.1 ng 89
mas ter of givi
10.2 God—a self to us 90
sus gave him
10.3 How Je Jesus 91
e fi ve “mis takes” of

CONTENT
10 .4 Th
it? 94
we ge t out of
10.5 What do
gler ’s stor y 95
10.6 A smug 6

11. Update! Confession! 96

11.1 The thing that messes you up 97
11.2 How God gives us a new beginning 98
11.3 What makes a good Confession? 98
11.4 What sorts of things should I confess, then? 99

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o n fi r m ation? 1
app ens in C
at H it 103
12. Wh at hap pens in
, and wh
The r ite

Sources 110
Photographs 111
m a r at h o n a nd c o nf i r m at i o n
1 Ge tting St ar ted
Hi!

Suppose you want to run a marathon—in New York, say, or

in London. You won’t succeed without training. You have to
start running at least half a year in advance. Then you’re go-
ing to have to start upping the tempo and the distance. And
if you’re really going to be serious about it, then maybe you’ll
even need to change your diet, to give up those yummy French
fries and those irresistible chocolate bars. The reward you get
for your effort is the feeling of how, week by week, your body 300

starts to feel finer and fitter. Then finally the day of the race Why do we have to
work to form our
arrives. Others are soon gasping for breath, but you seem to
character?
have all the energy you need and find yourself well to the front

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of the field.

It’s a little bit like that with this Confirmation course that you
have started on. Here, too, you need to start at least half a
year beforehand in order to be really geared up for a very big 8

event. Maybe you’re saying to yourself now: “What, run a mar- 9

athon—that would be crazy! But Confirmation—I’ll get that

1.1 M A R AT HON A ND CONF IR M AT ION

anyway, so why make more effort than I have to? Okay, so let’s
make the comparison:

1.1

Marathon and Confirmation

With a marathon it’s your In Confirmation it’s important

physical strength that is to prepare your soul, your inner
being tested self

In a marathon you draw In Confirmation you take divine

on your own reserves of power into yourself (on which
strength you can later draw)

A marathon increases In Confirmation God himself

your self-confidence affirms your identity as his
as a person beloved child and co-worker
Obviously, you can’t really compare running a marathon with
receiving Confirmation. You can choose to run a marathon, or
you can choose not to. And the truth is, it doesn’t matter in
the least whether you ran in London or New York, whether you
came in 1st or 577th or last of all—or, in fact, whether you
even ever ran a marathon in the first place.

34 But not to seek God even though you know that he exists—
What should you that is simply crazy! Completely wrong! And that’s the point of
do once you have
Confirmation: You have a unique opportunity to discover God,
come to know God?
to open your heart to him, and to let him come right up close
to you.

1.2 Fully wired for power

Have you heard of Mother Teresa? She was a great holy
woman who gave her life to the poorest of the poor and did
not shrink from tenderly nursing beggars and outcasts, even
the infectious, diseased, and dying ones. Whenever she had a
spare moment of time, on a train or a plane maybe, she would
snatch up a scrap of paper and, in her wobbly handwriting,
scribble down a few important things about God, things from
which we can learn a lot.
This is the note she once made (she didn’t write “Confirma-
tion” at the top, but that’s exactly what she meant):

Often you can see power lines

running alongside the street. Un-
less current is flowing through them,
there is no light. The power line is you
and I! The current is God! We have the power either to allow
the current to flow through us and thus to generate the
light of the world: JESUS—or to refuse to be used
and thus to allow the darkness to spread.
Five powerful sentences. All you need to know … Read them
over three times! Or five times! Or ten times! If you have com-
pletely understood them, then you can ring up your bishop
this very moment and say, “Please confirm me! Immediately!
I have understood everything!” But maybe that would be a
bit like ringing up your trainer and telling him, “I’ve figured
out the secret of the marathon. Put my name down for New 301

York right away!” Your trainer would probably turn around and How does a
person become
laugh and then ask: “So how many races have you actually run?
prudent?
How many miles have you run so far?” And you would have to
answer, “Well, none, actually …” You would feel a fool; in fact,
you might even lose heart and give up on your great dream.
In reality, of course, every big journey begins with the first
step. If you want to become a professional marathon runner,

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then you’d better get your running shoes out of the basement
tonight and set your alarm for early tomorrow morning. Other-
wise it will never happen.

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1.3 DO YOU WAN T TO FEEL T HE P OWER OF GOD W I T HIN YOU?

1.3 Do you want to feel the power of God within you?

It’s the same with Confirmation. Is the current flowing
within you? Do you have an intense connection with God? Or do
you believe it isn’t possible? Do you maybe feel at the moment
more like a length of dead cable, lying there with no current 290

passing through it? Do you long to be a channel through which How does God
help us to be
divine Love can flow? Do you want to feel the power of God
free men?
within you? Do you want to live a strong and worthwhile life?
Did you ever have the feeling of being very close to God, of
being very near, very loved, protected, carried, led? Or maybe
you have to admit to yourself, in all honesty: I feel a great
emptiness inside; right now I can’t really say I’ve got that
much power running through me …
287 Okay, we can all be like religious couch potatoes sometimes;
But doesn’t we can hang around aimlessly, sit there complaining, chill out
“freedom” consist
endlessly. We can sit there at our laptop and kid ourselves that
of being able to
choose evil as we don’t feel that inner emptiness. We can let ourselves be
well?
willingly enslaved, stay up till the wee small hours with our
noses stuck to the screen, watch bad films, get hooked on com-
puter games, drag like an addict at a cigarette, or spend our
lives like some sort of outgrowth of Facebook.

But that is not what God has made us for.

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1.4 God—as your Coach
For what purpose
are we here on God wants us to be strong, proud, and free, no one’s
earth? slave, but God’s alone, glowing with an inner light, loving,
warmhearted, attentive, and creative; fighters for good and
resistance fighters against the whisperings of Satan, watchful
guardians of an endangered creation, faithful friends to the
poor and persecuted, and more, and more, and more …

Does that take your breath away?

If you really want to have a life of strength like that, if you
want this for yourself, if you want it with God’s help, then all
I can say is:
What a training schedule! You are ready to start
on the road to your Confirmation. But you need 203

to be aware that a marathon is child’s play in What is

comparison. Confirmation?

The aim of this book is to be your coach and go with you right
up to the big day of your Confirmation. You’ll find many tips in
it for leading an exciting life with God, but above all you’ll find
lots of sidebars pointing you to two books you’ll be constantly
using during this course—the BIBLE and YOUCAT.

1.5 The Bible and YOUCAT

Of the two books, the Bible is by far the more import-
ant, for it is “God’s Word”. Sure, the Bible, too, was written

1. GE T T ING S TAR T ED
by men, but these were men filled with the Holy Spirit. “Ig-
norance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ,” says St. Je-
rome, and St. Francis of Assisi adds, “Reading the Holy Scrip-
tures is seeking advice from Christ.”
YOUCAT is the youth catechism of the Catholic Church— basi- 12

cally something like a down-to-earth handbook of our faith. 13

Take a moment to read the challenging foreword to this book,

1.5 T HE BIBLE AND YOUC AT

by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in which he speaks directly to
young people like you. He tells you there:

You need to know what you believe. You need

to know your faith with that same precision with which
an IT specialist knows the inner workings of a computer. You
need to understand it like a good musician knows the
piece he is playing.

The great thing about YOUCAT is that this youth catechism 21

was written in collaboration with a group of around 50 young Faith—what is it?

people aged between 15 and 25. They were able to introduce

their own questions; they also contributed the best of their
own photos and wanted to have cartoon characters in the
book. It was these young people who also came up with the
crazy flipbook idea. Try it out some time! Or read up on what
Confirmation has to do with a football match, and faith with
parachute jumping.

1.6 Four steps—the training plan

Right, then, now for the training program! It’s a de-
manding one, but then, as you know: no pain, no gain … Just
stick to the “four steps” below, which will help you immensely
to advance in your training for a life with God.

Stay with the course

Don’t miss a single session of your Con-
firmation course! After all, you wouldn’t
miss a training session if you wanted to
run the New York Marathon, would you?
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How often must a

Catholic Christian
participate in the
Try to stay close to God
celebration of the
Eucharist? Go to Holy Mass every Sunday! Don’t miss. Ever. Come
rain, come shine. Whether you had a party the night
before, or need your brunch on Sunday morning. Holy
Mass is a date with God. Unless you are very sick,
that’s something you don’t miss.

499 Talk to God

When should a
person pray? The bedside rule. That is: in the morning don’t go
beyond the bedside without saying morning prayers;
and at night time don’t go beyond the bedside with-
out saying your night-time prayers. No
one can build a relationship with God
without talking to him—and prayer is
nothing else than this. Most import-
ant of all is the OUR FATHER, but the
HAIL MARY is important, too. And look in the Bible sometime
for the Psalms—they are some of the most beautiful prayers
ever written. Take time for your own prayers, too; talk to God
straight from the heart.
Listen to God’s Word
See to it that you get hold of a Bible! Perhaps you
can ask for a nice copy as a present. The Bible is
a bit like a rather long letter from God to you. Try
and read a little of it regularly, perhaps during your
vacation. It’s best to start with the New Testament,
with the Gospels. Try and understand what God is
saying to you through his Word.

1. GE T T ING S TAR T ED
Phew, that’s enough to start with. And now, all
the best with your YOUCAT Confirmation course!
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On behalf of the YOUCAT team, 15

1.6 FOUR S T EP S – T HE T R A INING PL AN

Nils Baer and Bernhard Meuser

YOUCAT Bible

In the margin you will find numerous references to the

numbered questions in YOUCAT. Have a copy at hand and
look up the references if you find anything not quite clear.
You’ll also find references to important Bible verses,
which you can likewise look up in the Bible. Usually it’s
very important to check the context, what comes before
and after.
he e x i s t s? he d o e s n’t e x i s t ?…

2 What We Can Know

about God
2.1 Why many people don’t want to know about God
No doubt some people have already told you:

GOD doesn’t exist! God is merely an invention.

Many people have a strange interest in saying that God does
not exist. Why are they so aggressive toward God, wanting ev- 357

erything that reminds us of him to disappear from the world? Is atheism

always a sin
Surely, it should be a matter of total indifference to them? Per-
against God?
haps they don’t want to know about God because then they
would have to change their lives completely. If God does ex-

2. WHAT WE C AN KNOW ABOU T GOD

ist, if God is absolute goodness and desires nothing else but

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2.1 WH Y M A N Y PEOPL E D ON’ T WA N T T O K N OW A BO U T G OD

goodness, then it is absolutely impossible to lie, to commit
adultery, take drugs, cheat others, and regard ourselves as
the center of the universe. That is, it is impossible to do these
things without ultimately having to face the consequences of
such actions.
Again, many people call themselves atheists simply because 5

they think it is more cool to be, so to speak, their own “god” Why do people
deny that God
and to decide for themselves what is good and bad. But some- exists, if they
one who puts his own ego at the center of everything is simply can know him by
reason?
an egotist.

We have all met such egotists from time to time, and they tend
to be rather unpleasant people. Such people are implicitly
atheists, for it is clear that in their world view there can be no
one bigger, better, cleverer, more beautiful, or more deserving
than they are themselves.
2.2 And what if I can’t find God?
(He made
… men …) But there are also people who are by no means ego-
that they should
tistical and yet still do not believe in God. They often say, I
seek God, in the
hope that they can’t find God; he is nowhere to be found. Perhaps it would
might feel after
help them to stop and think very carefully. It is a matter of log-
him and find him.
Yet he is not far ic—and for this we need to engage our little gray brain cells,
from each one of
and engage them 100% (hence the following page is only for
us, for ‘In him we
live and move and people who can really think straight):
have our being.’
1. Everything we see in the universe has a cause, a reason
Acts 17:27–28
it exists. I exist because my parents gave life to me. The
rocky cliffs on the coast exist because of movements in the
41 earth’s crust over millions of years that caused the land to
Does science be raised higher than the sea. For each thing we see around
make the Creator
us, there must be something else that gave rise to it.
superfluous?
2. The universe (the totality of things and beings existing in
space and time) also exists.
42 3. Hence there must necessarily be something that is the
Can someone cause/the reason for the existence of the universe. It would
accept the theory
be totally illogical to assume that the mouse, the ocean,
of evolution and
still believe in the and the stars all have a cause for their existence but that
Creator?
the universe does not have such a cause. Even the universe
as a whole cannot exist “without cause”.
4. The cause or reason for the universe as a whole must, how-
ever, be greater than, and above all entirely different from,
the universe itself and everything within it.
What has brought forth both space and time
cannot itself be a part of space and time.
5. This “something” that is greater than every-
thing in the world and that must necessarily
exist, since otherwise the universe itself
would be without cause, we call GOD.

2.3 The miracle of the little grain of sand

TEST IT for yourself: Try for a moment to
imagine “nothing”—in other words, absolute nothingness, not

2. WHAT WE C AN KNOW ABOU T GOD

even a kind of darkness or a great emptiness—no: really, ab-
solutely, nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing! Not even think-
ing. Simply nothing.

Bet you don’t succeed! The philosopher Leibniz once said that
there is only one great question in the world:

Why is there anything at all, and not simply nothing? 18

19
The fact is, the one thing we actually simply cannot imag-

THE MIR ACLE OF THE L I T TLE GR A IN OF SAND

ine—namely, nothing—is the one thing that should be
self-evident. The normal thing to assume would be that 43

there is simply nothing, and there’s an end to it! Is the world

a product of
But in fact there is something. We know this with absolute
chance?
certainty. And even if there were only a single tiny grain of
sand and nothing else—even that would be an incredible
miracle. For one single tiny grain of sand alone would de-
stroy “nothingness”.
There must be someone there who has uttered his great
“Yes” to everything that exists, who has willed that “some-
thing” should exist and not “nothing” instead.
We Christians call this “Someone”, who has created the uni- 2

verse out of nothing, God. Why did God

create us?
And we say that God is the CREATOR of the world.
44 However, we must not imagine the Creator as someone who in
Who created the the beginning made all things with a snap of his fingers and
world?
then sat back and rested. It was not only in the beginning that
God spoke his great “Yes” to the world. He does so still, in ev-
ery millisecond. Forever, until the end of the world, he contin-
ues to speak his great yes-world-I-will-that-you-exist.

We are not Without God’s “Yes”, which he speaks in this very second while
some casual and
meaningless prod- you are reading these words, the universe with all its Milky
uct of evolution. Ways and solar systems would instantly sink into nothing-
Each of us is the
result of a thought ness—just as though someone had switched off the projector
of God. Each of us and the film was over.
is willed, each of
us is loved, each of
us is necessary.
POPE BENEDIC T X V I
Apr il 24, 2005
2.4 The end of the little gray brain cells
How can we actually know anything at all about God?
4

In order to know the fact of God’s existence, our little gray Can we know the
existence of God
brain cells are enough. To know that God must exist, one does by our reason?
not need much more than a logical mind. The idea of a world in
which everything has a reason except for the world itself must
strike any reasonable person as nonsense. 7

Why did God have

to show himself in
But of course we would like to know more about this myste- order for us to be
rious being without whom EVERY THING would be NOTHING. able to know what

2. WHAT WE C AN KNOW ABOU T GOD

he is like?

Who is this God, then? What is his relationship toward what he

has created? What is God himself like? Is God perhaps cold and
cruel? Is he without feelings, like a machine? Or is he perhaps In His
full of love? goodness and
wisdom God chose
to reveal Himself
Of himself, man can give no answer to these questions. Not and to make known
to us the hidden 20
even the greatest philosophers and thinkers can do so. Not
purpose of His
Aristotle, not Plato, not Kant, not Hegel. And anyone who will ... by which 21
through Christ,

THE END OF THE L I T TLE GRE Y BR A IN CELL S

claims to be able to know what God himself is like is either
the Word made
nuts or a fraud. flesh, man might
in the Holy Spirt
have access to the
What? So do we humans have no chance of knowing Father and come to
share in the divine
whether the ultimate cause of the universe is good or evil?
nature.
Whether we can trust in the Creator of the world because he is
Second Vatican
good? Or whether we have been thrust into this world by a cru- Council, Dei Verbum

el tyrant, who simply toys with us, only to utterly annihilate us

tomorrow or the day after?

But there is such a possibility. God could decide to communi-

cate with us. We call this REVELATION. In what way could he
do this? Perhaps like this:

He might write in giant letters of flame along the horizon:

“I do exist. And actually I am nice. God.”
In many He might announce divine news bulletins, ringing out
and over the world in a voice of thunder: “Today I have decid-
various ways God
spoke of old to ed … etc.”, or: “The next news bulletin from me will be on
our fathers by the Wednesday. God.”
prophets; but in
these last days he
has spoken to us Think for a moment about the word REVELATION. It’s a bit like
by a Son, whom
he appointed the when you fall in love. You know nothing about the boy or girl
heir of all things, of your dreams until you suddenly click and one of you says to
through whom
also he created the the other, “Do you know, I’ve fallen totally in love with you!”
ages. You may have watched each other and had your eye on each
HEB 1:1–2 other—or you may even have read books about men and women
and the meaning of love. But you know nothing! What counts
is the moment when the other person REVEALS himself to you.
He has to open his heart and say those amazing words: “All this
time I have longed for nothing else but your love!”

Actually, God has revealed (or shown) himself to mankind in

many different ways—sometimes as mighty and powerful (in
natural events or in the fate of entire nations), and sometimes
as quiet and gentle, in the way God touches an individual hu-
man heart. The amazing thing is that God really wants to talk
to you and to me as though we were the only people in the
world—and the most important.

20 If we have understood this and choose to listen to God’s voice,

How can we then that is what we call faith.
respond to God
when he speaks
God shows himself to me. I hear God’s voice—and I respond:
to us?

“There you are, my Lord and my God. Thank you for seeing me
21 and speaking within me. I BELIEVE in you. Lead me and guide
Faith—what is it? me. Bless my life and the life of every person.”

When a person recognizes the God who reveals himself, when

22 he believes in him and responds to him in his heart, then that
How does one go is what we call PRAYER.
about believing?

2.5 A God who reveals himself, and a book like no other

God has to reveal himself so that we can understand
more about him. And that is exactly what HE does. The eter-
nal, Almighty God, who is unfathomable to us men, actually
did (and does) emerge from his silence. HE reveals himself.
God even lays bare something of his innermost thoughts. He
allows us to look into his very Heart—if one can speak of God in
such terms. That is what happens in your life and in the lives of
all those who listen in prayer to the voice of God and who seek
and have sought for the footsteps of God in their lives. And we
aren’t starting from scratch in this.

The BIBLE is the book where you can read how God first showed 8

2. WHAT WE C AN KNOW ABOU T GOD

himself in the history of the people of Israel, how he revealed How does God
reveal himself in
himself little by little to mankind, until in Jesus he gave ex- the Old Testament?
pression to the most profound truth about himself—that is to
say, how immense his divine love is. 9

For long ages men had only vague notions about God or the What does God
show us about
gods. Entire nations imagined God to be a being to whom they himself when he
even had to offer human sacrifices in order to gain his favor. sends his Son
to us?
Only in the life of the people of Israel does it become clear 22

that God is no many-headed monster of whom they must live 23

A G O D W H O R E V E A L S H I M S E L F, A N D A B O O K L I K E N O O T H E R
permanently in fear. The truth that there is only one God, that
he is good and faithful to those who trust in him, has been re-
vealed in the lives of many individual men and women—moth-
ers, fathers, children, prophets, kings, and saints. Abraham
encounters God beneath the starry sky, while Moses encoun- Genesis 19;
Exodus 3
ters him in the burning thorn bush. You know the stories.

All these experiences of God’s presence were written down—

in an unbelievably colorful and rich book. Pope Benedict XVI
once compared the BIBLE to a garden, a bright and wonder-
fully beautiful garden in which the most profound insights 16

about God appear like exquisite flowers. If we read the BIBLE What is the right
way to read the
and stay in touch with God as we do so, then “it is as if we were Bible?
to find ourselves stolling in the garden of the Holy Spirit”, the
Pope said. “We talk to him and he talks to us.”