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[Tony888]

Wrong. The Gift of the Holy Ghost is conferred AFTER baptism by the laying on of hands.

Apologies for my mistake
LDS teach that making and keeping the baptismal covenants is what gives you the right or ability to receive the Holy Spirit. If you don’t keep those covenants, the spirit will not guide you. While baptism enables you to receive the Holy Spirit, it is not the same as Confirmation.

Confirmation, or the laying on of hands fulfills two parts: to confirm as a member of the Church and then to confer the gift of the Holy Ghost. The priesthood holder performing that ordinance “bestows the gift of the Holy Ghost by saying, ‘Receive the Holy Ghost’” (Family Guidebook [pamphlet, 2001], 20).

Thanks for correcting me.

 

[KathleenGee]

Baptism provides us the mark of Christ through the Holy Spirit.

Confirmation is our free will to choose to follow Christ, to be a soldier for Him, to die for Him…as our history proves with countless martyrs down through the ages.

Confirmation is a particular calling down of the Holy Spirit for strengthening of the confirmandii.

The 7 sign that shows the Holy Spirit is working in the Church are fear of the Lord, wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety. Throughout Scripture, 7 represents life giving. The Catholic Church has 7 sacraments.

In times past, the rite of initiation included baptism, penance – which is our source of healing as well of forgiveness, including physical healings, First Eucharist, – and confirmation. Children used to receive penance, Eucharist and confirmation at the same time.

Then educators thought that something was needed for the youth, so confirmation was then postponed up to later grades and early teens.