Preparation for Confirmation

Before you are confirmed, you are first prepared, usually by your parish priest.  But in fact the real preparation is done by yourself.  Your priest just helps you.  The preparation is twofold.  First, you receive instruction in the Christian Faith.  That is the preparation of your mind.  But even more important is the preparation of your soul, so that when you come to be confirmed there is nothing standing between you and God to keep you from him, but your soul is as clean as it can be to receive his Holy Spirit.  God does this for us in the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Penance), when we make our Confession and receive his full forgiveness.