Am I a Catholic?

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I was never confirmed. Baptism as infant, sacrament of reconciliation, communion but not confirmation. Am I a Catholic?
 
If you were Baptized as a Catholic, you’re still a Catholic.
Isn’t that wonderful?🙂
 
Brian123 said:
I was never confirmed. Baptism as infant, sacrament of reconciliation, communion but not confirmation. Am I a Catholic?
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Yes. You are one good confession away from being a full fledged praticing Catholic 👍

God Bless
 
Brian123 said:
I was never confirmed. Baptism as infant, sacrament of reconciliation, communion but not confirmation. Am I a Catholic?
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“Am I a Catholic?” is too vague a question for me to try to answer for you.

Were you baptized in a Catholic Church? Yes.

Does that make you a “member” of the Catholic Church? I’m not sure,…I couldn’t find anything in the Catechism of Trent that says it would,…but then I didn’t find anything in there that says it wouldn’t either.

I always thought the sacrament of Confirmation, (having been preceded by a good Catechism), was your official “initiation” into the Catholic Church.

As far as Communion goes, it’s a sacrament with which you receive “grace”. And according to the Catechism of the Church, the amount of grace you receive from it, is directly proportional to how well you are disposed to receive it. Meaning if a person hasn’t been taught in Catechism what the Eucharist truly is, then that person would not receive much, (if any), grace from it.

I’m looking forward to someone posting a definitive answer, I’d like to know also.🙂
 
Brian123 said:
I was never confirmed. Baptism as infant, sacrament of reconciliation, communion but not confirmation. Am I a Catholic?
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Yes, without a doubt. All you need to do is go to confession and you can begin receiving Communion again.
 
Technically, there are three [3] Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist …

If your baptism was in the Catholic Church you are 2/3rds of the the way to being fully initiated …

You are however, considered “Catholic” by virtue of your baptism … claimed and indelibly marked for Christ … 😃

Have you been away from the Chruch and yor life in Christ? Do you desire to come to a more full participation in the life of the Church and actively fullfill your baptismal calling [which is to be a priest, prophet and king, spreading the Good News of Salvation]?

Then, please do not delay, receive the sacrament of reconsilliation [as has been suggested], attend Mass weekly - receive the Holy Eucharist and take steps to receive Confirmation 👍

Welcome home … We have been waiting for you 😃
 
Yes I was baptized in a Catholic church.

I’ve already returned and went to confession. My parish offers a Wednesday evening mass and I attend as my work permits almost always Wednesday evening and almost always Sunday at 5PM.

I’m not interested in RCIA as it’s not for me as I’m already in the church, part of it. I’m interested in confirmation but the priest isn’t interested in asking the bishop for permission to confirm me. So I am priest shopping and found a priest who agrees with me and we are going to set up a time to talk about my confirmation without going through RCIA.

I thought once baptized a Catholic, a Catholic but I’ve tried several times to find this in my catechism and I can’t find anything of it. I also cannot find anything of if I’m a Catholic with or without confirmation.

I did find that without confirmation I cannot marry or join holy orders but extreme unction is open to me.

So what I gather from reading the catechism is that I am indeed Catholic just an unconfirmed Catholic. But I wanted to see if anyone knew better than me as maybe I wasn’t reading the catechism correctly or missed something.

I was away for about 15 years. The Holy spirit drew me back.

I had a rather strict catechism as a child and teen. It was called “CCD” but it was taught according to my mother properly as she was taught hers and wasn’t “watered down”.

I chose to not be confirmed as I took this very seriously and at age 15 simply felt I wasn’t ready and I don’t believe in participating in a sacrament if it’s not the time to simply follow the crowd and please parents. I’m 40 next month and have been inactive since about age 25 and have returned May of this year. So it took me since age 15 to “be ready” for confirmation. That’s 25 years. I was very immature and doubting of my faith and my seriousness at age 15 so passed on confirmation. I think I did the right thing at that time as it’s a serious thing and each person is ready at a different time and or age or place in their life. Many I knew were also not ready but did due to feeling they had to and sadly some of these confirmed at age 15 peers of mine left after H.S. and have never returned so I don’t bash myself for being honest with myself when I was a kid.

Confirmation as well as the rest of the sacraments, to me, must mean something for it to be real and each person is ready at their own time, age, place.

So I’m working on getting confirmed as it’s important to me.

I’m very happy to be back home and that pesky lol Holy spirit just won’t leave me be! The Eucharist means something, very real, very living, very empowering, very healing, very humbling (I don’t even know if that’s a real word), the mass means something, it all means so much and it’s real and alive and I’m just happy to be back home.
 
Welcome home!

I also refused to be confirmed when I was a teenager. I was away from the Church for close to 30 years. When returned I found a wonderful parish with a priest who set up an adult confirmation class for me and several others. I was confirmed when I was 42.

My priest told me not to worry about my age at confirmation as I was being confirmed at the right time for me.
 
I was confirmed at age 7 and can’t say I remember that much about the rite itself. I remember the Bishop. II remember the others who were to be confirmed. Unfortunately what I remember most was the senior altar boy trying to scare the living grapes out of us telling us that the bishop was really gonna whack us one across the side of the head with his crozier. 🙂

I believe in the Orthodox Church (maybe oriental Catholic too) they confer the sacrament of Confirmation at the same time as they confer the sacrament of Baptism on an infant. Perhaps someone would care to verify this ?
 
NeedImprovement said:
I was confirmed at age 7 and can’t say I remember that much about the rite itself. I remember the Bishop. II remember the others who were to be confirmed. Unfortunately what I remember most was the senior altar boy trying to scare the living grapes out of us telling us that the bishop was really gonna whack us one across the side of the head with his crozier. 🙂

I believe in the Orthodox Church (maybe oriental Catholic too) they confer the sacrament of Confirmation at the same time as they confer the sacrament of Baptism on an infant. Perhaps someone would care to verify this ?
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And first communion, yes.
All three, before and during one Divine Liturgy.

During the height of Latinization, no, but it’s becoming normative again.
 
estesbob said:
Yes, without a doubt. All you need to do is go to confession and you can begin receiving Communion again.
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Man, you all dont even know your own Sacraments of Initiation. Without Confirmation, he is NOT fully initiated into the Catholic faith. Let him try to get married in a Catholic Church without it. Or are you all saying Confirmation really doesnt mean anything anymore?
 
I don’t think the Church will give you first communion if you where not confirmed. I for one was confirmed as an infant, I’m told in the past when living in rural areas that was common.
 
Chellow said:
I don’t think the Church will give you first communion if you where not confirmed. I for one was confirmed as an infant, I’m told in the past when living in rural areas that was common.
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First Communion comes years before Confirmation.
 
thecoach said:
Man, you all dont even know your own Sacraments of Initiation. Without Confirmation, he is NOT fully initiated into the Catholic faith. Let him try to get married in a Catholic Church without it. Or are you all saying Confirmation really doesnt mean anything anymore?
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I took communion for 6 years before I was confirmed. He didnt ask if he was fullyinititated into the Catholic faith-he asked if he was Catholic. he, of course, is. You are aware that most cradle cradle catholics had a long gap between first communion and confirmation?
 
Chellow said:
I don’t think the Church will give you first communion if you where not confirmed. I for one was confirmed as an infant, I’m told in the past when living in rural areas that was common.
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There is no requirement in the Church that you have to be confirmed to recieve communion.
 
Brian123 said:
I was never confirmed. Baptism as infant, sacrament of reconciliation, communion but not confirmation. Am I a Catholic?
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Brian, of course you’re Catholic! For assorted reasons, I was never Confirmed when I was supposed to be (which was when we were in the 8th grade at my particular church). I was Baptized a Catholic, made my first Confession, received my First Holy Communion in 2nd grade and had never been Confirmed. The Holy Spirit kept “bugging me” to complete this Sacrament. I’ve been attending mass on Sunday for the past 44 years! Without Confirmation I was ALWAYS a Catholic. This past Easter Vigil, I received my Confirmation and now feel “complete”, as it were. I did not have to attend RCIA but as I attend the Cathedral in our Diocese and we have such a huge congregation, there are several sessions per year where people can enter the church, receive Confirmation form the Bishop, etc. Talking to a priest and explaining the situation should solve everything … if they can’t at your church, there will be somewhere that you can be Confirmed.

God Bless… 👍
 
estesbob said:
I took communion for 6 years before I was confirmed. He didnt ask if he was fullyinititated into the Catholic faith-he asked if he was Catholic. he, of course, is. You are aware that most cradle cradle catholics had a long gap between first communion and confirmation?
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SO youre saying that you are not in agreement with your own church, and you are basically saying Confirmation is not relevant.
 
thecoach said:
SO youre saying that you are not in agreement with your own church, and you are basically saying Confirmation is not relevant.
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No-Im saying that you dont have to be confirmed to recieve communion. I am at a loss as to why you are so anxious to try and make such profound accusations over an issue that is cut n dried. You ,perhaps, could learn a lot here if you listened instead of attacking.
 
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