Baptized Catholic, no Confirmation

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I was baptized Catholic as a baby, though I have never gone through Confirmation; does that mean that I am a Catholic?
 
Yes, and you will be Catholic for the rest of your life. 👍

Confirmation would be a bonus. 🙂

Alan
 
Do I still have to go through RCIA if I haven’t recieved Eucharist and Confimation?
 
No, RCIA is for adults who are going to be baptized into the Church, or if already validly baptized by another religion then accepted into the Church.

You are a “cradle Catholic” so you don’t need RCIA. That said, it might be a wonderful thing for you to go through; I have no experience so I’m just guessing.

If you haven’t made a confession, you’ll need to do that before the Eucharist and since you plan to become an active Catholic I suggest you take advantage of that as soon as you can. There are no prerequisites and the process takes about five minutes to learn.

Alan
 
The best person to ask about the entire procedure you must follow is your local parish priest. It is likely you will have to go through RCIA, or at least an abbreviated form thereof, in order to receive confirmation. Regardless, it is a good opportunity to avail yourself of if offered in order to grow in knowledge of the faith.
 
You are a Catholic who has not completed the Sacraments of Initiation. Check with your parish to see what is available for you to prepare for Confirmation. Ideally either the parish or the diocese will have classes aimed at adults who need to prepare for Confirmation. Unfortunately some parishes make RCIA a sort of catch-all and will direct you there. If that’s all there is, then that’s all there is, but it’s not what RCIA is intended for.
 
As someone else has mentioned, you have not completed the Sacraments of Initiation (which are Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion). Just speaking from my own experience, in my RCIA class we had a couple of “cradle Catholics” who had not yet gone through Confirmation or received Communion, so they were taking RCIA classes to become fully-vested into the Church. Call and speak to your local parish priest or the director of religious education and ask them what you need to do next. 🙂
 
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Do I still have to go through RCIA if I haven’t recieved Eucharist and Confimation?
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The RCIA manual states in **section 4; Preparation of Uncatechized Adults for Confirmation and Eucharist:
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**400: The following pastoral guidelines concern adults who were baptized as infants either as Roman Catholics or as members of another Christian community but did not receive further catechetical formation nor, consequently, the sacraments of confirmation and eucharist.
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So in other words, a un-catechized Catholic baptized as a baby who has not received first communion or confirmation can be put in RCIA. This is what we do in our parish. Talk to your pastor.
 
RCIA also makes provision for those who are baptized but have not received the other sacraments of initiation, so you would probably need to go through RCIA to receive first communion and confirmation.
 
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