Can convert receive confirmation and choose a name?

[mouseguard77]

Hello. I’m new to the forum and new to Catholicism. I am converting to catholic and shortly be entering the rcia. I wanted to know can, as a convert from protestant, I get confirmed and do I choose a new name? Also where is the name placed? Is it an extra middle name. Thank you.
Alex

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

If you have already been baptized, then when you are received into the Church you will receive the other sacraments of initiation, Confirmation and Eucharist.

Choosing the name of a patron saint is a pious custom in some places but not in others. If your parish does it then yes, you will choose a patron saint and use the saint’s name during the confirmation. The name is not a legal name. The only time it is used is during the ceremony itself. Instead of saying “Mouseguard, be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit,” the priest will say “[Saint-name], be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

 

[Isca]

I entered the Catholic Church this year, from the CofE. Choosing my confirmation name was interesting and educational, as I read about the lives of many female saints before choosing Teresa, after St Teresa Benedicta.

It was a moving experience to have the priest call me by my confirmation name.

 

[PJM]

=mouseguard77;12404691]Hello. I’m new to the forum and new to Catholicism. I am converting to catholic and shortly be entering the rcia. I wanted to know can, as a convert from protestant, I get confirmed and do I choose a new name? Also where is the name placed? Is it an extra middle name. Thank you.
Alex

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Yes you can {actually “have too”} choose a Confirmation name. Usually {but not always} of a Saint and your gender. The name is not usually used EXCEPT by the Church; and you as a reminder of this new Covenant you have freely chosen to enter into through the Sacrament of Confirmation.

God Bless you,
Patrick