CCD or RCIA?

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Hi y’all 🙂

So I’m 18 years old and I haven’t done my confirmation 😊
Now that my parish is beginning to have sign-ups for CCD, I was wondering if I still have to go to CCD. I feel a bit old to be around a bunch of middle/high schoolers but I honestly feel too old to go to RCIA. Any suggestions?

Thanks & God bless!
 
Too old to go to RCIA? RCIA is for adults.

You should contact your parish, because what you actually need is adult confirmation class. This is different from both CCD and RCIA.

However, in smaller parishes that can’t run multiple programs, don’t be surprised if RCIA serves the purpose of Adult Confirmation class.
 
Definitely ask in your parish. We have adult confirmation classes for those over 18 but I know other places combine confirmation with RCIA.
 
I would suggest RCIA, but you would have to ask your pastor or director of religious education.

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Also check any other Catholic Churches, if any, in your area. We have a 13-week program to prepare adults for Confirmation. [This assumes that they have a reasonable knowledge of the Faith already… Otherwise, they go to RCIA.] We frequently have someone from an adjoining parish join us if their parish doesn’t have a program. They usually go back to their own parish to their own parish to receive the Sacrament.

I enjoyed having them. We often had only 4 or 5 from our parish. I find a class of 6-10 works better for me as a teacher.
 
We also have special classes for older teens and adults who only need Confirmation. They usually begin at Lent and end with Confirmation at Pentecost. That is unless the person is totally uncatechized, then they go though RCIA, just not as a catechumen.
 
I think if you’ve had First Holy Communion (Catholic First Holy Communion), but not confirmation, you take CCD, not RCIA. I’m not sure how long our CCD program is – seems like it’s year-round.
 
RCIA is supposed to be for those who are coming into the Church as adults, and will be baptized, confirmed and receive their 1st communions all at once, usually at the Easter Vigil.

Those who are from other Christian ecclesial communities and are baptized by trinitarian formula are supposed to have their own programs, and get confirmed usually on Pentecost. Too often these get lumped into RCIA, usually because the parish can’t run two programs.

Usually (remember that word, “usually”), Catholics who have already had faith formation and have managed to reach adulthood without being confirmed, such as you did, go to a quickie class (6 weeks to 6 months, depending on where), and are confirmed with the “kids” when the bishop comes to the parish next time, or the bishop has a deanery or group confirmed at the cathedral. “Kids” could be anywhere from 7 years of age to 17.
 
Our bishop delegates authority to the pastors to confirm any Catholic adults at the main mass on Pentecost Sunday. It works quite well.

He also allows pastors to confirm and give First Communion to Catholics who have never had any formal catechesis at the Easter Vigil. That requires specific permission for each instance.
 
Thanks for your responses everyone 🙂

As it turns out- I do have to go to RCIA, but I’ll be confirmed in one year instead of two! Woohoo! 😃

God bless!
 
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