Confirmation Before Communion

[Chatter163]

When I was younger, I received the sacraments in this order:

Baptism: when I was an infant of nearly a month old

First Holy Communion: just after I turned 8 years old (2nd grade)

First Confession/Reconciliation: just after I turned 10 years old (4th grade)

Confirmation: a few months past my 17th birthday around the time of Pentecost (nearly my classmates were 16 or 17 like me, most of us were 11th graders)

First Confession TWO YEARS after First Communion? Yikes!

 

[Phemie]

First Confession TWO YEARS after First Communion? Yikes!

Not rare. My kids made their First Communion in 3 different provinces/dioceses and the religious education program in all three dioceses, and indeed in most dioceses in our country, had Confession one or two years after First Communion. In fact, that only changed in this diocese about 12 years ago, when we ceased to have Catholic schools.

 

[MissRose73]

Yes… thats the way I was raised.

I have read on a few websites for parishes who specialize in the Extra Ordinary form that state that the kids have to have 1st Confession before 1st Communion…

First Confession TWO YEARS after First Communion? Yikes!

 

[Corki]

Yes… thats the way I was raised.

I have read on a few websites for parishes who specialize in the Extra Ordinary form that state that the kids have to have 1st Confession before 1st Communion…

It’s not just the EF. It’s the rule of the Church that First Confession must precede First Communion.

From Redemptionis Sacramentum

[87.] The First Communion of children **must always **be preceded by sacramental confession and absolution.[169] Moreover First Communion should always be administered by a Priest and never outside the celebration of Mass.

Also around age seven, a child is considered to have reached the age of discretion and bound to confess serious sins once a year. Waiting until fourth grade to prepare a child for First Confession would violate that part of canon law.

 

[TheMc]

Yes… thats the way I was raised.

A child of the 80s?