Confirmation question

[pianistclare]

If a person “misses” his Confirmation he is free to be confirmed in a neighboring parish and attend their classes so long as your pastor and the other pastor agree.
Until 18 anyway.
After that, it’s RCIA around here.
Your area may handle it completely differently.
Confirmation was moved to high school in this Archdiocese in an effort to keep kids in formation as long as possible. We all know families who think its membership card you get punched, and they leave formation after the “get” their sacraments…

I really enjoy teaching the teens.

 

[Phemie]

Can’t say I agree with them doing that. If anything based on my own life experience I’d suggest they move all confirmations until 12th grade or later. First it keeps the initiate engaged longer, particularly into a time of their life that many young adults drift away from their childhood church. And second, so that Confirmation is actually that, the initiate confirming their belief in and acceptance of the Catholic faith in addition to receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Not that it matters I guess seeing as I’m not Catholic anymore. But my 2 cents none the less.

That IS NOT what Confirmation is about, otherwise we wouldn’t confirm infants who are in danger of dying. You receive Confirmation, you don’t “do” Confirmation.