Confirmation Saint

[md94]

I am preparing for my confirmation and need to choose a saint. For as long as I can remember, Mother Teresa (Bl. Teresa of Calcutta) has been my role model, and I would love to take her name as my confirmation name. Am I allowed to do that if she is not a saint yet?

 

[Marty_Bene_Son]

Your Confirmation saint has to be a current saint. This saint acts as patron and protector, but must be already proclaimed a saint by the Church at the time of your Confirmation.

 

[ZDHayden]

I am preparing for my confirmation and need to choose a saint. For as long as I can remember, Mother Teresa (Bl. Teresa of Calcutta) has been my role model, and I would love to take her name as my confirmation name. Am I allowed to do that if she is not a saint yet?

Marty is right as far as I know, but to help: according to a priest with the Fathers of Mercy who personally knew Mother Theresa, Mother took the name Theresa after St. Theresa Liseaux (Sp? I’ve studied Spanish and now Latin, not French very much) because she felt she was not worthy of the name of St Teresa of Avila.

 

[Joe_5859]

I am preparing for my confirmation and need to choose a saint. For as long as I can remember, Mother Teresa (Bl. Teresa of Calcutta) has been my role model, and I would love to take her name as my confirmation name. Am I allowed to do that if she is not a saint yet?

I would ask your pastor about this. Taking a saint’s name for Confirmation is more of a personal piety thing. As far as I know, it is not regulated by Church law. Mother Teresa has been beatified, even though not yet canonized. Perhaps that is sufficient? I don’t know for sure, but I would definitely ask your priest about it.