Confirmation Saints?

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My confirmation will be only in the end of 2018, may God allow, so I still have time to think.

But I already have a list of saints to which I ask regularly to pray for me.
 
It wasn’t something we did when I was confirmed back in 1960 or when my brothers were confirmed later in the 60s. In fact, I hadn’t heard of this practice until I started coming to this site, and I’ve been a sponsor and our three kids have been confirmed in different dioceses.
 
Interesting. I did not know it was a knewer practice. I know my dad had one when he was confirmed in the 70’s
 
I think it’s a regional thing. Some dioceses do it, some don’t. Some parishes do it, some don’t.

I first heard of it when I came to this parish back in the late 90s and only in the context of choosing a “Confirmation name” which our diocesan catechetical coordinator said the kids weren’t to do. Looking at the register at previous confirmations, most kids didn’t take another name.
 
I picked St. Andrew because I was born on his feast day (11-30). I also attended St. Andrew Parochial School for 8 years.
 
I chose St. Perpetua as my Confirmation Saint. Her story is truly compelling and her courage, perseverance, and faith in God even to the point of having to give up her infant son and facing a gruesome martyrdom is incredibly inspiring. I am still very glad with my choice! 🙂 May everyone’s saints listed here pray for us! God bless.
 
St Therese of Lisieux. I’d read her book and loved her little way, and the promise of a shower or roses as a sign.
I still favour her and St Anthony for prayer requests.
 
we do not choose a saint’s name to receive confirmation, what are these stories? is it still the same Catholic church?
When one already has a Catholic first name, it is with this name that one receives the baptism, the confirmation, the marriage etc.
 
The one and only Thomas Aquinas. He’s the greatest philosopher-theologian ever. I chose him for my patron.
 
Mboo said:
we do not choose a saint’s name to receive confirmation, what are these stories? is it still the same Catholic church?
When one already has a Catholic first name, it is with this name that one receives the baptism, the confirmation, the marriage etc.
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Actually there is a long tradition of choosing a new name for Confirmation - in some areas. You’ll even see a space for it in the Confirmation registers. I never experienced this where I grew up but it’s common in other regions.

Today some places discourage it, urging the use of the baptismal name because we are rediscovering the close relationship between Baptism and Confirmation. In the parish I’m in now it’s never suggested and if someone for whom it was tradition requests it for their child it is discouraged. It has been thus for almost 20 years.
 
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Today some places discourage it, urging the use of the baptismal name because we are rediscovering the close relationship between Baptism and Confirmation. In the parish I’m in now it’s never suggested and if someone for whom it was tradition requests it for their child it is discouraged. It has been thus for almost 20 years.
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This is a shame. There is no valid reason to eliminate these pious traditions that enrich Catholic life and spirituality.
 
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Phemie:
Today some places discourage it, urging the use of the baptismal name because we are rediscovering the close relationship between Baptism and Confirmation. In the parish I’m in now it’s never suggested and if someone for whom it was tradition requests it for their child it is discouraged. It has been thus for almost 20 years.
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This is a shame. There is no valid reason to eliminate these pious traditions that enrich Catholic life and spirituality.
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The thing is that here there was never the research of a Saint, like I see talked about on these boards. Here it was often a mother who had a favorite name she didn’t give at Baptism so she made it the kid’s Confirmation name. The kid had nothing to do with it.
 
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The thing is that here there was never the research of a Saint, like I see talked about on these boards. Here it was often a mother who had a favorite name she didn’t give at Baptism so she made it the kid’s Confirmation name. The kid had nothing to do with it.
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In that case they could’ve encouraged the kids to learn about the saints and choose one who they liked. It would’ve been a good catechetical opportunity. In reality, the practice was abandoned for the same reason the Latin was thrown out. The prideful wanted to change everything. There was truly a revolution in the Church and this is just one small example of it.
 
You do realize that this was far from a universal practice.

I was confirmed as were my two brothers, I was a sponsor for my goddaughter at her confirmation, and my three kids were confirmed in various dioceses. That time span is from the early 60s through the late 90s. I’d never heard of this practice until I moved here. And looking at the Confirmation register it was obvious that even in this parish they hadn’t done that for several years and it hadn’t always been done.
 
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