Confirmation validity

[peregrinus_sg]

I was just wondering whether a person must be in a state of grace to validly receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. If someone who had comitted mortal sin and had not had the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Penance beforehand, would the Confirmation be invalid?

It would be helpful to point me to official Church teaching or legislation on this. Thank you.

 

[JMJ_coder]

Hello,

I was just wondering whether a person must be in a state of grace to validly receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. If someone who had comitted mortal sin and had not had the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Penance beforehand, would the Confirmation be invalid?

It would be helpful to point me to official Church teaching or legislation on this. Thank you.

The Sacrament would be valid, but no grace would be transmitted (remember Sacraments are superhighways of grace) until the person returns to a state of grace.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

I was just wondering whether a person must be in a state of grace to validly receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. If someone who had comitted mortal sin and had not had the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Penance beforehand, would the Confirmation be invalid?

It would be helpful to point me to official Church teaching or legislation on this. Thank you.

The Sacrament of Confirmation would have been valid, the person if done intentionally would have committed a grave sin and illicitly received the Sacrament and mosy likely received very little of any benefit or graces from it’s reception.

 

[puzzleannie]

I was just wondering whether a person must be in a state of grace to validly receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. If someone who had comitted mortal sin and had not had the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Penance beforehand, would the Confirmation be invalid?

It would be helpful to point me to official Church teaching or legislation on this. Thank you.

one must be in the state of grace to receive all the sacraments, except obviously baptism, penance, and anointing of the sick (which forgives sins if the person is unable to confess). that is because the effects of the other sacraments cannot begin until that sanctifying grace is present. The confirmation would be valid, but would not take effect until the sin was confessed and absolved.

 

[peregrinus_sg]

Thanks for the quick and clear replies!