The local odianry has full authority to set the time for confirmation. Sacramental grace is given at the time of Baptizm and first eucharist. The is not a problem with waiting on confirmation until 15 or 16. The young catholic better understands the sacrament and can accept it freely.
You seem to want to sacramentalize, which does not help in the Formation of young Catholics.
Do I understand you correctly that you’re saying I’m “sacramentalizing” the sacrament of Confirmation?
That the local ordinary’s responsibility for setting the normative age for the sacrament imparts dogmatic truth about the sacrament?
That sacramental grace is like a fill-up and once a person meets a threshold, she’s good to go for years until she needs another big fill-up?
That the use of sponsors for Confirmation is superfluous because it should be radically redefined from a sacrament that imparts spiritual maturity to be able to embark on the Christian life into a practice taken on after a person has reached physical maturity to congratulate him on the success?
Will you please explain where I’m misunderstanding? And where in theology you look for your views?
The Holy See does not micromanage each local church, your diocese. The managment is left to the local ordianary who has the full discrestion to make such decissions. Your obedinace is to the local ordianary.
I’ll put it this way, as a deacon I am sworn to obey my local bishop and his successors. I might disgree with his policy, that does not give me the right not to follow them. The same is for his preist. The same obedinace is called out in the canon for laiety, since your are quoting the Holy See.
Obedience doesn’t preclude a person making her needs and desires known or of seeking redress with appropriate authorities.
He cannot deny her the rights, but he can by his descresion delay them. We do the same with baptism, first Echarist and even to some extent marriage. To many Catholics have a I want it NOW, I want it MY WAY, attitude.
Why do you think a priest may delay a person who is properly prepared from receiving a sacrament in a timely manner?
Why do you say that you or those you know regularly delay the reception of the sacraments from those who are properly prepared to receive them?
What are some examples of those who have an “I want it NOW, I want it MY WAY, attitude”? Are they properly prepared and having their sacramental needs met in a timely manner and in accordance with the Church’s prescriptions? If not, why do you equate them with those who do? If so, why do you think their desires are not reasonable?
