Getting Confirmed in December?

[fuse81110]

Hi everyone, I’m new and I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I’m 20 years old and I didn’t get confirmed as a teen, but I’m now working toward getting Confirmed. At my parish there are classes that last till December and the teacher of the confirmation classes said we would be getting confirmed in December. I always thought people got confirmed in spring. Am I missing something here. Anything would be helpful.

 

[Tietjen]

Hi everyone, I’m new and I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I’m 20 years old and I didn’t get confirmed as a teen, but I’m now working toward getting Confirmed. At my parish there are classes that last till December and the teacher of the confirmation classes said we would be getting confirmed in December. I always thought people got confirmed in spring. Am I missing something here. Anything would be helpful.

Confirmation USUALLY takes place at the Easter Vigil, but it is not a requirement. The decision rests with the Bishop.

 

[Phemie]

Confirmations happen whenever they happen, that is, whenever the Bishop gets a chance to come to your parish to confer the sacrament. I know that they usually try to schedule this during the Easter Season but, depending on the number of parishes, that’s not always possible.

At the Easter Vigil it’s usually those who are becoming Catholic who are confirmed because it belongs to the priest who baptizes them or receives them into full communion to do this.

You, OTOH, are a Catholic who simply didn’t get confirmed at the usual time so your pastor would need the Bishop’s permission to confirm you and some Bishops don’t give that permission.

 

[ConstantineTG]

Hi everyone, I’m new and I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I’m 20 years old and I didn’t get confirmed as a teen, but I’m now working toward getting Confirmed. At my parish there are classes that last till December and the teacher of the confirmation classes said we would be getting confirmed in December. I always thought people got confirmed in spring. Am I missing something here. Anything would be helpful.

There is no set date for Sacraments, it can happen any time, any day. Back in the Philippines there is a parish the Bishop frequents (not the Cathedral) and holds confirmation every Sunday. Another tradition there is during town feasts (feast of the town patron saint and patron saint of the local parish) the local Bishop would come for the feast, celebrate Mass and then have confirmations. So this could be any time of the year depending on the feast day of the town’s patron.

I’m not quite so sure about such practices here in North America, but again there’s nothing that would prevent Confirmations from happening at other times of the year.

 

[Matthew_Holford]

In our diocese under the previous bishop everyone was confirmed on Pentecost. He gave all parish priests a mandate to confirm in the parish on this day.

The bishop we have now celebrates confirmation as part of his parish visitations so confirmations take place throughout the year.

 

[puzzleannie]

Hi everyone, I’m new and I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I’m 20 years old and I didn’t get confirmed as a teen, but I’m now working toward getting Confirmed. At my parish there are classes that last till December and the teacher of the confirmation classes said we would be getting confirmed in December. I always thought people got confirmed in spring. Am I missing something here. Anything would be helpful.

you are confirmed at the date set by the bishop, either when he visits your parish to confirm the youth, or if he calls all the adult candidates together in one celebration at the cathedral, or by region. How many parishes in your diocese? no way he can visit them all in a couple of months after Easter. Just received word our HS confirmation will be in February, not May as usual. His office sets his schedule.

Easter Vigil is irrelevant in this discussion, that is for RCIA, not baptized Catholics, unless the bishop has given special faculties to his priests to confirm Catholic adults at that time, and that would be extraordinary.