How old were you when you received the sacrament of confirmation?

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How old were you when you received the sacrement of confirmation?

Did it increase your holyness.
Or change you?
Did it change your friends? When they were confirmation?
 
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I was 12.

Very sadly at 14 I became a lapsed Catholic and did not consistently practice for about 20 years.
 
9th Grade, month or two before turning 15.

It didn’t change anything in me and I didn’t notice anything change in the kids I was confirmed with.

I always felt my parish’s confirmation prep program back in 1992 was very lacking.

No one wanted to be there or pretended they didn’t want to be there. The program simply wasn’t good
 
I was 16 when I was confirmed in the Episcopal church and 56 when I was confirmed in the Catholic church.

I was conflicted about my first confirmation because in my parents didn’t encourage church attendance while I was growing up or seeing that we had a good foundation in the Christian faith. Even back then I was drawn towards Catholicism and really wanted to belong to the Catholic church. I am not sure I had a clear understanding of my confirmation - it seemed more like a rite of passage and I would be able to receive Holy Communion after that. I just felt like I was in the wrong church.

It was a sign of membership and the Bishop was there, but at the time I didn’t realize I would be receiving any graces.
It was also a very confusing time in my life.

Hope this helps. I think I tried to feel more holy, but I had a lot going on mentally that I was trying to process.
 
30ish. Yes it changed me. Yes, I have grown in holiness. Sacraments are vehicles of grace. We can choose to cooperate with that grace or ignore it.
 
Idk 15 I think. My mom made me. I wish she didn’t so I could have made it in my own accord when I really came to believe in the faith.
 
I was 8. I firmly believe that it not only helped ‘confirm’ me in my belief but kept me Catholic when life threw me all its ‘slings and arrows’. As for holiness, I can’t say that confirmation has made me holy, I’m too much of a feeble dweeb for that. What it has done for me is kept me aware of my sinfulness as well as aware of the power of God, His angels, His saints, the Church Suffering, the Church Militant, and the Church Triumphant, and the knowledge of the gifts and the help that may become mine upon the asking, even if I stumble, and stumble, and stumble again. With God’s help, I can 'climb any wall."
 
I was 15. I believe it has helped me get through many, many things in my life, because of the knowledge I was fully part of something more significant than myself. I also feel I have become more conscious of sin and more conscious of God’s grace
 
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I was 8.
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I was 14. I think that the church in some places switched the order of the sacraments between my time and yours.

Of course people received confirmation at age 8 or so in 19th Century Europe, so maybe that’s a more preferable situation.
 
Well in my case, the tradition was that the archbishop would come to the Catholic schools throughout the diocese for confirmation and that any students who had received First Communion could be confirmed, IOW, usually that meant grades 3 through 8 (this was the 1960s, and the archdiocese was Philadelphia, so at the time that meant a LOT of elementary schools to visit, it’s not like he could visit every single one every single year). I happened to be lucky, I had received First Communion the year before so I was one of the youngest eligible. AND it was still in Latin.
 
I felt unable to do so as a teen due to bullying at school and did so later in my twenties. I am glad I had the maturity to appreciate it.
 
I remember nothing. I just have a photograph of myself being quite young and adorable 😊 I don’t feel robbed of anything though .
 
I was about 13. I was confirmed along with my entire Catholic junior high school class, which was pretty much every kid I knew since I was 5 and in the first grade there, or in the case of all the neighbor kids on my block even younger.

No, it didn’t change me.
No, it didn’t make me holier.
No, it didn’t change my friends (they all were getting confirmed right alongside me).

About all that happened is I think my mom had a family party and I received a cool book called “Heavenly Friends: A Saint for Each Day” about all the saints. That was it. I liked the book but I was a bit disappointed that the Holy Spirit didn’t send down actual tongues of fire on our heads or anything.
 
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It wasn’t done twice. The Catholic Church accepts Episcopalian baptism but not confirmation.
 
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