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

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I remember my sponsor (my mom - I had wanted my favorite cousin, but he lived 2 states away and couldn’t make it) walking me up in the line and saying my confirmation name and whichever assistant bishop it was saying my confirmation name very firmly and doing the sacrament. I remember a little of the party afterwards. I remember how disappointed I was with the Confirmation prep because we all got new volumes of the Baltimore Catechism and then didn’t cover most of the new interesting-looking material and instead went over all the boring old basic stuff we had already had in 5th and 6th grade.

I do still have the saint book my parents gave me, and also somewhere I have a little crayoned “tongue of fire” with my confirmation name on it that someone associated with the parish made, one for each of us getting confirmed as a memento of the day.
 
I was either 6 or 7, I can’t remember if it was shortly after I’d received my First Communion or the next year. It was 55+ years ago and I had the same teacher for grades 1 & 2 so the years get mixed up. I remember preparing for it, I remember the dove mobile Sister had hanging in the classroom, I remember the ceremony, I remember being asked to take the pledge not to consume alcohol until aged 25 during the celebration, but I can’t, for the life of me, remember if I was in grade 1 or 2.

In our diocese back in the 50s & early to mid 60s, all those who had received their First Communion were confirmed the next time the Bishop came to the village/town, and that normally happened every second year. I received my First Communion at the end of 1st grade, so was confirmed either the next month, or a year later at the end of 2nd grade.
 
I’m a cradle Catholic that stepped away from the church for over a decade. I started going back to get married in the church. I got confirmed when I was 25 because I had to. After I got confirmed, I started going to mass because I wanted to. I started praying again because I wanted to. I bought a new rosary and started praying the rosary at least once a week(although I strive for more) because I wanted to. Being confirmed opened my eyes and heart to the church again. Ironically it was my Southern Baptist wife who wanted to marry in a church that pushed me to be confirmed. She wanted to marry in a “pretty” church and not a plain one like the baptists have.
 
I was confirmed at age 41. Yes it did have it’s effects. I pretty much spent my first three years as a Catholic feeling like I had been shot out of a cannon. During my third Lent I kept asking myself, “What happened to me?”

While serving mass at the Easter Vigil that year I was quietly praying and listening to the prayers of my pastor while we confirmed a new batch of Catholics it was as if a giant bird flew over the congregation and I began to understand the efficaciousness of the sacrament. All those things that we prayed for had happened to me.
 
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I was 9 yrs old. No, it didn’t change me or my friends. I just was into having a party and getting gifts after doing the church thing. I’m sure more of my classmates were of the same mindset.
 
I was 7 when I was Confirmed in the Catholic Church. And even tho I later went to Protestant churches (because my mother was a Protestant), I have always been Catholic and have always taken my Catholic faith seriously.
 
I’m 22 and have not received such sacrament.😉 Yep, I’m living in mortal sin
 
My baptism in the Episcopal church was valid, but I was asked to pick out a name for confirmation and was anointed at my reception into the church followed by my first Communion. This summer will be my 10 year anniversary of my reception into the Catholic church.
 
I was confirmed at 40 something. I had returned to the Church four years earlier and began to feel the need to be confirmed. Nothing appeared to happen at the time, but the Holy Spirit was gently moving . I seemed to begin to grow deeper in faith, knowing, loving and serving God. Through the sacrament of confirmation, I have received many graces and blessings.
 
I was confirmed at the age of two months. Did it increase my holiness or change me? I have no idea 😇 I was a reasonably bright child, but I doubt any changes in what I knew and understood at baptism (three days old) and what I knew and understood after confirmation were anything other than material or physical, along the lines of “oh look, toes” 👣 😁 :+1:t3:
 
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Convert here - I was 24 at the time.

It is difficult to definitively ascribe any changes to confirmation itself, seeing as the entire process occurs at roughly the same time (reception into the Church, first confession, confirmation, and first communion). And is of course the culmination of the conversion process.

There was unsurprisingly some change in who I spent time with, as part of the conversion process - although less than many might think. The social circles I was in had a fair few protestants who evinced no particular hostility towards Catholicism, and who were happy enough to celebrate the return of one who had left to the Christian community. There’s really only one individual in particular who I remember avoiding, for open hostility to any form of religion.
 
I was in the third grade. The confirmation was in Latin (pre-Vatican II). I don’t know if Confirmation changed me all by itself, but ever since then and continuing to this day, I have tried to grow in faith. I’m 67 so it must have done something for me.
 
I was 20. I think it made me say to myself, “Ok, now you can’t do this Catholic thing on the side. Your in this 100%”.
 
I think I was a sophomore or junior in high school. So, maybe fifteen or sixteen.

There were probably 30 of us in my confirmation class. 2 of us showed up for religious ed the next year. 🙂 We did it for a few weeks, and then the teacher decided there wasn’t enough interest to sustain it.

So-- after I was confirmed, I was able to be more active in the church-- like with reading or ministering communion.

But after we were confirmed, most everyone else became less active.

You know how the joke goes–
Three churches in town had a problem with a bat infestation.
The Presbyterian pastor figured that God had predestined the bats to infest the attic, so he did nothing about it as to not interfere with God’s plan.
The Methodist pastor decided to trap them humanely and release them into the wild in the spirit of John Wesley, but they were back a week later.
The Catholic priest baptized them, catechized them, gave them first communion, and confirmed them. Now they only have a bat problem at Christmas and Easter.
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I was 13 (about 2 months away from turning 14. I was confirmed along with my Catholic School 8th grade class and all the 8th grade CCD students in my parish.

I can’t remember what year it was that a bishop started coming every year for confirmations. It had once been every two years so both 7th and 8th graders were confirmed. But by the time I was confirmed, the number of Confirmandi had grown too large and/or we had more auxiliary bishops.

I don’t remember feeling any different after my confirmation (or after any other sacrament for that matter) other than the natural excitement of such an event. But, of course, that is not the measure of the effects of a sacrament.
 
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I don’t know how good looking your church was, but the one I grew up in looked just as plain if not worse than the town’s First Baptist Church.

Now, back to the OP’s query: I was confirmed when I was age 10, in third grade (1993), having received First Holy Communion about one year before.
 
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