How old were you when you were confirmed?

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How old were you when you were confirmed?
Did you understand what was supposed to happen?
 
thirty. yes. but it is still kinda vague as a sacrament as toward how it has changed over time and what it specifically imparts. I know what it means and I know why I did it but I think catechesis on this subject was kind of lacking as i was growing up. but i had a very deep experience and understanding of it when i was recieving it. my question should be why do you want to know?
 
Way too old, I think, but probably it was when God wanted it. In my 20s.

Yes, I understood very well. But I guess I understand better now, so go figure.

My point: even young confirmandi will greatly benefit from the grace that this Sacrament brings. It’s life-changing in many ways, also many hidden ways.
 
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In 2016 I was 23 years old. I’m very blessed to be confirmed
 
I was 12 or 13 when I was confirmed, in the 7th grade. I understood what was happening as well as I could at 12 or 13. Looking back, there was also a certain amount of just going through the motions, I must admit, since I was at a Catholic school and the entire 7th and 8th grade classes were all confirmed at the same time.
 
  1. Had no idea what it’s supposed to be. Still don’t even know much about it, tbh.
 
I was around 15 or 16 and to be honest, I had no idea what was going on.

I’m Byzantine now and have made an interesting observation, granted, only from 9 posts on this thread: out of 10 posts (including myself) half of us were “around” or “about” a certain age, we can’t remember, and at the time we were not even sure what was going on. I bring this up because as Eastern Christians we Chrismate (Confirm) infants. Baptism, Chrismation and the Eucharist all in one liturgical setting. Just like an adult coming into the Roman Catholic Church. Often times I hear how Confirmation is a right of passage and should be done at an older age but half of us on this thread did not really understand what was going on at the time.

Just my 2 cents

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I was 8.
Yes, I understood what it was all about.
People here would have had a heart attack (this was back in 1965, for context) but we knew that in addition to strengthening our faith and being supported by the Holy Spirit to live Christian lives of faith, hope, and charity, and with the gifts of the Holy Spirit including wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord we were also to be ‘soldiers in Christ’s army’, ready to take up our spiritual armor in defense of our Holy Faith.
 
I was thirteen. And yes, I fully understood what was going on. I have had a good Catholic education from my childhood to this point.
 
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I was ten [in 1958], and, as has been stated previously, was well aware of what Confirmation is and what the Sacrament meant to me personally. I was in 5th grade at the time…our Confirmation class [5th and 6th grade] numbered in excess of 300, and the good nuns made sure we were properly prepared.
 
I was 13 – back in 1981 – and I understood what the sacrament was about. My friend and I talked about it extensively, since she and I were getting confirmed in the same month that year. At the family party after the confirmation mass, she asked me if I felt any different, if I felt anything at the moment of the sacrament, etc.
 
Age 15.

Not sure I fully understood it. It was something I had to do or was expected to do, and I didn’t do a lot of thinking about it at the time.
 
I believe I was fifteen at the time. I understood it well enough to know it was something I wanted at the time, although my experiences as an adult have substantially changed almost all of the opinions I held during my teen years.
 
I was 14, almost 15 years old when I was confirmed. I understood what was going on.
 
I was 25 and a convert. I did understand but I still learn more all the time, especially as I have started teaching our children about the sacraments.
 
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