Is my confirmation valid?

[totallylost]

Hi, I don’t know if I am asking in the correct forum.

I’m not native English speaker so please bear with my broken English.

I was born in the non-christian family, though my mom is a non-practicing Catholic.
(That means I was the only Catholic/Christian in my family)
I was baptized 6 years ago and received Confirmation 4 years ago. Now I’m starting worry whether my Confirmation is a valid one or not:-

2 days before confirmation (which was set on Easter Sunday Mass), I’ve been told that we, the candidate must go to confession before being confirmed. So I went on Good Friday. I was addicted to masturbation during that time. 1 day after my confession and a day before confirmation, I masturbated once again (I have no access to pornography at that time because there’s no computer or any media).

So is my Confirmation valid, as I may have done a mortal sin? (because I wasn’t being forced to masturbate)

help,
totallylost.

 

[Seatuck]

Yes if your confirmation took place in a Catholic church with a Catholic Bishop it was valid. It is good to confess to that sin whenever you need to. So as long as you have confessed to it since that time you are ok. Keep perservering.

 

[totallylost]

Yes if your confirmation took place in a Catholic church with a Catholic Bishop it was valid. It is good to confess to that sin whenever you need to. So as long as you have confessed to it since that time you are ok. Keep perservering.

thanks…

 

[PhilotheaZ]

If you receive a sacrament (e.g., Confirmation or Matrimony) when not in the state of grace, the sacrament is valid, but you do not receive the graces of that sacrament. But as soon as you go to confession and are absolved of all your sins, you “retroactively” receive the graces of that sacrament.

So, assuming you have since then confessed all your serious sins, you are fine.

If you have not been to confession since then, go now, and receive and use all the graces in store for you from your Confirmation.