Yes. Our confirmation leader-coordinator person said it was a life changing experience. It realy wasnt for me. Nothing changed over the next couple months and I came to realize I didn’t realy beleave most catholic stuff. That sort of pushed me over the edge from very liberal catholic to agnostic.
A lot of us have been there, done that. We’ll await your eventual return with great anticipation.
A lot of us have been there, done that. We’ll await your eventual return with great anticipation.
It wasn’t that I decided or recognized that I should go to confession, I just happened to be at Lourdes and I saw all the confessionals and I just went. I think Our Blessed Mother Mary had something to do with it. 
But, I digress, pardon me.How old were you when you were confirmed?
I was 16. I was told I would better understand and be more faithful. I was pretty much gone by then though, so I wasn’t expecting much anyway. Sense I was confirmed I’ve actualy moved steadily away from the church.Hello Hunter24,
I see. My personal experience was a bit different than yours. I was really ignorant about my faith and lacked the bare necessities of knowledge to really practice my faith in a decent manner. You were blessed to have the opportunity to go to Catholic school, for what twelve years? That’s great! That’s a great foundation of knowledge I would assume.
I did not have that, all I had was the experience of having lived with my pious grand mother and lived in a close family with my practicing relatives up to the age of nine years old. Then I was sent to America and that was the end of my Catholic education and exposure. I was never even taken to Church by my new family in America - they were too devoted to the American Dollar.
So, I remained for years very ignorant about basic stuff about my faith. I have actually really dedicated myself these past seven years to learning and as I do and receive the Sacraments I am also growing spiritually. Once I had become an independent adult I practiced my faith but very ignorantly, but thanks to God and Our Blessed Mother Mary I did not get lost. I received inappropriately the Eucharist when I was in my early twenties as a friend who I went to church with told me that I could just receive - so I did. I did not go to church every Sunday but I would visit convents, pray, and do what I knew to do. I confessed for the first time when I was 33 years old - the age of Jesus.
How old were you when you were confirmed?
What changes were you expecting? After having received a formal Catholic education for so many years, what were you expecting?
Confirmation, like the other sacraments of initiation, marks the beginning of a journey toward deeper knowledge of God. Our Confirmation candidates join us in claiming our heritage. For years to come, they will bear witness to what loving and believing people have handed on to them—all in the Spirit of God.
CCC 1308:
1308 Although Confirmation is sometimes called the “sacrament of Christian maturity,” we must not confuse adult faith with the adult age of natural growth, nor forget that the baptismal grace is a grace of free, unmerited election and does not need “ratification” to become effective. St. Thomas reminds us of this:
Age of body does not determine age of soul. Even in childhood man can attain spiritual maturity: as the book of Wisdom says: "For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years. "Many children, through the strength of the Holy Spirit they have received, have bravely fought for Christ even to the shedding of their blood.
What do you think of this article:
Confirmation:
A Deepening of Our Christian Identity
americancatholic.org/newsletters/CU/ac1095.asp
Seconded!A lot of us have been there, done that. We’ll await your eventual return with great anticipation.
Many symbols accompany Wicca lore. Most of them have a standing tradition within the history of the occult, and they all play a role in Wicca. You have arrived at being a Wiccan by obviously not feeling the need to embrace the sacred scriptures. I’m sure you know the bible condemns divination, spiritism, magic, sorcery, witchcraft and the occult. The polytheism is also a contradiction to the strict monotheism of Christianity. Think about these oppositions before giving yourself over.
Yes a lot of our practices are condemned by the bible. However I don’t beleave the bible is the inspired word of God, if I did I would have never left the church. I have alot of respect for it as an important book, but it’s not an authority to Wiccans. Some people try to blend Christianity and Wicca, but this realy dosn’t work. While the Wiccan beleif structure can support monotheism, the Christian god takes a very strong stand against many Wiccan practices. All Christian Wicca is is wishful thinking by people not ready to fully go to one religion or another.
Why do you have respect for the Bible?
So, you think that God is everything, the rocks, the birds, the sea, the moon, me and you etc… all together = God? So, all the matter and everything in the universe is an entity that is God. Did he create himself? If he and she is everything, is this entity good and evil? We have good and evil and if God is this creation all together than is’he and she’ evil and self created?
It is the most published book on earth. It has had a profound effect on world history, and is a holy document to over 1/3 the people on earth. I don’t beleave or agree with all it’s teachings, but It certainly deserves respect.
It would not be correct to say god IS everything, but that it is PRESENT IN everything. The ultimate God is made up of all spirits and spiritual energys but not all matter. Because the ultimate God is comprised of everything it is perfectly neutral. It is the dietys, spirits, energys, and beings which make up the ultimate God that are either Good, Evil, or neutral.
Hello FaithBuild18,
Doesn’t that take a greater leap of faith than Christianity? I mean, what was it that you were trying to do without, the personal God? So, these spirits in the universe that are suppose to be God, do they exist out side of time and creation or are they just like the invisible energy of universe?
In front of me here, I have the two volumes of the completed works of Aristotle and the one volume of the completed works of Plato. I like those guys, Aristotle not to much, but I love Plato. Now, they had a tremendous influence in the development of civilization as we know it, philosophy, law, science, etc., etc., etc., but I have absolutely no respect for these three volumes. It would not bother me in a special way if someone stepped on them or burned them. It would bother me if it was the Bible.
Hmmm, how would this require a greater leap of faith? I was already agnostic before I became Wiccan so I was not trying to escape a personal God, Wicca is full of them infact, they are the dietys like Thor, Odin, Ra, and Hachiman who compose large parts of the God and Goddess. It’s not just these spirits that are the ultimate God. We call them Gods out of respect for their power, but they are only parts. They are, just like our souls, beyond time and space. While our physical body’s will eventually die our souls will go on beyond physical space. It’s not just those spirits which comprise the ultimate god, it’s me, you, and everyone around you to, we are all little pieces of it.
I would be mad to see a bible burned because it would be disrespectful to Christians. I wouldn’t be offended personally but unless this person has a good reason to be burning that bible I would say “hey, quit making an #*^ of yourself, that’s offensive to a lot of people”. I would do the same for the Koran, Torah, Bagivat Gieta (that is totaly wrong spelling) or any other holy bood because they are very important to people. I have proper respect for any religions holy texts.
Ohhh I’m no psychic myself, I simply know what some wiccans beleave on the subject. (I have however, alwase been a superb Ouija board operator haha)
Other symbols such as the amulet, Talisman, ankh, athame, circle, rune, sigil, tarot, wand & witches ladder are associated with Wicca and have some connection with Satanism.