Not sure if my Confirmation was valid?

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With the news this year about the priest who found out he was invalidly baptized, it made me reflect on my own journey through the sacraments. I’m wondering if my confirmation is valid even though I don’t remember ever going to confession before? My only memory of going to confession before then was first reconciliation. Would this make the sacrament invalid?

I also don’t remember there being any talk about going to confession in our classes.
 
Please speak to your priest to help sort out what, if anything, you might specifically need.

If you were being baptized at the same time as receiving Eucharist and being confirmed, you would not need to go to confession because the baptism would have erased all your sins.
 
So far as I am aware, confession is not required prior to confirmation. There is no way that not having gone to confession before receiving confirmation would invalidate the sacrament. The two sacraments have nothing to do with one another.

It would certainly be a good thing to go to confession before receiving the sacrament of confirmation, in that being confirmed is a very important life event for a Catholic. But unless you had been so unfortunate as to have fallen into mortal sin prior to receiving the sacrament, you would have received the grace of the sacrament. Even sacraments received sacrilegiously when one is not in the state of grace —- something you should not do —- are still valid sacraments, the graces just don’t “kick in“ until you regain the state of grace through a good confession.
 
Have you been to Confession since then?

If you were not in a state of grace at your Confirmation, the associated graces would have been withheld. Upon being absolved of sins and returning to a state of grace, you would have received all the graces that were due at your Confirmation.

Essentially the only things needed for validity on your part are: not being Confirmed before, and your consent.
 
I’ve been to confession since, but it wasn’t until my junior year of college ( I was confirmed in 8th grade). I didn’t really understand the sacrament or why it was needed until after my reversion.
 
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