Pre-Confirmation Communion

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Just wondering, (feel free to smake this Idea down), Is Confirmation needed for receiveing communion or just baptism? Is Confirmation necessary to go to confession? Thanks and God bless.
 
Montie Claunch:
Just wondering, (feel free to smake this Idea down), Is Confirmation needed for receiveing communion or just baptism? Is Confirmation necessary to go to confession? Thanks and God bless.
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No, Confirmation is not necessary to receive the Eucharist or Sacrament of Reconciliation. Baptism is necessary.
 
it depends. I believe OP is in RCIA. If he is unbaptized he will celebrate baptism, confirmation and first communion at the same time, the time designated by the bishop, usually the Easter vigil, but not before he, the pastor and those preparing him agree he is ready. Sometime after this he will prepare for his first confession, hopefully during the one-year period of mystagogy following his initiation.

A baptized non-Catholic adult must make a profession of faith and be confirmed to be formally initiated into the Catholic Church and accepted into full communion, at which time he will also make his first communion. This individual would prepare for first penance sometime before completing his Christian initiation.

In the west, baptized Catholics are prepared for the first penance, first communion, and confirmation, in that order, sometime after reaching the age of reason (about 7) and age 16. Some dioceses are given the permission to experiment with lowering the age of confirmation. I for one hope we restore the practice preserved in the eastern Church of keeping the strong link between baptism and confirmation and administering them at the same time, preferably in infancy.
 
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A baptized non-Catholic adult must make a profession of faith and be confirmed to be formally initiated into the Catholic Church and accepted into full communion, at which time he will also make his first communion. This individual would prepare for first penance sometime before completing his Christian initiation.
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This is the process I went through in the early 1990’s at the end of the RCIA program when I converted from being Methodist to Catholic.
 
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This is the process I went through in the early 1990’s at the end of the RCIA program when I converted from being Methodist to Catholic.
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quite right, forgot to add that adult Catholics who never made first communion and confirmation are usually in the same or similar class with RCIA candidates, and can celebrate both sacraments at the same time, preceded of course by confession. We also have a fair number of children each year who were both baptized and confirmed as infants in Mexico or Central America, and are now preparing for first confession and first communion, with additional catechesis on the other sacraments, of course.
 
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puzzleannie:
quite right, forgot to add that adult Catholics who never made first communion and confirmation are usually in the same or similar class with RCIA candidates, and can celebrate both sacraments at the same time, preceded of course by confession. We also have a fair number of children each year who were both baptized and confirmed as infants in Mexico or Central America, and are now preparing for first confession and first communion, with additional catechesis on the other sacraments, of course.
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I enjoyed the RCIA process. In fact I found I learned more than my wife knew as a cradle Catholic. Interestingly there were some Catholics in my RCIA group just to learn more about the Faith.
 
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