What’s Confirmation?

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The entire post was meant to be sarcastic. Sorry, should have made it clear. I thought the first sentence would do so. Of course, the first sentence is the actual argument made for keeping children from being confirmed in most diocese of the US. A situation, as a parent I strongly dislike. The Church, in effect, forbids my children to be allowed access to the grace of the sacrament rather arbitrarily.
 
Sorry, didn’t pick up on that.

I agree that the strategy you mention is likely to backfire and produce unintended results of alienating the children and their families from the Church. My boys did not have to go through all that. If they did, I would have understood if they wanted to delay the sacrament until they were adults.
 
Your pastor recognized that you were already well catechized. I’m not sure what was required for coming into full communion under the 1917 Code of Canon Law but I would have expected at the very least a Profession of Faith, and of course the reception of the sacrament of Penance which your Pastor told you to avail of.
 
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Phemie said:
Your pastor recognized that you were already well catechized. I’m not sure what was required for coming into full communion under the 1917 Code of Canon Law but I would have expected at the very least a Profession of Faith, and of course the reception of the sacrament of Penance which your Pastor told you to avail of.
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Phemie, correct. I do remember (my the help of some you here…lol), that the pastor asked me to memorize typical Catholic Prayers and the Profession of Faith.
 
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