What is your confirmation name and why did you choose iti

  • Thread starter Thread starter anna
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
My mom got to choose her own confirmation name, and she chose Elizabeth. This was in 1938 here in CA. She says she’s glad she wasn’t expected to take the name of either her sponsor, which was Josephine, or her godmother, which was Eulalia.
 
Anne. My father told me that was what I was taking. No choice in the matter. I was 12.
 
St. Christina the Astonishing, because her story is amazing.
 
Well, if you HAD to have one, that’s a pretty good one for a pretty good mama, friend!
I mean, she’s ONLY The Virgin Mary’s mother! 🌹
 
Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
40.png
Irishmom2:
Anne. My father told me that was what I was taking. No choice in the matter. I was 12.
Click to expand...
Harsh. Did you have a saint in mind that you liked better?
Click to expand...
You know, back in the olden days 😏 (early 70s) I don’t remember Sister telling us to research saints. All I remember is her going down the line and we each had to hand in an index card with the name of who we had chosen. A girl handed her a card and Sister said “Christy is NOT a saint.”

So I never really even thought about who I would choose, since it was already decided for me. It’s not like it was a big deal to me honestly. That’s a 12 year old for you.
 
Last edited:
Irishmom2 said:
40.png
Xanthippe_Voorhees:
40.png
Irishmom2:
Anne. My father told me that was what I was taking. No choice in the matter. I was 12.
Click to expand...
Harsh. Did you have a saint in mind that you liked better?
Click to expand...
You know, back in the olden days 😏 (early 70s) I don’t remember Sister telling us to research saints. All I remember is her going down the line and we each had to hand in an index card with the name of who we had chosen. A girl handed her a card and Sister said “Christy is NOT a saint.”

So I never really even thought about who I would choose, since it was already decided for me. It’s not like it was a big deal to me honestly. That’s a 12 year old for you.
Click to expand...
HAHA. Sounds right enough. I forget I was a very impassioned and opinionated child. (Sound like someone you know now 🤣)
 
I was never allowed to choose a confirmation name. I wish I could though…
 
Hi, your patron saint and family patron is unfamiliar to me and the name itself is very interesting,. Could you please tell me something about him? Also why he is the patron of your family. Thank you and God Bless.
 
St James the Greater! In 7th grade I was in the early stages of preparing for Confirmation and we had to research saints. The book I was using had an index sorted by feast days. I looked up my birthday (July 25) and found James. I read about him and was hooked. At that age, the nickname of the Thunder Brothers he shared with his brother John helped me imagine them as a professional wrestling tag team.
 
Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
40.png
Usige:
40.png
UpUpAndAway:
This is my case as well, though for a different reason: I was confirmed when I was an infant and in no position to make decisions for myself 😉
Click to expand...
😄

I guess since I was 16 when I was baptized and 34 when confirmed I can’t really use that reason. 😉
Click to expand...
Interesting story. Did you enter through RCIA? Why were you not confirmed at 16?
Click to expand...
I was raised Presbyterian, but my parents never “got around” to getting me or one of my sisters baptized. When I was 16 I took matters into my own hands and setup my own baptism. I did not become Catholic until I was 34 and while I kinda went through RCIA, I was only in classes for maybe 8 weeks. The odd thing was that 4 months before I was received I was deriding my wife for having become Catholic a few years before and would have said it was a snowball’s chance in hell that I’d ever become Catholic.

So if I had choosen a saint it would have been either Sts Paul or Stephen. St Stephen because I was born on his feast day and St Paul because the circumstances of my conversion was very much like his… well without the scales on my eyes, but just as rapid and profound. 😉
 
Pádraig is the Irish form of Patricius - the bishop to whom we refer to as St Patrick. He drove the ‘snakes’ out of Ireland, converted the masses to Christianity, but hailed originally from Wales.

I don’t know if all families have patron saints, but ours chose him. I think my great-grandfather or probably a few “steps” back in the tree decreed it with some sort of ecclesiastical approval. Nothing stately, I think it was a letter to the bishop and another letter back. I should ask my grandmother actually.
 
Thank you. I thought it might be St. Patrick but wasn’t sure. I like the fact that some families have a patron saint.I would like to think St. Therese is ours. I think I will start the process for my family. Take care and God Bless you and yours.
 
Aurelius Augustinus (Augustine Of Hippo), as I understood him to be of high intelligence with a reputation of once being a great sinner.
 
We can just think of you as “All Saints”. Having a wild card to play is not so bad.
 
I was also confirmed under my baptismal name(s). Choosing a Confirmation name is not something that was done back in 1960 in the parish where I lived. We were confirmed at the age of 7 so not something we could have easily researched either, what with no library close by. My first name is that of our Blessed Mother (as was the case for most of my female classmates) and my second name (which is the one I use) is one of the saints from the Old Testament.
 
You’re not the only one. I remember preparing for it (vivid memory of the dove mobile Sister had made for the classroom), I remember being scared of the slap, but my most vivid memory of the ceremony is of the bishop asking the group of 7 year olds that we were to take the pledge not to drink alcohol until we were 25.

One kid, child of friends of my parents’, refused to take the pledge, explaining to his mother that if he happened to marry before he was 25 he wanted to be able to drink champagne at the reception. 😀
 
George. At first it was because I liked the legend. He seemed brave. I understood the metaphors. But it has grown to be because I do not go looking for a fight, but I have not & will never back down from a heretic. Either outside or inside the Church.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top