What was confirmation like?

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How did it go for you and how has it affected your lives now?
 
When I was confirmed the bishop asked those who were willing to take a pledge of abstinence from alcohol to stand an so pledge. The pledge covered from confirmation until we were of adult age. I have always kept that pledge. I was very impressed by being confirmed.
 
Yes, my faith was stronger. I even tried religious life as an adult. Wish that I could try it again.
 
I was confirmed on the vigil of Easter last year. I was 70. It was one of the happiest evenings of my life. I’m very happy and satisfied with my Catholic life, my faith, my church. The service itself was sort of a sensory overload. Extra musicians, processing into the building, the service itself with incense, and standing with my sponsor and the other candidates in the front. It’s a very moving experience. This year I went to the Easter vigil service to see the new candidates (we didn’t have anybody being baptized), and it was more relaxing! Many of the people going to the Easter vigil service are people who joined in previous years.
 
The ceremony itself was beautiful, especially the laying of hands, it was like a jolt of electricity.

That said the service was a little stressful as they do the entire diocese at once so the church was absolutely rammed even after limiting how many guests we could bring. There were a lot of Christian friends who I would have loved to invite.
 
It was at the Easter Vigil four years ago - my husband and my sister were there, the two people I love most in the world.

There were about 7 of us being confirmed, I was also admitted to the Catholic Church along with a guy who was previously Lutheran - the rest of the group were already baptised Catholics.

It was a happy and memorable occasion. Afterwards, members of the congregation welcomed me, which was really nice. It was very different to when I was confirmed in the CofE when I was a young teenager!
 
When I was confirmed it was at night during a school night. There was a storm and we lost electricity. I was unable to complete my homework in the total darkness and I was rebuked by my teacher for not completing my homework.
 
I was confirmed around age 13. I don’t remember much about it. I think I had my first pair of high heels and I have a memory of whatever bishop was doing the confirmations (I think it was one of the auxiliary bishops) pronouncing my confirmation name as I stood up there with my mother (my sponsor). My mother had a family party and gave me an encyclopedia of the saints with a bookmark of my confirmation saint. I enjoyed reading about the saints.

I remember thinking the preparation for the confirmation at my school was pretty lacking and there were a lot of parts of the Baltimore Catechism we were given that I would have enjoyed learning more about, but mostly they rehashed basic stuff I already knew and skipped a huge number of the lessons. The teacher doing the prep was also not the sharpest knife in the drawer of faculty.
 
I was confirmed as an adult and as there was nothing for adults at the time, I had to join the children. I just felt it was God’s call and it was the time. To be honest, the preparation wasn’t that good so even as an adult I didn’t really get it. I slowly began to understand afterwards and with a lot of help from the Holy Spirit, but then again, I tend to do first and learn afterwards.
 
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Same here 🙂 I was 25 and I was the only adult. [I didn’t attend Catholic schools …or even Catholic church much] I also feel that the preparation was inadequate, but I’ve understood better with time. Interestingly though, I’ve felt that I’ve always been close to God, even as a child and young adult …even when I’ve shunned Him. I was baptised Catholic as a child so that’s probably why. I’ve grown in faith since then anyway 🙂
To the OP, I don’t really remember much else about it …which is odd as it’s relatively recent compared with other people. I recall making a gaffe regarding my saints name, though 😉
 
I know, for a certainty, that I am a “Soldier of God”, & in the FIGHT, whether or not I want to be. I’m responsible. The Grace will be there when I need it, Thanks be to God! Amen.
 
An interesting question, and one that I often think about.

I was kneeling at the alter rail and answering the Bishop’s questions, some of which I was not prepared for. One was the vow to serve the Church which I duly affirmed. However, I had it in my mind that I was going to go out in the world to make money and as much of that as possible. I definitely was not going to dedicate my life to serving the Church, and I felt guilty about my affirmation of that vow to do so.
 
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I was 8 years old when I was confirmed along with all the other third graders in my Catholic school. We girls wore our white first communion dresses and veils and the boys wore their white first communion suits. We went in a procession from the school to the Church. Our parents were already waiting in the Church.

I remember kneeling at the altar railing and the Bishop anointing me with chrism and lightly tapping my cheek and he said I was now a soldier of Christ. I loved becoming a soldier of Christ!

I also told him my confirmation name so he could say it out loud as he confirmed me. My mom remembers that me and the girls on my left and right all had the same confirmation name (Mary or Maria for Our Lady), which she thought was funny.
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It was my official ticket - into The Catholic Faith - a rite of passage -
Of course, it was all a breeze for me -
everyone else seemed to be dragged along - like stubborn poodles - by the leash.
Got a hand shake and hug from a Bishop - outside -
My finest hour 😇
 
I was Confirmed in 1981 when I was in the 8th grade. I do not remember much of the preparation process. My family moved quite often and I changed Catholic schools between 7th and 8th grades. The first school celebrated Confirmation is 8th grade and the second in 7th grade. While at the first school in 7th grade I remember researching and choosing a saint. As an 8th grader at the 2nd school I do not remember much prep other than creating a St James stole. Of the Confirmation Mass, I do not remember much other than all of the flash bulbs going off as I was trying to get back to my pew. I may have entered the wrong pew because I was blinded.
 
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