It is appropriate for a candidate to confirm the name given at Baptism. Choosing a Confirmation name helps put us in contact with our greater Christian story. Since a sponsor has such a significant role to play in the development of the candidate for Confirmation, it is important that this person be one who is a living example of faith, one whose actions reflect the actions of Jesus.
A Confirmation sponsor offers support and encouragement during the Confirmation preparation process. During the Confirmation ceremony sponsors bring the candidates forward and present them to the bishop. Evangelisation Brisbane and Liturgy Brisbane have developed the following resources to assist with preparation for Confirmation in the Archdiocese of Brisbane.
This resource is available for sale through the Evangelisation Brisbane online store. This workbook from Liturgy Brisbane is designed to be used in a family setting with the child and parents working together.
The bishop prays that each person will receive the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: reverence, understanding, courage, knowledge, wisdom, awe and wonder and right judgment. He makes the sign of the cross on their foreheads with holy chrism oil. This is a sign of strength and a reminder of their commitment to follow Christ even to the cross. In many English-speaking countries, candidates will take the name of a saint.
The saint will act as a patron and guide to the person seeking confirmation. Candidates will usually devote time during their confirmation classes to choosing a saint who particularly inspires them.
Catholics are usually confirmed after they have received their first Holy Communion. However, this is not the traditional order for conferring the three sacraments of Christian initiation.
When an adult is initiated into the Catholic Church, he or she must receive baptism, confirmation and Holy Communion in that order. In some parts of the world, Catholic dioceses are returning to the traditional order, allowing children to be confirmed before they receive their first Holy Communion for the first time at the age of seven or eight.
In Salford diocese, which oversees Catholic churches in towns and villages in Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire, the former bishop, Patrick Kelly, decided to reinstate the symbolic context of confirmation. After infant baptism, children in parishes throughout the diocese would be confirmed at the age of eight at Pentecost.
They would make their first confession sacrament of reconciliation in advent and first Holy Communion the following Easter. But such an arrangement means that the bishop confirms fewer people. In other Catholic dioceses in this country, the bishop will normally confirm any baptised person who seeks confirmation in one of several mass ceremonies held throughout the year. Eastern Churches refer to confirmation as Chrismation. They confer Chrismation at the same time as baptism.
This is also the practice of Eastern Rite Catholics. The special relationship between Roman Catholics and members of the Eastern Churches means that the Catholic Church does not confirm converts from the Eastern rite.
By contrast, when Roman Catholics and Protestants convert to Orthodoxy, they are usually received into the Church by Chrismation but without baptism. However, some bishops require converts to be admitted through baptism. Protestants, in particular, may have to be baptised again. Some of the practices surrounding confirmation in the Church of England are similar to the Roman Catholic Church but only the bishop can confer the sacrament. Traditionally, confirmation was part of a wider ceremony of Christian initiation in the Church of England.
It only became a separate rite when bishops were no longer able to preside at all baptisms. Anglicans who choose to be confirmed make a further commitment to the Christian journey that began with their baptism. It marks their decision to live a responsible and committed Christian life. Through prayer and the laying of hands, the bishop asks God to send his Holy Spirit to give them the strength to live as disciples of Christ.
Like baptism, there are two different types of confirmation services in the Church of England. There are those that follow the confirmation rite in The Book of Common Prayer and those that follow the confirmation rite from the Common Worship pattern.
In the Church of England, there is no set age for confirmation although it has been traditional for people to be confirmed in their early teens. The Methodist Church offers the rite of confirmation for any member who wants to make a public statement of faith as a committed Christian. Like Anglicans and Catholics, Methodists confirm the promises that were made on their behalf as a baby. Confirmation does not take place in the Baptist Church where believers are baptised as adults through full immersion.
A core belief is that the baptised makes a firm commitment to discipleship and the church. Some Baptist churches may also be willing to re-baptise a person who has embraced the Christian faith although they were baptised as a baby into another denomination.
This precept must be fulfilled during the Easter season unless it is fulfilled for a just cause at another time during the year. The Christian faithful who are in danger of death from any cause are to be nourished by holy communion in the form of Viaticum. Even if they have been nourished by holy communion on the same day, however, those in danger of death are strongly urged to receive communion again. While the danger of death lasts, it is recommended that holy communion be administered often, but on separate days.
The most holy eucharistic sacrifice must be offered with bread and with wine in which a little water must be mixed. If an infirm or elderly priest is unable to stand, he can celebrate the eucharistic sacrifice while seated, but not before the people except with the permission of the local ordinary; the liturgical laws are to be observed.
A blind or otherwise infirm priest licitly celebrates the eucharistic sacrifice by using any approved text of the Mass with the assistance, if needed, of another priest, deacon, or even a properly instructed lay person. The eucharistic celebration is to be carried out in a sacred place unless in a particular case necessity requires otherwise; in such a case the celebration must be done in a decent place. The eucharistic sacrifice must be carried out on a dedicated or blessed altar; outside a sacred place a suitable table can be used, always with a cloth and a corporal.
In sacred places where the Most Holy Eucharist is reserved, there must always be someone responsible for it and, insofar as possible, a priest is to celebrate Mass there at least twice a month. For a just cause, however, the ordinary can also permit it to be reserved in another oratory of the same house. The Most Holy Eucharist is to be reserved habitually in only one tabernacle of a church or oratory.
The tabernacle in which the Most Holy Eucharist is reserved is to be situated in some part of the church or oratory which is distinguished, conspicuous, beautifully decorated, and suitable for prayer. The tabernacle in which the Most Holy Eucharist is reserved habitually is to be immovable, made of solid and opaque material, and locked in such a way that the danger of profanation is avoided as much as possible.
For a grave cause, it is permitted to reserve the Most Holy Eucharist in some other fit-ting and more secure place, especially at night. The person responsible for the church or oratory is to take care that the key of the tabernacle in which the Most Holy Eucharist is reserved is safeguarded most diligently. In churches or oratories where it is permitted to reserve the Most Holy Eucharist, there can be expositions with the pyx or the monstrance; the norms prescribed in the liturgical books are to be observed.
Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament is not to be held in the same area of the church or oratory during the celebration of Mass. Such an exposition is to be held, however, only if a suitable gathering of the faithful is foreseen and the established norms are observed.
When it can be done in the judgment of the diocesan bishop, a procession through the public streets is to be held as a public witness of veneration toward the Most Holy Eucharist, especially on the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ.
It is for the diocesan bishop to establish regulations which provide for the participation in and the dignity of processions. In accord with the approved practice of the Church, any priest celebrating or concelebrating is permitted to receive an offering to apply the Mass for a specific intention. It is recommended earnestly to priests that they celebrate Mass for the intention of the Christian faithful, especially the needy, even if they have not received an offering.
A priest who celebrates several Masses on the same day can apply each to the intention for which the offering was given, but subject to the rule that, except on Christmas, he is to keep the offering for only one Mass and transfer the others to the purposes prescribed by the ordinary, while allowing for some recompense by reason of an extrinsic title.
A priest who concelebrates a second Mass on the same day cannot accept an offering for it under any title. It is for the provincial council or a meeting of the bishops of the province to define by decree for the entire province the offering to be given for the celebration and application of Mass, and a priest is not permitted to seek a larger sum.
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