The Church of South India, Book of Common Worship (2004)", "Canons of the General Convention 2015, Title I, Canon 17, Section 1(c)", "Journal of the 78th General Convention, 371", "The Christian Faith: Ch 56- Confirmation", "Where The Line Is Drawn: Ordination and Sexual Orientation in the UMC", "By Water and the Spirit: A United Methodist Understanding of Baptism", "What Is the Appropriate Age for Baptism and for Confirmation? This is the official view in several Anglican Provinces.
[64], Eastern Orthodox churches occasionally practise what is seen by other Christians as "re-Chrismation", in that they usually chrismate/confirm – and sometimes rebaptize – a convert, even one previously confirmed in other churches.
In the Anglican Communion, a person who was previously confirmed in another denomination by a bishop or priest recognized as validly ordained is "received" rather than confirmed again.
This corresponds exactly to the practice of the early Church, when at first those receiving baptism were mainly adults, and of the non-Roman Catholic Eastern Churches. [57], The Presbyterian Church in America has a process of confirmation, but it is not necessarily public, and depends on the congregation as to the nature of confirmation. Alleluia" (Galatians 3:27). Several secular, mainly Humanist, organizations direct civil confirmations for older children, as a statement of their life stance that is an alternative to traditional religious ceremonies for children of that age. During your Baptism, your parents and godparents make promises to renounce Satan and believe in God and the Church on your behalf. [54] For those baptized as infants, it often occurs when youth enter their 6th through 8th grade years, but it may occur earlier or later. It gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the cross. These gifts are supernatural graces given to the soul. In the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, confirmation, known also as chrismation,[11] is one of the seven sacraments instituted by Christ for the conferral of sanctifying grace and the strengthening of the union between the individual and God. Until the 12th century, priests often continued to confer confirmation before giving Communion to very young children. It was felt that Shavuot was well suited for the rite, as it celebrated the occasion when the Israelites on Mount Sinai declared their intention to accept the yoke of God's Law, so those of every new generation should follow the ancient example and declare their willingness to be faithful to the Sinaitic covenant transmitted by their ancestors. Traditionally, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude (courage), knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. Further on in the text, connection between the gift of the Holy Spirit and the gesture of laying on of hands appears even more clearly. "[56] Candidates to be confirmed, known as confirmands, take a class which covers Christian doctrine, theology, Methodist Church history, stewardship, basic Bible study and other topics. Each person wishing to be confirmed comes forward with his or her sponsor, who may or may not be one of the godparents chosen for Baptism.
In the Methodist Church, as with the Anglican Communion,[45] Confirmation is defined by the Articles of Religion as one those "Commonly called Sacraments but not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel",[46][47][48] also known as the "five lesser sacraments".