I'm getting my confirmation and I need some cheat sheets to study before I am question by the bishop. I have some papers at home but they're really confusing. Can anyone help?
2007-02-26 08:46:22 · 10 answers · asked by Ten Commandments 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didn't know you had to take a test for that! I didn't!
2007-02-26 08:49:28 · answer #1 · answered by Suzy Suzee Sue 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bishop will ask general questions, if he asks questions at all. Just know why you are there. Do you really want this sacrament? If not, then don't do it. We do not need any more luke-warm Catholics who receive the sacraments only because it is convenient for them or because they want the approval of others. Confirmation is a major step in your life. You are saying you accept Jesus as your personal savior and friend, not because you are being forced to but because you really want to.
By this sacrament, you will be an adult in the faith and expected to live by the rules and be an example for others, especially if in the future you wish to be a godparent or sponsor for Confirmation.
2007-02-26 16:54:42 · answer #2 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These are not standardized scholastic tests. You will not be asked when St. Athanasius died or what reforms were instituted by pope Gregory VI. They will be the most general faith questions, like "What is the Trinity?" (Not how, just what) or "What does God want for us?" He'll give you any hints he can, and if you can't answer, he'll ask you to pick a friend or ask a different question. Really, if you can't handle those questions, you haven't been paying any attention at all. They have no intention of failing anyone at this test.
2007-02-26 18:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mom had to do that, but I'm pretty sure that isn't done anymore. The only question I had to answer...(well ok, a person told me to tell the bishop...) what my Confirmation name was.
I chose Francis (even though I'm female ^_^ ): St. Francis of Assisi. I wanted to be a vet at the time, but he was a trouble-maker, so I'm THRILLED with my choice! (Trouble that needed to be made.) (He got naked in front of his bishop b/c he was disowning his father & his former lifestyle.)
I'm interested in seeing these "papers" you have. Could you contact me via my email so I can get a better idea of what you're talking about?
tslittleflower@yahoo.com
Thanks!
Congratulations on your Confirmation!
Peace!
2007-02-26 16:57:57 · answer #4 · answered by tslittleflower 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is just another example of man trying to change God's plan of Salvation. We cannot do it any way different than what God says in Acts 2:38!! Confirmation is man's way of receiving the Holy Ghost. The Bible tells us how it is dispensed and how you know that you have it in Acts 2:4, 10:45-46,19:6 St. Mark 16:17.
2007-02-26 16:56:11 · answer #5 · answered by michael m 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Confirmation is a rite in many Christian Churches.
Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, and a large portion of Anglicans, view it as a sacrament, which in the East is conferred on infants immediately after baptism, but in the West is usually administered later.
According to canon law for the Latin or Western Catholic Church, the sacrament is to be conferred on the faithful at about the age of discretion (generally taken to be about 7), unless the Episcopal Conference has decided on a different age, or there is danger of death or, in the judgement of the minister, a grave reason suggests otherwise (canon 891 of the Code of Canon Law). The number of Episcopal Conferences that have set a later age, usually between 14 and 16 years of age, has diminished in recent decades, and even in those countries a bishop may not refuse to confer the sacrament on younger children who request it, provided they are baptized, have the use of reason, are suitably instructed and are properly disposed and able to renew the baptismal promises (letter of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments published in its 1999 bulletin, pages 537-540).
In Protestant Churches, the rite tends to be seen rather as a mature statement of faith by an already baptised person, usually an adolescent, and thus as a rite of passage, which, though not as big a change as a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, holds a similar meaning.
Several secular, mainly Humanist, organizations direct "civil confirmations" for older children, as a statement of their life stance, an equivalent alternative to traditional religious ceremonies for children of that age.
Some regimes have as a matter of policy fostered the replacement of Christian rituals such as confirmation with non-religious ones. In the historically mainly Protestant German Democratic Republic (East Germany), for example, "the Jugendweihe (youth dedication) gradually supplanted the Christian practice of Confirmation."[1]. The Jugendweihe, a concept that first appeared in 1852, is described as "a solemn initiation marking the transition from youth to adulthood that was developed in opposition to Protestant and Catholic Churches'
2007-02-26 16:51:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
that is so funny... what exactly is your confirmation about? that you believe something... or that you memorized something... or that you don't care how to complete it, cheating is ok, just so you can say it is over? what a sad way to go thru life... meeting the requirements of a 'religion'... why don't you just open the Bible... all the answers are there
2007-02-26 17:03:20 · answer #7 · answered by livinintheword † 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Blimey!....I got confirmed at 7.
No cheats, no computers, no help in those days.
I got a watch off me mam though!
2007-02-26 16:49:38 · answer #8 · answered by Moorglademover 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what? I didnt get questioned by anybody then again I was baptized and did my first communion and confirmation all in the same day
2007-02-26 16:54:07 · answer #9 · answered by nana 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
just write them on ur arm
2007-02-26 16:49:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋