SUMMARY

1. Before anyone is confirmed, he or she is instructed and prepared, usually by the parish priest.

2. The bishop, in order to know that the candidates are in earnest and to link Confirmation with Baptism, asks the candidates to renew their Baptismal Promises and to affirm their Faith, based on the Apostles’ Creed.

3. Usually Confirmation is followed immediately by First Communion when, for the first time, the newly confirmed receive Jesus himself in the Blessed Sacrament.  So begins a lifetime of regular and frequent Communion.

References

1. Dark, S. (1944) Seven Archbishops, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode.

2. Church of England (1662) The Book of Common Prayer. The Order of
Confirmation or Laying on of Hands upon those that are baptized and come to years of discretion.  Available from:
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/bcp/texts/20-orderofconfirmation.html  (Accessed 24 August 2010) (Internet).

3. ©The Archbishops’ Council (2006) Common Worship.  Baptism and Confirmation.  Available from:
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/downloads/pdf/cibaptismandconf.pdf  (Accessed 24 August 2010) (Internet).

4. ©The Archbishops’ Council (2006) Common Worship.  Baptism and Confirmation.  Available from: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/downloads/pdf/cibaptismandconf.pdf  (Accessed 24 August 2010) (Internet).

5. ©The Archbishops’ Council (2006) Common Worship.  Baptism and Confirmation.  Available from: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/downloads/pdf/cibaptismandconf.pdf  (Accessed 24 August 2010) (Internet).