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Offline SimpleMan

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Re: SSPX now discourages Conditional Confirmation
« Reply #45 on: May 17, 2025, 06:17:05 PM »
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    • Quote from: Pax Vobis on May 17, 2025, 11:16:03 AM
    The parish priest confirmed you?

    I don’t know the answer to your question, but…I can say that in pre-V2 times, hearing stories from that generation, it was normal for schools to have annual confirmations between the 6th-8th grade.  The bishop lived in the diocese.  He didn’t have to travel far.  Sounds like he rotated between schools every year.  I’m sure there was also a schedule for adult confirmations to be done, collectively, once or twice a year. 

    Maybe there was a priest who was given special confirmation authority?  I don’t know.
     I was received into the Church in 1976.  It wasn't pre-V2.
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    Re: SSPX now discourages Conditional Confirmation
    « Reply #46 on: May 17, 2025, 06:18:45 PM »
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    • Quote from: Giovanni Berto on May 17, 2025, 05:16:46 PM
    I would do it if I were you. No anxiety, but do it when you can. The sooner the better if you go to the SSPX, because they will probably stop doing it soon.

    I don't see a reason for it to be done secretly. I guess it can be done only with the essential rites, but you would need a good reason for it.

    "Secretly" isn't the concept I was trying to get across.  My question was whether the bishop could confer the sacrament perhaps after Mass at the communion rail or similar circuмstances.
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    Offline Giovanni Berto

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    Re: SSPX now discourages Conditional Confirmation
    « Reply #47 on: May 17, 2025, 09:30:59 PM »
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    • Quote from: SimpleMan on May 17, 2025, 06:18:45 PM
    "Secretly" isn't the concept I was trying to get across.  My question was whether the bishop could confer the sacrament perhaps after Mass at the communion rail or similar circuмstances.

    "Discreetly" parhaps is the word we are looking for.

    I guess he could, but I don't think he would.
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    Re: SSPX now discourages Conditional Confirmation
    « Reply #48 on: May 17, 2025, 10:03:22 PM »
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    • The Catechism of the Crisis in the Church by Fr Matthias Gaudron SSPX, printed in Germany in 1997 and published by Angelus Press in 2010, concludes the section on the sacraments with this question: 91) Should one receive the sacraments in the new rites? Because of the defects presented above, one should not receive the sacraments in the new rites, but only in the traditional rites, WHICH ALONE ARE WORTHY AND CERTAINLY VALID...
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    Re: SSPX now discourages Conditional Confirmation
    « Reply #49 on: May 17, 2025, 10:20:03 PM »
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    • Quote from: SimpleMan on May 17, 2025, 06:18:45 PM
    "Secretly" isn't the concept I was trying to get across.  My question was whether the bishop could confer the sacrament perhaps after Mass at the communion rail or similar circuмstances.
    Confirmation (compared to baptism) is not a quick sacrament to administer.  First you gotta make sure the person is prepared.  Then make sure there’s a sponsor.  Then the bishop has to have holy oils ready, etc.  I think this is why it’s typically done “as a group” to save time.  
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