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#480 Confirmation: A Misunderstood Sacrament - Simone Rizkallah

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The Plague of Adult Confirmation

Confirmation started to get delayed after the 13th century, but it was still received before the egress. It gets delayed because things got bigger. The bishop took longer to get around to the parishion. So then you end up with people later and later getting even to receive theegress. Right. Like that's how my wife when she came into the church as an adult, she on the eve of Easter. Yeah. And we do that in the west when it comes to adult confirmations. I mean, the pastor, the priest has to write a letter to the bishop and say, Hey, here are the names of these confirmondies that I'd like to confirm.

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