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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on March 27, 2010, 03:04:42 pm ---Back from an exhausting shopping tour!
I haven't been much on BM the last days, I'm busy as a bee. Tomorrow is the confirmation of my oldest daughter. Big, big event. Her cousin also has her confirmation and since half of the relatives belong to both girls, we're celebrating together. Almost 50 people.
All the stuff you have to think of! Table decoration, 10 tortes have to be organized and carried to the restaurant, the whole family of five needed new festive apparel, especially my daughter of course.
Tomorrow morning the hairdresser (= my friend Kerstin) will come and do my daughter's and my hair, and and and. It's almost as much effort as a wedding. It is THE big day in the life of a teenager.
My daughter and I start to get nervous, lol. Wish us luck for tomorrow.
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Confirmation on Palm Sunday? That sounds different.
Congratulations and God's blessings on your daughter, and her cousin, and you all! :)
David In Indy:
I remember my Confirmation. I was sooooo worried about the Bishop slapping me across the face. :laugh:
And it turned out to only be a little tap on the cheek!
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 27, 2010, 05:48:38 pm ---Confirmation on Palm Sunday? That sounds different.
Congratulations and God's blessings on your daughter, and her cousin, and you all! :)
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It seems like I was confirmed during Holy Week, but I can't remember for certain. I know they often confirm new incoming adult Catholics on Holy Saturday, and the school kids get confirmed a day or two before - IF I remember correctly.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David In Indy on March 28, 2010, 12:05:52 am ---It seems like I was confirmed during Holy Week, but I can't remember for certain. I know they often confirm new incoming adult Catholics on Holy Saturday, and the school kids get confirmed a day or two before - IF I remember correctly.
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When I was coming up Lutheran, Confirmations were regularly held on Pentecost. I'm not exactly sure what the Lutherans are doing nowadays, since the ratification of "Called to Common Mission," the intercommunion agreement with the Episcopalians. "In my day," the pastor of the congregation performed the rite. No bishop was required. (When I was kid, American Lutherans didn't even have bishops.) But "Called to Common Mission" requires the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to reestablish an "historic episcopate," so I'm not sure if local pastors can still confirm, or not. ???
Of course Episcopalians require a bishop for Confirmation, so it takes place whenever the bishop makes his annual visit to the parish. Around here Episcopalians are real big on administering Baptism at Easter Vigil. A young man will be baptized in my parish next Saturday evening, but I won't be there because I'll be out of town spending Easter weekend with my dad.
Edit to add this update: A friend who is a Lutheran pastor confirmed ;D for me that pastors of Lutheran congregations still perform the rite of Confirmation. No bishop is required. ;D
CellarDweller:
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