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Hey listen everyone who has taken part in this little exchange with me; on Sunday April 26 I presented four adults for confirmation, two of whom were baptized in that same liturgy. This exchange of thoughts and comments proved very helpful to me in…
Kevin, I'm with you 100% in saying it doesn't make sense to rquire adults who are baptized to redo their affirmation. And your question about laying-on of hands and chrism points to the ambiguities of the full rite of baptism in Catholic tradition (…
One of the best explanations of the historical development of confirmation in Anglicanism (and other Christian traditions) is Gerard Austin's book Anointing with the Spirit: The Rite of Confirmation.
As for the practice of confirmation in TEC today…
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- At 4:17pm on March 12, 2009,
Donald Schell said…
- Two years ago I began a transition from rector to full-time work with All Saints Company (that founded St. Gregory's). Rick and I are both with All Saints now. Our work as it's shaping up is featured at www.allsaiantscompany.org. Biggest upcoming national/international piece will be our sixth 'Music that Makes Community' conference/workshop at Trinity, Copley Square, Boston.
Paul Fromberg is the rector at St. Gregory's and Sara Miles (author of Take this Bread) is director of ministry. I use the past tense only to mark that I have other responsibilities now. i don't know what Paul and the church will be doing about confirmation, but go gladly say that St. Gregory's is thriving under Paul's leadership. The Anglimergent gathering will be there starting this weekend.
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Anyone making sense of the rite of Confirmation these days?
Hi all,
Listen, I'm just wanting to check around and see what people are doing with Confirmation these days... that proverbial rite in search of a theology. In my own context - www.stbenedictstable.ca - we practice open table, but do put real emphasis on baptism. I could rehearse some of what informs that; I've done so in a little book we've published on this topic. I'm going to assume that many of you have also come to a place of seeing participation in communion as being, at least for some peo… Continue
Listen, I'm just wanting to check around and see what people are doing with Confirmation these days... that proverbial rite in search of a theology. In my own context - www.stbenedictstable.ca - we practice open table, but do put real emphasis on baptism. I could rehearse some of what informs that; I've done so in a little book we've published on this topic. I'm going to assume that many of you have also come to a place of seeing participation in communion as being, at least for some peo… Continue
Posted on March 10, 2009 at 3:56pm — 11 Comments
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