Abstract
This article will briefly address the origins of confirmation and the current approaches to adolescent confirmation. Moreover, the article discusses the two predominant models of confirmation in the Catholic Church in the United States and the predominant methods for adolescent confirmation in Catholic parishes and in youth ministry settings. Finally, the article delineates three proposed methods for confirmation catechesis in Catholic youth ministry. The hope is that these three methods will help Catholic youth ministers and/or confirmation coordinators in their important work of providing confirmation catechesis with teenagers.
Highlights
The Sacrament of Confirmation2 has had an inconsistent history in Catholicism
The duties for adolescent confirmation usually fall on youth ministers, confirmation coordinator, or designated person to facilitate sacramental catechesis who is under the auspices of the parish youth minister
The three methods for confirmation catechesis are designed to help alleviate the burden of having a year-long, week-after-week confirmation class, which typically bores most adolescents and burns out youth ministers
Summary
The Sacrament of Confirmation has had an inconsistent history in Catholicism. Much ink has been spilled on various aspects of confirmation over the past three decades: the proper age to confirm people, the two prominent schools of thought—confirmation as commitment and confirmation as initiation—and role of confirmation catechesis or confirmation classes. This article will examine the models and methods for catechetical instruction in Catholic confirmation programs. The article will briefly look at the origins and history of the Sacrament of Confirmation. The article will discuss the current approach to confirmation and catechesis for confirmation in general. This article will examine the two primary models for confirmation catechesis, and explain the three catechetical methodologies to be implemented with either middle school or high school adolescents as one program offered within the parish’s overall comprehensive youth ministry. This article incorporates both a prescriptive and descriptive analysis throughout. The majority of the article is prescriptive offering the history, theology, and ecclesial understanding regarding the Sacrament of Confirmation. Religions 2020, 11, 417 final section providing three catechetical pastoral strategies and pedagogical tactics for implementation in a youth ministry settings
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