Christian Confirmation Name - What's yours?

[Gaura Priya]

I am not a Christian anymore, but I am curious on what your Confirmation names are!

My Confirmation name is Kateri, from Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, purportedly to be the first Aboriginal saint to willingly convert to Christianity. She was hated by her community to follow the religion of the white man, and she was born with a disfigured with her parents dying early.

When her uncle wanted her to marry, she refused and ran away from the prospect that came to her home.

She ran to the nearest Christian settlement, and quickly developed a love for the rosary and prayer, and was baptised as Kateri. After a short devoted life of celibacy, she grew sick and died with the words, "Jesus, I love you." Miraculously, her face became beautiful, and the scars and disfigurement which were on her face disappeared.

She is nicknamed as the Lily of the Mohawks.

So what is your Confirmation name?

 

[Renji]

I'm not sure if you're talking about "baptismal names". Mine is Lawrence. Mom named me after a novel entitled "Saint Lawrence of Arabia". But I realized later on that my name is also the same as St. Lawrence of Rome. Lawrence of Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Gaura Priya]

I'm not sure if you're talking about "baptismal names". Mine is Lawrence. Mom named me after a novel entitled "Saint Lawrence of Arabia". But I realized later on that my name is also the same as St. Lawrence of Rome. Lawrence of Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thank you for sharing about Saint Lawrence. I have never heard of him before!

Confirmation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Generally, some Christian Churches, when giving the sacrament of Confirmation, allow for the Christian to take up a Saint's name or some Christian name to embody the life or virtues behind that name. It becomes a strengthening for one's Christian identity.

My birth name at baptism was actually from the Irish Saint Kevin; animal lover, young monk, and founder of a monastery. His symbol is the blackbird.

 

[Renji]

Thank you for sharing about Saint Lawrence. I have never heard of him before!

Confirmation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Generally, some Christian Churches, when giving the sacrament of Confirmation, allow for the Christian to take up a Saint's name or some Christian name to embody the life or virtues behind that name. It becomes a strengthening for one's Christian identity.

My birth name at baptism was actually from the Irish Saint Kevin; animal lover, young monk, and founder of a monastery. His symbol is the blackbird.

Oh, okay. We don't usually do that in the Catholic church. Our baptismal name is our Christian name. St. Lawrence's symbol is the gridiron.

 

[Gaura Priya]

Oh, okay. We don't usually do that in the Catholic church. Our baptismal name is our Christian name. St. Lawrence's symbol is the gridiron.

I was born and raised in the Catholic Church prior to my leaving Christianity altogether, lol. Some Catholic churches will have that tradition; some may not.

My local parish certainly had the practice.

 

[dance-above]

I'm not Catholic but I had an experience about a year ago. Starting out on my daily route I started thinking that if a person was born again that all things would become new even their Name, just at that moment I wondered what would mine be. A name popped into my. So I googled it on my cell phone. The whole time thinking that I was being silly not even sure how to spell it. So I proceeded to type SHECANIAH, this was the name that came to me. As it turns out it is a hebrew name ( I'm not hebrew ) that means " intamate with GOD " . It certainly increased my faith on that day.

 

[Smoke]

Oh, okay. We don't usually do that in the Catholic church. Our baptismal name is our Christian name.

Taking a confirmation name is actually pretty common among Catholics -- at least, among my Catholic relatives and other Catholics I've known.

In the Orthodox Church, chrismation (the Orthodox equivalent of confirmation) is performed immediately after baptism, and it's not customary to take a confirmation name; however, I have known converts who were received by chrismation rather than by baptism and chrismation, and who received their Christian name at chrismation.

My baptismal name is Patrikios in Greek and Patrick in English, after St. Patrick the Enlightener of Ireland. I answer to both Patrick and Bill, among other things.

 

[Madhuri]

I wasn't given a confirmation name in Australia. I was baptised in Italy at age 9 in a Catholic church (the same one as the rest of my Italian family) and I think my given name was Maria. I don't even remember...

 

[Renji]

Taking a confirmation name is actually pretty common among Catholics -- at least, among my Catholic relatives and other Catholics I've known.

Hmm, maybe in some branch of Catholicism, but not all.

 

[Kathryn]

My confirmation name is Francis - for St Francis de Sales.

Francis was destined by his father to be a lawyer so that the young man could eventually take his elder’s place as a senator from the province of Savoy in France. For this reason Francis was sent to Padua to study law. After receiving his doctorate, he returned home and, in due time, told his parents he wished to enter the priesthood. His father strongly opposed Francis in this, and only after much patient persuasiveness on the part of the gentle Francis did his father finally consent. Francis was ordained and elected provost of the Diocese of Geneva, then a center for the Calvinists. Francis set out to convert them, especially in the district of Chablais. By preaching and distributing the little pamphlets he wrote to explain true Catholic doctrine, he had remarkable success.
At 35 he became bishop of Geneva. While administering his diocese he continued to preach, hear confessions and catechize the children. His gentle character was a great asset in winning souls. He practiced his own axiom, “A spoonful of honey attracts more flies than a barrelful of vinegar.”
Besides his two well-known books, the Introduction to the Devout Life and A Treatise on the Love of God, he wrote many pamphlets and carried on a vast correspondence. For his writings, he has been named patron of the Catholic Press. His writings, filled with his characteristic gentle spirit, are addressed to lay people. He wants to make them understand that they too are called to be saints. As he wrote in The Introduction to the Devout Life: “It is an error, or rather a heresy, to say devotion is incompatible with the life of a soldier, a tradesman, a prince, or a married woman.... It has happened that many have lost perfection in the desert who had preserved it in the world. ”
St. Francis de Sales | Saint of the Day | AmericanCatholic.org

St Francis de Sales is the patron saint of writers.

 

[Midnight Pete]

My Confirmation name is Vincent. Not after St. Vincent de Paul, but just because I liked that name.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Pater Angellous Evangellous

 

[Renji]

Pater Angellous Evangellous

Pater=father right?

Another is Patri/ Patre.

 

[Renji]

My Confirmation name is Vincent. Not after St. Vincent de Paul, but just because I liked that name.

One of my fave saints actually.

 

[Green Kepi]

What's so wrong with just calling yourself "Christian"? Why do you feel the need to attach another name to yourself? Do you feel it brings you into a more favorable relationship with God, if so, where do you find that directive or teaching? Thanks....

 

[Father Heathen]

What purpose or function does being given a secondary name provide?

 

[Nerthus]

What's so wrong with just calling yourself "Christian"? Why do you feel the need to attach another name to yourself? Do you feel it brings you into a more favorable relationship with God, if so, where do you find that directive or teaching? Thanks....

I've wondered that. There are a lot of religions that seem to do it, and I don't quite understand why.

 

[Renji]

What's so wrong with just calling yourself "Christian"? Why do you feel the need to attach another name to yourself? Do you feel it brings you into a more favorable relationship with God, if so, where do you find that directive or teaching? Thanks....

It's not a directive or a teaching. I think, it's an option because the Churches in my country don't practice it

 

[Renji]

I've wondered that. There are a lot of religions that seem to do it, and I don't quite understand why.

I personally don't have this 'confirmation name'. The only Christian name I have is the name given to me when I was baptized. During my confirmation, the priest nor the bishop didn't asked me regarding my 'confirmation name'. I think, on some branches of the Catholic Church, they do it on the purpose of making a particular saint as an example and a reminder on how we could follow the 'footsteps' of Christ (their act of obedience). They name the person after a saint as the 'reminder' of the virtue that he/she has shown while he/she is still here on earth.

 

[Kathryn]

What's so wrong with just calling yourself "Christian"? Why do you feel the need to attach another name to yourself? Do you feel it brings you into a more favorable relationship with God, if so, where do you find that directive or teaching? Thanks....

It's a practice, a tradition, not a dogma or doctrine of any church that I am aware of.

In other words, it's just a nice touch that many people like and appreciate. I am one of those people.

By the way, I just call myself a Christian -not a "St Francis de Sales" Christian.