| Even so, email prayer partnerships established between youth confirmands and older shut-ins bring generations closer together. |
| When, in the next years, the churches decided to retain the practice of confirmation, this blessing with the laying on of hands was retained only for the confirmands. |
| That was all the priest who taught our group of confirmands believed to be necessary, and it was not adequate. |
| The 70 confirmands had received some prior training and here were given a diploma and rose. |
| Two of its young confirmands, brothers ages 13 and 16, have autism, one severely, the other moderately. |
| The remaining confirmands thought the hug was part of the ritual, and did the same. |
