Editing Confirmation (section)

===Lutheran Churches===
[[File:Konfirmation Ystad-2011.jpg|thumb|Confirmation in St. Mary's Church, [[Ystad]], [[Sweden]] 2011.]]
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[[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] confirmation is a public profession of faith prepared for by long and careful [[Catechesis|catechetical instruction]]. In English, it is called "affirmation of baptism", and is a mature and public profession of the faith which "marks the completion of the congregation's program of confirmation ministry".<ref>[[Lutheran Book of Worship]] – ''Ministers Desk Edition'', p.324</ref> The [[German language]] also uses for Lutheran confirmation a different word ({{Lang|de|Konfirmation}}) from the word used for the sacramental rite of the Catholic Church ({{Lang|de|Firmung}}).

The Rite of Confirmation of the Lutheran Churches includes:<ref name="Folkekirken2009"/>

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The confirmands are addressed.<br />
The Creed.<br />
Confirmation vows.<br />
Blessing of each confirmand.<br />
The Lord’s Prayer.<ref name="Folkekirken2009">{{cite web |title=Confirmation |url=https://www.interchurch.dk/_Resources/Persistent/4/d/9/3/4d930ca30bc4383cd78c3e6c9883b89a4cd3a015/Confirmation.pdf |publisher=[[Church of Denmark|Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark]] |access-date=17 May 2025 |date=2009}}</ref>}}

The Lutheran rite of confirmation enjoins the [[laying on of hands]] upon each of the candidates, with certain Missals such as [[Evangelical Lutheran Worship]] including an invocation of the [[Holy Spirit]] to stir up in the confirmands the [[Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit|Gifts of the Holy Spirit]] received in the sacrament of Holy Baptism: "Stir up in them the gift of your Holy Spirit: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord, the spirit of joy in your presence, both now and forever."<ref name="Muzzin2025">{{cite web |last1=Muzzin |first1=Susanna |title=Confirmation |url=https://aglc-warren.org/new-page-2 |website= |publisher=Amazing Grace Lutheran Church |access-date=17 May 2025 |date=2025}}</ref><ref name="PPLC2022">{{cite web |title=Rite of Confirmation |url=https://www.princeofpeacedublin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/05.22.22-Rite-of-Confirmation-Easter-6-Large-Print.pdf |publisher=Prince of Peace Lutheran Church |access-date=17 May 2025 |page=17 |date=22 May 2022}}</ref>

Lutheran Churches treat confirmation as a [[rite (Christianity)|rite]], not as a dominical sacrament of the Gospel, considering that only [[Baptism#Refmormation|Baptism]], [[Eucharist in the Lutheran Church|Eucharist]] and [[Confession (religion)|Confession and Absolution]] can be regarded as sacraments. Some popular Sundays for this to occur are [[Palm Sunday]], [[Pentecost]] and [[Reformation Sunday]] (last Sunday in October).