A person who is to undergo the religious rite of confirmation.
领受坚信礼者，领受坚振礼者
Example sentencesExamples
That was all the priest who taught our group of confirmands believed to be necessary, and it was not adequate.
In the case of confirmation, there is a special prayer that seeks the Holy Spirit's strengthening of the confirmand for his/her participation in the mission of the church.
Confirmation branded its confirmands on their foreheads with the mark of episcopacy, and it was an in-your-face gesture to nonconformists and to others who held a low view of the episcopal office.
The remaining confirmands thought the hug was part of the ritual, and did the same.
On confirmation Sunday at our church, each confirmand's Scripture passage was printed in the bulletin.
The 70 confirmands had received some prior training and here were given a diploma and rose.
Scan the photographs into the computer and type in the names of each confirmand or graduate with their pictures.
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.
Then, in the confirmation prayer itself, while the bishop lays hands upon the confirmand, he prays, ‘empower him for your service.’
Even so, email prayer partnerships established between youth confirmands and older shut-ins bring generations closer together.
Focusing on confirmands has the advantage of using a group that had a common starting point: some roughly similar degree of documented church involvement during adolescence.
And the confirmands appreciate their presence too.
Definition of confirmand in US English:
confirmand
nounkənˈfərməndkənˈfərmənd
A person who is to undergo the religious rite of confirmation.
领受坚信礼者，领受坚振礼者
Example sentencesExamples
That was all the priest who taught our group of confirmands believed to be necessary, and it was not adequate.
Confirmation branded its confirmands on their foreheads with the mark of episcopacy, and it was an in-your-face gesture to nonconformists and to others who held a low view of the episcopal office.
On confirmation Sunday at our church, each confirmand's Scripture passage was printed in the bulletin.
Scan the photographs into the computer and type in the names of each confirmand or graduate with their pictures.
Even so, email prayer partnerships established between youth confirmands and older shut-ins bring generations closer together.
The 70 confirmands had received some prior training and here were given a diploma and rose.
The remaining confirmands thought the hug was part of the ritual, and did the same.
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.
Then, in the confirmation prayer itself, while the bishop lays hands upon the confirmand, he prays, ‘empower him for your service.’
Focusing on confirmands has the advantage of using a group that had a common starting point: some roughly similar degree of documented church involvement during adolescence.
And the confirmands appreciate their presence too.
In the case of confirmation, there is a special prayer that seeks the Holy Spirit's strengthening of the confirmand for his/her participation in the mission of the church.