Wayne+

<snip>It certainly loses none of its significance or importance. It
ceases to be a doorway to the Table. This might effect the "psychology
of the event" for us.  Rituals provide foci around which the motions of
our lives dance.  This only changes the steps a little but none of the
substance of confirmation's importance is compromised in any way I can
discern.

So, are you saying keep confirmation at the age it's traditionally done
(12-13)?  Or compact it as is done in the East to combine it with
Baptism?

MLW+