Will you stop with the butting in talk! Of course you aren't butting in! (I hope that sounds nice, because that is the way I mean it). I'm sure a lot of Anglicans and Orthodox and Catholics can add to this thread. It's another "cool" thing about being a member of a sacramental religion.
I love Bernard, it is a warm, loving name. I wanted Agatha or Agnes, but I really got a hard time from friends and family. I took Eileen (a derivative of Helen of St. Helen of the Cross) but it was really in memory of my dear grandmother who raised me, my brother and sister.
I made my confirmation AFTER I got married, at age 28. I was married by a priest who also has uses "general absolution"... no, I don't go to that church anymore, I changed parishes. Funny, but the priest who uses general absolution is the one who is most often used by the Boston Globe when they need a priest to speak regarding the "scandal" in the Boston Archdiocese.