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Part I. On the Existence of the Sacrament of Confirmation

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Confirmation is a true sacrament of the New Law. This is of faith from these words of the Council of Trent: "If anyone says that the Confirmation of the baptized is an idle ceremony and not rather a true and proper sacrament... let him be anathema."1

It is doubtful at what time Christ instituted Confirmation. According to some, at the Last Supper; according to others, after the resurrection and before the ascension, namely while He was speaking with the Apostles about the kingdom of God and completing the mysteries of salvation;2 according to others, on the day of Pentecost.

1 Session 7, On Confirmation, canon 1.

2 Acts 1:3.

ConfirmationThe Existence of the Sacrament of Confirmation