Day 176: Traditions and Signs of Confirmation
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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The History of Baptism and Confirmation
In the east, in the east and the west, originally, here's this double sacrament, right? That St. Ciprian talks about that baptism and confirmation would be pretty much united,. But also that confirmation seems pretty much originally in the west, at least in the Latin church, kind of reserved for the bishop. This is the role of that successor of the apostles to impart the sacrament of confirmation on believers on Christians. And so there's always a connection, both in theEast and theWest, there's a connection, an apostolic connection, right?"
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