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The New Testament provides evidence of a distinct rite involving the laying on of hands to confer the Holy Spirit, as seen in Acts 8:14-17 . In this passage, Peter and John travel to Samaria, where newly baptized believers had not yet received the Holy Spirit. The Apostles prayed for them, laid hands on them, and the Samaritans …
No. But it would be wrong and sinful to neglect it through indifference. Christ certainly did not institute this Sacrament needlessly. It confers graces of the utmost use in the spiritual life, rendering us stronger in the struggle for virtue, and therefore rendering our salvation the more assured.
Confirmation is a Sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ as a complement to Baptism. As there is a sacrament of spiritual birth, so there is a sacrament of spiritual virility, conferring the grace required for growth in good will, fidelity, and Christian courage.
Some Protestants have those things, at least theoretically. Others have some of them. Others have none of them. But in any case they would not prove Protestants to be true Christians. At most they prove that some Protestants are attempting to do some Christian things. But a true Christian accepts the complete teaching of Christ,…
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