The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"Do"You""THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION". 325says, that you have received the spiritual seal, thespirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and fortitude, the spirit of knowledge and piety,the spirit of holy fear. God the, Father hath sealedyou ;Christ the Lord hath confirmed you, and hathgiven the pledge of the Spirit in your hearts, as youhave learned from the lesson read from the Apostle.St. Ambrose here speaks of the seven-fold giftsof the Holy Ghost which are received in Confirmation, and every Bishop in our day invokes thesesame gifts on those whom he is about to confirm.you know," writes St. Jerome against thesect of Luciferians of his time, that it is the practice of the churches that the imposition of handsshould be performed over baptized persons, and theHoly Ghost thus invoked Do ? you ask where it iswritten? In the Acts of the Apostles; but werethere no scriptural authority at hand, the consentof the whole world in this regard would have the*force of law."willingly understand," says St. Augustine,"by this ointment the Sacrament of Chrism, whichindeed, in the class of visible seals, is as sacred asBaptism itself." 3The Oriental schismatic churches recognize Confirmation as a Sacrament, and administer the rite aswe do, by the imposition of hands and the application of chrism. Now, some of these churches have1De Myst. cvii. n. 42.283 L. II., contra lit. Petil.aDial. adv. Lucifer.