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The
Sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for
the completion of baptismal grace.
Question:
Why
is that? Isn't the Sacrament of Baptism
enough? Doesn't it provide all of God and
his gifts, since we're baptized in the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit?
Answer
from
the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
paragraph 1285:
By
the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized]
are more perfectly bound to the Church and
are enriched with a special strength of
the Holy Spirit. Hence they are, as true
witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged
to spread and defend the faith by word and
deed.
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