#260 What Does Confirmation Do? - Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

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The sacrament of Confirmation can be baffling to today’s Catholics. What is it? What does it do? And what is the correct age to receive it? Father Hugh Barbour answers all our questions. CK: Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. Very glad to have you here with us. Sacrament of confirmation, is it possibly the least understood of the seven sacraments or the one that we might fumble around the most for an explanation of. I think it might be and I’m going to ask Father Hugh Barbour, our chaplain and the former Pryor of St. Michael’s…

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I'm Cy Kellett, your host.
0:09.8	Very glad to have you here with us.
0:15.0	Sacramento confirmation is it
0:26.3	Possibly the least understood of the second seven sacraments or the one that we might fumble around the most for an explanation of will I think it might be and I'm going to ask Father Hugh Barber our chaplain in the the
0:31.6	former prior of St Michael's Abbey in Orange County to help us answer that.
0:35.7	Hello Father.
0:36.7	Hello!
0:37.7	Okay so confirmation.
0:40.7	Sometimes called chrismation.
0:43.0	Yes, that's the same one.
0:45.0	In the Byzantine right, yes.
0:46.0	Okay.
0:47.0	Eastern rights.
0:48.0	It means the same thing.
0:50.0	It's like a right of passage between
0:55.0	I'm only kidding, but we do treat it like it's.
0:58.0	You're beginning to answer the question.
1:00.0	Okay, I don't, I am I beginning to pose the problem?
1:04.1	Yeah, yeah, so we have this sense of it, like it's a write of passage for teenagers
1:08.7	where they don't have to go to a catechism class anymore because they got it.
1:13.0	You see what I'm saying?
1:15.0	Yes, I do.
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