Eastern Christians have no sacrament of confirmation, but they have always had the custom of richly anointing the newly baptised in myron or sacred chrism. ...
How many bulletin readers, I wonder, will conclude the Eastern Church has six sacraments, not seven, and not realize this Chrismation is actually the sacrament the Western Church calls Confirmation?
I am appalled at that publication. Did you read the ones about marriage? They implied that marriage comes from civil, family, and pagan customs. No where was it mentioned that it was instituted by God!! Who publishes it? How can we complain to the source?
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