Confirmation: Sacrament of Liturgical Determination

“What Confirmation ‘adds’ to Baptism, as it were, is not a ratification of Christian maturity or the recognition of catechetical prowess, but the episcopal ‘seal,’ the recognition by the bishop that one’s Baptism binds one not to Christ in a private way, nor to a sect or schism of regional significance, but to the universal Church, the Corpus Mysticum .”