Is Oil an Essential Part of the Sacrament of Confirmation?

Questions Covered:

08:17 - My father is in hospice after a severe stroke. What do we mean when we say redemptive suffering?

19:20 - When and why did we change the fasting time before communion?

35:48 - Is oil an essential part of the sacrament of Confirmation?

43:20 - How legitimate is the claim that when one is saved, you are saved, past, present, and future?