Isn't that the phraseology that has been used in the Eastern Catholic Churches for centuries? Are their Confirmations also suspect?
Dolores, the 1971 New Rite uses a modified formula belonging to the Byzantine Rite of Confirmation, which says, "The seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit". The Catholic priest anoints the confirmand in several parts of his or her body.
When the New Rite was implemented in 1971, Pope Paul VI altered the Byzantine formula and employed its usage in the Roman Rite. He allowed vegetable oil to be used because many Novus Ordo bishops around the world suggested such a thing to him---which Paul VI mentioned when he promulgated the New Rite. In place of balsam, Paul VI allowed spices to be substituted in its place.
Further, in the traditional Byzantine Catholic rite of Confirmation, when the formula is pronounced by the bishop, he imposes his hands, thus completing by his action the words of the form. In the 1971 New Rite, however, even though the Byzantine Catholic form is used, the words are not completed by the action of imposition of hands, as in the Eastern Rite, thus rendering it highly doubtful.
When the New Rite of Confirmation was promulgated, Archbishop Lefebvre became outraged and refused to accept the new ritual.
The problems that compromise the 1971 New Rite of Confirmation:
1) celebrated by bishops/priests ordained in the 1971 New Rite of Holy Orders
2) allows vegetable oil as the matter of administering Confirmation
3) the Byzantine formula was altered from its original translation.
4) the New Rite of Blessing of Chrism eliminates the exorcism of the oils for Confirmation (expulsion of demons), which the traditional Roman ritual still uses.
5) imposition of hands not performed in the proper time and manner as done in the Byzantine Catholic ritual.
The removal of exorcisms can also be seen in other Novus Ordo rituals:
1) The abolition of the Minor Order of the Exorcist
2) Elimination of exorcisms in the New Blessings of Holy Water and Oils for Anointing of the Sick