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St. Ann's Church ©2010 - All rights reserved
"Christ instituted the sacraments of the new law. There are seven:
Baptism, Confirmation (or Chrismation), the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing
of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. The seven sacraments touch all the
stages and all the important moments of Christian life: they give birth and
increase, healing and mission to the Christian's life of faith. There is thus a
certain resemblance between the stages of natural life and the stages of the
spiritual life." - Catechism of the Catholic Church - 1210
There are three sacraments of Christian initiation (Baptism, Eucharist, and
Confirmation); two sacraments of healing(Reconciliation and Anointing of the
Sick); and two sacraments at the service of communion and the mission of the
faithful (Marriage and Holy Orders). "This order, while not the only one
possible, does allow one to see that the sacraments form an organic whole in
which each particular sacrament has its own vital place. In this organic whole,
the Eucharist occupies a unique place as the "Sacrament of sacraments": "all
the other sacraments are ordered to it as to their end." - Catechism of the Catholic
Church - 1211
Baptism, Confirmation (or Chrismation), the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing
of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. The seven sacraments touch all the
stages and all the important moments of Christian life: they give birth and
increase, healing and mission to the Christian's life of faith. There is thus a
certain resemblance between the stages of natural life and the stages of the
spiritual life." - Catechism of the Catholic Church - 1210
There are three sacraments of Christian initiation (Baptism, Eucharist, and
Confirmation); two sacraments of healing(Reconciliation and Anointing of the
Sick); and two sacraments at the service of communion and the mission of the
faithful (Marriage and Holy Orders). "This order, while not the only one
possible, does allow one to see that the sacraments form an organic whole in
which each particular sacrament has its own vital place. In this organic whole,
the Eucharist occupies a unique place as the "Sacrament of sacraments": "all
the other sacraments are ordered to it as to their end." - Catechism of the Catholic
Church - 1211