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Baptism
Baptism is the sacrament instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ when after His resurrection He commanded His apostles to go and teach all nations,
...baptizing them in the name of the father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost - St. Mathew 28:19
The Effects of Baptism
These are:- To wash away original sin through which we stand condemned to hell.
- To give us grace which makes us share the life of God and opens heaven to us.
- To imprint a character upon the soul which cannot be effected, thus making it impossible for this sacrament to be repeated. This character gives us the right to take part in divine worship i.e, in Holy Mass, Holy Communion, etc.
Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God - St. John 3:5
Parents must not therefore, by delaying baptism, expose a newly born child to the danger of dying without having received this sacrament and so of missing heaven. Further, Canon 770 of the Canon Law of the Church says that a child should be baptized quam primum, so soon as possible.Minister of Baptism
The ordinary minister of solemn Baptism is a priest and the right to administer it belongs to the parish priest, his permission for another to do so being presumed in case of necessity. The extraordinary minister is a deacon. In view of the importance of Baptism for salvation, in the absence of a priest or deacon, when there is danger of death, anyone may and should baptize. The sacrament thus administered without ceremonies is called private baptism and does not dispense from the full ceremonies which should be supplied, as soon as possible, in church by a priest.Elements of Baptism
In administering Baptism it is necessary:- To use natural water, fresh or salt, hot or cold, mineral or otherwise. Salt water should only be used when necessary, but should be used then, and the same applies to melted ice or snow. Artificial water, as for example eau de Cologne, cannot be used. In solemn baptism it is necessary to use baptismal water which has been blessed on the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost, the ceremonies then used, helping us greatly to understand the dignity of the sacrament,
- To pour the water on the head (usually on the forehead) of the person to be baptized, in such a way that the water flows on the skin,
- To say the words: N... I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. This is the form of the sacrament
- To do all this with the intention of doing what the Church wishes done, the Church herself acting only by the power of Christ.
Note: When Baptism is administered by someone who is not a priest, there should, so far as possible, be one or two witnesses present who can testify that the sacrament really been conferred.Baptismal Names
Since in Baptism he is made " a new creature", the Christian is then given a new name, that of some saint who will from henceforth be his patron, The choice of this name is very important matter since, by its use, the child is, in some sense, predestined to the virtues for which the saint is specially known.
All aforementioned text is taken from "The Saint Andrew Daily Missal by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre O. S. B."
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Eucharist
1322 The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord's own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist.
All aforementioned text is taken from Vatican Website Catechism
1323 "At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet 'in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.'"
All Catholics in a state of grace free from mortal sin can partake of the Most Holy Eucharist during Mass.
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Penance
1422 "Those who approach the sacrament of Penance obtain pardon from God's mercy for the offense committed against him, and are, at the same time, reconciled with the Church which they have wounded by their sins and which by charity, by example, and by prayer labors for their conversion.
All aforementioned text is taken from Vatican Website Catechism
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Confirmation
The Effects of Confirmation
- According to the Council of Trent, this sacrament makes us perfect Christians ; hence the name perfectio, sometimes applied to it by Latin writers. Further, according to St. Thomas it also confers fullness of grace, and is therefore known to the same authors as " sacramentum plenitudinis gratiae".
- Confirmation makes the Christian a soldier, and marks him with a new character which is, as it were, the military credentials of the souls in perpetual warfare with God's enemies. This character will remain in the life to come, " just", say St. Thomas, "as the status of a soldier remains after the victory, to the glory of the conquerers and the shame of the conquered".
Matter and Form of Confirmation
The matter of confirmation is composed of the following three elements:- The imposition of hands. This was the ceremony by which the apostles conferred the sacrament.
- The holy chrism, blessed by the bishop on Maundy Thursday. It is the ordinary symbol of the out-pouring of the graces of the Holy Ghost.
- The anointing, by which the holy chrism is applied. The form of confirmation is the formula which accompanies the anointing.
The Subject of Confirmation
This must be a baptized person, In the Latin Church he should be seven years old, unless danger of death, or some other grave reason makes an earlier confirmation desirable. The confirmed should be in a state of grace, and if he has reached the age of reason, should be sufficiently instructed (Canon 786). According to the Pontifical he must possess the " rudiments of the Faith". Further, synods have ordered that the confirmation candidates should be examined in the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Creed and the Ten Commandments.
All aforementioned text is taken from "The Saint Andrew Daily Missal by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre O. S. B."
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Extreme Unction
1499 "By the sacred anointing of the sick and the prayer of the priests the whole Church commends those who are ill to the suffering and glorified Lord, that he may raise them up and save them. and indeed she exhorts them to contribute to the good of the People of God by freely uniting themselves to the Passion and death of Christ."
All aforementioned text is taken from Vatican Website Catechism
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Marriage
Marriage is a sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ in order to unite, by indissoluble bond, two souls whom God has made for each other, and who will love and be devoted to each other " as Christ loved the Church and delivered himself up for it ", (Epistle for the Nupital Mass)." God has, in fact, consecrated the union of spouses by a mystery so excellent that the nupital bond is the figure of the sacred union of Christ with His Church." (The Nupital Blessing.)
The Holy Eucharist in which Christ makes ever more and more perfect His union with our souls is a sacrifice and a sacrament ; and the same is true in marriage, in which a man and a woman unite their lives for ever.- A sacrifice
The bridal pair are themselves the ministers of Holy Matrimony to each other, and like Christ and His Spouse they are, so to speak at the altar, its priests and victims alike. " In marriage, " writes Ozanam " there is a sacrifice, or better still there are two sacrifices ; the woman sacrifices the irrevocable gifts that God has given her, and which were the ground of her mother's tender anxiety, namely her original beauty, often her health, and that power of loving that women have only once in life. In his turn the man sacrifices the freedom of his youth, those incomparable years which will not return, that power of immolating himself for her whom he loves, which is found at the beginning of life, and that effort of a first love to secure for her a glorious and sweet existence.
This is why I say that Christian marriage is a double sacrifice; there are two sacred chalices ; in one is found virtue, modesty, innocence ; in the other love unimpaired, self-denial and the undying consecration of a man to one weaker than himself, whom yesterday he did not know, and with whom to-day he finds himself content to pass his life ; and these chalices must be equally full in order that the union may be holy that God may bless it.
Further, in this "chalice", there is all that unselfish affection that implies of wearying devotion and generosity on both sides. In the chalice again, which the bridal pair offer to God there are the pains and sufferings of a whole existence passed together ; the sorrows, and cares of father and mother who must pass on to their children, and maintain within them both natural and supernatural life.
Moreover the Church counsels the bride and bridegroom to offer their cup of gold all full of the blood, may we say, of their soul, in union with the offering of the golden chalice filled with the blood of Jesus, from which they divine all strength and grace."
2. A sacrament
Christian marriage is also a sacrament. In the same way, that in the language of Bossuet, Holy Communion " is the perfect accomplishment of Christ's divine marriage" in which, together with His Body, Our Lord gives us His divine life, the sacrament of Matrimony is, for the husband and wife, a communion of life, physical, intellectual and moral, ennobling them both, as it will ennoble all their children who are the continuation of themselves. Also in the mass " Pro Sponsis" the priest expresses the desire that the God of Abraham, the God of that race more numerous than the stars of the sky, and than the grains of sand in the sea, may pour out His blessing, upon the bridal pair that they may see their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
All aforementioned text is taken from "The Saint Andrew Daily Missal by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre O. S. B."
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Holy Orders
1536 Holy Orders is the sacrament through which the mission entrusted by Christ to his apostles continues to be exercised in the Church until the end of time: thus it is the sacrament of apostolic ministry. It includes three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate.
(On the institution and mission of the apostolic ministry by Christ, see above, no. 874 ff. Here only the sacramental means by which this ministry is handed on will be treated.)
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