Worship & Sacraments
Acts of public worship, including the Sacraments, fulfill the mission of Christ
and the Church to sanctify the people of God and glorify the Lord.
"The sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted
to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which
the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each
sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions."
(Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1131)
Sacraments of Christian Initiation
The sacraments of Christian initiation — Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist
— lay the foundations of every Christian life. “The sharing in the divine nature
given to men [and women] through the grace of Christ bears a certain likeness to
the origin, development, and nourishing of natural life. The faithful are born anew
by Baptism, strengthened by the sacrament of Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist
the food of eternal life. By means of these sacraments of Christian initiation,
they thus receive in increasing measure the treasures of the divine life and advance
toward the perfection of charity.” (CCC, 1212)
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Sacraments of Christian Initiation
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Baptism
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Confirmation
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Eucharist
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Sacraments of Healing
Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, we receive the new life of Christ.
Now we carry this life “in earthen vessels,” and it remains “hidden with Christ
in God.” We are still in our “earthly tent,” subject to suffering, illness, and
death. This new life as a child of God can be weakened and even lost by sin. (CCC,
1420)
The Lord Jesus Christ, physician of our souls and bodies, who forgave the sins of
the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, has willed that his Church continue,
in the power of the Holy Spirit, his work of healing and salvation, even among her
own members. This is the purpose of the two sacraments of healing: the sacrament
of Penance and the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. (CCC, 1421)
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Sacraments of Healing
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Reconciliation
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Anointing of the Sick
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Sacraments at the Service of Communion
Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist are sacraments of Christian initiation. They
ground the common vocation of all Christ’s disciples, a vocation to holiness and
to the mission of evangelizing the world. They confer the graces needed for the
life according to the Spirit during this life as pilgrims on the march towards the
homeland. (CCC, 1533)
Two other sacraments, Holy Orders and Matrimony, are directed towards the salvation
of others; if they contribute as well to personal salvation, it is through service
to others that they do so. They confer a particular mission in the Church and serve
to build up the People of God. (CCC, 1534)
Through these sacraments those already consecrated by Baptism and Confirmation1
for the common priesthood of all the faithful can receive particular consecrations.
Those who receive the sacrament of Holy Orders are consecrated in Christ’s name
“to feed the Church by the word and grace of God.”2 On their part, “Christian spouses
are fortified and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and dignity of their state
by a special sacrament.” (CCC, 1535)
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Sacraments at the Service of Communion
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Holy Orders
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Marriage
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Form 29.1 - Canonical Prenuptual Investigation (Party)
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Form 29.1 - Canonical Prenuptual Investigation (Party)
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Form 29.2 - Canonical Prenuptual Investigation (Witness)
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Form 29.2 - Canonical Prenuptual Investigation (Witness)
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Wedding Envelope
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