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Session 18: What Is a Sacrament?
A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which divine life is dispensed to us.
A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which divine life is dispensed to us.
Like Mary, we can keep important moments in our hearts in order to discern how they can help us become the person God wants us to be.
A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which divine life is dispensed to us.
The Sacraments are special ways in which Jesus gives us grace.
An Examination of Conscience helps us to think about how we have sinned so that we may prepare to make a good Confession.
In the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, we receive an outpouring of God’s grace to strengthen us to face suffering and sickness and even death that results from Original Sin.
At Jesus’ Baptism, the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus and God the Father spoke from Heaven.
Baptism is the foundation of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit.
Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit after Him to teach us everything, to remind us of all that Christ said to us, and to bear witness to Him.
The scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
Baptism is the first Sacrament we receive. It makes us members of the Church, forgives our sins, and gives us new life in Christ.
The effects of Baptism are the forgiveness of sins, becoming a new creature, becoming a member of the Church, forming bonds of Christian unity, and imprinting an indelible mark on the soul.
Jesus’ death on the Cross and Resurrection made it possible for us to go to Heaven.
The Bible is the story of God’s people from Creation through the beginning of the Church.
The essential features of divine love that shape married love are fidelity, self-sacrifice, and generativity.