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Lesson 33: Holy Orders: History and Celebration
Holy Orders is the Sacrament through which Christ continues His ministry in the Church until the end of time.
Holy Orders is the Sacrament through which Christ continues His ministry in the Church until the end of time.
The authority that bishops and priests are given to act in the person of Christ, the Head of the Church, comes from Jesus Himself
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 Church teaches us the scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Eucharistic miracles are rare external signs of Jesus’ Real Presence in the Eucharist.
Penance and Reconciliation is the Sacrament by which our sins are forgiven and we are reconciled to God and His Church.
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
The Church teaches us the scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
Jesus elevated marriage to a Sacrament at the same time He announced that the time had come for God’s relationship with His people to be restored.
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which requires self-giving, sacrificial love in imitation of Christ, who offers spouses the virtues and graces needed to endure and promote joy, peace, and mercy