Spirit of Truth, High School > Course V > Unit 2
Chapter 5: Living the Sacrament of Baptism
A disciple has the seeds of holiness instilled by the Sacraments, but a person must cooperate with the graces to mature as a Christian.
A disciple has the seeds of holiness instilled by the Sacraments, but a person must cooperate with the graces to mature as a Christian.
Jesus remains present to us in His Church through the Sacraments, especially in the Eucharist, and through His teaching, which has been handed on through the centuries.
As the sacrament of salvation, the Church contains everything we need for communion with God. Through her, Gods grace is made visible to humanity; she lacks nothing.
Baptism makes us adopted children of God and incorporates us into the Mystical Body of Christ – His Church
When we are baptized as Christians, all our sins are forgiven, including Original Sin, and God makes us His adopted children, restoring our inheritance as partakers in His divine life. We are no longer the lost descendants of Adam; we are children of God.
In this lesson your children explore the gateway to the Christian life: Baptism. In Baptism, your children were cleansed of the stain of Original Sin and became part of God’s family.
Confirmation is often misunderstood as a kind of “graduation” or public acceptance of the Faith. In fact, the Sacrament of Confirmation is an important step on the path of Christian initiation that completes, or confirms, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit received at Baptism and sends the person out to proclaim boldly the Good News.
God gave Adam and Eve one command: not to eat from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they disobeyed that command.
The matter, form, minister, recipient, effects, and symbols of the Sacrament of Baptism.
God gave Adam and Eve one command: not to eat from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they disobeyed that command.
God is always waiting to forgive us and welcome us back in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
A Sacrament is an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which divine life is dispensed to us.
Adam and Eve disobeyed God. This was a bad choice.
Jesus was baptized, and now we can be baptized. Baptism makes us God’s children.
Sin is a deliberate offense against God. It is something we say, think, do, or fail to do that is against the eternal law of God.