Spirit of Truth, High School > Course V > Unit 2
Chapter 4: The Celebration of the Sacrament of Baptism
The principal symbol of Baptism is water, one of the most fundamental elements to life on earth.
The principal symbol of Baptism is water, one of the most fundamental elements to life on earth.
The universal call to holiness is the vocation of every human person; God calls each of us to be holy as He is holy, that is, to be saints.
In this lesson your children explore the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. In this Sacrament, our sins are forgiven and we are reconciled to God and His Church through the confession of those sins and acts of penance. We are also strengthened by this Sacrament to avoid sin in the future.
The aim of this lesson is for your children to understand that God is merciful. Your children will be able to explain the “special grace” from God that we receive during the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. They will also see the relationship between Jesus’ healing and the Church’s continuation of this healing through the sacrament.
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.
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 said that when people come together to pray using His name, He is actually with them listening, helping, and praying with them too.
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.
Confirmation gives a special strength to witness to the Christian faith and to defend against sin and temptation.
The Sacrament of Confirmation more perfectly binds a baptized person to the Church and fills him or her with a special strength of the Holy Spirit.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.