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.
The recipients of the Sacraments at the Service of Communion, Holy Orders and Holy Matrimony, are given the grace by Jesus to serve others and help lead them to Salvation in order to build up the People of God.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.
Each Sacrament can be understood in terms of matter, form, the minister, the recipient, and the effects or graces.
Holy Orders is the Sacrament through which Christ continues His ministry in the Church until the end of time.
Grace is the free, undeserved help that God gives us to respond to His call to become His adopted sons and daughters, and sharers in His divine and eternal life.
The Bible begins with the first marriage of the original man and woman and ends with a vision of the wedding feast of the Lamb, Jesus, who is united for all eternity with His Bride, His Church.
Grace is the free, undeserved help that God gives us to respond to His call to become His adopted sons and daughters, and sharers in His divine and eternal life.
Jesus is the Anointed One of God, the Messiah and Christ prophesied in the Old Testament, who came to save the world from sin and death.
The scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
The members of the Church are the Body of Christ.