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 scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
The essential features of divine love that shape married love are fidelity, self-sacrifice, and generativity.
Marriage forms an unbreakable bond of love between the husband and the wife, which was God’s plan for humanity from the beginning.
Holy Orders is the Sacrament through which Christ continues His ministry in the Church until the end of time.
The scriptural basis, matter, form, minister, and effects of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
In order to live the good life we must cultivate not only the inner life of moral virtue, but the outer life by our participation in our communities, participation in the Sacraments, and instruction by those holy ones who came before us.
The Sacraments are special ways in which Jesus gives us grace.
Jesus’ death on the Cross and Resurrection made it possible for us to go to Heaven.
Jesus said that when people come together to pray using His name, He is actually with them listening, helping, and praying with them too.
In a Sacrament, God uses something physical and from this world to do something supernatural from Heaven.
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 Church is an enduring sign of salvation and is the very instrument of our salvation.
The Bible is the story of God’s people from Creation through the beginning of the Church.
Mary is the world’s greatest example of how to follow Jesus; she is the greatest of all the saints.
