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SACRAMENTS
Allen Organista Danah Delloson Ronald Sardona
Dother Salindato Eduard Esteban Gherard Tapado
Baptism Baptism is a ceremony of welcoming someone in Christianity. It is a religious rite of immersing in water, to symbolize purification. The Effects of Baptism: 1. The original sin of the young is forgiven. 2. It gives us new life by being adopted by God, and we became the children of God. 3. We become an official member of the Church. We share in the priesthood of Christ and His royal mission to the People of God. 4. We are bonded to other Christians. And those who have been baptized are saved by their faith and the grace of the Baptism. 5. We are sealed with permanent indelible spiritual mark of belongings to God.
MATTER: Water
Purpose of Baptism: It is the key of following Christ, our key for our salvation. It is through the baptism, that we become a true “Christian”, and an official member of the Church. Requirements of Baptism: Faith is the major requirement in baptizing a young, the faith of the family must be pure in order to baptize the young. For Infants, it is the faith of the parents and the godparents (sponsors) that they are well expected to raise the child in the practice of the Catholic faith. For Older children and Adults (Catechumens), they should have a sufficient preparation and profession of faith in the Trinitarian Creed and the presence of the sponsor. After being baptized, they must all continue to grow with the faithfulness to the Lord and renew their vows every Easter Sunday.
FORM: “...I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” MINISTERS: Ordinary: Usual minister of baptism are bishops, priests, and deacons. 1
Confirmation is the sacrament by
which Catholics receive a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Through Confirmation, the Holy Spirit gives them the increased ability to practice their Catholic faith in every aspect of their lives and wisdom to witness Christ in every situation. knowledge
The effects of Confirmation are as follows: • An increased portion of the gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, knowledge, right judgment, understanding, courage, piety, and fear of the Lord
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• A deepening and strengthening of the grace received understanding at Baptism, which is considered the presence of God in the soul • The ability to take a greater, more mature role in the piety Church’s mission of living the Christian faith daily and witnessing to Christ everywhere • A special mark, or character, on the soul that can nev- fear of the Lord er be erased Each person’s ability to embrace these effects depends on his or her openness to the sacrament and willingness to accept it as God’s personal gift.
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When we are confirmed in the Church, it means that we accepting our responsibilities for our faith and destiny. Part of these responsibilities is do what is right on your own and not for the reward or recognition.
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Who Can Receive Confirmation? In the Roman Catholic Church, Confirmation is usually administered to young people in tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade who are ready to take on a more adult role in the Church. These candidates for Confirmation, or confirmands, as they are called, were usually baptized as infants and must now accept the Catholic faith as their own and make a commitment to live it out with God’s help. Adults joining the Catholic Church also receive the sacrament of Confirmation after baptism and a period of instruction. They, too, must freely accept the Catholic faith and commit to practicing it always. Any baptized person, even an infant, may receive Confirmation, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that it provides, if he or she is in danger of death.
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The sacrament of the Eucharist is one of the three Christian sacrament of initiation. It is the source of life of all Christian. The Holy Eucharist is a sacrament of union. The word Eucharist comes from a greek word meaning thanksgiving. We received Jesus Christ through the Holy Eucharist. The Holy Eucharist is in the form of Bread and wine.
John 6:53-55
53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh
Jesus Christ, Himself instituted the Holy Eucharist at the last supper
Through Eucharist we are united with Christ and received His grace.
God uses these physical elements so that with the proper prayer, and faith we experience God’s grace in a special way Just like our body need food and water, our spriritual body need The Holy Eucharist to nourish it. By doing this, our faith to God becomes stronger.
and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
We celebrate the Sacrament of the Eucharist through the holy mass. It is prepared in the sacrifice of the mass. Through the consecration of the bread and wine, Its substance is change into a whole new substance of the body of Christ and His blood. This change is called Transubstantiation. Catholic Christians must never forget to receive the Holy Communion on Easter season to renew their faith.
What is required to receive the Holy Communion? The person must be incorporated in the Catholic Church and should be in a state of grace, not conscious of having a mortal sin. The person should first received the Sacrament of Reconciliation before the Holy Communion. He or she should also observe the prescribed fasting of the Catholic Church. 4
Reconciliation comes from the Greek family of words that has its roots in
allasso. Reconcile means reconnecting with someone, but reconciliation means connecting with God. During baptism our original sin is washed away. But as we grow old we forget our baptismal promises and commit sins. Because of sins, we lose our grace thereby making for us to sin more. But because of God endless mercy He would always provide us another chance. Through the sacrament of Reconciliation, our sins is forgiven and restore our sanctifying grace within our soul. The priest is been given the power to forgive sins. This is part of the power of priesthood which is passed through the holy sacrament of Holy Order. The priest able to exercise this power by laying one hand over the sinner and says “I absolve thee from thy sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.� These words are the words of absolution. Before going to confession, you should make a list of your venial sins and mortal sins. Venial sins are sins that is less serious than mortal sins. He or she performed this kind of sin without his or her full knowledge about it. Venial sins can turn to mortal sins if become habitual. Mortal sins are grave and serious sins that destroy our relationship with God. This is done with full knowledge and consent of the sinner. After examining your conscience, you may pray to God to tell that you are very sorry for your sins. Then you can proceed to go into confession with the priest. Begin your confession with the sign of the cross and telling your last confession was. Say the sins that you remember beginning with the serious sins. After that, listen to the words of the priest. He will assign you some penance which involved praying the act of Contrition.
Act of Contrition O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell. But most of all because I have offended you, my God, who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of your grace, to confess my sins, to do penance and to amend my life. Amen. 5
The sacrament that helps unite those who are suffering with Jesus’ saving and healing power is the Anointing of the Sick. Through this sacrament people receive forgiveness for their sins and comfort in their suffering; they are restored in spirit; and sometimes they even experience the return of physical health. Suffering is a part of life, but Jesus unites our suffering with his passion and death so that through our suffering we can participate in his saving and healing work. The sacrament also reminds us that God wants to give comfort to the suffering and wants us to relieve suffering where we can.
already dead will not anointed rather the priest will say the “prayer after death”. During theanointing, the priest says: “Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up.”
In the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, the priest anoints the seriously ill, injured, or the elderly with the oil of the sick. The oil of the sick is a special oil used for the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. It is bless- The primary purpose of the special ed by the bishop at the Chrism Mass grace of Anointing of the Sick is to during Holy Week. comfort and to strengthen the soul of the sick person. In the Rites of the Anointing of the Sick, the priest anoints the sick person • This is the grace that quiets anxiety on the forehead, saying, “Through and dissipates fear. this holy anointing may the Lord in • It is the grace which enables the his love and mercy help you with the sick person to embrace God’s will grace of the Holy Spirit. Amen.” He and to face the possibility of death also anoints the sick person on the without apprehension. hands, saying, “May the Lord who • It is the grace which gives the soul frees you from sin save you and raise the strength to face and conquer you up. Amen.” The “raising” refers whatever temptations to doubt, deto spiritual healing, as well as any spondency, or even despair may physical healing that may take place. mark Satan’s last effort to seize this soul for himself. The Sacrament of Anointing is appropriate for those whose health is seriously impaired by sickness, or for those weakened by advanced age. This includes persons who are seriously ill whether at home, in hospitals or in nursing homes, as well as sick children who are old enough to experience benefit from the sacrament. The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick may be repeated if the sickness recurs or if the condition becomes more serious. The person who are 6
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atrimony is the sacrament by which a baptized man and a baptized woman bind themselves for life in a lawful marriage and receive the grace to discharge their duties. ‘And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him. Male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth.” (Genesis 1:27-28) The bond of the sacrament of Matrimony lasts until the death of husband or wife because Christ has said: “What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” By the unity of the sacrament of Matrimony is meant that the husband cannot during the life of his wife have another wife, nor the wife during the life of her husband have another husband What does this Sacrament do for a couple? 1. It unites them in an indissoluble (unbreakable) union until death 2. It makes Sanctifying Grace grow in their souls 3. It gives them special helps to perform their duties as married people and to overcome the difficulties that may come into their married life.
To prepare for a holy and happy marriage, Catholics should: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Pray that God may direct their choice; Seek the advice of their parents and confessors; Third practice the virtues, especially chastity; Frequently receive the sacraments of Penance and Holy Eucharist.
Matter: Mutual consent to offering marriage; rings Form: Mutual reception of the couple’s consent by the Church’s minister Minister: Priest or a Deacon
PRACTICAL POINTS 1. It is not the priest who gives the Sacrament of Matrimony; he is only the chief witness. The bride and groom give it to each other. The first gift they give one another is an increase of God’s life -- Sanctifying Grace. It is fitting indeed that this giving be done at Mass. 2. Couples should remember that, through the Sacrament of Matrimony, they have the right to special helps to aid them in their problems. God gives them, as it were, a spiritual bank account on which they may draw in times of difficulty. 3. In a mixed marriage, the non-Catholic should be encouraged to take a course of instructions, so that he or she may learn something about the Catholic religion, since the children have to be reared in the Catholic religion. So, if you intend to marry a non-Catholic, bring him or her to the priest to begin instructions three or four months before the wedding.
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Catholic men who take ‘‘Holy Orders” receive a special sacrament called Holy Orders, which creates the hierarchy of deacon, priest, and bishop. These men (who are ordained by a bishop by means of that sacrament) serve the spiritual needs of others in the Catholic Church. A baptized man must first be ordained a deacon before being ordained a priest and ordained a priest before being ordained a bishop. So every priest and every bishop has experienced the Sacrament of Holy Orders more than once, but he experiences ordination to each level only once. One of the primary functions of deacons, priests, and bishops is to administer the sacred rites of the Church to God’s people: Bishops are said to have the “fullness of the priesthood,” because they alone have the authority to offer all seven sacraments — Baptism, Penance, Holy Eucharist, Confirmation, Matrimony, Anointing of the Sick, and Holy Orders. Priests have the power and authority to celebrate five — Baptism, Penance, Holy Eucharist (Mass), Matrimony, and Anointing of the Sick. Deacons can celebrate Baptism and Matrimony, provided that it’s a wedding without a Nuptial Mass. The Sacrament of Holy Orders doesn’t make a man a Church aristocrat, but it does confer the dignity of the sacrament, and that entails the obligation to obey the Pope and be of service to the people of God. Pastors are to see their role as shepherds who love and know their sheep. A man can retire from the active ministry or be forced to leave if he misbehaves, but no deacon, priest, or bishop can ever have his Holy Orders taken away from him.
There are two notable ways in which the sacrament of Holy Orders differs from the other sacraments. One is the fact that Holy Orders can be administered only by a bishop. Only a bishop has the power to ordain priests. An ordinary priest cannot pass his power on to another. The second way in which Holy Orders differs from other sacraments is that Holy Orders is not received all at once. When we are baptized, we are completely baptized by the single pouring of water. When we are confirmed, we are completely confirmed in a single ceremony. Holy Orders, however, is given by degrees, by successive steps. The ordained are called to a holiness of life and an attitude of humility that conforms them to Christ whose priesthood they share. The priest acts not only in the person of Christ, the Head of the Church, but also in the name of the Church when presenting to God the prayer of the Church, especially in the Eucharist.
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