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The Seven Sacraments
The Seven Sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions. The Seven Sacraments are:
Baptism - By which we are born into the new life in Christ.
Confirmation - By which we are more perfectly bound to the Church and enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Eucharist - By which Christ associates his Church and all her members with the sacrifice of the cross.
Reconciliation or Penance - By which sins after Baptism are forgiven.
Anointing of the Sick - By which a special grace is conferred during grave illness or old age.
Holy Orders - By which the task of serving in the name and in the person of Christ is conferred.
Matrimony - By which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love.
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