224. What are the sacraments and which are they?
(Comp
224) The sacraments, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, are
efficacious signs of grace perceptible to the senses . Through them divine life
is bestowed upon us. There are seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy
Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.
“In brief”
(CCC 1131) The 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.
To deepen and explain
(CCC 1113) The whole liturgical life of the Church revolves
around the Eucharistic sacrifice and the sacraments (Cf. SC 6). There are seven
sacraments in the Church: Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist,
Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony (Cf. Council of
Lyons II (1274): DS 860; Council of Florence (1439): DS 1310; Council of Trent
(1547): DS 1601). This article will discuss what is common to the Church's
seven sacraments from a doctrinal point of view. What is common to them in
terms of their celebration will be presented in the second chapter, and what is
distinctive about each will be the topic of the Section Two.
On reflection
(CCC 1210) Christ instituted the
sacraments of the new law. There are seven: Baptism, Confirmation (or
Chrismation), the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders,
and Matrimony. The seven sacraments touch all the stages and all the important
moments of Christian life: (Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 65, 1): they give birth and increase, healing and mission
to the Christian's life of faith. There is thus a certain resemblance between
the stages of natural life and the stages of the spiritual life.
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