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The
Seven Sacraments are administered through your local parish.
Please contact you local parish for more information.
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Anointing
of the sick
A sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ to give spiritual
aid and comfort and perfect spiritual health, including, if
need be, the remission of sins, and also, conditionally, to
restore bodily health, to Christians who are seriously ill;
it consists essentially in the unction by a priest of the
body of the sick person, accompanied by a suitable form of
words.
To obtain more information of the sacrament of Anointing
the Sick please click
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Baptism
Care must be taken to delineate clearly the distinct status
of those who are Catechumens and those who are already baptized
but await reception into full communion in the Catholic Church.
Conditional Baptism should be administered only when reasonable
and serious doubt exists as to the fact or validity of a prior
Baptism, and need not be part of the reception ceremonies
but may be celebrated privately and prior to the reception
into full communion.
To obtain more information on the sacrament of Baptism
please click
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Confirmation
Confirmation is to be received in the eighth grade or when
the candidate is 13 years old, unless health or residence
would suggest otherwise. If a young person is unwilling at
this age to make a full commitment to Jesus Christ and to
accept the fullness of membership in the Catholic Church,
he or she should be given the option of receiving Confirmation
at a later time, perhaps as an adult. The church recognizes
the validity of Orders and Sacraments in the Orthodox Churches
and in the Polish National Church. For this reason the Orthodox
Christian who has been confirmed in his own church and now
desires to be received into communion with the Roman Catholic
Church, should not again be admitted to Confirmation. The
Church does not recognize the validity of Confirmation ceremonies
administered by any of the Reformation Churches. All such
ceremonies are administered again without condition.
To obtain more information on the sacrament of Confirmation
please click
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Eucharist
Members of churches not in full communion with the Catholic
Church may not be invited to receive the Eucharist, but should
someone in good conscience (that is, not realizing that he
or she is ineligible) approach, the person should be given
Holy Communion rather than be publicly embarrassed.
To obtain more information on the sacrament of the Eucharist
please click
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Marriage
Couple's
are to be encouraged to begin formal marriage preparation
with their parish priest or deacon as soon as possible after
the engagement, ideally a full year but not less than four
months before the anticipated wedding date. No firm date
for the wedding should be set until the conclusion of the
couple‚s meeting with the priest or deacon. Exceptions
to this norm may be granted by the pastor, but only when
serious circumstances and the spiritual welfare of the couple
demand it. Weddings are to take place in churches. The Bishops‚
permission may be sought to hold weddings in other suitable
places for extraordinary reasons or because the marriage
involves an unbaptized person.
To obtain more information on the sacrament of Marriage
please click
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Reconciliation
Parish priests should set aside a fixed time at least once
a week when parishioners know that the Sacrament of Penance
is available. Confessions must not be heard during the celebration
of the Eucharist. Individual, integral confession and absolution
remain the only ordinary way for the faithful to reconcile
themselves with God and the Church, unless physical or moral
impossibility excuses from this kind of confession. The introduction
of the occasional possibility of general absolution must not
lead to the misunderstanding that general absolution is an
ordinary alternative to individual confession. It would be
an abuse of the ministry of reconciliation for priests, in
the light of the possible opportunity for general absolution,
to diminish their availability to individual penitents.
To obtain more information on the sacrament of Reconciliation
please click
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Holy
orders
Order is used to signify not only the particular rank or general
status of the clergy, but also the outward action by which
they are raised to that status, and thus stands for ordination.
It also indicates what differentiates laity from clergy or
the various ranks of the clergy, and thus means spiritual
power. The Sacrament of Order is the sacrament by which grace
and spiritual power for the discharge of ecclesiastical offices
are conferred.
To obtain more information on the sacrament of Holy Orders please click
here.
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For
more information on the Catholic Church please visit
The
Catholic Encyclopedia
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Norms
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