172. The seven sacraments

The seven sacraments

YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 172

Ave Maria series

172  How many sacraments are there and what are their names?

The Church has seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.  [1210]

Montage above clockwise from upper left:  …..Anointing of the Sick, Christ beckoning, Holy Orders, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Baptism, Eucharist and (center) Matrimony…..172

THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH

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 (compare St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae III,65,1)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. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition