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Catholic Education > Sacraments
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Jesus Christ Instituted Catholic Sacraments |
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Our Catholic faith was created and
instituted by Jesus Christ through His own words. The word
"Catholic" means "Universal" in Greek, so the Catholic Church is the
universal church for all Christians and has been the foundation for all
Christian denominations around the world. We invite all Christian
to research the church fathers in seeking the truth.
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Sacrament of Eucharist |
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As Catholics, we absolutely know that when
we receive Holy Communion during Mass, it is truly the Body and Blood of
Christ and NOT a symbol or a symbolic gesture. For this reason,
the highest form of prayer for all Catholics is the reception of Jesus
Christ in Holy Communion which Jesus explains diligently in Chapter 6 of
St. John's Gospel:
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48) I am the bread of life. 49)
Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. 50)
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of
it, he may not die. 51) I am the living bread which came
down from heaven. 52) If any man eat of this bread, he shall
live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life
of the world. 53) The Jews therefore strove among themselves,
saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 54)
Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat
the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have
life in you. 55) He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my
blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.
56) For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. 57)
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in
him. 58) As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the
Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.
59) This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers
did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for
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Sacrament of Reconciliation |
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Since we are
receiving the King of kings and the Lord of lords, we also practice the
virtuous Sacrament of Reconciliation, commonly known as Confession. It is through our attempts of receiving Jesus' Body and Blood in
spiritual purity,
without the stain of Mortal Sin on our soul, that we frequent this
Sacrament of Mercy. In I Corithians we find: |
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24) And
giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which
shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me.
25) In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This
chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you
shall drink, for the commemoration of me. 26) For as often
as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the
death of the Lord, until he come. 27) Therefore whosoever shall
eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily,
shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
28) But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and
drink of the chalice. 29) For he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the
body of the Lord. 30) Therefore are there many inform and weak
among you, and many sleep. |
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