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* CCC [http://old.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2chpt3.shtml Part Two, Chapter Three 1533 - 1666] | * CCC [http://old.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2chpt3.shtml Part Two, Chapter Three 1533 - 1666] | ||
* [http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_cons_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html Gaudium et Spes] Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World # 47 | |||
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Sacraments at the Service of Communion
Opening Prayer
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- CCC Part Two, Chapter Three 1533 - 1666
- Gaudium et Spes Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World # 47
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The Sacraments at the Service of Communion
- 1522 Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist are sacraments of Christian initiation. They ground the common vocation of all Christ's disciples, a vocation to holiness and to the mission of evangelizing the world. They confer the graces needed for the life according to the Spirit during this life as pilgrims on the march towards the homeland.
- 1534 Two other sacraments, Holy Orders and Matrimony, are directed towards the salvation of others; if they contribute as well to personal salvation, it is through service to others that they do so. They confer a particular mission in the Church and serve to build up the People of God.
- 1535 Through these sacraments those already consecrated by Baptism and Confirmation1 for the common priesthood of all the faithful can receive particular consecrations. Those who receive the sacrament of Holy Orders are consecrated in Christ's name "to feed the Church by the word and grace of God."2 On their part, "Christian spouses are fortified and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and dignity of their state by a special sacrament."3
The Sacrament of Holy Orders
The Sacrament of Matrimony
1601 "The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament."84
Marriage in God's plan
- 1602 Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision of "the wedding-feast of the Lamb."85 Scripture speaks throughout of marriage and its "mystery," its institution and the meaning God has given it, its origin and its end, its various realizations throughout the history of salvation, the difficulties arising from sin and its renewal "in the Lord" in the New Covenant of Christ and the Church