1275 Christian initiation is accomplished by three sacraments together: Baptism which is the beginning of new life; Confirmation which is its strengthening; and the Eucharist which nourishes the ...

Notre Dame’s OCIA program, the largest in University history, is guiding 55 students through the process of initiation into the Catholic Church this Easter.

The minister pours water the third time. It is desirable that should be one or two witnesses. If able to do this, an adult candidate is required to make a profession of faith, such as the Apostles ...

I have been accompanying my adult first cousin once removed, Tara, as she has grown deeper in her Catholic faith through the ...

Sherma Charles was baptized and received her First Communion in Grenada, where she was born. She immigrated to Brooklyn 30 ...

Baptism is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and the first of the sacraments of Christian initiation, followed by Confirmation and the Eucharist. According to the Holy Scriptures ...

culminating in full membership in the Church through the Sacraments of initiation: Baptism, Communion, and Confirmation. Our Confirmation program provides Catholic students who have received the other ...

Through the sacraments, a Christian receives spiritual help. The word sacrament comes from the Latin word ‘sacramentum’. This was the oath of loyalty a Roman soldier took on joining the army.

The seven sacraments touch all the stages and all the important moments of Christian life: they give birth and increase, healing and mission to the Christian’s life of faith.

The secular world sometimes equates the Christian Lent ... Lent is oriented toward the sacraments of initiation (baptism, confirmation and Eucharist). The origin of Lent arose in the early ...