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Mondays, 6:30pm, School Library

 THIS Monday, November 20th @ 6:30pm—School Library
Enter Thru Front School Doors
ALL ARE WELCOME!

 This week in OCIA we will be discussing:

The Sacraments of Initiation
 
The Sacraments of the New Testament were instituted by Christ the Lord and entrusted to the Church. As actions of Christ and of the Church, they are signs and means by which faith is expressed and strengthened, worship is offered to God and our sanctification is brought about. Thus they contribute in the most effective manner to establishing, strengthening and manifesting ecclesiastical communion (The Code of Canon Law (CIC), 1983. Canon 840).
 
From the time of the apostles, becoming a Christian has been accomplished by a journey and initiation in several stages. This journey can be covered rapidly or slowly, but certain essential elements will always have to be present: proclamation of the Word, acceptance of the Gospel entailing conversion, profession of faith, Baptism itself, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and admission to Eucharistic communion (Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), 1229).
 
The sacraments of Christian initiation – Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist – lay the foundations of every Christian life.
 
The sharing in the divine nature given to men through the grace of Christ bears a certain likeness to the origin, development, and nourishing of natural life. The faithful are born anew by Baptism, strengthened by the Sacrament of Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist the food of eternal life. By means of these sacraments of Christian initiation, they thus receive in increasing measure the treasures of the divine life and advance toward the perfection of charity (CCC 1212).
 
 
NO OCIA
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH