Title: Sacrament - Wikipedia
Headings: Sacrament
Sacrament
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Etymology
Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy
Hussite Church and Moravian Church
Lutheranism
Anglicanism and Methodism
Reformed (Continental Reformed, Congregationalist, and Presbyterian)
Irvingism
Latter-day Saints
Other traditions
Non-sacramental churches
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Content: Catechumens and all those who, even without knowing Christ and the Church, still (under the impulse of grace) sincerely seek God and strive to do his will can also be saved without Baptism ( Baptism of desire ). The Church in her liturgy entrusts children who die without Baptism to the mercy of God." In the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, "the sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions." While the sacraments in the Catholic Church are regarded as means of Divine Grace, The Catholic definition of a sacrament is an event in Christian life that is both spiritual and physical. The seven Catholic sacraments have been separated into three groups. The first three Sacraments of Initiation are Baptism, Communion, and Confirmation. The two Healing Sacraments are Anointing of the Sick and Penance. The two Sacraments of Vocation are Matrimony and Holy Orders.