Title: What is a Sacrament in Catholicism?
Headings: What Is a Sacrament?
What Is a Sacrament?
A Lesson Inspired by the Baltimore Catechism
Why Does a Sacrament Need an 'Outward Sign?'
Seven Sacraments
How Does a Sacrament Give Grace?
The Evolution of the Sacraments: Mystery Religions
How the Sacraments Were Developed
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Content: Holy Communion, known as the Eucharist, is the rite described at the Last Supper in the New Testament. During Mass, bread and wine are consecrated by the priest and then distributed to each of the parishioners, interpreted as the real Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. This rite is conducted by Christ during the Last Supper, in Luke 22:7–38. Confession (Reconciliation or Penance), after a parishioner has confessed their sins and received their tasks, the priest says "I absolve you of your sins in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." In John 20:23 (NIV), after his resurrection, Christ tells his apostles, "If you forgive anyone's sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven." Anointing of the Sick (Extreme Unction or Last Rites ). Conducted at a bedside, a priest anoints the parishioner, saying "By this sign thou art anointed with the grace of the atonement of Jesus Christ and thou art absolved of all past error and freed to take your place in the world he has prepared for us." Christ anointed (and healed) several sick and dying individuals during his ministry, and he urged his apostles to do likewise in Matthew 10:8 and Mark 6:13. Marriage, a considerably longer rite, includes the phrase "What God has joined, let no one put asunder."