Title: What Catholic Sacraments can only be received once? Why? - Quora
Headings: What Catholic Sacraments can only be received once? Why?
What Catholic Sacraments can only be received once? Why?
Joe Fessenden
Baptism - once only
Confirmation - once only
Holy Orders - once only

Content: According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “The three sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders confer, in addition to grace, a sacramental character or seal by which the Christian shares in Christ's priesthood and is made a member of the Church according to different states and functions. This configuration to Christ and to the Church, brought about by the Spirit, is indelible; it remains for ever in the Christian as a positive disposition for grace, a promise and guarantee of divine protection, and as a vocation to
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Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Orders of a Catholic Priest. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “The three sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders confer, in addition to grace, a sacramental character or seal by which the Christian shares in Christ's priesthood and is made a member of the Church according to different states and functions. This configuration to Christ and to the Church, brought about by the Spirit, is indelible; it remains for ever in the Christian as a positive disposition for grace, a promise and guarantee of divine protection, and as a vocation to divine worship and to the service of the Church. Therefore these sacraments can never be repeated.” Richard Cain
, 30+ years working for the Catholic Church
Answered 4 years ago · Author has 57 answers and 40.3K answer views
Baptism, Confirmation, and Matrimony—because the particular grace each of these sacraments “marks” the recipient as sacramentally transformed in a special unrepeatable way—meaning the effect cannot be undone.