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: “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. Baptism incorporates the recipient into the Body of Christ. Confirmation seals the recipient with the gifts of Christ’s Spirit. Matrimony unites the two into one flesh, enabling the couple to dynamically image Christ’s generative relationship with the Church. The mark lasts as long as both members live. So if one member dies, the other is free receive the sacrament again with a new partne
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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.