sacraments of Christian Initiation, baptism, confirmation, fraction of bread, Grace related to the sacraments of initiation,

2. SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
 Initiantion means the action of beginning something, to
be introduce or start somenthing.
 introducing someone in a new group, community, or new family
 We going to start something
beginning, starting, commencement
 Since Apostolics times, to become a Christian a process
is followed and the initiation cosist of many stages or
steps
 This process may be concluded fast or slowly, and it
consists of some esencial elements:
1) The anouncement of the Word,
2) the reception of the Gospel, that leads to Conversion
3) Profession of Faith,(CREED)
4) Baptismo,
5) The pour of the Holy Spirit, (Confirmation)
6) The access to The Holy Eucharist.

3. THE 3 SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN
INITIANTION
 Christian Initiation is realized through a set of three
sacraments:
1) Baptismo that is the beginning of New Life
2) Confirmatión that is the Strenghen, Reinforce or
maturity;
3) Eucaristía that nourishes all disciple with the Body
and Blood of Christ to be transform in Him.
(CCC1275)

4. TERTULLIAN TEXT, 2ND CENTURY
There is a Tertullian text from the 2nd Century,
 in (a small summary), what is Christian Initiation meaning, in the Rites of
Initiation, through the Christians Sacraments
The Flesh is Wash, to purify the soul
The Flesh is Anointed, to Consecrate de soul;
The Flesh is Seal, to Revitalized the soul
Also the Flesh is Cover with Laying Hands, to Illuminate the Soul with
the Power of the Holy Spirit
The Flesh is Nourished with the Body & Blood fo Chirst, so the Soul is
Nourished abundantly with God’s Grace as well

5. The Christian Initiation expresses The Mistery that
introduce the person to a NEW LIFE
 After hearing the mystery of Christ proclaimed,
the person consciously and freely seek the living God
 and enter the way of Faith and Conversion, as the Holy Spirit
Opens his/her Heart
The Person is transformed interiorly, and as an option of
Faith he/she “is compromised” to live as children of God
He/she is integrated in the Community
 Which receives him/her as member (Baptism),
 inspires him how to act (Confirmation)
 And nourish him/her with the Bread of Life(Eucharist)

6.  God wants to share His Divine Life with the human
beings (we wants we dwell with Him forever in Eternity)
 Through the Sacraments God invites us to be part of His
Family
 HE gives us “Grace” in abundance to become ONE with
Him
 We can start participating of God’s Grace , down here on
earth, through the “Sacraments”

7. Indeed, we don’t need to wait to die, and
then go to Heaven to participate of God’s
Divine Life.
Today we will learn one of the many forms
How God Loves and wants to share His
GRACE, down here on earth with us.
We will learn how The Sacraments become a
very important part in God’s Plan of Salvation.

8. THE SACRAMENTS
& THE BEGINNING

9.  To understand the Sacraments we need to go
back to the very Beginning of the Creation.
 THE SACRAMENTS are related to GRACE.
 God Created the Human Beings
a) to share us His love and goodness,
b) and to share his Divine (Grace) life with us.
c) Everything created in the creation, was prepared
for the human beings to use and enjoy
 The Human Beings are created to share God’s
Divine Life and to be forever with Him.
 To Share The GRACE means:
 To Know, Love & Choose God freely.
 To love others beyond our own strengths & natural
abilities,
 A tendency to do good

10. HE INTENDED FOR THEM
TO LIVE IN FRIENDSHIP AND HAPPINESS WITH HIM
 God created man and
woman in his images and
likeness
 and He made them friends of
himself.
 He intended for them to live
in friendship and happiness
with Him in Earth, knowing
and loving Him
 And they then would be
take to heaven, where they
will be happy with Him for
ever

11. GRACE = ORIGINAL HOLINESS
Lets talk about that Special Friendship that Adam
and EVE had with God.
 The Scriptures say: God gave Adam & Eve the
wonderful gift of “Holiness”: Original Holiness or
GRACE
 ORIGINAL HOLINESS is the state of harmony with
God, with themselves, and with the created world.
(before they sin)
 Friendship with God means Sharing in his Divine
Life:
 To share in His Divine Live, it's also called:
“SANTIFY GRACE”
 It is called SANTIFY because it make it HOLY.
 SANTIFY means to make “Holy” (Sanctity)
 SANTIFY GRACE makes us HOLY,
 because it make us Holy like God (his live come to
dwell in us)
 When we have Sanctify Grace, we become
Holy.

12.  Original Holiness means that Adam
& Eve, have friendship with God,
 but also have friendship & harmony
within themselves
 This means that Adam & Eve had
perfect self control, perfect self-mastery
 This means they always did what
they knew was right
 It was easy for them to be good and
easy to control themselves,
 No one has to tell them to be good
because they have friendship with
God
 and because they have self control
they were able to have harmony in
their relationship within each other.

13.  GRACE is a great gift for us… God didn’t have
to give it to us, but He wants it, to make us holy!
 God had a plan for his Creation, and He
intended for humans beings
 to live in harmony (friendship) with him and with
each other.
 To work with Him to perfect the created world,
making it more perfect to reflect his goodness,
beauty and Glory.
 Also this ORIGINAL HOLINESS means that
Adam & Eve enjoyed harmony with the world
around them.
 Work for them wasn’t difficult, wasn’t hard. It was
a delight for them…
 Also they did not have to died or they do not have
to suffered.

14.  Since Adam & Eve were Holy, they did not have to die.
 God is Going to take them into Heaven, at the end of
their lives, so they do not have to suffered
 A Spiritual death
 Or Physical Death
 At the end of Adam & Eve’s human life, would be taken
to heaven to be perfectly happy with God forever, sharing
his Divine Live.
 Indeed, God wants all of us to be Holy, and to be
perfectly happy with Him in Heaven, He says:
”Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.” (Leviticus 19:2)
 Everyone of us is call to be Holy, to be Saint! Jesus Says
to us:
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect…”
(Matthew 5:48)

15.  Share in His Divine Life, is something God has to give us,
BECAUSE God himself is the only source of all GRACE.
 We can’t be friends (be Saints) with God, just because we
want it.
 God gave to our 1st parents (Adam & Eve) the gift of
sharing His Divine Life.
 He fills them with His own Holiness and Love
 Since they have God’s Grace, it was easier for them to
do good & reject evil.

16. GRACE = ORIGINAL HOLINESS
Since Grace is related with the
Sacraments, lets Review it again, to
Understand the Sacraments:
 GRACE is a gift of God, which is the
following:
 God’s Divine Live (Eternal Life)
 Sanctity / Holiness
 The state of being Holy
 Sharing God’s Divine Life
 Friendship with God
 Ability to love & live in harmony with others
 God Super natural power
 Power to know and love far beyond our
human natural abilities.
 To Love Supernaturally
 Ability to love as God loves, and ability to
know & discern as God knows.

18.  All this beautiful Gift was lost: the gift of
Original Holiness, the Gift of Grace that
God pour us in our first Parents,
 all gifts graces were lost for the sin of our
first Parents.
 They rejected the friendship of God, and
lost His Grace.
 When Adam and Eve freely chose to turn
away from God, and rejected his
friendship,
 they lost His Grace, and their Sin was pass
on to all people.
 Or In other words, they passed Nothing to Us.
 So humans born Not in a STATE OF
FRIENDSHIP with God, but in State of SIN

19.  Since they lost His Grace, they can't transmit
God’s Grace to others (to us)
 They have nothing to transmit to us
 Therefore, Our human nature is hurt, our will
is weaken,
1) Our flesh is subject to our passions, and
our reason to error.
2) It is harder for us to do good, it is easy
for us to do evil.
3) We born with a tendency to sin.
 They lost the Gift of Grace for them and
all their descendants
 Since that day for humans being is more
easy to do evil and is more difficult to do
the good,

20.  After they sin and rebel against
God, human started suffering some
consequences:
 Now, it becomes difficult for them
to do what is good.
1. Physical and Spiritual death entered
the world because of sin.
2. Original Sin affected human beings
relationship with the World around
them
3. Also, this Sin, affected Adam &
Eve, relationships with each other
4. indeed all Humans relationships!

21.  The Original Sin hurt our human nature
 Our human nature is hurt.
 We born in state of Sin:
 WE born without God’s Supernatural Grace
 Usually is not a clear vision of evil, everything
seems normal.
 We are selfish and egocentric
 We don’t thing about others first, but rather, we think about
us being first, and about us only
 We don’t have the “Agape Love” that God’s has for
everyone.
 We born with our tendency to sin, called
CONCUPISCENCE
1) Our Will is weaken
2) It is harder to do the good and easier to do the bad
things.
3) Our Flesh is subdue by our passions
4) and our intellect is subjected by all error.
 The things are not the way God created them to
Be!

22. Harmony turned into disorder: The things are not the way they suppose
to be;
This DESORDER consequence of sin, is called CONSCUPISCENCE
CONCUPISCENCE is our tendency to Sin.
 It is our tendency to do the wrong things.
 It is easier to do the wrong things, and it is difficult to do the good things.
Instead of “acting” like directing our will, our emotions, and our desires,
Now we move more easily by “our wants”
Our tendency to sin or CONCUPISCENCE increments more, and more
every time that we sin.
Every time we sin, we turn away from God, and it becomes easier to reject
Him.

23.  Sin has caused a terrible problem,
and it is a problem that we can not
solve for ourselves and our own
strength.
+ Remember our human nature is hurt,
+ and we born with concupiscence—we
have a tendency to sin.
 So, the only one who can solve the
Sin problem for us, is God Himself.
+ because He is the Only One who have
the Grace.
+ We don’t have it; we lost it by sin.
 God is all source of Grace

24.  If we do not have God’s super natural love
(GRACE), we can’t love others.
 if we do not have God's GRACE, (sanctity) we
can’t share that Grace with others.
This means we can’t share God’s Divine Life
with others.
 To LOVE SUPERNATURALLY is to Love Freely,
without looking for anything in return.
 Because this is how God loves us, and this is
how WE love each other; this is how we must love,
 but we can’t do this by our own; God have to
give us the ability to love as He loves.
 God has to share in his Divine life, to make
us holy, so that we can be with Him forever in
Heaven.

25.  Adam & Eve send God’s Grace out of their soul
when they sin.
 So they can not pass God’s life up to his children.
They do not pass it on to you or me.
 So when we are born, we are not sharing God’s life
(Sanctity)
 But we need God to live in us, before we can live in
Heaven. Thus why we –all, are called to Sanctity

27. But don’t worry, The Story Of Creation
did not ended in tragedy, desperation, or
sadness, but rather in HOPE!
 God himself enter the scene, and shows us
his mercy by giving us hope.
 God responds to the sin of humans is not to
abandon them, but to show them Mercy and
Love.
 God loves you, and He wants to be near you.
He wants to fill you with his divine life
 He wants to make you happy forever. He
wants you to be forever in heaven.
In the Old Testament we find 2 important
Promises of God. God Promise to send:
1) A Savior, (Redeemer, Messiah) He will
restore the Lost Grace
2) And His Own Spirit. (The Holy Spirit) He
will change our stone hearts.

28. Promised that Sin & Evil Will Not Prevail
 After God told Adam and Eve the
consequences that will bring sin,
God the Father promised that sin
and evil will not prevail
and all descendants of Adam and
Eve will defeat and overcome Sin. (Gen
3:15; Gen 12:13)
 God promised to send them a SAVIOR
+ But who was the One who wan back the
Grace?
+ Who was that Savior?

30. 1. Jesus won back for us the GRACE lost
by Adam and Eve
2. And The Holy Spirit transmits God’s
Grace to all human beings.
 Jesus took out our place to make up
the sin of Adam & Eve, and all our sins.
 God wants us to be with him forever,
So he became man, and died in the
Cross for us, so we will be not died
forever.
 Jesus is our Savior, who over come
death, to give us Life in Abundance
(Divine Live or Grace)

31.  When Jesus died, he did possible for us to
receive God’s life again.
 Jesus came to earth for you, so you can be
with Him forever in Heaven.
 With God’s life in our soul, we will live forever
with him again.
 RESURRECTION: after Jesus died, he
resurrected from death
 If we receive God’s Grace, we also will raise up
from the death.
 Grace set us FREE
 Grace deliver us from physical Death
 Grace deliver us from Spiritual Death
 and deliver us from evil.

 While in earth, we are called to become Holy,
and share God’s Grace with others.

32. 1) God the Father
promised to send
us A SAVIOR:
 His Son Jesus
Christ (Genesis
3:14,15)
2) But God the
Father promise to
send us His Spirit
as well:
 THE HOLY SPIRIT
(Ezekiel 36:26-28)

33. 1) God the Father promised promise to send the
Savior who:
a) Would restore the Grace for us
b) Would buy us and saves us with His Blood
c) And would give us a New Spirit
 JESUS By His Death & Resurrection would restored
the broken friendship between God and the humanity
2) But God the Father promise to send us THE
HOLY SPIRIT: as well.
“And I will give you a new heart, and a “New Spirit”
I will put within you.
And I will remove the heart of stone from your
flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you
to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my
rules…” (Ezekiel 36:26-28)

34.  By giving his life, Jesus won back
for us the Grace that was lost by
original sin.
 Now the friendship between God
and man is restored,
 and It is possible to have God’s life in
us.
 CAUTION!: But his is not the end of
the story

35.  There Is More! 
 There is something need it,
and another person to come at
the scene.
 What is needed, is a way and a
person that makes these
GRACES (that Christ has won for
us), to get to us & to be available
for us
 And this is the Work of the 3rd
person of the Holy Trinity: “The
Holy Spirit”.

36.  While still on earth, Jesus promise to the apostles that
after He ascended into Heaven, He will send the HOLY
SPIRIT
 At the Last Supper Jesus said to the Apostles:
“It is better for you, that I go, for if I do not go the
Holy Spirit will not come to you.”
 By ascending to the Father ,and sending the Holy Spirit
Jesus will not be bound by the limitations of a physical
body or human body
 Through the Holy Spirit, there is no bound by space, place
,or time;
 So, the Graces that Jesus wan for us can be made
 available to all people,
 on all times, and all places.

37.  The Holy Spirit is the 3rd person of the
Trinity (Father, Son, & Holy Spirit)
 The Holy Spirit is the Sanctifier,
 the one that make you saint.
 The one that transform you.
 The one who transmits us GRACE.
 That’s what the Holy Spirit does to us. He
transforms us, he changes us.
 We are change to move toward God, to be
more & more like Jesus Christ.
 So The Holy Spirit is the Sanctifier, who
gives us Grace.
 We are call to be great saints, So we don’t
want to lose the opportunity;

38. THE HOLY SPIRIT: God's Promise Of His Divine
Help
 We need God's help, through His Spirit, to obey
Him from the heart and bring our thoughts, attitudes,
and actions in line with His.
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
God— not by works, so that no one can boast”
(Ephesians 2:8-9)
 With God's Grace, we can be saints; we become
able to do all good, and even to do little acts of love,
such as
 Advocate, Helping others, having empathy
 Making right decisions & choices
 Loving others
 Smiling to others
 Being patient and act with kindness (All good deeds &
works we do, come from God, not from ourselves)
 You want to became Holy and that’s what The Holy
Spirit is about: He transform you and Change you by
God’s Grace.

39. How the Sacraments Became Part of
God’s Plan of Salvation?

40.  Even though, we sinners, God
still wants us with Him Eternity,
 and He sends us a Savior:
“Jesus”
 Here is where the Sacraments
enter into God’s Plan of Salvation.
 God know that we need access
to all the Grace that Christ won
for all of us…
with His death in the Cross and
His Resurrection

41.  The Grace that we receive in
the Sacraments is: God’s
Divine Life. (GRACE)
 That same Grace of God,
that dwelled in Adam & Eve
soul,
 but that it was lost by their
disobedience,
 Now we recover it through the
Sacraments by the Power of
the Holy Spirit!!

42.  The Sacraments give us Grace, but this
was Not exactly a Free Gift
 Someone had to pay the price:
 and that someone was Jesus, His Own Son
of God.
 God knew that we could not do anything
to recover our relationship with Him.
 Because our humanity is hurt. We have a
wounded humanity
 Our intellect is subject to error
 Our flesh is subject to our desires and to its
passions
 Our Will is weaken

43. Every time we sin, it causes that we to turn
away from God more easily,
 and it makes more difficult for us to have a
relationship with Him.
Therefore, our will needs to be strengthen
and our intellect or reason illuminated with
God’s Grace.
 Share God’s GRACE, it is something we
can not do for ourselves.
 In order for we Human beings share
God’s GRACE, God Himself has to make
it possible. He is the only source of all
GRACE!
 Therefore Jesus, while still on earth,
He prepared and instituted the
Sacraments to give us GRACE.

44.  Jesus, prepared and instituted the
Sacraments to give us GRACE
 However is not that simple,
1) There is other Person that we need
2) And an especial form, or way is needed to obtain
the GRACE that Jesus wan for us.
3) And this is the job of THE HOLY SPIRIT!
4) For the humans been able to share God’s
GRACE , God Himself has to make it possible.

45.  Jesus knew that He wouldn’t stay physically forever,
with us down here on earth
 Jesus had to find a form or a way for the GRACE
1) to endure forever, last long,
2) and remain available & in existence through time
and space.
Therefore after His death and His Resurrection
returned to Heaven and send us the HOLY SPIRIT
Who guides and gives life to the Church: “Christ
Mystical Body”
THE GRACE received through The Holy Spirit in The
Sacraments is from The Sacrifice of Christ,
especially from the Sacrificed of the Cross.

46.  The Holy Spirit pours Grace & Gifts
(talents or Charisms):
 In all the Sacraments and in all the
activities of the Church.
 The Holy Spirit has the Purpose to
 ”to Build the Body of Christ.” (His Church)
 and “Sanctify His members”
 By the Power Spirit we are:
 We’re His Presence, His works, and good
deeds in the world (as members of His
Body.)

47.  The Holy Spirit is “The New Spirit”
that the Prophets Prophesized in the
Old Testament
 It’s the Same Spirit that God said
will send to change the Heart of His
children down here on earth:
Y les daré un corazón, y un espíritu
nuevo pondré dentro de ellos;
y quitaré el corazón de piedra de en
medio de su carne, y les daré un
corazón de carne,
para que anden en mis ordenanzas, y
guarden mis decretos y los cumplan,
y me sean por pueblo, y yo sea a ellos
por Dios. (Ezequiel 11:19-20)

48. HE GAVE US A WAY TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE GRACES
OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE CROSS
 Christ open up for us life for Grace: Our
participation in God’s Own Divine Life, once
more.
 Jesus spent his time on earth, preparing us
for the great Graces that would come to us
through the Sacraments.
 Jesus knew that He will not be on
earth with us always,
 and Yet He promise that He will
always be with us.

49. JESUS PROMISE TO BE WITH US ALWAYS
 Jesus promise that He will always be with us.
 But how he made it on his promise?
“Through the Sacraments by the Holy
Spirit!” (They are a way that will last
through time and space)
 Sacraments are his arms to reaching
us, to touching us, to feeds us, to heals
us, and to give us grace.

50.  During his time on earth,
Jesus instituted 7 Sacraments:
1. Baptism,
2. Confirmation,
3. EUCHARIST,
4. Penance/Reconciliation
5. Anointing of the Sick,
6. Marriage,
7. and Holy Orders.
 The Graces that we receive
from the Sacraments are
from:
 the Sacrificial offering of
Christ: particularly the
Sacrifice on the Cross.

52. a) SACRAMENT is an “outward
sing instituted by CHRIST,
b) and entrusted to the Church to
give us GRACE,
c) through the Power of the HOLY
SPIRIT.”
Every Sacrament have a particular GRACE that help you to grow in
HOLINESSS

53. SACRAMENTS SOURCE OF GRACE
“BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT”
 Through the Sacraments God invites us to be
part of his Family,
 And God gives us many Graces to become One
with Him, and become Holy.
 It is a way God loves us, stay with us, & share his
Divine Live with us.
 God communicates Spiritual life to our souls in
the Sacraments instituted by Christ.
 By the Power of the Holy Spirit the sacraments
do what they are assign for:
a) Make us Holy,
b) Sanctify you
c) Give you God’s Grace
d) Strength your will
e) and Illuminate the reason
 They are visible sings of an invisible reality. They
Give us Grace.

54.  The First time, we receive God’s
Grace is in “BAPTISM”,
 and after that, we continue
receiving God’s Divine Life,
through others sacraments .
 but very specially in the
“EUCHARIST”

55. SACRAMENTS SOURCE OF GRACE
 Every Sacrament have a particular GRACE that
help you to grow in HOLINESSS
 As part of God’s Plan for saving men (all of us),
+ He knew that we’ll need access to all the GRACE;
+ Christ bear it for us by His death on the cross &
resurrection.
 God gave us his Grace to make us his adopted sons
& daughters
+ & makes us capable of loving him
+ & participating in his divine life
 Grace is God’s Divine Life given to us:
with what Adam & Eve were created, and lost through
sin,
we regain through the Sacraments by the power of
the Holy Spirit.
 Each Sacrament is order to our participation in
God’s Divine Life, filling us with His Life & Agape
Love.

57. LITURGY OF PASCHAL VIGIL,
“The History of Salvation”
 In the liturgy of the Easter Vigil, during the blessing
of the baptismal water,
 the Church solemnly commemorates the great
events in “Salvation History” that already prefigured
the mystery of Baptism:
Father, you give us GRACE through sacramental
signs, which tell us of the wonders of your unseen
power.
In Baptism we use your gift of WATER, which you
have made a rich symbol of the Grace you give us in
this sacrament. CCC1217

58. Easter Vigil Commemorates the Great Events
in Salvation History
 For this reason “is very important”,
that in order to understand the
Sacraments,
 we go way back to the beginning of
the Creation, in order to
a) To understand God’s Grace
b) And to learn about the Promises of
God the Father,
c) because“Everthing is Related!
 In this Great Vigil we have 9
readings,
 the first reading is about the Creation
 The last reading end up with the
Resurrection of Our Savior; Our Lord
Jesus Christ.

59. 1) We celebrate all that God has done in Our
Past
 Created us for Love
 Loving us unconditionally (sacrifying His Life)
 and Overcome death for us (His Resurrection)
2) We celebrated what He is doing in Our
Present:
 Pouring His Gracia through the Holy Spiritu, so we
can reach Holiness (in the sacraments)
 And freely cooperated in his Plan of Salvation
3) We celebrate what He has Promised for Our
Future:
 The Parousia
 The Resurreccion
 And to live forever with Him.

60. EL Sacrament is a visible sign istituted by Christ,
communicates Grace , and it is entrusted to the Church.
In other words the Sacraments are sensible and
efective signs of the invisible Grace of God, and through
them God’s Divine Life is confered or granted
Among other things, it offers the believers to become
adoptive Children of God. (Baptism)
They were instituted by Jesus and entrust to the
Church, to help every believers to reach Sacntity, to
which everyone is called
.

61.  SACRAMENT
a) A sensible Sign,
b) Instituted by Christ ,
c) That confers or grants Grace. (Santity)
d) And entrusted to the Church
 GRACE is an supernatural gift that God
confers to us to reach Eternal Life.
a) It’s the friendship with God
b) Sharing His Divine Life
c) Santity
d) Our tendency to do good; (facilitates to do
good deeds, and reject the evil doing)
e) Enable us to love others as God loves
f) Illumintates the reason or intellect (enable us
to make right decisions, and avoid wrong
judgent)

62.  Sensible: means visible, tangible, that can be
perceive through the senses
 A Sign means “something” “something else”
 Sensible sing: is something visible that
represents something else than itself; it may be:
 Water
 Oil
 Wine & Bread of wheat
 Imposition of Hands
 Rings, etc.
 For example: WATER pour on the head of the
person baptized; it is not only water on the head
 It is a Sign” that show, or let us know that
something is happening in the Soul of the Person
 in this case, it means that is being purify of sin
 And is receiving the Sanctifying Grace by the
Power of the Holy Spirit

63.  The Sacraments are “visible actions”
that celebrate an Invisible Activity Of
God.
 The Sacraments are not something we
have;
 It is something in which we participate to
recieve the GRACE through The Holy
Spirit
 Fraction of Bread (eat & drink)
 Imposition of hands
 Anointing of Oil
 Pour or immersion in Water
 Admite our faults
 To make an Alliance (compromise)

64.  THE GRACE is a Gift from God pour in our soul.
 It enable us to love beyond our own strength
and empower & capacitates our Wills to do
good & reject evil.
 WE do not have anything to offer to others, but
God has a lot to offer to each and everyone
+ Impregnated with God’s Grace, we are able to share
that Grace with others
+ We share the Love of God with everyone else.
 Remember everyone is called to Sanctity.

65.  So the friendship with God, or Sanctity is called GRACE,
because is a Gift from God
 Exactly as, spending time with a friend, strengths or fortify our
friendship
 In a similar way, The Sacraments fortify Our friendship with God, as
well.
 The Sacraments are our fountains of GRACES
 They are our forms or resources of opportunity, to repair our
friendship (relationship) with God.

66. a) The Grace receive in Baptism is fortified, strengthen
b) And reach its Maturity in the Confirmation
c) And our union with Christ is nourished and fortified
every time that we receive Jesus , truly present in The
Eucharist (Holy Communion)

67.  It means that Jesus reveals to the Apostles:
the SACRAMENTS (the forms that give us
GRACE)
 For example when Jesus said to His Disciples:
Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very
end of the age. (Mt. 28, 19-20)
 This was the Sacrament of Baptism that
Jesús was instituting.

68.  Jesus reveals to the Apostles a los apostoles the
Sacraments (forms that communicate Grace)
 Another Sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ , in
the Last Supper: “The Holy C ommunion”
He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it.
Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the
disciples, saying, "This is my body, which is given for
you. Do this to remember me.“ (Luke 22-19)
“While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when
he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his
disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he
gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.
This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out
for many for the forgiveness of sins.(Mt.26,26-28).
 All Sacraments were instituted by Christ.

69.  The Sacraments instituted by Christ are seven,
because Christ instituted not more or not less
1) Baptism,
2) Holy Communion,
3) Confirmation,
4) Penance or Reconciliation
5) Anointing of the Sick
6) Holy Matrimony
7) Holy Orders
 All of them have a physical matter and a
shape
a) In all there is a object or gesture visible/exterior.
b) They can be perceived by our senses.
c) And in all, there are pronunced some words.

70.  The symbols are not invented
 Jesus did Not invented the “Symbols”
 Jesus chose symbols that were very
common for all the people in that era, (in
that period of time)
 And over these symbols, Jesus instituted
a “New Meaning”
 He invested in them His life, His Passion,
His death and His Resurrection.

71.  Jesus send the Apostles to preach the
Gospel to the ends of the Earth
“Therefore go and make disciples of
all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the
very end of the age” (Mt. 28, 19-20)


72. The Holy Spirit makes Jesus presence in
the Church and in our souls
“And I will ask the Father, and he will give
you another advocate to help you and be
with you forever— the Spirit of truth.
The world cannot accept him, because it
neither sees him nor knows him.
But you know him, for he lives with you and
will be in you. I will not leave you as
orphans; I will come to you…
“...But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom
the Father will send in my name, will teach
you all things and will remind you of
everything I have said to you.” (John 14:16-19; 26)

73.  Jesus promised to the Apostles that after is
Ascension to Heaven, He would send The Holy
Spirit
 After the Last Super Jesus told the Apostles:
“But very truly I tell you, it is for your good
that I am going away. Unless I go away, the
Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will
send him to you. (John 16:7)

74.  All the Sacraments are encountered with
Christ, and unite us more to Him.
 Jesus by returning to The Father, and
sending The Holy Spirit.
 The Holy Spirit help us in union wiht Christ
through the Church in the Liturgy and The
Sacraments
 The Holy Spirit is not limited not to “time”, nor
to “space” or matter.
 In this form, all GRACE wan by Jesus, is
available for all people, All the time and in all
places
through the Church in the Liturgy and the
SACRAMENTS
 And Also the Holy Spirit makes Jesus Presence in
the available in the Church all the Time, as He
Promised.

75.  Jesus promised to be present with us in the
Sacraments (very time we celebrate them), to give us
GRACE.
“…And surely I am with you always, to the very end
of the age”
 In all the Sacraments there is a Minister to confer
them,
 and Christ acts in him, throuhgout the Holy Spirit, to
pour the GRACE
 The Sacraments are place of reunion to be in
contact with God, and they help us to be present before
God. Who always is present with us.

76. EL ESPIRITU SANTO
 The Holy Spirit makes Jesus presence in the
Church and our Souls.
 He make possible Gods Divine Life in our
Souls
 For this reason, The Holy Spirit is called
“The Giver of Life”

78. SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN
INITIATION
 When you are born, you are a unique wonderful
creature, in all the world created by God.
 Yet in order to become adopted by God, and
become a member of Jesus mystical body, you must
be baptized.
 The priest held you over the Baptismal fount, and
he pour water over, claiming you as an adopted Child
of The Holy Trinity.
 Baptism is so important that without it the person
can not receive the other sacraments.
 Because Baptism is so important & in it, it’s
received God’s Grace, a baby can be baptize without
the grave of the action.
 We call this whole process of Baptism on growing up
in the faith Christian initiation.

79.  It means that in order to become a member
of God’s Christian family, you have to learn
and start a process.
 The baby or kid has to learned gradually, the
process of becoming a Christian, a good saint &
what this means
 They learned, and it happens over time, not all
at once.
 They learn that we all are call to have
Sanctity, not to be sinners, so they must
avoid sin—
 even when they grow up, they must keep their
heart pure! Their whole life
 In Christian life in the Sacraments, the
person or the Baby is baptized, and this
begins the process of initiation.

80. SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN
INITIATION
 But Baptism is just the 1st step of Christian
initiation,
 In fact the process is not completed, on least
the person receive the sacraments of Confirmation
and the Eucharist.
 CONFIRMATION completes and seals the process
of initiation.
 No matter how old when the person is—when she or
he is confirmed…
 …the Christian baptized, and now Confirmed, and
having make his or her 1st COMMUNION,
 Is a New Christian (or a New Person) who
completed the process of initiation.
 In the eyes of the Church, this Christian has an
status of adult– on of the special gifts of
Confirmation, granted by the Holy Spirit.

81. SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN
INITIATION
Confirmation in the Early Church
 For the early Christians, they understood
Confirmation as closely link of with the
sacrament of Baptism,
 We still have the same understanding
today; however, in some Dioceses &
Parish,
the Sacrament of Confirmation is given a
long time after Baptism.
 And the sad part, is that sometimes
Christians,
lose sight of the huge connection between
Baptism & Confirmation.

82. SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN
INITIATION
 The Sacrament of Confirmation is not
an optional sacrament
 It is so important for Christian Life, for
Confirmation completes and seals the
process of initiation.
 the Christian baptized, and now
Confirmed, and having make his or her 1st
Communion,
is a New Christian who completed the
process of initiation.

84. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
 El Baptism is the sacrament where
everything start
 It is Our Beginning to our Sacramental
Life, and in Union with God.
 We began to be members of the Church,
and we are initiated in the Faith.
 we are united to Christ and we receive the
Holy Spirit.
 We receive the GRACE of the Most Holy
Trinity.
 Bautismo (from greek baptizein) it means
“immerse", "introduce to water”

86. COMPREHEND MANY REALITIES
 For us, as Catholics, The Baptism comprehend various
realities:
 Baptism not only forgive personal sins, but also, has the
purpose of:
1. Cleans us from the Original Sin
2. Gives us Grace
3. Makes us temple of the Holy Spirit
4. Introduces us to the Holy Trinity
5. Initiates us in the Faith
6. makes us Children of God’s Christian Family.
7. We became members of the Body of Christ,
 In that very moment , that the Minister introduces us the water
and pronounces the words
(Name________), I baptize you in the name of the Father the Son,
and the Holy Spirit ,
 The person or the baby receives the Holy Spirit and
become adopted Children of God.
 And God immediately begins to live in the soul of the baptized

87. GRACE IN BAPTISM A SPECIAL
REALITY
For Christian Catholics, Baptism has a greater
meaning, than just forgiving their sins.
 In the rite of Baptism, not only sins are
forgiven, but also,
+ at the moment you are baptized, God’s Grace is
poured out in your soul, for the first time.
+ You were given the dwelling of the Holy Spirit
+ You were given the dwelling of the Holy Trinity in
your soul.
+ Given the theological Virtues: Faith, Hope &
Charity
+ And You become part of God’s family: the mystical
body of Christ
 Remember the sacraments are the reception
of Grace in your soul

88.  Remember since Adam & Eve
disobey God, there has been a
brake relationship with him.
 Baptism cleanses our soul from
Original sin, and brings forward
new life: God’s life
 It repairs this broken relationship
 Now we’re sons & daughters of
God & heirs of heaven, as God
intended from the beginning.
 Something special came to live in
your soul: God’s divine life.

90.  From the day of your baptism you are
change forever
 In your baptism you are mark, so you belong
completely to God.
 You receive a INDELIBLE SEAL or character
 This Seal can never be remove from your
soul.
 It configures you to Christ. You are set apart from
baptism.
 This invisible mark in your soul, changes you into
child of God
 Because of your Baptism you receive the
seal, you only need to became baptize “once”,
and you never need to be baptize again.

91. GOD’S GRACE DWELLS IN THE HEART
 The Indelible Seal of God’s Grace is so real in
Baptism, that when others Baptized Christians or
Pastors (from other Christian denominations)
become Catholics,
 they do not receive the baptism again;
 They already have received God’s grace in their
soul; when they got baptized the first time.
 They just need to continue nourishing their soul
with the Graces of others sacraments,
 but very specially by the Holy Eucharist.

92. SYMBOLS OF BAPTISM
 Symbols used in Baptism:
1. A Baptismal Candle
2. The Pascal Candle.
3. Fountain or Piscine Baptismal
(WATER)
 The Pascal Candle: is blessed in
Easter Vigil and is used in each Baptism
 Remember that Jesus is The Light
and the Life
 And Jesus communicates and enable
us to participate of His Life, when we
are baptized.
 Our baptismal Candle is lighted as a
symbol of receiving God’s Divine Live or
the Light of Christ in our souls.

93. SYMBOLS OF BAPTISM
 The light of PASCAL
CANDLE is a symbol of
God’s Divine Life.
 THE BAPTISMAL CANDLE
is lighted in the Pascal
Candle, after you are
baptized,
 This represents that God’s
life “now” is living in your
soul.
 Jesus is the light of the
world, and He gives us His

94. “SENSIBLE SINGS OF BAPTISM”
 WATER communicates information
about our baptism
 It’s telling us that something important
is really truly happening in that moment
 It shows us that something is
happening in the soul of the person
“The reception of GRACE in person’s
soul”
 It shows us that (water & the words)
through the Power of the Holy Spirit)
 washes away the dirt of sin, and makes
us clean
 And Gives us God’s life in our soul

95. THE SENSIBLE SINGS OF BAPTISM
 THE WORDS OF THE HOLY TRINITY: As the
person is baptized, water is pour in the head of
the person 3 times, and the priest said the
words:
“I baptize you in the name of the Father the
Son, & the Holy Spirit”
 With those words, and the pouring of water, or
the immersion in water,
 We became members of the Body of Christ, and
the Holy Trinity comes to dwell in our souls.
 We become sons & daughter of God
 God gave you his life
 God came to live in our soul.
 God wash away all sins
 fills you with his life
 Participation of Christ resurrection with new life

96. THE SENSIBLE SIGNS OF
BAPTISM
 CHRISM OIL
 The anointing of the baptize with the
Holy CRISMA: (a perfume oil
consacrated by the Bishop.)
 It means the Gift of The Holy Spirit
to the New baptized.
 He became a Christian, this means,
an “Anointed" by the Holy Spirit
 And Incorporated to Christ, who is
the anointed priest, prophet & King.

97. LITURGIA DE LA NOCHE PASCUAL
Historia De Salvacion

98.  The Easter Vigil is a very important day for the Baptized
 Because the first time, we receive God’s Grace is in
“BAPTISM”
 Baptism is the beginning of God’s Grace in our lives
 BAPTISM is our beginning of our sacramental life and we are
united with God
 God wants everyone to receive that special gift: Grace.
 Anyone who have never being baptize can receive the gift of
Grace in baptism.

99. “THE RECEPTION OF GRACE IN
PERSON’S SOUL”
1) When you were born, your were given
the Gift Of Your Life
+ God gave you “Your Life” when you born.
 On your birth you were given 2 great gifts:
1. The gift of life
2. And the Gift of your family
2) When you were baptized, God gave you
the Gift of His Own Divine Life “GRACE”
+ He gave you “His life” when you were baptize.

100. THE BAPTIZED IS A NEW PLANT
 All and everyone who has been baptized, becomes or turns into a
Neophyte; which means a New Plant
 from latín neophytus and this from the ancient greek νεόφυτος
(neóphytos),
 and νέος (néos), "nuevo" and (phytón), "retoño"
 The Grace of God in you, is the best gift that you can ever receive,
you just become a New creature
 God’s Grace is an invisible gift, but very real; you only need to
nourish it with other sacraments, in order to grow, to develop, to reach
maturity & perfection.

102.  Welcome to the Family, Little Ones!
 There are few things as joyful as welcoming a
new member into the Body of Christ,
 And Easter is one of the best times of the year
because we welcome so many new members!
 The Rite of Baptism is one special rite in the
Church
a) each action calls to mind the mystery of our
salvation
b) and the joy we find in this family in Christ Jesus.
 So, just as we renew our baptismal promises
during this holy season,
 we invite you to call to mind the joy of your own
Baptism, renewing your promises and rediscovering
the wonder of the Sacrament!

103.  The meaning and grace of the sacrament of
Baptism are clearly seen in the rites of its celebration.
 By following the gestures and words of this celebration
with attentive participation,
 the faithful are initiated into the riches this sacrament
signifies and actually brings about in each newly
baptized person.
 The priest (or deacon) begins the Rite of Baptism
for Children by asking the parents what they’ve
named their child
a) and what they ask of God’s Church for their
son/daughter (Baptism!).
b) He reminds them that they are accepting the
responsibility of training their child in the practice of
the faith
c) and asks them if they understand what they
undertake.
d) Then he addresses the godparents, who are to
support the parents in this duty, asking if they, too, are
ready.
CCC 1234

104.  Then he says:
“The Christian community welcomes you with great joy. In its
name, I claim you for Christ our Savior by the sign of his
cross.”
 He traces the cross on the child’s forehead, inviting the
parents and godparents to do the same. CCC 1235
 The Sign of The Cross, on the threshold of the
celebration, marks with the imprint of Christ the one who is
going to belong to him
and signifies the grace of the redemption Christ won for us
by his cross.

105.  Then, there is a reading: The proclamation of
the Word of God enlightens the candidates and
the assembly with the revealed truth and elicits the
response of faith, which is inseparable from
Baptism.
 Indeed Baptism is “the sacrament of faith” in a
particular way, since it is the sacramental entry into
the life of faith. CCC 1236
 Since Baptism signifies liberation from sin and
from its instigator the devil, one or more
exorcisms are pronounced over the candidate.
 The celebrant then anoints him with the oil of
catechumens, or lays his hands on him, and he
explicitly renounces Satan.
 Thus prepared, he is able to confess the faith of the
Church, (THE CREED) to which he will be
“entrusted” by Baptism. CCC 1237

106.  Then we pray the Litany of Saints,
 asking our brothers and sisters in heaven to pray for the child and for us.
 After, the priest blesses the baptismal water: CCC 1238
 The baptismal water is consecrated by a prayer of epiclesis (either at this
moment or at the Easter Vigil).
 The Church asks God that through his Son, the power of the Holy Spirit,
may be sent upon the water,
 so that those who will be baptized in it may be “born of water and the Spirit.”
 After the water is consecrated, but before the child is baptized,
 the priest turns to the parents and godparents and asks them to renew
their own baptismal promises, renouncing Satan and affirming their faith in
Christ and the Church

107. CCC 1239
 The essential rite of the sacrament
follows:
 Baptism properly speaking. It signifies
and actually brings about death to sin
and entry into the life of the Most Holy
Trinity through configuration to the Paschal
mystery of Christ.
 Baptism is performed in the most
expressive way by triple immersion in the
baptismal water.
 However, from ancient times it has also
been able to be conferred by pouring the
water three times over the candidate’s
head.
CCC 1240
 In the Latin Church this triple infusion is
accompanied by the minister’s words:
“N., I baptize you in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit.” …

109.  The anointing with sacred
chrism, perfumed oil consecrated
by the bishop,
 signifies the GIFT of the Holy
Spirit to the newly baptized,
 who has become a Christian,
that is, one “anointed” by the Holy
Spirit,
 Is incorporated into Christ who is
anointed priest, prophet, and king.
CCC 1241

110. LOS SIGNOS SENSIBLE DEL
BAUTISMO
 The Water and the Words are the Sensible
signs of Baptism
 The "plunge" into the water symbolizes the
catechumen's burial into Christ's death,
from which he rises up by resurrection with him,
AS "A NEW CREATURE.“CCC1214
 Water pour on the Head, or the immersion
in it, is a Visible Sign of an Invisible Reality:
The Baptized is receiving Grace in the Soul
and being cleans of sin.
 In the very moment of Baptism:
1) You are clean of sin
2) The Holy Trinity dwells in you
3) Receive the Theological Virtues: Faith,
Hope, Charity
4) Become part of God’s Family; member of
the Body of Christ.

111. RISES AS A NEW CREATURE
 THE BAPTISMAL CANDLE, lit
from the Easter candle,
 signifies that Christ has
enlightened the NEOPHYTE.
• NEOPHYTE: new convert or novice,
new plant.
 In Christ the baptized are “the
light of the world.” (Mt 5,14; Flp
2,15).

112. RISES AS A NEW CREATURE
 THE WHITE GARMENTS
symbolizes that the person
baptized has “put on Christ,” has
risen with Christ.
“For all of you who were
baptized into Christ have
clothed yourselves with Christ.”
(Galatians 3,27):

113.  Then the priest makes the sign of the cross over
the child’s ears and mouth saying,
“The Lord Jesus made the deaf hear and the mute
speak.
May He soon touch your ears to receive his word,
and your mouth, to proclaim his faith.”
CCC 1243
 … The newly baptized is now, in the only Son, a
child of God,
entitled to say the prayer of the children of God:
“Our Father.”

115.  God invites us to show ourselves into the world as
children of God.
 He is inviting us to start discovering which is our Mission
 It is a called to assimilated the Presence of God and to
embracing the deepest reality of who we really are.
 Learn that we are sons of God created at his Images &
likeness, and we have a Called.
a) It is our responsability to educate ourselves in the Faith,
b) And it is our responsability “act” as children of God
c) We are the light & the salt of the world
 The Church allows to baptize Children, but it is
the responsability of the Parents and Godparents
educate the children in that reality.
 The Child is entrust to the Parents & Godparent to
teach him: How he has to live, and why he is here in
these world.

116. NEW CREATURE
 El Baptismo es something more deep and profund : we
must show with our actions and our deeds that we are Sons &
daugthers of God, that we have started a New and different life
 Many of us have lived the Baptism: ¿But how many have had a
profound experience or sincere conversion?
 It doesnt consiste of the amount of Water, but rather in
BELIEVE deeply; Believe in that overpowering experience
(my relationship with God) in the Grace of the Sacrament
 The words just by themselves aren’t going to change me,
or give me strength
 But the Word of God, when it resounds in our hearts, then
we see the difference in our lives, The Holy Spirit gives us like
a sixth sense:.
 It Gives us the experience of like Him, A Longing for Him, A
Feeling for Him
 We make this experience ours, because He has revealed Himself
in our hearts

117.  Jesus replied,
 “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God
unless they are born again.”
 Nicodemus asked.
 “How can someone be born when they are old?” “Surely
they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb
to be born!”
 Jesus answered,
 “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God
unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives
birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be
born again.
 ’The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound,
but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is
going.
 So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
 Nicodemus asked
 “How can these things be?” (John 3)

118. BORN AGAIN
 We must found our own & TRUE
IDENTITY ; by experiencing, that we’re the Son
or Daughter of God, and that we have a Mission;
Then this profound knowledge or insigh will truly
change completely our life.
 You must renew the EXPERIENCE of your
Baptism:
 you need to motivate yourself,
 have the wish to change your life style or your way ,
 and start a sincere Relationship with God
 Have the wish to change,
 open the heart to the Lord
 We need To become a Child: to Born Again
 If I am not like a child, and I do not born again
my baptism doesn’t make sense.
1) Have you ever had a personal encounter with
Christ that changed your Life?
2) Every day you become aware of what implies
to be baptized
3) What Changes produces this in your life?
 Rediscover your true Identity!
 BECOME WHO GOD INTENDENT YOU TO BE!

120.  Confirmation: “The Sacrament of
the Holy Spirit”
 It receives this name for a very
important reason.
 This sacrament (to the one who
received it) is a special out pour of
the Holy Spirit.
 Holy Spirit comes & takes out
residence in the soul, in a very
special and unique way.
 What does the Holy Spirit Do?

121. WHAT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT
DO?
a) We know that the Father is the
Creator,
b) and the Son is the Redeemer
c) But what about the Holy Spirit?
What He does?
 The Holy Spirit is the
SANCTIFIER:
 This means that the Holy Spirit’s
work is to sanctify us
1) He is the one who makes us Holy
2) He is in charge of Holiness
3) He brings Holiness wherever He is.

122.  In our Catholic Tradition, we
believe that the Sacrament of
Confirmation is a very special
out pouring of the Holy Spirit.
a) It is a moment of intensity!
b) When the Christian is
confirmed, the Holy Spirit
comes
c) and gave us God’s Grace.

123.  The Sacraments have effect in our
lives.
 The more open we are, and more
aware of the effect,
the more intense we will feel them.

124. These are some of the directs
effects of Confirmation:
1) Increases the GRACE of
Baptism.
2) We receive a Special Mark
o Character on our Soul.
3) Gives us a Special
Outpouring of the Holy
Spirit

125.  The Sacrament of Confirmation Increases the
Grace of our Baptism.
 Confirmation does “Not Repeat”, or Redo the
Sacrament of Baptism.
 However, all that happen at our Baptism is
RENEW & Strength.
 We still have the Graces from Baptism, but we
need the Effects of Baptism to be Strengthen and
increased
 You have a Demanding Mission ahead of you, &
you need the Grace of Confirmation
to increase all that you have received, when you
were baptized.

126. .
 One of the Gifts of Baptism, that you
receive when you were Baptized, is
Adoption—The Gift of Adoption is a Grace.
 The Grace of Adoption means
 That it is essential that the new baptized
Christian belongs to God
 And it is a property of the Trinity
 God is his/her family now.
 Remember, among other things, Baptism
means you belong to God
 This is the most important effect of
Baptism, and it is Strength in Confirmation

127. .
1) After Confirmation, You are closer to
God than before; you are more deeply
bond to His Grace.
2) In Baptism our Sins are wash away
and we are given the gift of Sanctifying
Grace
 Remember: When we are born, we had
a stain in our soul,
 We call the stain original sin.
 It is a mark left by our 1st Parents: Adam &
Eve, when they sin and disobey God.
 We suffer from the mark and the left
over effect of Original Sin, until we are
Baptized.

128. .
 God lives in us, from our very moment of our
Baptism.
 We call this indwelling of God: Sanctifying Grace.
 GRACE is God’s life in us, that gives us Power,
 to be like Him in goodness and kindness
 To be Holy and to be Good.
 Some of the Effects of Baptism are Strength
and Renew in the Sacrament of Confirmation.

130. 2 ) A SPECIAL MARK IS RECEIVED IN OUR SOUL
 Again, In the Sacrament of Confirmation we receive the
INDELIBLE MARK OR SEAL, that helps us to be witness of
Our Lord here on earth.
 Confirmation is closely link with the sacrament of Baptism,
 God is so generous that continues providing us with all His Grace,
we need, to go Heaven.
 According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
Baptism, the Eucharist, and The Sacrament of
Confirmation together constitute the "sacraments of
Christian initiation," whose unity must be safeguarded.
It must be explained to the faithful that the reception
of the sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the
completion of baptismal grace.
For "by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized]
are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched
with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence they are,
as true witnesses of Christ, more strictly obliged to spread
and defend the faith by word and deed."CCC1285

131. 2) A SPECIAL MARK IS RECEIVED IN OUR SOUL
 In the Sacrament of Confirmation we receive
a special mark on the soul. (indelible Seal)
 Confirmation effect is a permanent mark on
the Soul.
 No one can wash out this seal
 No sin can take this mark away
 Nothing can hide it or remove it.
 The mark is a sing: It means that the
Christian, now Confirmed, belongs to God in
a very special & unique way.
 The Christian is God’s property, and a
special representative of his Church.

132. 2) A SPECIAL MARK IS RECEIVED IN OUR SOUL
 This Seal on the Soul, not only shows God’s
ownership,
but it also gives the Christian a very special
power.
 The Mark is design to move the Christian to
perform certain actions
 The Mark of Confirmation takes the Christian:
from Spiritual Childhood to Spiritual Adulthood or
Maturity.
 The Christian is now able
a) to perform Mature and Stable acts or virtues
b) and to be witness on behalf of the Church.

133. 2) A SPECIAL MARK IS RECEIVED IN OUR SOUL.
 The Confirmed Christian is officially a part of
the Church in such way.
a) That all his acts, virtues, and good deeds
are done, not jus for himself anymore, but as
the Church acting.
b) He makes the Church—The Body of
Christ—visible for the world to see.
 Now, his actions help or damage the Church,
because he is not alone on the Church; there are
others in it, too.
 Each and every Christian has an important part
to play, but Everyone acts together
 Your actions & virtues, and good deeds represent
the Church, and Not just “you” anymore.

135. 3) GIVES A SPECIAL OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
 Do you remember, in the Act of
Apostles, about
1. the Wind moving in the House, and the
Flames of Fire coming from heaven &
resting over the Apostles?
2. they were filled with the Holy Spirit
 Well, Similar outpouring takes place in
the Sacrament of Confirmation!
 The Sacrament of Confirmation gives
us a special outpouring of The Holy
Spirit,
 and makes us God’s witness for the
entirely world
Come
Holy
Spirit !

136.  If someone is Holy, or has the
quality of holiness virtue,
it is because the Holy Spirit is at
work with him.
 Holy Spirit moves like breath
 and enters us like breath or air, to
make us Holy.
 He is the Sanctifier :
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its
sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or
where it is going.
So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8)

137. Especial Gifts And Virtues Received
From The Sacrament Of Confirmation

138. Especial Gifts And Virtues Of The Holy Spirit
 7 Gifts or Virtues of the Holy Spirit are:
1) Wisdom
2) Understanding
3) Counsel
4) Knowledge
5) Fortitude
6) Piety
7) Fear of the Lord
 With this Gifts or Graces the Christian is enable to
bear Fruit: “The Fruits of the Holy Spirit”
 The moral life of Christians is sustained by The Gifts
Of The Holy Spirit.
 These are permanent dispositions which make man
docile in following the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
ccc1830
 The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit complete and
perfect the virtues of those who receive them.
 They make the faithful docile in readily obeying divine
inspirations. ccc1831

139. GIFT OF: BEING OPEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
 Christians Not only receive
a) a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the
soul (Grace)
b) and receive the mark or Seal of the Holy
Spirit
 But also by the Power of the Holy Spirit, in
Confirmation, the Christians receive another
special gift as well:
c) The Gift: TO BE OPEN TO THE HOLY
SPIRIT; this is very important in Christian
life:
 Not only do we need the Holy Spirit
Grace,
but we need Gift or Help to be open to Him
1) To hear him
2) To listen to him
3) And follow his inspirations

140. THE HOLY SPIRIT GRACE, HELPS TO BE OPEN
TO HIM
 The Holy Spirit work is often hidden and goes unnoticed
 Those instance are called Inspirations
 They are from the Holy Spirit.
 Thus the Holy Spirit moving in you
 He is telling you what to do
 He is trying to tell you to do good
 He give you Intuition
 And very often We can recognize Him by the feeling inside of Peace
and Rest.
 If you feel on inspiration in you to do something and you feel a
restful stillness (inside you) & peace,
 You can be sure, that the Holy Spirit is moving you, to perform the
action

141. Seek The Holy Spirit & His Inspiration In Our Lives
 The goal of our life, then, is to be open to the Holy Spirit
movement, His influence and His Grace
 It is precisely, what we receive in the sacrament of
Confirmation:
“We receive a special presence of the Holy Spirit in our
souls.”
 And not only that but we receive a special grace:
“to be open and respond to him.”
 This is how the Holy Spirit has an open link, and contact
with the Christian that received the sacrament of
Confirmation.

142. Rite or Celebration of the
Sacrament Of Confirmation

143. RITE OF CONFIRMATION
 RITE is a special word, to refer to Solemn Catholic
Ceremonies and occasions in our lives
 The 7 sacraments, each has their own special Rite
 There is a very special book that the Bishops uses
during the RITE,
 to tell them what words to use and what actions to perform, and
when
 And it is so special and so sacred, and holy that the
Bishop doesn't want to change anything or make anything
up.
 The Sacrament of Confirmation is so special that the
Bishop must celebrated the Rite,
 at least, he can make it for a reason, in this case, he can appoint
a priest to take his place.

144. CELEBRATION OF THE SACRAMENT
CONFIRMATION
 Usually the Confirmation sacrament takes place
during a Mass, after the Homily—when the priest or
Bishop comment on the Gospel
 The Bishop call all the people, who be confirm, to
the front of the Church,
before everyone and the entirely congregation,
and really before the entirely universal Church,
the Bishop asks the Christians, who will be
confirm, TO RENEW their BAPTISMAL
PROMISES,
 This is beautiful and symbolic, specially with
what we know about the Sacrament of Initiation:
 The Baptismal Consecration is Renewed and
Strengthen through the Sacrament of Confirmation
 And how truly fitting it is, to have a Renewal of
Baptismal Promises, right before the Sacrament of
Confirmation is confer.

145. CELEBRATION OF THE SACRAMENT
CONFIRMATION
 After the Bishop has determined that the person
to be confirm,.. are serious in their intentions to be
strong & courage Christian—who will bear witness
to the Faith,
 Then the Bishop, says a very special prayer, and
it’s very Powerful–with his hands extended outward.
 The Prayer begs God the Father to send down
the Holy Spirit upon the Christians to be confirm
 The Prayer also mention a certain list of gifts that
we will to receive.

146. CONFIRM IN THE GRACE
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
 After the prayer the Bishop takes a very special oil called
the CHRISM
 And anoint each candidate for confirmation on the
forehead,
 while he does this, he says the most powerful words in the
Rites
“Be Seal with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit”
 An these very words the Sacrament is completed and
effective.
 While performing the Actions and saying the words, {and
the very fact ,that the Bishop is the properly ordain to ministry the
sacraments}
the Christian is Now Confirm in the GRACE of the Holy Spirit

147. CHRISM OIL SYMBOLIZES THE HOLY SPIRIT
ACTION
 For being so very simple, the Rite is very
Symbolic:
 the use of CHRISM OIL symbolizes the
Holy Spirit action, and making the Christian
strong, when it comes to give witness of
Faith.
 The Holy Spirit come and dwell to the Soul
of The Confirm Christian
 Now in the way, very similar to that 1st
Pentecost, when the house was filled with
wind,
 and fire came to rest upon the apostles; they
were filled with the Holy Spirit
 And so are the Christians, too, receiving
the Sacrament of Confirmation

148. SELLO ESPIRITUAL INDELEBLE
 The Oil is sing of Strength, anointment, abundance,
and joy; also is use to Heal
 It’s sing of the Character or mark s el signo del
Sello received in Confirmation.
 Similar to Baptism, in Confirmation we receive the
Indelible Mark; our soul is seal
 You are mark and set apart as Witness of Christ
when the Bishop confirm you says:
“Be Seal with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit”
 In this moment The Holy Spirit imprint in your soul
the Indelible Mark or Character that bonds you more to
Christ & His Church, and gives you a special strength
to be His witness.
 Same like Baptism, Confirmation is a sacrament that
cannot be repeated
 Forever you would have the Spiritual Indelible Seal of
Baptismo & Confirmation in Christ.

149.  In Confirmation we are united to Christ
and His Church
 We are called to be Witness of Christ:
 …"by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the
baptized] are more perfectly bound to the
Church and are enriched with a special
strength of the Holy Spirit.
 Hence they are, as true witnesses of Christ,
more strictly obliged to spread and defend the
faith by word and deed." CCC1285
 At this time you’re strengthen with the Graces in
the Sacrament of Confirmation
 The Sacrifice of the Apostles and the first
Christians was possible by the Graces and
Strengths of the Holy Spirit.

150.  In Confirmation we receive the
just as the Apostles
received Him in Pentecost
 The Special Strength that we receive in
confirmation, is a Gift or Grace of the Holy
Spirit
 The Apostles had received the Baptism of
Juan Bautista,
 but they were not Confirm by the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit until Pentecost
 He filled them with strength and courage, so
that they lost the fear to become Witness of
Jesus in all the nations

151.  When we receive The Holy Spirit we
are strength
 and can see & understand with more
clarity
 Remember that our Nature was
hurt:
 so our flesh was subject to the
passions, and
 our intellect or reason was subject to
error,
 Our will weaken
 but the Holy Spirit comes and gives
us His Help and His Grace

152.  After Baptism, God know that is
not easy for us to be His Witness
 therefore, He strengthen us with the
Holy Spirit in the Confirmation,
 and HE gives us His Grace once
more
 You are called to make Jesus
present in the world
 Sometimes you just need to share his
teachings
 Other times you have to defend and see for
the needy and poor
 Or make decisions between right or
wrong.

153.  We have to think very careful about
what the Society dictates as “right and
Just”,
 and “What is truly Just” for God
 Woe unto them that call evil good,
and good evil;
 that put darkness for light, and light
for darkness;
 that put bitter for sweet, and sweet
for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
 How Jesus was treated, wasn’t a just
action, But Jesus did the Correct, in front
of God’s eyes.

154.  The Grace in Confirmation helps us to love
Jesus, the Church, and always to Choose God
in every decision we take.
 In Baptism you become part or member of
Jesus Body, God’s Divine life comes to dwell
in you.
 The CONFIRMATION gives us extra Grace
& strength, no only to become part of the
Body of Christ, but more over
 To become his Hands, His feet, His heart, and
His Eyes in the world
 Extra Grace to love others as God does, and to
be Witness of Jesus for them.
 Remember the Catechism said “in words and
deeds” CCC1285
 The Holy Spirit: Wisdom, Intellience,
Knowledge.

155. INTERIORIZE MY CONFIRMATION
 The Confirmation is a called to
experience God in my life
 It perfects and strength our soul; it
reinforces, fortifies what happen in
Baptism
 You are Confirmed
 anointed
 Strengthen
 And send with a Mission to the World
 We can interiorize and make our own
the mind of Jesus.

156.  Remember the Sacrament of Confirmation
consecrates us and set us apart for witness in the
world.
 The Confirmed Christian acts officially for God and
the Church, and with the Power and Strength of the
Holy Spirit.
 The more you think of your Confirmation and used
the power and GRACE you have received, the closer
you will grow to Christ,
 and indeed you will reach great Holiness, by the
Power of the Holy Spirit.
 The Sacramento of Confirmation give us Grace and
strength to defend our Faith
 This is the Sacrament of Christian Maturity.
 The Sacrament of Strength and boldness enable us
to take the message of the Gospel to the world, (a
AGAPE Message) that is our Mission!

158.  This Sacrament is the Summit of our
Faith
 The Holy Sacrament, The Holy Eucharist,
Holy Communion: EUCHARIST
 It is the real and truly presence of Jesus:
Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity
 It is the Holy Sacrament that pours Grace
over Grace, through the Power of the
Holy Spirit.
 It Fulfills the promise of Jesus:
“…And surely I am with you always, to
the very end of the age” (Matt. 28, 20)


159. THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT:
“THE EUCHARIST”
 Eucharist the Source & Summit of our Faith.
 The True presence of Jesus: Body, Blood,
Soul and Divinity!
+ The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Sacraments.
+ The source of Grace and the Summit of all
other Sacraments.
 God, the Father, in his plan, united with
Christ and the Holy Spirit, give us Grace, or
His Divine Life through the Blessed
Sacrament.
 Of the 7 Sacraments, and the Eucharist is
the most important of them, because it is
actually Jesus Himself.

160. Jesus: I am the living bread that came down from
heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This
bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world...”
T hen the Jews began to argue:
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you
eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his
blood, you have no life in you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has
eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in
me, and I in them.
Just as the living Father sent me and I live because
of the Father, so will live because of me the one who
feeds on me. (John 6: 25 50-59)
The Holy Sacrament bonds us closer to Christ Himself.

161. GRACE: SUPERNATURAL LIFE OF
GOD IN OUR SOUL
 By eating this bread, which He called my flesh, we
will live for ever. (no spiritual death, nor eternal death,
but resurrection)
 The Blessed Sacrament united us with Jesus
Himself.
 By eating the body of Jesus in the “Blessed
Sacrament, we share more & more Christ Divine Life
& we become more like Him.
 Here he comes to save us from our sin, and share
with us His Divine Life.
 Jesus instituted this Sacrament and said to his
disciples “Do this in memory of Me”
 The Priest in Mass is carrying on the
commandment that Jesus told his disciple and
continue to command throughout time.

162. GOD’S SUPERNATURAL LIFE
 Don’t forget Grace is the Supernatural life of God in our soul. It is
his Divine Life!
 When Grace is in your Soul, Jesus not only feels right at home,
but He adds Grace upon Grace.
 It strengthen you and help you to grow in Holiness. Your soul
needs nourishment and energy to grow in Spiritual life.

163.  The life of Holiness and virtue come from Him,
that’s why is important to receive the Eucharist to
grow strong
 After the Holy Communion, The Holy Trinity is
united with you in a very Special Way.
1) The Holy Eucharist helps to keep your soul happy &
healthy.
2) His Grace help you to Grow in Holiness because you
are strengthen.
3) Also cleans your soul, wiping away any venial sins.
4) And preserve you from committing moral sins, which
bring Death of the Soul.
5) Another Benefit is that you grow in love for your
neighbor.
6) Receiving Eucharist builds up the light of your soul, and
makes you Spiritually healthy.

165. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIFT
 The Church teaches us that the most
great & beautiful gift of all gifts that we
have received from God is:
“The Gift of His Own Son” who stay with
us always in the Church, by the Power of
The Holy Spirit in the Eucharist.
 The Eucharist is “the Sacrament of
Sacraments”: it's the summit or pick of our
Faith.
 The Holy Communion is truly & real
presence of Jesus: Body, Blood, Soul and
Divinity.

166. LA EUCARISTIA ES JESUS MISMO
 Remember A sacrament is a ensible sign
instituted by Christ, Give us Grace by the Power
of the Holy Spirit, and is entrusted to the Church.
 The undertanding of SACRAMENT; helps us
to understant the Eucharist (The Sacrament of
the Sacrements)
 God in His plan helps us to be united with
Him. He gives us His Grace, or His Divine life
through the Sacrament
 There are 7 Sacraments & all are important,
but the EUCHARIST is the most important
because is Jesus Himself in the Eucharist
 The Eucharist is no a sign or symbol, is “Jesus
Himself, body, blood, soul and Divinity” after the
Consecration.
 This is the Gran Mystery we going to talk

167. THE EUCHARIST JESUS HIMSELF
 A Sensible Or Visible Sign,
means something that we can see,
touch, feel, taste, ear, etc.
 What is a sensible sign of the
Eucharist?
 A visible sign of the Holy
Sacrament: looks like Bread, taste
like Bread
 But the key is in the
CONSACRATION!
 It isn't just bread any more, but
rather is “JESUS” truly presence

168. TRANSUBSTANTIATION
 In the Last Supper Jesus says this is
my Body; for this reason the priest acts
in Persona Christi (in the person of
Christ)
 The Priest says over the bread: “This is
my Body….”
 And over the Wine, the priest says
something similar: “This is my blood…”
 This are the Words of Consecration in the
Mass”
 The Priest say: This is my body over the
bread and the bread turns into the Body of
Christ
 He says: This is my Blood over the wine
and the Wine turns into The Blood of
Christ.

169. Cannot be rationally demonstrated, but it can be see the effects in the
person who sincerely & consciously receives it

170.  Every time we go to Mass we are witness a Miracle; this miracle
is called TRANSUBSTANTIATIÓN
 TRANS means Transformation
 SUSTANTIATION means Substance
 This means: Transformation of the Substance
 Therefore, in Mass we have: Bread & Wine that looks and taste and it
feels as bread and wine
 But after CONSACRATION, is Jesus Himself Body, Blood, Soul &
Divinity.
 Even though the sensible or visible sign looks and taste and
feels as Bread & Wine.
 There for the Substance of Bread and Wine is transformed in
Body & Blood of Christ.

171. At this point we have learned that
 the Eucharist has a visible sign
Bread & Wine
 But with the words of the Priest:
“This is my Body..and this is my
Flesh,..”
 Or Words of Consecration,
the bread and wine are
transformed into Jesus Body,
Blood, Soul and Divinity.

172.  Jesus teaches his disciples about the Eucharist the
night before His death (Luke 22:19-20)
“And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and
gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for
you; do this in remembrance of me.”
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup,
saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood,
which is poured out for you”
 The Food strength our bodies, however, THE
EUCHARIST stregthen or Will and Soul
 By Eating the Bread of Christ, we share in God’s
Divine Life more and more, so we become like Him
(Holy or Saints) by the power of the Holy Spirit
 Receiving the Eucharist with a Constrict and
Conscious heart we can reach Holiness or Sanctity, to
which we are called to.

173.  Passover was feast celebration of the Old
Covenant, where Israel were deliver from the
Slavery of Egypt
 But this time Jesus celebrate the Mystery of the
New Covenant where
 He Comes to Saves us or Delivers us from Sin
 And He Comes to Share His Divine Life with us, to
give us Grace.
 Jesus commanded His Disciples: “do this in
remembrance of me.”
 And since He ask for it, so we still to do it,
 Therefore the Priest in Mass are exercising the
commandment that Jesus asked to the disciples
 And He continues prolonging it through all the times
by the Power of the Holy Spirit.

174. For I received from the Lord what I also passed
on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was
betrayed, took bread, and when he had given
thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my
body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of
me.”
In the same way, after supper he took the cup,
saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my
blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in
remembrance of me.
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the
cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be
guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the
Lord.
Everyone ought to examine themselves before
they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. (1
Cor. 11:23-28)

175.  According to the warnings of Paul to the first
Christians, when we receive the Holy Eucharist
inappropriately (not deserving effort, attention,
or respect) our soul instead of Receiving Grace, it
becomes weaker and weaker.
 For those who eat and drink without
discerning the body of Christ eat and drink
“judgment” on themselves.
 That is why many among you are weak and sick,
and a number of you have fallen asleep.

 But if we were more discerning with regard to
ourselves, we would not come under such
judgment.
(1 Cor. 11, 29-31).

176.  When you eat you become strong & your body is fill
with energy , so you may still enjoying and
participating of your daily life! Then you may use your
energy to think, study, work, etc
a) But after you eat, eventually you body needs more
food to get more energy.
b) As you body needs to take energy from fruit & other
foods, the same happens with the Soul
c) The Soul is nourished with THE HOLY
COMMUNION
 THE EUCHARIST makes better things for your soul.
 In the Holy Eucharist, Jesus is united to you in a very
special and particular form.
 Exactly like you body, your Soul needs food & energy
to grow in a spiritual: “in a Life of Holiness & Virtue”
 For this reason we recieve frecuently the Holy Eucharist
because it is very important to Spiritually strong.

177. 1. First of all, It increases our union
with Jesus, and all His Body: the
Church.
2. Also it help s to maintain the soul
healthy and joyful, peaceful.
3. Grow in Holiness; become stronger;
cleans your soul of venial sins
4. The Eucharist also preserves you
from committing Capital sins, which
destroy the soul
5. Other Benefit: Grow in Patient and
Love to your neighbor.
6. When you receives the Holy
Communion , this builds light in your
soul , which makes you spiritually
strong and Healthy.

178. 1. When we receive with great reverence &
devotion, the Holy Communion,
it helps us to do great things out of love for God
and others
 The 1st Christians received the Eucharist with
great reverence and very frequently
 By the power of the Holy Spirit, they received
strength, wisdom, illumination, leadership abilities,
etc.
 Indeed they were able to taught to everyone who
didn’t know about Jesus and His love for them.

179. 1. Only the Great Devotion & reception del of the
Eucharist can help us to do great things with our
lives,
2. It can help you to be Who God intended you to Be
 Similar to the Apostles, it is not by our own strength,
that we can
 Defend the Truth and the Faith of the Church.
 And love others in the same way God loves them.
 Only when we are fortify by the Power of the Holy
Spirit in Eucharist: Jesus Himself!!

180. NAMES OF THE EUCHARIST
 Others names of The Sacrament of the
Eucharist:
 The most Sacred Sacrament
 Sacraments of Sacraments
 Fountain of Grace and Summit of our
Faith
 Jesus Celebrated his 1st Eucharist
with His disciples at Holy Thursday in the
Last Supper

181.  Since the Beginning of the Creation God chose us,
to be Holy, to be Saints without stain or faults
 God loved us first, even long before we could love
Him, and even before we had born
 The Sacraments can only be understood in the Light of
the TRUTH: “God loves us & wants everyone of us
to reach Sanctity”
 God loves us first, and The Sacraments are our
Answer to that Love
 All and each of us is called to Sanctity, to reach
Holiness!!

182.  Each and everyone of the &
sacraments give us strength and power
to reach Sanctity (GRACE)
 We don’t need to do radical things or
extraordinary
 All we need to reach God’s Grace is to
live the Sacraments consciously (not as
an simple act of routine)
 But living a Sacramental Life: living
each moment in Grace of the 7
Sacraments.
 This means consecrate ourselves in
special form to be active, and visible
Christians, in the world today.

183.  Since the beginning, God’s Plan was t
o share His Divinity with us, for all the
eternity.
 Dying on the cross, Jesus recovered all
that was lost, and with the cooperation of
the Holy Spirit, makes possible the Plan of
God.
 The Friendship with God and Man is
restored by Jesus;
 and now it is possible to participate in His
Divine Life
 After the Fall of Adam and Eve, God gave us
a form (sacraments), so that we can restore His
friendship, “His GRACE” (share his Divine
Life).

185. THE 14 PRESENTS OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT
 The 14 presents (GRACE) are called
virtues & gifts.
 VIRTUE is a very especial power we receive
from God.
 A virtue is a Firm Depositor that we
receive from God
 to do,
 to say
 or think something good & holy
 The tricky part about the virtue, it is a lot like
a present,
 You have to open it, and have to use it, in
order to have the power that the virtue can
takes.

186. 14 GIFTS OR PRESENTS OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT
1) Wisdom
2) Understanding
3) Counsel
4) Knowledge
5) Fortitude
6) Piety
7) Fear of the Lord
8) Prudence
9) Justice
10) Temperance
11) Fortitude
12) Faith
13) Hope
14) Charity

187. How the Holy Spirit works in
& through the Believers

188. 14 PRESENTS (GRACES)
TO BEAR GOOD FRUITS
 Once we have received Graces (gifts
of the Holy Spirit)
1) God himself comes to dwell in our soul,
2) and He makes it possible, for us to
became holy.
3) And bear good fruits
In him the whole building is joined together
and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.
And in him you too are being built together to
become a dwelling in which God lives by his
Spirit. (Ephesians 2: 8-10)

189. 9 FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
 With God’s Grace in our Soul, we may bear
9 (or more) fruits of the Holy Spirit:
1) Love
2) Joy
3) Peace
4) Patient
5) Kindness
6) Goodness
7) Faithfulness
8) Gentleness
9) Self-Control

190.  Once we have receive the Graces (Gifts of the
Holy Spirit) in the Sacraments,
 Now, We, “the Christians” are equipped with
tools
 To bear good fruits
 To do good deeds and
 To do little acts of loves.
 But we have to recognized that all good deeds
that we do, come from GOD himself,
 because He is the Source of all Graces and
goodness.
For it is by GRACE you have been saved,
through faith—and this is not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by
works, so that no one can boast.
For we are God’s handiwork, created in
Christ Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians
2: 21-22)

192. Gentleness
Love
Joy
Peace
Kindness
Self-Control
Faithfulness Goodness
Patient
GOD’S GRACE IN
THE SOUL
FRUITS: ACTS
OF LOVE

193. The Eucharist
Nourishes & Strength
Pours Grace over
Grace
By the Power of the
Holy Spirit
In the Sacraments:
We receive the Gifts of
the Holy Spirit.
Graces are pour in our souls
By the Power of the Holy Spirit
Our actions and good
deeds are Fruits of the Holy
Spirit,
Results of God’s Grace

194.  Jesus said: “No good tree
bears bad fruit, nor does a
bad tree bear good fruit.
 Each tree is recognized by
its own fruit. People do not
pick figs from thorn bushes,
or grapes from briers.
 A good man brings good
things out of the good stored
up in his heart, and an evil
man brings evil things out of
the evil stored up in his
heart.
 For the mouth speaks what
the heart is full of. (Luke
6:43-45)

195. CATHOLIC DOCTRINE
 It teaches that God has imparted Divine Grace upon
humanity, and uses the sacraments to facilitate the reception
of his grace.
 In the Catholic Church a state of grace is granted by God
from Baptism firstly, instead of plainly by faith,
Grace is granted from the Sacrament of Reconciliation
after Sacrament of Baptism, if a mortal sin is committed.
 A mortal sin makes the state of Grace lost even if faith is
still present.
 The sacrament of the Holy Eucharist pours Grace over
Grace,
 It nourish our soul, cleans us from venial sins, and protects
our soul from mortal sin.
 Jesus come to dwell into our souls to give us Eternal life.
 So we can share God’s grace with others
 Sharing in God’s love
 Growing in Loving & Patient
 Living in harmony
 Strengthen our will
 Avoiding doing evil.

196. GRACE: Supernatural Divine Power
 Divine Grace
 It has been defined as
the divine influence which operates in
humans
 to regenerate and sanctify,
 to inspire virtuous actions
 and to impart strength to endure trial
 and resist temptation
 Helps to keep soul happy & healthy
 And growing in holiness because
strengthen.
 Helps to grow in love for the neighbor.
 It is an individual virtue, and
excellence of Divine Origin

197. With God’s Grace, We Can Be Holy
for the Sake Of Others & the Glory Of God