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What must a Catholic do to be saved according to their faith?
According to Catholic faith, a person must believe in Jesus Christ, follow the teachings of the Church, receive the sacraments, and live a life of faith, love, and good works in order to be saved.
What type of sacrament is Holy Commuion?
Eucharist (Communion) is one of the four sacraments of initiation along with Baptism, Reconciliation and Confirmation; it is called a Sacrament of the living as you must be in a state of grace to worthily receive it. Sacraments such as Baptism and Penance are "Sacraments of the dead" because you are dead in your sins when you receive them, and they restore you to a state of life.
Do you have to be baptized to do the rest of the sacraments?
Yes, you must be baptized to receive the other sacraments. The three sacraments of initiation are Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion. Baptism is the sacrament that makes a person officially a Catholic. To receive any of the other sacraments one must be a Catholic. In other words, baptized.
What sacrament gives us access to other sacraments?
Baptism must be received before any of the other sacraments are open to you. It is not a mere formality - in order to receive Christian sacraments one must be a Christian. Baptism leaves a permanent character upon the soul, identifying it before God as one who has received the New Covenant and thus the graces of the New Covenant are made directly available to the soul through the Church of which the soul is now a member.
What do you have to do to get into the Catholic church?
Must accept God and do his will. Catholics in order to be good ones should follow the tennants of the Faith. That is, the basic teachings: belief in Jesus Christ's life, death and resurrection; believe in the Holy Eurcharist, the sacraments, etc.
Can a Confirmation proxy be a non-Catholic?
A non catholic person needs to receive Baptism first in the Roman Catholic Church in order to receive confirmation. Actually for adult catecumens three sacraments (Baptism , Confirmation and Holy Communion) are incurred on the same day i.e. Easter Sunday.
What is the difference between sacraments of the dead and sacraments of the living?
Roman Catholic AnswerSacraments of the dead are those sacraments which are given to people who are spiritually dead in sin, baptism and penance are both sacraments of the dead. Sacraments of the living mean that one must be alive in Christ, i.e. in a state of grace to even receive the sacrament: Confirmation, the Holy Eucharist, Marriage, Holy Orders are all sacraments of the living. Unction or anointing is a mixed sacrament containing elements of both. To receive a sacrament of the living while in a state of serious sin is, itself, a very grievous sin of sacrilege.
Why must you go to confirmation?
Because confirmation is the second of the three sacraments of initiation into the Catholic Church, its graces complete baptism and give the confirmed person the graces that they need to live out their baptismal vows.
Can a confirmed Episcopalian convert to the Catholic Church without having to be confirmed again?
Yes. While the catholic church recognizes the Baptism as valid it does not recognize the Confirmation as valid, since it requires administration by a priest having received the valid sacrament of holy orders. While the Catholic Church and Episcopal Church are close in tradition and both have seven sacraments, only Baptism is considered as valid.
In christian faith must you be baptised before you can be confirmed?
Baptism makes you a child of God, capable of receiving grace from God. Under normal circumstances it is impossible to receive any of the other sacraments without first being baptised. Through error or some other mishap, one might, perhaps, be included in a confirmation ceremony, but this would be invalid, in other words-though a Bishop goes through the motions of confirmed a person, if that person were not baptised, nothing would happen-he would not be confirmed.
What sacrament must you receive before receiving any other?
Baptism is the sacrament of initiation in which one becomes a child of God. It is impossible to receive any other sacraments without first receiving Baptism. Sacraments are real, physical acts but they are also symbols of the grace which is received from God. Trying to receive another sacrament without Baptism would only be going through the motions.
How do you catch the Holy Spirit?
You can't. Jesus decides who He wants to give the Holy Spirit to.Roman Catholic AnswerYou "catch" the Holy Spirit through worthily reception of the Sacraments. This is the way in which Jesus set it up for us to receive grace. Specifically, the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation are the Holy Spirit. But we receive the Holy Spirit in all the Sacraments. To do this we must receive them worthily (in a state of grace), aside from the sacraments of the dead, like Baptism and Penance which are specifically designed to give us grace when we are dead in our sins, in order to bring us out of that state.
