What is the importance of the Seven Sacraments?

Answer 1

Firstly that it is ordained of God. Second, marriage is for the procreation of children to be brought up in righteousness. Third, the couple make a covenant with God which is binding if they remain faithful to that covenant. Forth, marriage is for time and all eternity and not just for this life only.

Answer 2

Catholic AnswerThe seven sacraments were instituted by Jesus Christ to give grace to men and to perfect them. They are the normal way in which men are saved according to God's own command.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

1113 The whole liturgical life of the Church revolves around the Eucharistic sacrifice and the sacraments. (Cf. Sacrosanctum concilium 6) There are seven sacraments in the church: Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. (Cf. Council of Lyons II (1274) Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum {1965} 860).

Answer 3

The seven Sacraments are the corner stone of the Catholic Church and represent all that we stand for as Catholics.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 19941113 The whole liturgical life of the Church revolves around the Eucharistic sacrifice and the sacraments. (Cf. Sacrosanctum concilium 6) There are seven sacraments in the church: Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. (Cf. Council of Lyons II (1274) Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum {1965} 860).

from Pocket Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Image Books c 1980, 1985 Sacrament. A sensible sign, instituted by Jesus Christ, by which invisible grace and inward sanctification are communicated to the soul. The essential elements of a sacrament of the New Law are institution by Christ the God-man during his visible stay on earth, and a sensibly perceptible rite that actually confers the supernatural grace it symbolizes. In a broad sense every external sign of internal divine blessing is a sacrament. And in this sense there were already sacraments in the Old Law, such as the practice of circumcision. But, as the Council of Trent defined, these ancient rites differed essentially from the sacraments of the New Law, they did not really contain the grace they signified, nor was the fullness of grace yet available through visible channels merited and established by the Savior.

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Answer 4

Roman Catholic AnswersThe seven sacraments are important as they are the seven ways in which God has established to effect our salvation and give us grace. God has established them and they always grant the grace they signify; however He is not limited to them. But, outside of a special miracle (which you must never expect) they are the normal ways in which God operates. This is His decision and not ours.