What Are the Seven Sacraments in the Catholic Church?
We are grateful to the catholic.com website for this succinct list of the Seven Holy Sacraments
Here is a complete list of the seven sacraments:
1. Baptism: the sacrament of regeneration, reception of the Holy Spirit, and incorporation into the Church. (Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation?)
2. Confirmation: the sacrament that strengthens and completes the grace received at baptism. (Confirmation in the Catholic Church)
3. Eucharist: the sacrament of offering anew the one sacrifice of Calvary, the New Covenant Passover, which includes reception of our Lord Jesus Christ in Holy Communion. The Church affirms the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist; body, blood, soul, and divinity. (What Is the Eucharist?)
4. Reconciliation (aka Confession and Penance): the sacrament by which sins committed after baptism are forgiven through contrition, confession, and absolution. (What the Early Church Believed: Confession)
5. Anointing of the Sick: a sacrament conferring strength, forgiveness of sins, and healing graces appropriate to serious illness and/or proximate preparation for death. (Anointing of the Sick)
6. Holy Orders: the sacrament of apostolic ministry, exercised in three degrees: the diaconate, the ministerial priesthood, and the episcopacy or office of bishop, in which the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders is lived out (CCC 1555-1561; 1594). (What the Early Church Believed: Bishop, Priest, and Deacon)
7. Matrimony: the covenantal sacrament uniting husband and wife as a sign of Christ’s union with the Church. (What the Early Church Believed: Marriage)