“Christ instituted the sacraments of the new law… The seven sacraments touch all stages and all the important moments of Christian life: they give birth and increase, healing and mission to the Christian’s life of faith. There is thus a certain resemblance between the stages of natural life and the stages of the spiritual life.

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 Catechism of the Catholic Church, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1994, pp. 311, 357, 383.