Sacraments of Initiation for RCIA students

1. RITE OF
CHRISTIAN
INITIATION
FOR ADULTS
THE SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION

2. THE INITIAL PROCESS OF
BECOMING CATHOLIC
HOLY
BAPTISM CONFIRMATION
EUCHARIST

3. EVERY MAN IS BORN
• In order for man to be perfected three things
must occur:
1. Generation – or birth.
2. Growth
3. Nourishment – or food
• Collins, p. 120

4. Man is also perfected by:
1. His birth in baptism
2. His growth by confirmation
3. His nourishment by the Holy
Eucharist

5. SACRAMENT OF
BAPTISM
The exterior washing
which takes place
when the water is
poured in Baptism
represents that interior
cleansing which takes
away sin by virtue of the
Sacrament of Baptism
(Collins, p. 124)

6. SACRAMENT OF
CONFIRMATION
• The effect of Confirmation is that the Holy Spirit is
imparted to give strength, just as He was given to the
Apostles on the day of Pentecost.
• The Christian must boldly confess the name of Christ.
• The one who is confirmed is anointed on the
forehead wherein is the seat of fear; so that he will
not blush to confess either the name of Christ or
especially the cross of Christ, which to the Jews was a
scandal and to the pagans foolishness.
• For this reason he is signed with the sign of the cross.
• (Collins, p. 124)

7. SACRAMENT OF THE
HOLY EUCHARIST
First, in the very consecration of The second effect is the union of man
the Sacrament, since in virtue of with Christ, as He himself says:
the above words bread is
changed into the Body of "He that eateth My Flesh, and
Christ, and wine into His Blood;
so that Christ is entirely drinketh My Blood, abideth in Me,
contained under the and I in him."
appearances of bread which And since man is incorporated with
remain without a subject; and Christ and united to His members
Christ is entirely contained
under the appearances of through grace, it follows that through
wine. this Sacra- nt grace is increased in
those who receive it worthily
Under each part of the con-
secrated Host and of the
consecrated wine, Christ is
totally present even after
the separation is made
(Collins, p. 125).

8. WORKS CITED
• Catholic Church. Catechism of the Catholic Church..
• 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice V aticana;
Washington, DC: United States Catholic
Conference, 1997
• Joseph B. Collins, Ph.D. S.S., D.D. “The Catechetical
• Instruction of St. Thomas Aquinas” NewYork
• N.Y. Joseph Wagner, Inc. 1939