The sacraments in the Christian life

"Holiness is imitation of Christ to the point of identification with Christ. Instituted by Christ himself and dispensed by the Church over the centuries, the sacramental order is the ordinary means by which God communicates to the faithful the grace to live, love, suffer, and die in his Son. M. M. Philipon, O.P., treats the seven sacraments in turn and explains their place and power in the Christian life. Baptism supplies the Church with its memb...