Café Catholica take 3

Tag Team on the "Sacraments of Service" - better known as the Sacraments at the Service of Communion and the Mission of the faithful (CCC 1211).

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1534 Two other sacraments, Holy Orders and Matrimony, are directed towards the salvation of others; if they contribute as well to personal salvation, it is through service to others that they do so. They confer a particular mission in the Church and serve to build up the People of God.

1535 Through these sacraments those already consecrated by Baptism and Confirmation1 for the common priesthood of all the faithful can receive particular consecrations. Those who receive the sacrament of Holy Orders are consecrated in Christ's name "to feed the Church by the word and grace of God."2 On their part, "Christian spouses are fortified and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and dignity of their state by a special sacrament."3

1 Cf. LG 10.
2 LG 11 § 2.
3 GS 48 § 2.

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