What are the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church? Why do we need them and how do we get them?

Hi friends, my name is Steph Salinas and I'm going to be sharing with you on the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church.

Now I wanted to start off with a story. I used to serve as a director of religious education at my parish for probably about eight years.

And my love for ministry actually started

through youth ministry and I thought I just wanted to talk to teens my whole life about

Jesus and how much he loves them but one thing I didn't realize was that my

journey was actually gonna be a lot more with the parents and the families and so in

my role as director of religious education I had the opportunity to serve the families. And so in my role as director of religious education, I had the

opportunity to serve the families and my catechists to best prepare a young person to receive

the sacraments of the Catholic Church. Now, this could have been an infant that was going to be

receiving baptism or any young person preparing to receive reconciliation, first

holy communion, or confirmation. And the preparation itself was great, the

formation was awesome, but there was nothing like the first time I got to witness

a sacraments mass. And here in our diocese of Phoenix we actually are part of the

restored order so So I was

witnessing a young person receiving confirmation and First Holy Communion at the same time.

That was different to me because as I was growing up, I didn't get to receive my confirmation

until I was in high school. So being able to witness a young person, a younger person,

receiving these sacraments was really

inspiring.

Now, I remember the first time I got to witness just a crowd of young people sitting

and kneeling in their pews and the bishop laying his hands over them, along with the

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