The Sacraments in the Christian Life Leen continuing the survey of the

continuing the survey of the fertilizing effects of the martyrs on the early Church

and responses ought to be given on the basis of rational investigation and faithful adherence to God

measured study of the assumptions and arguments of religious thought from the nine­teenth and twentieth centuries—concepts and claims still active in the twenty-first century’s project of secularization

whose effects have been felt and borne fruit in every century since its original appearance

The Sacraments in the Christian Life Leen continuing the survey of theBy M. M. Philipon, O. P. 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