The ______ are the actions of God through which He shows us the Love He has for us, His sons and daughters. All of the ______ have been created (instituted) by Him, and that’s why it is he who performs them through different means.

sacraments

When we’re born, we all have something called original sin. It was the one first committed by Adam and Eve. When ______, we are washed of that sin and all those committed before receiving it. We’re made sons and daughters of God and we officially become a part of the Church. ______ is the first sacrament where you become united with Christ and the Church – no other sacrament can be received without it. This is the first step in your relationship with God and Christ.

Baptism

This is the sacrament that follows Baptism as part of the initiation process with God and the Church, where the candidate receives the gift of the Holy Spirit and continues their journey with Christ.

Confirmation

_______ means thanksgiving. This is when Christ’s body and blood are offered and then received by the parishioner in the form of bread and wine. Christ during the Last Supper broke bread, ate it, gave it to his disciples and told them to eat it.

Eucharist

During the sacrament of _____-, one confesses their sins to God through a priest who forgives their sins by God’s mercy, and orders them to live a more faithful life through absolution.

Penance

________ is essential to cultivating and fruitfully living out the word of God. We’re not perfect people, even if we try to be. It feels so much better to confess some of those things you have done wrong and receive forgiveness. This helps us have a stronger relationship with God.

Confession

This sacrament is only bestowed upon those who are seriously ill or suffering, which then unites the inflicted with Christ’s passion. _______ the forehand and hands of the person with chrism while a priest administers a special blessing is how this sacrament is received. This special blessing is one way to make the ill feel strengthened and more connected with God in both mind and body.

Anointing of the sick

_______ isn’t just a union between man and woman . The devotion husband and wife have to each other, and to Christ, mirrors Christ’s love and service to the church. Through ______, a couple promises to help build each other up in faith, serve each other and the church and be faithful to each other until death.

Marriage

this sacrament is for those who choose to become a priest, bishop or deacon. Through ordination, they are able to perform sacred duties and serve the church community. This is not a sacrament that everyone partakes in, rather it’s one that people feel called to by God.

Holy Orders

Help us to live as children of God, makes it easier for us to believe in God and to act accordingly and lessens our inclinations to evil.

Baptism

Gives us strength to profess our faith even under difficulties and persecutions and to give good example to others

Confirmation

Nourishes our love of God and one another and helps to overcome our natural self-love or selfishness.

Eucharist

Help us cure the deeper inclinations to evil that actual sins have put in our soul and makes it easier for us to keep out of sin in the future

Penance

Help us to accept sickness as a purifying cross sent by God and even to accept death willingly from his hands whenever he chooses to send it

Anointing of the sick

Helps a priest to fulfill his sacred duties and to be a good priest.

Holy Orders

Helps married people to bear which each other’s defects and to fulfill duties of their state, chiefly bringing children into the world and rearing them for God.

Matrimony

In ______, the formal division took place establishing the Archdiocese of Lingayen – Dagupan (now comprising only Central Pangasinan) and two new dioceses: Diocese of Alaminos (western Pangasinan) and the Diocese of Urdaneta (Eastern Pangasinan). Under this arrangement, parishes and Catholic schools within their jurisdiction shall belong to the respective diocese or archdiocese. In Lingayen – Dagupan, there were originally 12 Catholic schools including the Minor Seminary in Binmaley, which increases to sixteen (16) in the years that followed.

1983