What is a sacrament? Confirmation Matrimony Baptism: Every non-baptized person can receive Confirmation is the sacrament that empowers Marriage is a commitment of a man and a us with the strength of the Holy Spirit in our woman, one to the other, in love in a common Baptism, the gateway to all of the sacraments. At the heart of the Christian faith is this In addition to the program for adults, there is dual conviction that we are made for God, lives and makes us co-responsible for the life project that includes fidelity, mutual mission of the Church at the heart of the support, procreation and education of an initiation process offered to parents of but we cannot reach God using our own world. The grace of God, given to us through children. In the Sacrament of Matrimony, infants and to school age children. To receive resources – God has to come to us. The the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, accompany Christ is present to unite the couple, to Baptism, communicate with the parish pastor. first actor in the sacraments is God and support us in our mission as Christians. communicate and to reveal in a particular Himself who comes to us in Christ, his way his faithful and complete love for his Reconciliation and Eucharist: Son Incarnate. Through the sacraments, Eucharist Church. Every baptized person can receive God comes to touch and renew us. The The Eucharist unites us to the gesture of Jesus Reconciliation and Eucharist. In addition to sacraments are the eruption of God into who gave his life on the cross through love Holy Orders the program for adults, we have a the heart of our world, occasions when, for his Father and for us. This sacrament is Three ministries are of vital importance for preparatory process for children in Grades 3 and 4. Registration for the parent-child through the human language of symbolic the source and summit of Christian life. We the life of the Church and require ordination: meetings is done in September. Please rituals, God speaks to reveal himself, to encounter Jesus personally in this sacrament the episcopate (bishop), the presbyterate (priest) each time we receive communion at mass. communicate with the parish. act. And when God intervenes, something and the diaconate (deacon). Chosen in the First Communion is of great importance. changes. The sacraments change us - they community, ordained ministers act in the Confirmation: name of Christ who is always Pastor of his change our way of being. Reconciliation Every baptized person can receive Church. Successor of the Apostles, the Confirmation. In addition to the program for Learning to discern what is good from what is bishop, is the pastor responsible for a diocese. The seven sacraments are: bad is essential and is achieved by adults, there is a preparatory process for Ordained by the bishop, priests are his young people in Grades 7 and 8. Registration referencing the law of love proposed by Jesus primary collaborators for proclaiming the The sacraments of initiation into Christ. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is done in September. Please communicate Gospel, celebrating the sacraments, especially with the parish. Christian life: renews in us the original forgiveness of the Eucharist and guiding the community.

 Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist Baptism … we reject sin so to be reconciled Distinct from the priest, the deacon is with God and with one another. A particular Anointing of the Sick: ordained for the service of the Word, the Every baptized person afflicted with serious The sacraments of healing: emphasis is given to First Reconciliation. liturgy and charity. illness can receive the Sacrament of  Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick Anointing of the Sick Anointing of the Sick on demand and at any Who can receive a sacrament In the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, time. Please communicate with the pastor of The sacraments of commitment for life: we encounter Jesus ‘physician and saviour’ and when? the parish.  Matrimony and Holy Orders who heals the sick who turn toward him. We Sacramental initiation can happen at any Matrimony: are called to hope for healing and to give time, be it in childhood, at school age with A man and a woman may marry who are free ourselves up to Jesus. Should illness lead us the accompaniment of parents or in to contract marriage, who meet the An overview of the seven to death, the Sacrament of Anointing helps us adulthood. In the Diocese of Timmins, requirements of the Catholic Church and who to understand that we will not fall into the sacraments: preparatory steps adapted to each of the seven freely express their consent. Marriage darkness and cold but into the warmth of the sacraments are offered. Adults requesting the preparation is obligatory and may be done in ‘maternal’ arms of God. This tender Baptism sacraments of initiation to Christian life three ways: a weekend session, courses encounter with Jesus makes us stronger to Baptism is the first sacrament that we receive, undertake a specific journey: (Rite of through correspondence or online. First of all overcome the ordeal of passing from health to the sacrament of new birth that makes us Christian Initiation of Adults – RCIA). there must be communication with the parish illness or even from life to death or better daughters and sons of God. Through Baptism, Adults wishing to register for this process pastor at least eight months before the we commit ourselves to follow Christ in still, from life to another life. communicate with the pastor of the planned wedding date. leading a new life inspired by the Gospel. parish. Holy Orders: parish and asks for the support of the o Participates in the preparation SACRAMENTAL Only a baptized person of the masculine Catholic school; meetings and Sunday masses; gender can receive the Sacrament of Holy o Receives the registration forms and o Accomplishes his responsibilities INITIATION Orders. Celibacy is required for bishops and celebrates the commitment of the within the sacramental process (prayer priests however men already married, may young people in the parish; corner, reading in his book / volunteer access the permanent diaconate. To discern a o Offers parents opportunities for activities). call to ordained ministry, please communicate with the pastor of the parish or the growth in faith and enables them to Coordinator of Vocations to the journey with their child; priesthood/diaconate at the Diocesan Centre. o Explores opportunities for The Catholic School: involvement that will allow young o Creates, day by day, a climate of life people to take their place within that draws inspiration from the Gospel parish life; and collaborates with parents and the How to prepare? o Prepares the liturgical celebration parish; and supports the active participation o Assumes its role of religious teaching of the Catholic school. and of support for the growth of the PREPARATORY STEPS

children of God; o Offers a specific teaching to the Baptism approach of a sacramental process that The parents: Confirmation o Highlight their unique role as the first delves deeper into the sacraments; educators of their child in the faith; o Informs parents of the journey Eucharist o Create an environment of family life proposed to their children at the Reconciliation that allows the child to make the meeting for parents at the school; Partners in Faith Education o Participates in the liturgical Anointing of the Sick connection between his faith and his concrete experience; celebration of the sacraments in order Matrimony Preparation in partnership for to encourage and support students in o Register their child and participate Holy Orders school aged young people in preparation meetings and masses; their faith journey. (Reconciliation, Eucharist, Confirmation) o Make a public commitment with their child in front of the parish To support a meaningful process for the community; It is said that it takes a village to raise a child, coordination of the different o Accompany their child in his journey child. To the extent that each of the four environments that awaken and support his (prayer corner/reading). partners fulfills its role, will we be able to faith life is necessary. The family, as well journey together and offer an appropriate as the child, the parish and the Catholic and meaningful sacramental formation to school each have a specific role. The child: our children. In Jesus we form a single Diocese of Timmins

o Signs the form of commitment for the and great family. 65 Jubilee Ave. East,Timmins (Ontario) P4N 5W4 The Parish: sacramental process in the parish; Telephone: 705-267-6224 / www.dioctims.ca o Invites and informs children and o Makes a public commitment with their parents of the process of his parents in front of the parish “Together, we want to journey with Jesus to know him His Excellency Serge Poitras, Bishop better and to encounter him so that we form an even preparation for the sacraments in the community; Diocese of Timmins, December 8, 2016 more visible, dynamic and meaningful Church.”