The Sacraments

The Christian Community is anchored in the spiritual world by the seven sacraments in a renewed form. Like an open door allowing the wind to blow into a house, the sacraments make it possible for the spirit of Christ to cross the threshold separating heaven and earth, illuminating and blessing the lives of human beings.

Baptism

Sanctifies human incarnation, the incomprehensible step from a spiritual-soul existence into the physical-spatial. But this earthly world is not merely a valley of tears. It has become the scene of the Resurrection. The earth shook on Easter morning when death was overcome in the human body. This also gives Baptism its special character as leading properly into earthly existence.

Confirmation

Takes place at the age of fourteen as a rite of passage, bringing Christ’s light and strength to human beings as they take the step from childhood to youth and begin to seek their own path of life.

Sacrament of Consultation

Sacrament of Consultation implies the desire to seek a more conscious connection to Christ’s presence working in one’s life. It brings the blessing of knowing “He walks with me,” and it prepares us for communion. What is new about this sacrament is that we seek it not to be absolved of our sins, but for our journey of life to be witnesses in its deepest striving and searching. It supports the individual’s efforts to take responsibility for his or her life. (by request and confidential)

The Consecration of the Human Being

As a renewal of the archetypal form of early Christian worship, the Mass (or Eucharist), The Consecration of the Human Being is at the center of our sacramental life.  Human beings receive their true higher self in an innermost union with the Risen One and thereby experience the dignity and consecration of being human.

The Last Anointing

Helps the soul to prepare how to cross the threshold between the world of earth and heaven with strength, trust and in blessings. This sacrament so stands in the light of the Resurrection. It not only helps us to die rightly, but at the same time it presages a final overcoming of death, which will have become a fact at the end of time.

Sacrament of Ordination

The sacraments are performed by the priest through the power conferred by the Sacrament of Ordination. In The Christian Community both men and women can become priests.

Sacrament of marriage

Blesses the resolve of a man and woman to share community of life, supported by two chosen witnesses and the Christ community. In the unfolding of our human becoming, human beings emerge from all the divisions and one-sidednesses of their nature into a harmony of the different forces, thus integrating their full humanity. Then the spiritual is permeated by warmth of soul and the soul is permeated and clarified by the spirit’s light. This gaining of humanity’s perfection, which is the effect of the resurrection impulse, is foretold in the sacrament of marriage. The Holy Spirit heals all discord and leads to the harmony of forces.