Sacramenti 1RA0507

To introduce the Sacraments in general and the three Sacraments of initiation in particular.

1: Common elements to all the Sacraments. 2: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist: biblical data; history of the practices; magisterial teaching; systematic vision. 3. Praenotanda of the Rites.

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