The author explains the historical development of the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist and their meaning for today. "The Sacraments of Christian Initiation celebrate and effect a plunge into the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Christ," Father Richstatter writes, "a plunge that is so deep and transforming that we 'put on the Lord Jesus Christ.'"...

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