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Why administered by the Apostles in the name of Jesus
117
May be administered in three different ways
117
May be administered by one or three ablutions
118
Words of form, to be pronounced with the ablution
118
Head to be washed
118
Instituted by Christ our Lord, and when
118
Its power of sanctifying, when given to water
118
When the obligation of receiving baptism commenced
118
Ministers of
119
Order to be observed amongst
120
Why priests may baptize in presence of the bishop
120
Necessary to salvation
123
To be administered to infants
123
Infants baptized in the faith of their parents and of the Church
124
To be baptized as soon as possible
124
The manner of administering baptism to adults different from that of administering it to infants
124
When to be immediately conferred upon adults
125
Dispositions which should be brought to it by adults
126
Those who are to be baptized asked if they wish to be admitted to the sacrament
125, 135
When to be administered to the in sane and the lethargic
125, 126
To obtain its grace, faith necessary
126
Requires penitence as a condition
126
Remits and eradicates every sin
127
Concupiscence remains after, but does not constitute sin
127
Proper effect of baptism the remission of all sin
128
Remits sin, and the punishments due to sin
128
Remits not the punishment due to the civil laws
12
Restores not our nature to its original perfection, and why
129
Its fruits
12
Impresses a character
131
To repeat it a sacrilege
131
Opens heaven
132
The baptismal font, how and when consecrated
131
In baptism, names to be imposed
136
Its ceremonies
13J
Beatitude—see the eleventh and twelfth articles of the Creed
85, 92
Essential happiness, in what it consists
9(
Illustrations of
9G
Accessaries of
96
Benignity of God rescues us from evil in many ways
384
Benediction of God, the cause why our works prosper
359
Bishops alone confer holy orders
223
Their office
221
Blasphemy of God and of his saints a grievous crime
261
Blessings, temporal
357, 35S
So many helps to obtain spiritual blessings
357
Bread, signification of
359
Catechism, its necessity
15
Adapted to the comprehension of all classes
15
Character impressed, the effect of three of the sacraments
111
What it accomplishes in us
111
Charity, two precepts of
271
To our neighbour originates in the love of God
271
Its duties
283
Whom it embraces as its objects
284
Chastity belongs not only to virgins, but also to such as lead a life of celibacy, as well as to those who live in a married state
288
To be preserved with most vigilant care
288
Its preservatives
288, 290
Cautions in avoiding the occasions of its violation
291
Ceremonies, &c. of baptism reduced to three heads
133
Rites, &c. of the sacrament of confirmation
145
Of penance
192
Of extreme unction
209
Christ, his kingdom spiritual
35
Two natures of
36
Why called our Lord
36
Not to be called the Son of God by adoption, but by nature
39
Derived his origin according to the flesh from David
40
Why called a second Adam
41
Reads us a salutary lesson of humility in his birth
42
Expiated our crimes by his blood
84
Instituted all the sacraments
108
Is our brother
337
His resurrection severs not the ties of brotherhood subsisting between him and man
337
Should be imitated by submitting our will to the will of God
355
The mystery of his passion the greatest manifestation of God s power and goodness
364
