第二部分：教会的七件圣事
Section Two: The Seven Sacraments of the Church
1210基督设立了新律法的圣事。有七件：圣洗、坚振（或傅油礼）、圣餐、告解、病人傅油、圣秩和婚姻。这七件圣事触及基督徒生活的各个阶段和所有重要时刻：参圣托马斯阿奎那，《神学大全》III，65，1。它们赋予基督徒信仰生活以诞生、成长、治愈和使命。因此，自然生命的阶段与灵性生活的阶段之间存在一定的相似性。
1210Christ instituted the sacraments of the new law. There are seven: Baptism, Confirmation (or Chrismation), the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony. The seven sacraments touch all the stages and all the important moments of Christian life:Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III,65,1. they give birth and increase, healing and mission to the Christian’s life of faith. There is thus a certain resemblance between the stages of natural life and the stages of the spiritual life.
1211按照这个类比，第一章将阐述基督徒入门的三件圣事；第二章，治愈的圣事；第三章，为信徒共融和使命服务的圣事。这一排序虽非唯一可能，但确实让人看到圣事形成一个有机整体，其中每一个特定圣事都有其重要位置。在这个有机整体中，圣餐作为「圣事中的圣事」占据独特地位：「所有其他圣事都以它为终极目标。」圣托马斯阿奎那，《神学大全》III，65，3。
1211Following this analogy, the first chapter will expound the three sacraments of Christian initiation; the second, the sacraments of healing; and the third, the sacraments at the service of communion and the mission of the faithful. This order, while not the only one possible, does allow one to see that the sacraments form an organic whole in which each particular sacrament has its own vital place. In this organic whole, the Eucharist occupies a unique place as the “Sacrament of sacraments”: “all the other sacraments are ordered to it as to their end.”St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III,65,3.
第一章：基督徒入门圣事
Chapter One: The Sacraments of Christian Initiation
1212 基督徒入门圣事——圣洗、坚振和圣餐——奠定了每个基督徒生活的基础。「通过基督恩典赐予人的神性分享，与自然生命的起源、发展和滋养有某种相似之处。信徒藉圣洗重生，藉坚振圣事得到坚固，并在圣餐中领受永生的食粮。藉着这些基督徒入门圣事，他们因此越来越多地领受神性生命的宝藏，并朝着仁爱的完美迈进。」3 教宗保禄六世，宗座宪章，《神性的共融》：《宗座公报》63（1971）657；参《成人入门礼》引言 1-2。
1212 The sacraments of Christian initiation - Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist - lay the foundations of every Christian life. “The sharing in the divine nature given to men through the grace of Christ bears a certain likeness to the origin, development, and nourishing of natural life. The faithful are born anew by Baptism, strengthened by the sacrament of Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist the food of eternal life. By means of these sacraments of Christian initiation, they thus receive in increasing measure the treasures of the divine life and advance toward the perfection of charity.”3 Paul VI, apostolic constitution, Divinae consortium naturae: AAS 63 (1971) 657; cf. RCIA Introduction 1-2.