We know that the sacrament of Baptism is an initiation into being a member of the Church, beginning to live with God’s own life in this life and to continue into eternal life as one of God’s friends. To help us to continue in this most precious relationship, there is also the Sacrament of Confirmation  by which the Holy Spirit strengthens our persevering as a member of God’s family. Moreover there is the Sacrament of the Eucharist which nourishes the individual with Christ’s Body and Blood for his or her transformation in Christ.

  Although Baptism is the initial and essential sacrament, Confirmation and the Eucharist  follow for strengthening and nourishing  the new life that is meant  to continue for eternity for each one who steps into the next life as a friend of God. Thus, God has remedied for us what was lost originally by the rejection of God’s friendship by our first parents. Those three sacraments, then are related in their functions pertaining to aperson beginning to love as part of God’s family. (1275)

  The Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation can be received only once because they establish an unique relationship with God that cannot be duplicated or erased. The same is true of the Sacrament of Holy Orders as to be seen later.

   A summary statement is given in the new Catechism that is quite comprehensive. “The fruit of Baptism, or baptismal grace, is a rich reality that includes forgiveness of original sin and all personal sins, birth into the new life by which man becomes an adoptive son of the Father, a member of Christ and a temple of the Holy Spirit. By this very fact, the person baptised is incorporated into the Church, the Body of Christ, and made a sharer in the priesthood of Christ. (1279)