The life of Our Lady Queen of Poland Parish revolves around the celebration of the sacraments. The Second Vatican Council describes the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist as the “source and summit of the Christian Life.” (Lumen Gentium 11). The other sacraments are oriented toward the Sacrament of the Eucharist. “For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.” (Presbyterorum ordinis 5). Each of the sacraments also gives a special grace if we receive them with the right dispositions. Therefore, the people of Our Lady Queen of Poland are encouraged to frequently receive the Sacrament of Confession in order that they might be well disposed to receive the other sacraments in a state of grace. There are seven sacraments:
At Our Lady Queen of Poland Church, we encourage our parish families to present their newborn infants for the Sacrament of Baptism soon after birth, because this sacrament is the foundation of the Christian life
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Confirmation is the Sacrament in which baptized persons receive a special grace which strengthens them for the profession of the Christian faith.
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The people of Our Lady Queen of Poland Parish are spiritually fed with the Holy Eucharist each time the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered.
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All sin is an offense against God and a rejection of his perfect love and justice.
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The Anointing of the Sick, is the Sacrament by which, through the prayers of a priest and the anointing with olive oil (blessed by the Bishop), a person who is in danger of death from sickness is given health of the soul and sometimes also of the body
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Weddings at Our Lady Queen of Poland Parish are a beautiful and joyous celebration of the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
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The priest “taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins” (Heb. 5,1).
Read MoreTraditionally, the Church speaks about the Sacraments of the Living and the Sacraments of the Dead. Baptism and Penance are called sacraments of the dead because their chief purpose is to give the supernatural life of sanctifying grace to souls spiritually dead through sin. Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony are called sacraments of the living because their chief purpose is to give more grace to souls already spiritually alive through sanctifying grace. He who knowingly receives a sacrament of the living in mortal sin commits a mortal sin of sacrilege, because he treats a sacred thing with grave irreverence. (I Corinthians 11:27) www.cantius.org