Published : 2015-05-29

The Sacraments of Christian Initiation as an Existential Breakthrough in the Human Life

Andrzej Jastrzębski



Abstract

In the Christian life the baptism is a possible breakthrough because it introduces the human person in a radically new reality. Although the gifts of God are irrevocable, the human person is invited to cooperate with God’s grace in becoming holy. The life of Christians today it is not always a visible testimony of the grace of baptism and obligations arising from it. The human person, if based solely on his or hers own merits and pursuing only own ideas, many times betrays the grace of baptism. This is precisely the existential situation of the human person of today. In this article, we aim to analyze the existential situation of modernity and to present a vision of a radical transformation, which can be experienced, when the human person receives fully the spiritual gifts through the sacraments of Christian initiation.

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human person, existential emptiness, baptism, sacraments, deification



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Roczniki Teologiczne · ISSN 2353-7272 | eISSN 2543-5973 · DOI: 10.18290/rt
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