![CONFESSIONAL,PRIEST](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/web3-confessional-priest-emilio-labrador-cc-by-2-0.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Sacraments
Aleteia's collection of articles on the sacraments, the efficacious signs of Grace instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us.
![CONFESSIONAL,PRIEST](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/web3-confessional-priest-emilio-labrador-cc-by-2-0.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![Baptism ceremony](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/baptism-shutterstock_1764815780.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Philip Kosloski
How the Brown Scapular is a powerful reminder of baptism
![Couple embracing on dock, backs to camera](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/COUPLE-EMBRACE-ON-DOCK-BACK-TO-CAMERA.jpeg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![Anointing the sick](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Anointing-the-sick.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1200px%2C677px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
Bishop Robert Reed
Viaticum: Food for the journey
![Ukrainian child being baptized](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Baptism-in-Ukraine.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![Fr. Mike Schmitz "Confession is a Place of Victory"](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Fr-Mike-Schmitz-Confession-is-a-place-of-victory-video.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![White olive Tree seeds](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/White-Olive-tree-seeds.jpg?crop=0px%2C111px%2C1200px%2C678px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
![Mauricio-Romero-St-Jose-Isabel-Flores.jpeg](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Mauricio-Romero-St-Jose-Isabel-Flores.jpeg?crop=0px%2C637px%2C2629px%2C1485px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
Mauricio Romero
Did a saint come to hear my grandfather’s last confession?
![Lone Hispanic woman in church](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Lone-hispanic-woman-in-church.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1200px%2C677px&resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
Philip Kosloski
What is a holy hour?
![modlitwa różańcowa świadectwo](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/modlitwa-rozaniec-swiadectwo-relacje-shutterstock_230566906.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Philip Kosloski
What is a sacramental?
![UOMO, LETTO, OSPEDALE](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/shutterstock_1190997985.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![baptism baby dress Shutterstock](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/baptism-baby-dress-Shutterstock_24924214.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![dad-girl-book-renewed-received](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/M77A5550-1.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Theresa Civantos Barber
Renewed and Received: A First Communion and Reconciliation essential
![Pope-Francis-presides-over-a-Penitential-Celebration-opening-the-24-Hours-for-the-lord](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Pope-Francis-presides-over-a-Penitential-Celebration-opening-the-24-Hours-for-the-lord-Antoine-Mekary-ALETEIA-AM_4754.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Isabella H. de Carvalho
Hey priests: Empty confessionals, never! Increase the hotspots of mercy, says Pope
![baby at baptism with godparents](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/shutterstock_1963446559.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![two boys and a dad at ordination in Denver cathedral](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/AA-JB2_7199.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Zoe Romanowsky
The power of faith in 2 moving photos
![Padre no confessionário](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/shutterstock_2083855936.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Philip Kosloski
How the rite of confession will change on Ash Wednesday
![Fr. Mike Schmitz "How to make a good Confession"](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Fr.-Mike-Schmitz-How-to-make-a-good-confession.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![BAPTISM OF CHRIST](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/WEB3-BAPTISM-OF-JESUS-CHRIST-JOHN-THE-BAPTIST-Wiki.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
![POPE FRANCIS](https://staging.aleteia.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/web3-pope-francis-rite-of-baptism-in-sistine-chapel-afp-000_1nn458.jpg?w=620&h=348&crop=1)
Philip Kosloski