a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
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The sacrament of Baptism is but once to be administered unto any person. 任何人都只能受洗一次。
Vacuumation is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. 种痘是相当于洗礼的医学上的圣礼。
Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. 耶稣在这爱的圣事之中等待著我们。
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