Sacraments The whole liturgical life of the Church revolves around the Eucharistic sacrifice and the sacraments (CCC1113). Christ instituted the sacraments of the new law There are seven: The seven sacraments touch all the stages and all the important moments of Christian life. They give birth and increase, healing & mission to the Christian’s life of faith. There is thus a certian resemblance between the stages of natural life and the stages of the spiritual life (CCC 1210)