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From the Catechism:
1210: Christ instituted the sacraments of the new law. There are seven: Baptism, Confirmation (or Chrismation), the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. The seven sacraments touch all the stages and all the moments of Christian life: they give birth (Baptism) and increase (Confirmation), healing (Anointing of the Sick, Penance) and mission (Holy Orders, Matrimony) to the Christian’s life of faith. There is thus a certain resemblance between the stages of natural life and the stages of the spiritual life.
1211: . . .the sacraments form an organic whole in which each particular sacrament has its own vital place. In this organic whole, the Eucharist occupies a unique place as the “Sacrament of sacraments’: “ all other sacraments are ordered to it as their end.”
1212: The sacraments of Christian initiation - Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist - lay the foundations of every Christian life. “The sharing in the divine nature given to men through the grace of Christ bears a certain likeness to the origin, development and nourishing of natural life. The faithful are born anew by Baptism, strengthened by the sacrament of Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist the food of eternal life. By means of these sacraments of Christian initiation, they thus receive in increasing measure the treasures of the divine life and advance toward the perfection of charity.
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