Catholics believe that Jesus Christ instituted seven sacred signs, or sacraments, and gave them to His Church as a means of community worship of God, to be used to effect divine grace in our souls. Each sacrament has a special meaning and a special work to perform. Baptism, the rite of initiating a person into the Church and incorporating him into the Mystical Body of Christ, cleanses his soul of all sin, original and actual, and causes him to be born anew as a child of God. Confirmation jells and strengthens the life of the Spirit which was first given him in Baptism. The special grace of the Holy Spirit is imparted by the anointing with sacred chrism and the laying on of hands to enable the recipient to profess his Faith courageously and to achieve victory over temptation. The Holy Eucharist, greatest of the Sacraments, feeds and nourishes him with the Body and Blood of the risen Christ, really present under the forms of bread and wine. Reconciliation absolves the recipient from all sins into which he has fallen after Baptism, and thus renews the life of grace in those who have lost it. Anointing of the Sick applies God's loving mercy to the seriously ill and the elderly, and helps them in the spiritual and physical crisis brought on by their condition. Holy Orders gives to the ministers of God the grace and power to perform their sacred duties. And Matrimony unites the married couple in a holy bond of unity, and confers on them the graces necessary to their state.