"The graces of the sacraments strengthen our human powers and make us holy. Fr. Cessario is a master guide to delving into the depths of their beauty and power. This book is a treasure trove for understanding the ineffable reality of the Catholic faith."-- Kathryn Jean Lopez , senior fellow and director of the Center for Religion, Culture, and Civil Society, National Review Institute; author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living "Deeply steeped in the Thomist tradition and drawing on a rich and many-faceted life as a priest, a teacher, and a preacher, Fr. Cessario has written a remarkable book that aims to encourage the faithful to embrace, both intellectually and spiritually, the sacraments as 'rhythms of salvation unto everlasting life.' A broad audience of lay faithful and clerics will appreciate and profit from the vivid and engaging way in which Fr. Cessario presents the Catholic tradition and its intellectual and spiritual underpinnings.

This book will undoubtedly deepen faith in and cultivate practice of the sacraments. For this accomplishment and service Fr. Cessario cannot be thanked enough."-- Jörgen Vijgen , Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican City" The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church will be valued for its comprehensive character. Beyond a treatment of each sacrament, there is robust and substantial treatment of the necessity, nature, number, and especially causality of the sacraments."-- Guy Mansini, OSB , Max Seckler Chair of Theology, Ave Maria University"In this book, noted Dominican theologian Romanus Cessario offers a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the order of sacramental grace as a whole as well as to each of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church--all of this from within the theological tradition that the doctor communis , St. Thomas Aquinas, has bequeathed to the Church.

At a time and age in which the 'immanent frame' of modern secularism has begun to impact the Catholic faith itself and its understanding of the sacraments, an uninhibited emphasis on the supernatural nature and causality of the seven sacraments is especially welcome. For the full recovery of a non-reductive understanding of the grace of the sacraments, this book is indispensable and welcome reading."-- Reinhard Hütter , Ordinary Professor of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology, The Catholic University of America; Ordinary Academician of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas; Appointed Member of the International Theological Commission 2021-26.