Introduction to Sacraments part 4

1. • SACRED SIGN
• INSTITUTED BY CHRIST
• ENTRUSTED TO THE CHURCH
• WHICH ALWAYS GIVES GRACE
SACRAMENT:

2. GRACE
GIFT
•Supernatural
•Free
•Enables us to receive gifts from God
•Makes our good works meritorious
MAKES US
•Adopted children of God
•Partakers of the Divine Nature
•Participants in Eternal Life

3. GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT
•Justifies – forgiveness of sin
•Sanctifies – makes holy

4. SANCTFYING GRACE
ENDURING QUALITY OF THE PERSON
•Sanctity
•Beauty
•Friendship with Christ
•Adopted Son/Daughter of the Father
•Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
CAN BE LOST

5. SACRAMENTAL GRACES
THE GRACE GIVEN IN EACH SACRAMENT
Given ex opere operato
Received ex opere operantis

6. WHAT YOU SEE
IS
WHAT YOU GET

7. BAPTISM
•Washes away original sin
•Washes away any personal sin
•Remits all temporal punishments
•Regeneration (new birth)
•Infuses grace, hope, charity
•Immerses into Christ
•Immerses into Eternal Life
•Imparts a character

8. CONFIRMATION
•Imparts the gifts of the Holy Spirit
•Brings the graces of Baptism to fulfillment
•Commissions to act in the name of the
Church
•Commissions us a public witnesses for Christ
•Imparts a Character

9. EUCHARIST
•Communion with the person of Jesus Christ
•Communion with the glorified flesh of Christ
•Communion with the Sacrifice of Christ
•Communion with the Church, the Body of
Christ
•Communion with each member of the Body
of Christ, triumphant, militant, suffering

10. MATRIMONY
•Raises the natural relationship of marriage to
a Sacrament
•Bonds a man and woman to each other as
husband and wife
•Strengthens husband and wife to fulfill the
vows of marriage

11. HOLY ORDERS
• Imparts the diaconate/priesthood of Christ
• Imparts the authority proper to each order
• Imparts the authority to act in the person of Christ
• Imparts the authority to preside over public worship
• Imparts the authority to preach publicly in the name
of the Church
• Imparts the authority to govern the Christian people
entrusted to their pastoral care
• Imparts a character
• Strengthens the minister to fulfill the duties and
obligations of his Sacred Ministry

12. PENANCE
•Reconciles the penitent to God
•Reconciles the pentient to the Church
•Remits for the penitent the eternal
punishments due to sin
•Forgives all sin committed after Baptism
•Strengthens the penitent to do penance
•Strengthens the penitent to avoid sin in the
future

13. ANOINTING OF THE SICK
•Heals the spiritual illness of sin
•Heals the soul of any wounds caused by sins
of the past
•Consecrates the body of the sick
•Strengthens the mind of the sick
•Prepares the body for its resurrection

14. SACRAMENTAL
CHARACTER

15. •PERSONAL
•ONTOLOGICAL
•SPIRITUAL
•PERMANENT
•ETERNAL
PARTICIPATION
IN THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST

16. BAPTISM - To actively participate in the Sacramental Life
especially in the Eucharistic Sacrifice
CONFIRMATION - To fruitfully participate in the
Sacramental Life and to take on liturgical ministries
ORDERS - To administrate the Sacramental Life and to
preside at the Liturgy, especially (for the priestly
character) the Eucharist

17. CHARACTER-LIKE SACRAMENTS
COMMUNION - * IN TERMS OF SPECIES
MARRIAGE
ANOINTING OF SICK

18. THE SACRED LITURGY
THE CONTEXT FOR
THE CELEBRATION
OF THE SACRAMENTS

19. λειτουργία
“leitourgia”
public work
public service
public worship

20. Make all things according to the
pattern shown you on the mountain
(Exodus 25:40)
The pattern for Christian Worship
Letter to the Hebrews
Book of Revelation

21. •THE LITURGY IS THE WORSHIP IN HEAVEN
•THE LITURGY ON EARTH IS A PARTICIPATION
IN THE LITURGY OF HEAVEN
•THE LITURGY IS THE WORSHIP OF
THE WHOLE BODY OF CHRIST
Head and Members
•THE LITURGY IS THE SOURCE OF SUMMIT OF
ALL THE CHURCH’S ACTIVITY

22. Liturgy
worship of the whole Church
(always public even if done privately)
Devotion
worship of the local Church
(always private even if done publically)

23. LITURGY OF THE WORD
•The dialogue between the Father and the Son
•The dialogue between Christ and his People
O God, whose ancient wonders
remain undimmed in splendor even in our day
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
•Christ offers his humanity at the right hand of the
Father
•The offering of the Body and Blood of Christ under
the appearance of bread and wine through the
ministry of priests
In humble prayer we ask you, almighty God: command that these gifts be borne
by the hands of your holy Angel to your altar on high in the sight of your divine
Majesty, so that all of us who through this participation at the altar receive the most holy
Body and Blood of your Son, may be filled with every grace and heavenly blessing.

24. LITURGY OF THE SACRAMENTS
•The Father gives the Spirit to the Son who sends the
Spirit to renew the face of the earth
•The Church calls upon the Father to send the Spirit
through the Son
O God, who by invisible power accomplish a wondrous effect
through sacramental signs
LITURGY OF HOURS
•The angels and saints offer continual praise to the
Trinity in eternity
•The Church on earth offers continual praise to the
Trinity in time
we give you thanks for bringing us safely to this evening hour.
May this lifting up of our hands in prayer be a sacrifice pleasing in your sight.