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The Sacraments

The Sacraments. Encounters with Christ. Sacraments. Symbols & Rituals Sign and Mystery Signs of Christ Signs of Redemption The Church at Prayer. Symbols & Rituals. Shared language that conveys a shared understanding. Symbol

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The Sacraments

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  1. The Sacraments Encounters with Christ

  2. Sacraments • Symbols & Rituals • Sign and Mystery • Signs of Christ • Signs of Redemption • The Church at Prayer

  3. Symbols & Rituals • Shared language that conveys a shared understanding. • Symbol • An object of action that points us to another reality. It leads us to look beyond our senses to consider a deeper mystery. • Ritual • The established form of the words and actions for a ceremony that is repeated often. The actions often have a symbolic meaning

  4. Common Symbols …..

  5. Humans are “Sensate” • Bring flowers, cards, box of candy • Participate in ceremonies • Birthdays • Graduations • Honor assemblies • Thanksgiving rituals • Re-enactments • New Years Eve rituals

  6. Sign & Mystery Points to a deeper reality A way in which we enter into the greatest mystery, the mystery of Christ The paschal mystery is the core of every sacrament Mystery

  7. Sacrament • An efficacious and visible sign of God’s grace, instituted by Jesus and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions.

  8. Initiation: Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation Ministry Matrimony Holy Orders Healing Reconciliation Anointing of The sick

  9. Signs of Christ • Visible sign of God’s grace • Jesus (The Original Sacrament) • Most basic way in which we encounter God and is the ultimate sign of God’s love. • Church • Commissioned by Christ to carry on His work and his presence in the world • Seven sacraments • Signify and make present the work of Christ in our lives, through grace • Sacramental economy • Jesus is accessible through the Church, through the celebration of the sacraments

  10. Sacramental Economy

  11. Grace • What is grace? • The free gift of God’s life • Types of grace: • Sanctifying • The supernatural gift of God that is infused in our souls by the Holy Spirit, that continues the work of making us holy. It heals our wounded nature and restores us to friendship with God. • Actual • God’s interventions and support in our everyday lives which are important for conversion and continued growth in holiness

  12. Freedom • What is freedom? • The ability to choose and act upon that which is what will fulfill your destiny. • When we respond to grace it makes us free to attain our ultimate destiny- to be with God, now and eternally

  13. Signs of Redemption • Redeem: to buy back or to trade for • Redemption: Christ buys back our freedom from sin and death by paying with his own life. • Reaches all people at all times • Resurrection transcends time • Christ is present all the time • We encounter him in the liturgy

  14. The Praying Church • The Sacrifice of the Mass • Ritual prayer that has the Eucharist at its center • Tradition is taken from the form of prayer used by the Jewish people at the time of Jesus coupled with the command to “Do this in remembrance of me” given by Jesus at the last supper. • The Liturgy of the Hours • Church prayer that is prayed at certain hours of the day. It has its tradition in Jewish practice and then was continued by the first Jewish Christians • Communal and personal prayer • Praying outside of liturgy, either alone or with others • Our personal prayer prepares us for the Liturgy

  15. The Praying Church • Communal and personal prayer • Praying outside of liturgy, either alone or with others • Our personal prayer prepares us for the Liturgy • Some devotional prayers said in communion with others • Stations of the Cross • Rosary • Processions • Forms of prayer • Adoration and praise • Contrition • Thanksgiving • Supplication

  16. Expressions of Prayer • Vocal Prayer • Uses words, aloud or silently • Prayed alone or with others • Memorized, own words or spontaneous • Mental Prayer/ Meditation • Reflections using thoughts, imagination and emotions • Rosary, scripture, pictures • Contemplative Prayer • Silent, wordless prayer • Opening your mind to God

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