Sakramentuak

As the name implies, the Sacraments are sacred rites instituted in the Church by Jesus. Properly speaking, there are seven Sacraments in the Catholic faith: Bataioa, Berrespena, du Eukaristia, Konfesioa, Ezkontza, Orders, eta Gaixoen gantzudura.

Through the Sacraments believers receive God’s grace through material things like water, bread, wine and oil.

The Sacraments may be understood as outward signs that convey the grace they signify. Water, adibidez, signifies cleanliness and life. By the grace of God, the waters of Baptism actually cleanse the soul of sin and fill it with divine life (ikusi Joanen Ebanjelioa, 3:5, eta Apostoluen Egintzak, 2:38). The Sacraments are patterned after the Incarnation, in which God, a spiritual being, took on human fleshand the invisible one became visible.

The idea of grace being transferred through material things is a Biblical concept.

In the New Testament alone, we see water used in this way (berriz, ikusi Joan 3:5; 9:7; Apostoluen Egintzak, 8:37; Paul’s Letter to Titus 3:5; or Peter’s Lehen Gutuna 3:20 – 21); as well as oil (see the Markosen Ebanjelioa 6:13, or the Santiagoren gutuna 5:14); clay (ikusi Joan 9:6); garments (Markatu 5:25 edo Luke 8:43); and even handkerchiefs (see the Apostoluen Egintzak 19:11-12).

God’s grace is transmitted through other sensible things, ere bai, such as Mary’s voice and Peter’s shadow (see the Lukasen Ebanjelioa 1:41, 44, eta Apostoluen Egintzak 5:15, respectively).

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