مقدسات

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: غسل تعمید, تائیدیه, را عشای ربانی, اعتراف, ازدواج, Orders, و مسح مریض.

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, مثلا, 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 (دیدن انجیل یوحنا, 3:5, و اعمال رسولان, 2:38). The Sacraments are patterned after the Incarnation, in which God, a spiritual being, took on human flesh–and 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 (از نو, دیدن جان 3:5; 9:7; اعمال رسولان, 8:37; Paul’s Letter to Titus 3:5; or Peter’s First Letter 3:20 – 21); as well as oil (را ببینید انجیل مرقس 6:13, یا نامه جیمز 5:14); clay (دیدن جان 9:6); garments (علامت 5:25 یا لوک 8:43); and even handkerchiefs (را ببینید اعمال رسولان 19:11-12).

God’s grace is transmitted through other sensible things, هم, such as Mary’s voice and Peter’s shadow (را ببینید انجیل لوقا 1:41, 44, و اعمال رسولان 5:15, به ترتیب).