Os Sacramentos

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: Bautismo, Confirmación, the Eucaristía, Confesión, Matrimonio, Orders, and the Unción dos enfermos.

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, por exemplo, 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 (see Evanxeo de Xoán, 3:5, and the Feitos dos Apóstolos, 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 (again, see Xoán 3:5; 9:7; Feitos dos Apóstolos, 8:37; Paul’s Carta a Tito 3:5; or Peter’s First Letter 3:20 – 21); as well as oil (see the Evanxeo de Marcos 6:13, or the Carta de Santiago 5:14); clay (see Xoán 9:6); garments (Marcos 5:25 or Lucas 8:43); and even handkerchiefs (see the Feitos dos Apóstolos 19:11-12).

God’s grace is transmitted through other sensible things, tamén, such as Mary’s voice and Peter’s shadow (see the Evanxeo de Lucas 1:41, 44, and the Feitos dos Apóstolos 5:15, respectively).

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