Sakramentai

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: Krikštas, Patvirtinimas, į Eucharistija, Išpažintis, Santuoka, Orders, and the Ligonių patepimas.

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, pavyzdžiui, 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 (matyti Jono evangelija, 3:5, and the Apaštalų darbai, 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, matyti Jonas 3:5; 9:7; Apaštalų darbai, 8:37; Paul’s Letter to Titus 3:5; or Peter’s First Letter 3:20 – 21); as well as oil (see the Morkaus evangelija 6:13, or the Jokūbo laiškas 5:14); clay (matyti Jonas 9:6); garments (ženklas 5:25 arba Lukas 8:43); and even handkerchiefs (see the Apaštalų darbai 19:11-12).

God’s grace is transmitted through other sensible things, taip pat, such as Mary’s voice and Peter’s shadow (see the Luko evangelija 1:41, 44, and the Apaštalų darbai 5:15, respectively).

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