Sakramenti

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: Kristības, Apstiprinājums, the Euharistija, Grēksūdze, Laulība, Orders, and the Slimnieku svaidīšana.

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, for example, 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 Jāņa evaņģēlijs, 3:5, and the Apustuļu darbi, 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 Džons 3:5; 9:7; Apustuļu darbi, 8:37; Paul’s Letter to Titus 3:5; or Peter’s First Letter 3:20 – 21); as well as oil (see the Marka evaņģēlijs 6:13, or the Jēkaba ​​vēstule 5:14); clay (see Džons 9:6); garments (Atzīmēt 5:25 or Lūks 8:43); and even handkerchiefs (see the Apustuļu darbi 19:11-12).

God’s grace is transmitted through other sensible things, arī, such as Mary’s voice and Peter’s shadow (see the Lūkas evaņģēlijs 1:41, 44, and the Apustuļu darbi 5:15, respectively).

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