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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: بپتسما, تصديق, جي يوڪرسٽ, اقرار, شادي, Orders, ۽ جي بيمارن جي عيوض.

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, مثال طور, 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 (ڏسو يوحنا جي انجيل, 3:5, ۽ جي رسولن جا ڪم, 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 (ٻيهر, ڏسو جان 3:5; 9:7; رسولن جا ڪم, 8:37; پال جي ٽائيٽس ڏانهن خط 3:5; or Peter’s پهريون خط 3:20 – 21); as well as oil (ڏسو مارڪ جي انجيل 6:13, يا جي جيمس جو خط 5:14); مٽي (ڏسو جان 9:6); garments (نشان 5:25 يا لوڪ 8:43); and even handkerchiefs (ڏسو رسولن جا ڪم 19:11-12).

God’s grace is transmitted through other sensible things, پڻ, such as Mary’s voice and Peter’s shadow (ڏسو لوقا جي انجيل 1:41, 44, ۽ جي رسولن جا ڪم 5:15, ترتيب سان).

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