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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: 洗禮, 確認, 這 聖餐, 告白, 婚姻, Orders, 和 病人傅油.

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, 例如, 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 (看 約翰福音, 3:5, 和 使徒行傳, 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 (再次, 看 約翰 3:5; 9:7; 使徒行傳, 8:37; Paul’s Letter to Titus 3:5; or Peter’s First Letter 3:20 – 21); as well as oil (看到 馬可福音 6:13, or the 詹姆斯的信 5:14); clay (看 約翰 9:6); garments (標記 5:25 或者 盧克 8:43); and even handkerchiefs (看到 使徒行傳 19:11-12).

God’s grace is transmitted through other sensible things, 也, such as Mary’s voice and Peter’s shadow (看到 路加福音 1:41, 44, 和 使徒行傳 5:15, respectively).

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