FF3: Sacraments

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  • Jesus Christ - The primordial sacrament. The sacrament of God's love to men and man's response to God. The fullest expression of all the sacraments. The central and decisive event in the whole history of salvation.
  • Jesus Christ - The realization of God's plan of love, His purpose of grace, in spite of sin, to call men to perfect communion with Him. Became the sensible, visible, and public form of God's self-communication of love and grace. The source, primary agent, and goal of all sacramental activities.
  • Seven Ritual Sacraments - Arise from the saving ministry of Christ. Are continued in, by, and for the church. Form us in likeness to Christ in the Paschal Mystery.
  • Church - The basic or fundamental sacrament. Both a sacramental sign and an instrument of intimate union with God, and of the unity of all mankind.
  • The Sacraments are instituted by Jesus Christ.
  • "The Sacraments are instituted by Jesus Christ." - Sacraments are "powers that come forth" from the Body of Christ, which is ever-living and life-giving. The sacraments are actions of the Holy Spirit at work in the Body of Christ, the Church. "The masterworks of God" in the new and everlasting covenant.
  • The Sacraments are for the Church.
  • "The Sacraments are for the Church." - The sacraments are "of the Church" in the double sense that they are "by her” and “for her."
  • "By the Church" - She is the sacrament of Christ’s action at work in her through the mission of the Holy Spirit.
  • "For the Church" - “The sacraments make the Church,” since they manifest and communicate to men, above all in the Eucharist, the mystery of communion with the God who is love, One in three persons.
  • The Sacraments are for the sanctification of all.
  • "The Sacraments are for the sanctification of all." - The purpose of the sacraments is to sanctify men, to build up the Body of Christ and, finally, to give worship to God. Because they are signs they also instruct. They not only presuppose faith, but by words and objects they also nourish, strengthen, and express it. That is why they are called "sacraments of faith."
  • The Sacraments are necessary for salvation.
  • "The Sacraments are necessary for salvation." - Celebrated worthily in faith, the sacraments confer the grace that they signify. They are efficacious because in them Christ himself is at work; it is he who baptizes, he who acts in his sacraments in order to communicate the grace that each sacrament signifies.
  • Ex opere operato - “By the very fact of the action’s being performed.” By virtue of the saving work of Christ, accomplished once for all. “The sacrament is not wrought by the righteousness either the celebrant or the recipient, but by the power of God.”
  • Sacramental Grace - The grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each sacrament. The Spirit heals and transforms those who receive him by conforming them to the Son of God.
  • The Sacraments of Eternal Life - In the celebration of the Sacraments, we believe the church already received the guarantee of her inheritance and even now shares in everlasting life. The sacraments are celebrated in anticipation of eternal happiness. They unite us with the Holy Trinity.
  • The Paschal Mystery in the Church's Sacraments:
    1. The Sacraments are instituted by Jesus Christ.
    2. The Sacraments are for the Church.
    3. The Sacraments are for the sanctification of all.
    4. The Sacraments are necessary for salvation.
    5. The Sacraments of Eternal Life
  • 7 Ritual Sacraments - “Actions of Christ and of the Church which unite us to Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, and incorporate us into his Body, the Church.”
  • 7 Ritual Sacraments:
    1. Baptism
    2. Confirmation
    3. Eucharist
    4. Holy Orders
    5. Matrimony
    6. Penance
    7. Anointing of the Sick
  • Matter - Material and sensible action or gesture.
  • Form - The accompanying words that declare the special meaning of that external action or gesture.
  • Valid Matter - “The right stuff." Ex: The Eucharist must be made of wheat bread and grape wine, and Baptism must be in water.
  • Valid Form - The essential words cannot be changed. Ex: “This is my body… this is my blood,” and “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
  • Valid Intention - The intention to do what the Church does.
  • Sacraments of Initiation:
    1. Baptism
    2. Confirmation
    3. Eucharist
  • Sacraments of Healing:
    1. Reconciliation
    2. Anointing of the Sick
    3. Holy Orders
    4. Holy Matrimony
  • Baptism -
    • Recipients/Required State: Unbaptized pagan, convert to the Christian Faith, newborn infant.
    • Frequency: Once
    • Matter: The action with water (pouring of water or immersion).
    • Form: I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
    • Minister: Ordinary - Priest, Extraordinary - Everyone
  • Effects of Baptism:
    1. Forgiveness of original sin and all personal sins.
    2. Birth into the new life by which man becomes an adoptive son of the Father. 
    3. Becoming a part of Christ’s body.
    4. Becoming a temple of the Holy Spirit.
    5. Incorporation into the Church.
    6. Made a sharer in the priesthood of Christ.
  • Confirmation -
    • Recipients/Required State: Only those already baptized can and should receive this sacrament. To receive Confirmation efficaciously the candidate must be in the state of grace.
    • Frequency: Once
    • Matter: The anointing of the forehead with chrism. 
    • Form: Be scaled with the gift of the Holy Spirit. 
    • Minister: Ordinary - Bishop, Extraordinary - Priest
  • Effects of Confirmation:
    1. The effect of Confirmation is a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit like that of Pentecost.
    2. This outpouring impresses on the soul an indelible character and produces a growth in the grace of Baptism. 
    3. It roots the recipient more deeply in divine sonship, binds him more firmly to Christ and to the Church and reinvigorates the gifts of the Holy Spirit in his soul.
    4. It gives a special strength to witness to the Christian faith.
  • Holy Eucharist -
    • Completes Christian initiation.
    • The very sacrifice of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus which he instituted to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until his return in glory. 
    • Thus he entrusted to his Church this memorial of his death and resurrection.
    • The efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being.
  • Holy Eucharist -
    • The culmination of both God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.
    • A sign of unity, a bond of charity, a paschal banquet, in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.
    • The Holy Sacrifice.
    • Most Blessed Sacrament.
    • Holy Communion.
    • Holy Mass (Missa).
  • Confirmation -
    • The baptized are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. 
    • aka Chrismation (in the Eastern Churches: Anointing with holy myron or chrism) because the essential rite of the sacrament is anointing with chrism.
    • It confirms and strengthens baptismal grace.
  • Baptism -
    • The basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in Spirit, and the door which gives access to other Sacraments.
    • The sacrament of regeneration through water in the word.
    • aka “The washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.”
    • The essential rite consists in immersing the candidate in water or pouring water on his head, while pronouncing the invocation of the Most Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
    • Imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual sign, the character, which consecrates the baptized person for Christian world.
  • Holy Eucharist -
    • Recipients/Required State: All Catholics are encouraged to participate; Baptized believers in Communion with the Catholic Church, and devoid of Mortal Sin. 
    • Frequency: Minimum of once a year, as frequently as daily.
    • Matter: Bread and Wine
    • Form: “This my body which will be given up for you. Do this in memory of me. Take this, all of you, and drink from it...”
    • Minister: Validly ordained Priest (bishop) who acts in the person of Christ the head in the name of the church.
  • Effects of the Eucharist:
    1. Increases our union with Christ and with his Church.
    2. Nourishment of spiritual life.
    3. Medicine of immortality.
    4. Separation from sin, removal of venial sin.
    5. Spiritual strength.
    6. Union of the body into one.
    7. Strengthens us in charity.
  • Transubstantiation -
    • Change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of his blood. 
    • This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit.
    • The outward characteristics of bread and wine, that is the “eucharistic species,” remain unaltered.
  • Kintsugi - The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum (Taken from Google, not the PPT).
  • Mottainai - The feeling of regret when something is wasted.