Sacraments

Sacraments

A Sacrament is an outward sign, instituted by Christ, to give grace.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says:

“Christ now acts through the sacraments he instituted to communicate his grace. The sacraments are perceptible signs (words and actions) accessible to our human nature. By the action of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit they make present efficaciously the grace that they signify.” (1084)

“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.” (1127)

"What is a Sacrament?" by Melissa Knoblett-Aman

 

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