Sacraments

Sacraments

1. Initiation

   • Baptism
     • Symbols
       • Water
         • Clean
       • Oil
         • Used to anoint kings and queens
       • White
         • Clean
       • Candle
         • Christ is the light of this world, us too
     • Concepts
       • To cleanse/to immerse in Greek
       • Sign of joining Chrisitan family
       • Cleansing, renewal, death, and rebirth
   • Confirmation
     • Symbols
       • Laying on of Hands
       • Oil
     • Concepts
       • Completion of Baptism
       • Deciding your faith by choice, not just by your parent's choice if you were baptised as a baby
       • Can only be done at age of discretion
         • Old enough to make your own decisions
       • Effects
         • Full outpouring of Holy Spirit
         • Binds us closer to the Church and Christ
         • Increases gifts of Holy Spirit
           • Strength to spread faith by word and deed
   • Communion/Eucharist
     • Symbols
       • Bread
       • Wine
     • Concepts
       • When we take part in Eucharist, we:
         • Celebrate God's abundant love and faithfulness
         • Offer all that we are and everything we do for God
         • Commit ourselves to care for and be at peace with one another
           • Sign of Peace, Handshaking
       • Bread and Wine
         • Transubstantiation
           • Turning the bread + wine into Jesus' body
         • Jesus multiplying bread and turning water into wine took on the meaning of superabundance of Christ
         • Sharing bread and wine is a sign that we share everything that we have with one another
   • Like a three legged stool, need all three legs/sacraments to sit on the stool

2. Service

   • Matrimony
     • Concepts
       • Calling a man and woman to holiness
       • God is a source of marriage
       • Covenant, promise/commitment/ become one flesh and establish best place to raise kids
         • One flesh, wife takes husband's name
         • Create children
       • Two primary purposes
         • Procreate
         • Unity
       • Catholic Church does not permit divorce
         • Annulment
           • As if marriage never happened because there was something
     • Symbols
       • Ring
         • Has no End
         • Fourth finger because we used to believe that the fourth finger went straight to the heart
       • Candle
         • God's presence in marriage
   • Holy Orders
     • Symbols
       • Oil
       • Laying on of hands
     • Concepts
       • Three tiers
         • Bishop
           • Everything
           • Primary faith teacher
         • Priest
           • Everything but ordination and confirmation
           • Day to day parish work
         • Deacon
           • Baptism
           • Marriage
           • Parish, hospital, prison
         • Other
           • Nuns
           • Brothers
       • Purpose of Priests
         • Care for spiritual needs of poeple of God
           • Does sacraments
             • Acts as Christ for Sacraments
         • Cares for the Church
       • Continuation of priesthood Jesus established
       • Promises
         • Celibacy

3. Healing

   • Reconciliation
     • Concept
       • Forgiveness of sins
       • Four steps
         • Contrition
           • Confession
             • Ablution
               • Satisfaction/Penance
                 • Something to make repair for harms our sins have caused
               • Priest forgives us in the name of Jesus
             • Admitting faults
           • Feeling sorry for sins
     • Symbols
   • Anointing of the Sick
     • Concept
       • Serious illness, elderly, major injury, dying
       • For priests and bishops primarily
       • Can't anoint people who are already dead
       • Five things
         • Unite person with Jesus' suffering
         • Forgiveness of sins
         • Restoration of health
         • Help pass into eternal life
         • Give strength, peace, courage to endure sufferings of old age
     • Symbols
       • Oil

4. Repeatable