Intro Quiz Flashcards
He gives grace through
Material signs that effect what they signify
The seven sacraments are
Entrusted to and dispensed through the Church
In the superabundance of his mercy, God gives
Actual grace to everyone directly
Through the Church’s sacraments, he gives Christians
Sanctifying grace- a share of his own life
Our duty is to celebrate the sacraments the way God wants
With the dispositions he wants us to have
A sacrament is an
efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life of grace is dispensed to us through the work of the Holy Spirit. And Sacraments confer the grace they signify.
There are two kinds of grace
Sanctifying and actual
The Church is universal
Sacrament of Jesus Christ, and the banker of the sacramental economy
Redemption is mediated through
The seven sacraments
Christ acts through the
Sacraments
Sacraments are a way to deal with the
Mysteries through sacraments
What is a sign
That which stands or points toward something else
What is a symbol?
A visible sign of an invisible reality which embodies what it represents
Grace is. Gift that we can
Ignore or accept, given despite our errors, no authentic response but gratitude or awe
What is a ritual/rite?
Sets the atmosphere in which symbol manifests itself. Eliminating time and space and establishing sacred time and space
Mystery
Taken in the religious sense, beyond the sphere of the usual, the familiar, filling the mind with winder and astonishment
Church- the visible
Union of those who say publicly to the world.
What is the problem with the sacraments?
How to bridge the gap between the material and immaterial
True understanding of man and salvation comes from
Biblical history. Emphasis is person to person relationship
Revelation is expressed to us in
Words
Reductionism
Loss of a sense of mystery and participation due to emphasis on extreme forms of rationalism
Loss of Context
Loss of connection with our roots in Scripture, Tradition, Salvation, wrong notion on how they work
How do the sacraments work?
They activate the saving actions of God in Jesus
God wants to give us his
Grace
