Sacraments: Vocab Words Flashcards
Sacrament
An efficacious and visible sign of God’s grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed.
Symbol
An object or action that points us to another reality. It leads us to look beyond our senses to consider a deeper mystery.
Ritual
The established form of the words and actions for a ceremony that is repeated often. The actions often have a symbolic meaning.
Sanctifying Grace
“Set apart of declared holy”
Actual Grace
“Existing in fact, typically contrasted” something that’s given and not there.
a sign demonstrative
“is a sign demonstrative of the present invisible sacred realities”
moral sign obligating
is a moral sign obligating even now in the present to the future actions in the life of him who receives the sanctification and renders worship
a sign commemorative
is a sign commemorative of Christ’s saving action, especially of his Passion and death
a sign prophetic
is a sign . . . prophetic of the heavenly glory and of the worship in the future Jerusalem
Sacrament of Baptism
the first Sacrament of Initiation; through the pouring of water, or immersion into water, and the words of Baptism, Original Sin, and any personal sins committed…
Ablutions
Ceremonial acts of washing parts of the body
Original Sin
the loss of original holiness and justice in human nature, handed down from the first sin of Adam and Eve, our first parents.
