ED2618 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Grace In Christianity, Shared Experience, Anointing
Principals or Primary Religious Education
Lecture 7 – Week 7 – Sacraments
Sacraments
- We celebrate what we believe
God Mystery
- The Catholic imagination sees the goodness of God reflected in the:
o unfolding of human life and love,
o the grandeur and fragility of nature,
o the simplicities of bread, oil, wine and water,
o in word and gesture
o and most extraordinarily
o in the life of Jesus of Nazareth,
o the Word made flesh.
Jesus – Making God visible among his people
- Jesus Christ is the fundamental and primordial sacrament.
- In the flesh and blood of his human person, Jesus reveals God to us, brings us into with
the mystery of God.
- Jesus is our way to God.
- Jesus continues to guide us through the impenetrable jungle of life.
o Knox, 1999, Chapter 15
Church – Making Jesus visible among his people
- Jesus is visible in the Church, which provides us with the sacraments as occasions of
privileged encounter with him.
- It is him we hear, see with our own eyes, watch and touch with our hands
- in the sacramental life of the Church.
- It is his life we share when we participate in the sacraments of the Church.
Sacraments of the Church
- Thus the Church has discerned over the centuries that among liturgical celebrations
there are seven that are, in the strict sense of the term, sacraments instituted by the
Lord.
o CCC para. 1117
- A sense of being Church, a sense of belonging to a worshipping community and
celebrating with that community, is essential to a proper understanding of an entering
into the sacramental celebration.
o Knox, 1999, Chapter 15
Sacraments by the Church
- Sacraments are enacted in the church, by the church and for the church.
- The sacraments are "of the Church" in the double sense that they are "by her" and "for
her." They are "by the Church," for she is the sacrament of Christ's action at work in her
through the mission of the Holy Spirit.
o CCC para.1118
Sacraments for the Church
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Document Summary
Jesus making god visible among his people. Jesus christ is the fundamental and primordial sacrament. In the flesh and blood of his human person, jesus reveals god to us, brings us into with the mystery of god. Jesus continues to guide us through the impenetrable jungle of life: knox, 1999, chapter 15. Church making jesus visible among his people. Jesus is visible in the church, which provides us with the sacraments as occasions of privileged encounter with him. It is him we hear, see with our own eyes, watch and touch with our hands in the sacramental life of the church. It is his life we share when we participate in the sacraments of the church. Thus the church has discerned over the centuries that among liturgical celebrations there are seven that are, in the strict sense of the term, sacraments instituted by the.
