RLG100Y1 Lecture : 05:11:12 LECTURE #8
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Adoration: praising the lord especially in formal settings. Confession: formal confession (catholics) or personal (protestants) in which you admit to your faults. This has all three categories of prayer. A daring address to god as a father. An acknowledgement of god"s kingly ruling of the universe. Desire to confirm god"s will, live according to it. Request for basic necessities of life (e. g. 1 bread per person) A sacrament is a communal ritual act instituted by christ himself or the. Church, which communicate the presence and grace of god to the believers/participants or a rite in which is believed god"s saving grace is enacted. A sacrament employs specific words, gestures, elements (bread, wine, oil), certain habits (clothing) such as a nuns have. In a sacrament, there is a communion between god and humans. Sacrament means secretive in latin thus it"s a mystery how god works his grace, inexplicable.
