SACRAMENTS AS SIGNS OF GOD'S PRESENCE

• meaning smth tangible

• a person can get 6 sacraments max

• baptism, first communion, confirmation - to be received in that order

  • other sacraments can be received in no particular order

Tradition

• passing down of beliefs and customs from one generation to the next

Ritual

• series fo action performed according to a prescribed order

• why may order yung baptis → first communion → confirmation

• happens in religions orphilisophical beliefs

• all faithful catholic believers should undergo the rituals

  

• it brings people to celebrate or mark important milestones

  • ex. baptism or matimony and holy orders

  • these events call for celebration

• help us remember cultural info

  • by learning a format or pattern of behavior through ritual, we can absorb info and recall it later more easily

sacraments

• physical manifestations of God’s grace

• any visible sign of the invisible God - St. Augustine

• associated with a erformance of a particular ritual

Baptism

• sacramentt of baptism to free us fro our original sin fro adam and eve

Holy eucharistt

• nurtered spiritually

• spiritual nourishment

• no perscoibed age as to when it should be received but for most, usually mga elemtary years yung first communion

confirmation

• spiritual growth

• making us soldiers of christ and defenders of faith

• no prescribed age

• adults can still receive this if they have not received it during their younger years

confession or reconciliation

• spiritual healing

• for catholic believers: This is one way of nourishing spiritual needs and deepening our faith to God who we cannot see

• presence of priest as mediator

• need to do the examination of conscience first - check urself kung ano yung since na nagawa mo noon at ngayon

Annointing of the sick

• physical and spiritual recovery

• comon misconception na when a family calls a priest to annoint the sick, may mamamatay na tao. Contrary, it should be annointed for a person’s past recovery

• during the spansih era, sa mga provincial places na walang access sa mga piretss, people decided to do this practices on their own

  • “nausog” or “nabati”

Matrimony

• sacrament is only intended for man and woman

Holy orders

• priests

• nuns

• diocesan priests - leading the different parishes. Most priests visible to you

• religious congregation - brothers and sisters. They have the brown particular charism. They have their own unique identity. can be assigned in parishes or outside the ministry

  • aka dominicans or jeuists

  • ex. dlsu is run by the congregation the

  • contemplative order

    • religious brothers - monasteries (seclusion)

    • religious nuns - convents (secluded din)

  • perpetual vow

    • chastity

    • poverty - everything they own is for the whole community

    • obedience - obedience to their general and to the Church in general and to the pope in particular

    • offering themselves wholly to God

Sacraments of Initiation

• baptism

• communion

• confirmation

healing

• healing

• reconciliation

service

• matrimony

• holy orders