Sacrament Summaries (Distance Learning 2)

Sacraments Introduction:

·      Being able to look past something for more than what it is means that you have a “divine sense of humor.”

·      Just looking at something for what it is on the surface is not having a “divine sense of humor.”

·      Our Lord has a divine sense of humor because he revealed to us everything he created as something we should worship on Earth.

·      A sacrament can either be visible or not visible; a kiss or a word is a sacrament because a kiss is something physical u do and a word requires for you to hear. Both of them are known to have a spiritual connection.

·      Now a days we (humans) take the little things for granted and are always serious about everything so we choose to not look to deep into things.

·      When a man looses his spirituality, his respect is gone and the relationship with the Divine Image is not with him.

·      Being on Earth creates a sense of mystery is knowing that we want to seek heaven to be with the Eternal.

·      However, 2 problems can arise from this: One is to not have a connection with God and the other is to feel confused as to if God is really there with you.

·      Atheism cuts off creation from God. Pantheism connects all things made from the Eternal with him.

Sacraments- Bible is Sacramental:

·      The Bible is the main source of being connected with spirituality.

·      The example of the serpent represents God’s way of showing us that material things are used to symbolize faith.

·      In the Old Testament, we see a lot of symbolism in Christ. Christ compares himself as having been filled with sin but when he stayed in the desert, he was healed through faith.

·      Sacrament means “mystery” in Greek and St. Paul named him “the mystery from unseen ages.”

·      The Lord can never be separated from his divine nature and human form. His human form allows for him to instill spirituality and to enact the sacraments in us.

·      Men tend to show their true colors when we see Christ through material things in everyday life.  It’s looked at as beautiful.

·      If man did not have spirituality, then we wouldn’t live for eternity and see the Almighty.

What Sacraments Bring to Man:

·      Divinity and beauty is what is given to us through the sacraments.

·      There are 3 different levels that man live, the sensate, intellectual and divine.

·      The sensate feels as if God did not bring about the materialistic and pretty things in life. Your often in denial or skeptical.

·      Intellectual existence is known for the human existence of the spirit.

·      Grace is the third level, in which the heart is illuminated by the truths. Peace, love and happiness are always present.

·      Because God created us, he gives us beauty and love and by him giving up himself for us, when have a closer connection with him.

·      Christ helps us through the sacraments and through his human form, we experience his power.

·      Contact can happen in 2 ways, visible with humanity and his eternal was communicated. And then there’s the invisible, meaning we saw God through him working revelations in our lives.

·      Waiting for Christ we can make it known through the sacraments.

Catechism on Sacraments:

·      The sacraments are active signs of grace given to the Church from God.

·      In order to achieve salvation, we must believe in the sacraments that God has given to us. God makes things better through the Son of God.

·      Baptism accomplishes the right for us to be baptized through Christ; therefore we have a deeper connection with him.

·      Christ is always apart of the Church.

·      Sacramentum and Mysterium derive from the word Mysterion. Meaning that through the sacraments we can see Christ himself.

·      The Church is God’s tool to help make him known among everyone. It is a sacrament of deliverance between man and Christ.

·      Christ is the head of the body but the Holy Spirit is communicated through Christ to heal and help man in their life.

These are Sacraments:

·      Life physically and in nature has 7 conditions. Five are self and the last two are individual.

·      1. In order to live, one must be born. 2.  Man has to give himself nourishment. 3. Mature overtime into an adult and accept responsibility. 4.  One must be healed if sick/broken. 5. Disease must me forced out of the body. 6. Communally, one must be in aggreeance with the government and other relationships present. 7. Man must reproduce.

·      Having a personal connection with Christ requires a few things: we should be born spiritually through Baptism. Our religious sense should mature overtime and take on the roles that are given to us. Man must go through Penance, Anoint the Sick, live under the religious institutions of the Church and fulfill Matrimony.

·      All of the sacraments are seen meaning we can experience Christ through them.

·      The Sacraments come from the Passion, Resurrection and Death of Jesus Christ.

·      Blood symbolizes forgoing just like God gave up his life; Christ is blood is powerful and special.

·      Calvary is another form of experiencing the Eternal and it separates into different categories for man based upon spiritual living.

·      Jesus Christ becomes instill in us when we take on the sacraments; the blood of Christ is experienced in our lives differently with ability.