~ THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS ~
SIGNS OF GRACE
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~ CHRISTIAN INITIATION ~ |
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CONFIRMATION EUCHARIST These three Sacraments lay the foundation of our spiritual life. They complete the rite of Christian Initiation (RCIA) and are celebrated with the greatest joy in the family and church community. Looking back, we may still have precious sacramentals of our own and want continue the tradition by either passing them on or beginning a new tradition with a new sacramental. +
ALSO SEE BAPTISM: Matthew 28:19 - Mark 16:16 - John 3:5-6 EUCHARIST: John 6:51, 56-58 - 1 Cor 11:26-29 CONFIRMATION: Acts 19:3-6, 8:17, Ephesians 1:13 |
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~ HEALING ~ |
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ANOINTING OF THE SICK Of the Sacraments, these two remain powerful signs of God’s love for us and are in every sense of the word, true gifts from him. +
ALSO SEE RECONCILIATION: John 20:22-23 - 2 Cor 5:18-20 - Matthew 18:18, 16:19 ANOINTING THE SICK: James 5:14 - Mark 6:12-13 |
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~ SERVICE ~ |
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MARRIAGE Here again are opportunities for us to offer a very special gift to the Lord, our lives in service. We are each called. +
ALSO SEE MATRIMONY: Ephesians 5:25,28,31 - Matthew 19:4-6 HOLY ORDERS: Luke 22:19 - Ephesians 4:11-12 |
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4 Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, 5 never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. 6 It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. 7 If you love someone you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost.You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him. |
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CONTEMPLATE CHRIST, JOHN PAUL II + VATICAN CITY, OCT. 27, 2002 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II renewed his appeal to the faithful to regard the praying of the rosary as an opportunity to contemplate the face of Christ. + The Pope reminded the faithful gathered today in St. Peter's Square that he has proclaimed this month through October 2003 the "Year of the Rosary." "The most important reason for proposing again the practice of the rosary is the fact that it constitutes the valid means to foster among the faithful that commitment to contemplation of the face of Christ, for which I appealed following the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000," the Holy Father said before leading pilgrims in praying the midday Angelus. + "The Virgin Mary is the unsurpassable model of Christian contemplation," the Pope explained, recalling the main themes of his latest apostolic letter, "Rosarium Virginis Mariae" (The Rosary of the Virgin Mary). "From Jesus' conception until his resurrection and ascension into heaven, his Mother kept the gaze of her immaculate heart fixed on her divine Son: a wondrous, penetrating, sorrowful and radiant gaze," he continued. "It is this Marian look, full of faith and love, that the individual Christian and the ecclesial community make their own when they recite the rosary," John Paul II said. + This is why the Pope suggested the addition of a fourth cycle of mysteries to the rosary: the mysteries of light, which deal with Christ's public life. "As every genuine prayer, the rosary does not remove us from reality, but helps to live the latter interiorly united to Christ, giving witness to the love of God," the Holy Father said. + John Paul II also reminded the faithful, as he did in the apostolic letter, that peace and the family are the two primary intentions in praying the rosary. |
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