Sacraments are given as sure encounters with grace, not as reducing valves designed to make sure the unbaptized are excluded from God. Christ also comes to us through innumerable creatures, since ...

Every believer knows that God's grace is at the core of receiving and administering the sacraments. God's grace is infinitely merciful — as Francis continues to stress, from his 2016 apostolic ...

A. A Sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace. Q. 575. Are these three things, namely: An outward or visible sign, the institution of that sign by Christ, and the giving of ...

"The [seven] sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are ...

The second day of the 5th Regional Youth Convention (RYC) at Mary Help of Christians Cathedral, Kohima, witnessed a ...

The sacrament of reconciliation, therefore, is a venerable area of grace in the life of the church, presided over by the Holy Spirit, where both priest and penitent equally participate in the role ...

There she sits—Femme assise (Françoise)—etched in the tonal language of Pablo Picasso’s emotional geometry, a woman rendered not in joy or surrender, but in the frozen grace of observation.

Sacraments and ordinances A sacrament is an outward sign of an inward grace . It takes the form of a visible ceremony, but it has an inward benefit in the life of the worshipper.

As a means of grace, the sacraments sign and seal the benefits of Christ to believers through faith. The sign nature of the sacrament points to the reality, the substance of Christ.