Category: Sacramentology
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Confess Your Sins
THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the LORD will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is…
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I Became Your Father
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDERS And Michas said: Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver, and a double suit of apparel, and thy victuals. Judges 17, 10 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not…
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Is Anyone Among You Sick?
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick And He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put…
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Partaking of the Body of the Lord
The Sacrament of Holy Eucharist The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord ? 1 Corinthians 10, 16 The Holy Eucharist refers to Christ’s body and blood present…
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The Seal of the Holy Spirit
The Sacrament of Confirmation In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; Ephesians 1, 13 In Catholic teaching, a sacrament is a visible sign that points to an invisible reality. As…
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They Shall Be One Flesh
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY MATRIMONY And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.…
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You Must Be Born Again
Baptism & Born Again For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. Isaiah 44, 3 [H]e saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own…