EXPRESSIONS OF FAITH SACRAMENT

• PRAYER • Sacrament of initiation

- baptism
• Soren Kierkegaard - confirmation
- Prayer does not change God, but it changes him - communion
who prays. • Sacrament of healing
• Ghandi - anointing of the sick
- Prayer is not asking, it is longing of the soul. - reconciliation
• St. Teresa • Sacrament of service/commitment
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of - marriage
friendship with God. - Holy order
• Henry
- Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home Sacrament - Latin word “sacramentum” means “a sign of
in God. the sacred”
• CCC - a physical sign of spiritual reality.
- Prayer develops a conscious awareness of our - 7 sacraments, are ceremonies that point to
relationship with God. what is sacred, significant for christians.
- special occasions for experiencing Christ
saving presence.
LEVELS OF PRAYER
1. Personal Grace - Christ’s own gifts that strengthen our relationship
2. Communal with him, a relationship we call grace.
- is a deeper relationship with God. It is not a
TYPES OF PRAYER quantifiable thing.
Adoration
Thanksgiving
Petition/Supplication 7 SACRAMENTS
Contrition
Offering 1. Baptism
- because Jesus die
Adoration - exalts the greatness of the Lord. - first sacrament of the Christian Initiation.
- praise for the goodness of the Lord. - basis of entire Christian life.
Thanksgiving - express gratitude for God’s blessing. - sharers of his mission.
Petition - used in times of need, danger, or trouble. - establishes the union between God and us.
- asking God’s blessings. 2. Confirmation
Contrition - expresses a need for God’s mercy. - Catholic sacrament that deepens and strengthens
- restores one’s relationship with God. baptismal gift.
- ask for forgiveness - the completion of baptism.
Offering - offer to God our thoughts, words and deeds. - “age of discretion”
Effects: full outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
- increasing the gifts of the Holy spirit in us
ELEMENTS OF CATHOLIC MASS especially his strength to spread the faith of word
and deed.
Liturgy - work of the people. 3. Eucharist
- culminating sacrament of Christian initiation or the
ETHYMOLOGY communion i both the sacrifice and meal.
- the celebration of the death/burial and resurrection.
LIT URGY - in the Bible, it is called “Lord’s supper”.
LAOS ERGOB
PEOPLE WORK Transubstantiation - the transfer of the substance of bread
LAITY ENERGY and wine of mass to the body and blood of Christ.

1. Work of the people 4. Reconciliation - sacrament of healing through which

2. Work of Christ done on behalf of the people who imitate Christ extends forgiveness to sinners, bringing about
Him reconciliation with God and the church.
3. Liturgy is the work of God in which the people participate - restores the sanctifying grace that has been lost
through sin.
- removes the barrier to the action of the Holy spirit.
EXPRESSION OF FAITH: LITURGY - Given to priest in a confessional anonymously.
Liturgy - used to bring mind “rubrics” or what priest do
around the “peoples work and public duty” • Contrition- feeling sorry for our sins.
Liturgy designates - “official public worship of the church” • Confession- admitting our faults.
• Absolution- the priest forgives us in the name of Jesus
Christ.
• Satisfaction- or penance, something to make repair for
the harms our sins have caused.
5. Anointing of the Sick- sacrament offered for these who
are suffering from serious illness, surgery or dying
- lead by priest or bishops.
LAST RITES- is a ritual of healing appropriate not only for
physical ailment but also for mental and spiritual sickness.

6. Marriage- Holy Matrimony, is a sign of God’s covenant

with his people, covenant of love and grace in Jesus Christ.
- a sign of God calling a man and woman to holiness.
- God is the source of marriage. Marriage is meant to be a
covenant.

CHURCH TEACHES THAT THERE ARE 2 PRIMARY

PURPOSED MAN AGE

1. Procreative- be fruitful and multiply, upbringing of the

child.
2. Unitive- becoming one body, the loving union of husband
and wife speaks of family values also God’s values.

7. Holy Orders- or Ordination, the priest being ordained

vows to lead other Catholics by bringing them the
Sacraments. By proclaiming the Gospel, and by providing
other means to holiness.

All of us are called to save others as a part of a common

priesthood, but the Church also those who minister us:

• Deacons- helpers to priest.

• Priests- servants to God’s people, celebrate the Eucharist.
• Bishops- servants to God’s people and the priests in their
area.
• Religious nuns and brothers- servants to all of God’s
people, join orders and take 3 vows:
POVERTY, CHASTITY AND OBEDIENCE
SOME TITLES OF MARY
Being full of grace, we can say that Mary radiates brilliance
like a diamond.

• MARY AS OUR ADVOCATE

It was Mary who interceded for the Couple at the wedding of
Cana(John 2:1-10), prompting Jesus to perform his first
known miracle and begin his public ministry.

• MARY IS THE CO-REDEMPTRIX

Due to Jesus’ role as redeemer and Mary’s unity with his
work, she has received the name of co-redepmtrix. by God’s
Grace, she gave us our redeemer in the flesh at the
annunciation by freely giving

• MARY AT THE FOOR OF THE CROSS

At the presentation, Simeon prophesied that Mary would
suffer in union with her son, that a sword would pierce her
heart. (Luke 2:25)

• MARY, THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

The virgin Mary free from original sin by virtue of the
merits of her son Jesus. The catholic church teachers that
God acted upon Mary in the first moment of her conception,
keeping her “immaculate”.