Wednesday, December 19, 2018

248. The Sacraments of Communion and Mission

The Sacraments of Communion and Mission

YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 248
Ave Maria series
248  What are the names of the sacraments that serve to build up communion in the Church?
Someone who is baptized and confirmed can receive moreover a special mission in the Church in two special sacraments and thus be enlisted in the service of God:  Holy Orders and Matrimony.  [1533-1535]

Matrimony and Holy Orders are the two sacraments that build up communion in the Church.…..248

The two sacraments have something in common:  They are directed to the good of others.  No one is ordained just for himself, and no one enters the married state merely for his own sake.  The sacrament of Holy Orders and the sacrament of Matrimony are supposed to build up the People of God; in other words, they are a channel through which God pours out love into the world.
“I will bless you…so that you will be a blessing.”  Genesis 12:2b
“Only Christ (is) truly priest.  But the others are his ministers.”  --St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
 “Priestly ordination is administered as a means of salvation, not for an individual man, but rather for the whole Church.”  --St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
 [1533-1535]
THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNION

1533 Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist are sacraments of Christian initiation. They ground the common vocation of all Christ's disciples, a vocation to holiness and to the mission of evangelizing the world. They confer the graces needed for the life according to the Spirit during this life as pilgrims on the march towards the homeland. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition

1534 Two other sacraments, Holy Orders and Matrimony, are directed towards the salvation of others; if they contribute as well to personal salvation, it is through service to others that they do so. They confer a particular mission in the Church and serve to build up the People of God.--CCC

1535 Through these sacraments those already consecrated by Baptism and Confirmation (Compare Lumen Gentium 10.)1 for the common priesthood of all the faithful can receive particular consecrations.Those who receive the sacrament of Holy Orders are consecrated in Christ's name "to feed the Church by the word and grace of God."(Lumen Gentium 11 § 2.)2 On their part, "Christian spouses are fortified and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and dignity of their state by a special sacrament."(Gaudium et Spes 48 § 2.)3–CCC

Sacrament  Matrimony church wedding


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