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	Sacramentals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sacramentals are things (sacramentalia) set apart or blessed by the Catholic Church to manifest the respect due to the Sacraments, and so to excite good thoughts and to increase devotion, and through these movements of the heart to remit venial sin, according to the Council of Trent (Session XXII, 15).
		When the term is used in the singular it is preceded by an article ("a sacramental" or "the sacramental") as sacramental is also an adjective describing the Sacraments.
		It is not the sacramental itself that gives grace, but the devotion, the love of God, or sorrow for sin that it inspires, and the prayers of the Church that render sacramentals efficacious against evil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacramentals (259 words)

	Living Waters: A Sacramental Commons
		A sacramental commons is creation as a moment and locus of human participation in the interactive presence and caring compassion of the Spirit immanent, who permeates and participates in a complex cosmic dance of energies, events, elements and entities.
		Sacramental communion in a church building is complemented and enhanced by sacramental communion in nature's outdoor cathedral of creation: among human communities, and between human communities and the Spirit who gives life and integral liberation.
		The commons is sacramental, presenced by the Spirit and intended by the Spirit to be the common ground, fed by living water, from which all of the biotic community draws the common goods needed to provide for their common good.
	www.ncrlc.com /HART_LivingWater.html (4365 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sacramentals
		After Peter Lombard the use and definition of the word "sacramental" had a fixed character and was exclusively applicable to those rites presenting an external resemblance to the sacraments but not applicable to the sensible signs of Divine institution.
		The number of the sacramentals may not be limited; nevertheless, the attempt has been made to determine their general principles or rather applications in the verse: "Orans, tinctus, edens, confessus, dans, benedicens".
		One of the most remarkable effects of sacramentals is the virtue to drive away evil spirits whose mysterious and baleful operations affect sometimes the physical activity of man. To combat this occult power the Church has recourse to exorcism and sacramentals.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13292d.htm (1145 words)

	The Florida Catholic Conference \| Sacramental Policies & Guidelines for Those Who Home School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		As such, sacramental catechesis [the immediate preparation for a sacrament] is an activity distinct from religious education.
		The interaction between the parish community and those preparing for a sacrament gives credibility to the belief that catechesis is the "responsibility of the entire Christian community" [GDC, #220] and therefore "is not an action which can be realized in the community on a private basis or by purely personal initiative." [GDC, 219.b].
		These policies and guidelines are meant to promote the evangelizing potential of sacramental catechesis in the life of the Church.
	www.flacathconf.org /aboutus/policies/sacramentalguidelines.htm (1071 words)

	Blessed Salt - A Powerful Sacramental
		As in the case of all sacramentals, its power comes not from the sign itself, but by means of the Church's official (liturgical, not private) prayer of blessing -- a power the Church derives from Christ Himself.
		As the Vatican II document on the Liturgy states, both Sacraments and sacramentals sanctify us, not of themselves, but by power flowing from the redemptive act of Jesus, elicited by the Church's intercession to be directed through those external signs and elements.
		Hence sacramentals like blessed salt, holy water, medals, etc., are not to be used superstitiously as having self-contained power, but as 'focus points' funneling one's faith toward Jesus, just as a flag is used as a focus point of patriotism, or as handkerchiefs were used to focus faith for healing and deliverance (Acts 19:12).
	members.tripod.com /~catholic2/salt.htm (594 words)

	USCCB - (SEIA) Baptism and "Sacramental Economy"
		It is this provision of Constantinople in 1484, together with Canon 95 of the Synod in Trullo, which the Council of Moscow in 1667 invokes in its decree forbidding the rebaptism of Catholics, a decree that has remained authoritative in the East Slavic Orthodox churches to the present day.
		"Sacramental Economy" according to Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain: Nicodemus was clearly obliged, however, to reckon with the approach of Basil the Great and the ecumenically-ranked Synod in Trullo to baptism "outside" the visible Church, different though it was from that of Cyprian.
		The influential theory of "sacramental economy" propounded in the Pedalion commentaries does not represent the tradition and perennial teaching of the Orthodox Church; it is rather an eighteenth-century innovation motivated by the particular historical circumstances operative in those times.
	www.usccb.org /seia/agreed.shtml (3033 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - sacramental
		SACRAMENTAL [sacramental] in the Roman Catholic Church, aid to devotion that is not a sacrament.
		Sacramentals are commonly divided into six classes: prayer, anointing, eating, confession, giving, and blessings.
		According to church teaching, sacramentals are not founded by God but by the church, and therefore do not convey grace.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/sacramntl.asp (214 words)

	Information about Sacramental Records
		Sacramental records or church records sometimes contain information that supplements or parallels information found in civil records, but just as often, they contain information that is not available anywhere else.
		"Sacramental" records generally include baptismal, marriage, and death records, which are usually the most useful to genealogists.
		As baptismal records are kept to show that a person has been accepted into the Christian family in the "proper" way, a death record indicates that the deceased has been properly anointed in order to make the transition from physical death to everlasting life.
	www.uwm.edu /Library/arch/Genie/infopages/sacramen.htm (534 words)

	Sacramental - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sacramental as an adjective means of or pertaining to sacraments.
		In Roman Catholicism, sacramentals are objects whose supernatural effects, unlike those of a sacrament, depend on the belief of the recipient.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacramental (100 words)

	A Sacramental Approach to Environmental Issues
		Sacramental theology centers on the perception that items of material reality -- water, bread, and wine -- can be given a new meaning and status by being brought within the saving action of God in Christ.
		Sacramental theology has no excuse, therefore, for underrating the extent to which the divine potential of the world is denied, frustrated, distorted, defaced, and ignored.
		Sacramental awareness is not at all the same as sentimentality.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2320 (3534 words)

	Sacramental Records
		Sacramental records are often the most heavily used by genealogists.
		It is helpful to know why some sacramental records exist, and how they were used by the varying denominations.
		Not all of these events are truly "sacramental," but they are usually lumped together and referred to generically as "sacramental" records.
	www.uwm.edu /Library/arch/lcomm/sacramen.htm (632 words)

	Sacramental Records/Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA
		The largest department in the Archdiocese, Sacramental Records is also responsible for receiving, indexing, and entering data, and issuing certificates of all sacraments administered by priest-chaplains at military and Veteran Affairs installations in the United States and around the world, on land and on sea.
		Three full-time and four part-time employees respond to 25 to 30,000 requests each year for copies of sacramental records from military personnel, active or retired, and their families.
		Newland, the Sacramental Records Department has continued to take advantage of advances in records management, and is currently in the process of digitizing and computerizing all records.
	www.milarch.org /sacramental (464 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Sacramental Grace in Marriage
		This lengthy theological discussion on the nature of sacramental grace is necessary if we are to draw any practical fruits from the awareness of the sacramental graces of matrimony.
		Further, sacramental grace in marriage brings with it remedies for the weakness of human nature, even for those weaknesses suffered as a result of the infidelities of the married couple.
		Husbands and wives must carefully cooperate with sacramental grace by prayer, by frequenting the other Sacraments, by meditating on the nobility of their state, by constantly reminding themselves and each other to depend upon this supernatural reality in their lives.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?RecNum=6258 (2199 words)

	Sacramental Guidelines
		Parish sacramental celebrations should be accessible to persons with disabilities and open to their full, active and conscious participation, according to their capacity.
		As long as the individual is capable of having a sense of contrition for having committed sin, even if he or she cannot describe the sin precisely in words, the person may receive sacramental absolution.
		Those with profound mental disabilities, who cannot experience even minimal contrition, may be invited to participate in penitential services with the rest of the community to the extent of their ability.
	www.ncpd.org /sacramental_guidelines.htm (3547 words)

	Sacramental Worship, Sacramental Preaching
		The sacramental elements of the Service are God’s works, in other words, the gospel: in absolution, Scripture lessons, sermon, sacrament, and benediction.
		Perhaps in the area of homiletics is where the Lutheran church has been the strongest in its understanding of the sacramental character of worship in the Holy Christian Church.
		Our treasures are in the understanding of sacramental and sacrificial elements in the Divine Service, in understanding the Word and Sacraments as powerful and efficacious means of grace, and in the proper distinction between Law and Gospel.
	www.blc.edu /comm/gargy/gargy1/SacramentalWorship.html (8685 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: The Sacramental System of E.G.C.
		The regular performance of a single sacramental ritual, even if that ritual is of surpassing excellence and its celebration results in great benefits, is not sufficient to accomplish all the purposes of a church.
		Its primitive, essential significance is as a sacramental rebirth into a new life and washing away of the traces of the old life; as such, it corresponds to the beginnings of the yoga practice of Yama.
		Most sacramental religions, therefore, offer some sort of last rites to provide comfort and support to the individual prior to his or her passage into whatever lies beyond.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/sacraments.htm (4650 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Of whom is the sacramental character? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		It seems that the sacramental character is not the character of Christ.
		Consequently, it is clear that the sacramental character is specially the character of Christ, to Whose character the faithful are likened by reason of the sacramental characters, which are nothing else than certain participations of Christ's Priesthood, flowing from Christ Himself.
		The sacramental character is a thing as regards the exterior sacrament, and a sacrament in regard to the ultimate effect.
	www.newadvent.org /summa/406303.htm (854 words)

	Eric E. Dyck: Symbolising Presence (Pastoral Essays on Sacramental Practices)
		Fundamental to the Statement on Sacramental Practices is an understanding of the workings of symbol and ritual.
		Sacramental symbols seek to humanise ritual; ordinary human things become carriers of grace (in contrast to ordinary things being instrumental to the conveyance of grace).
		Statement on Sacramental Practices puts forth the challenge to individuals and the community to be present to God's presence.
	www.worship.ca /docs/sp_ed.html (1683 words)

	Welcome to the Official Web Site for the Diocese of Shreveport
		A program to maintain a centralized copy of the oldest sacramental records for the Diocese of Shreveport is in place.
		Sacramental records 72 years old and older are open for research requests through the archives.
		For sacramental records dated 1930 and later, contact the appropriate church directly.
	www.dioshpt.org /archives/records.htm (81 words)

	The Sacramental Life
		The sacramental character of burial is perhaps less obvious than is that of some other acts, but again there is a conferral of Grace, even as the Christian departs from this world.
		The sacramentality of icons becomes apparent if we recognize that an Icon is to an ordinary picture as is the Body and Blood of Christ as we perceive and receive It in the Holy Liturgy to ordinary bread and wine.
		The Sacramental life, in its insistence upon the goodness and the possibility of divinization of Creation, of its essential role in our growth and life in Christ, guards against such a perversion of the Gospel.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/sacraments_e.htm (9290 words)

	OCA - The Orthodox Faith
		It is not an ancient practice of the Church and, in many ways, it tends to be misleading since it appears that there are just seven specific rites which are "sacraments" and that all other aspects of the life of the Church are essentially different from these particular actions.
		The more ancient and traditional practice of the Orthodox Church is to consider everything which is in and of the Church as sacramental or mystical.
		This is Christ's express purpose and wish, the very object of his coming to the world: "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (Jn 10:10).
	www.oca.org /OCchapter.asp?SID=2&ID=50 (927 words)

	The Mennonite -- News, articles and discussion resources to serve Mennonite Church USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Although some Anabaptists avoided the word sacrament, they were actually claiming that believer’s baptism alone was fully sacramental, in the proper sense of the word.
		Sacramental thinking will also invite us to learn from traditions that emphasize sacraments: Catholic, Episcopal, Orthodox, Lutheran and others.
		Sacramental traditions highlight the Supper’s communal character and the Risen Jesus’ presence.
	www.themennonite.org /php/magazine.cover.story.php?mag_id=84&PHPSESSID=02541c337b005cb27ba1ae29084b1b3b (1410 words)

	Theologia :: Sacraments :: The Westminster Standards and Sacramental Efficacy
		Indeed, I think that the formulations therein are distinctive from the language of Calvin or the earlier confessions.
		Nevertheless, I am convinced that the same strong view of sacramental efficacy is upheld in the Standards as was held earlier.
		All this means is that the Westminster Divines, however much they may or may not have differed from Calvin, kept in their formulations his doctrine of sacramental efficacy.
	www.hornes.org /theologia/content/mark_horne/the_westminster_standards_and_sacramental_efficacy.htm (3072 words)

	Keeping It Catholic - Homeschooling Guidelines by Diocese
		Sacraments belong to the community of the Church and not private families, therefore, sacramental preparation should be taught and evaluated within the community of the Church.
		sacramental catechesis (the immediate preparation for a sacrament) is an activity distinct from religious education.
		Home schooling parents are responsible for the participation of thier child/young person in the immediate sacramental preparation as required or approved by the parish, through interviews for sacramental readiness, practice for sacramental celebrations, appropriate initiation rites and retreats.
	members.tripod.com /~catholic_homeschool/diocese.html (9104 words)

	Franz Liszt and the Sacramental Bridge
		And certainly related to this sacramental world view is the concept of art, specifically the icon, communicating a theology of presence.
		Finally with a clear understanding of this sacramental function of music, I will examine Liszt's greatest composition, the Sonata in B Minor, as the example par excellence of music functioning as a sacramental bridge between heaven and earth.
		Another critical element in Liszt's sacramental view of music was its ability to heal the soul and to inspire the faithful in moral progress.
	www.geocities.com /unlklavier/sacra-bridge.html (4118 words)

	Sacramental Instrumentality in John Calvin's Theology: Part 1
		John Calvin's robust sacramental theology has not always been appreciated by his theological grandchildren.
		In the past few years conservative Presbyterian churches in America have experienced similar controversy, with charges of heresy and Romanizing freely made against men who have claimed to be Calvin's disciples.
		He believed this to be true, despite differences of emphasis, even in the area of sacramental theology.
	homepage.mac.com /jeffmeyers/blogwavestudio/LH20041111134120/LHA20051025121525/index.html (824 words)

	Sacramental Presence
		Sacramental presence is absolutely as real as physical presence.
		Christ is present in every sacrament, but His sacramental presence is substantial only in the Holy Eucharist.
		Christ’s sacramental presence is necessary because Jesus did not rise from the dead in the same way as He raised Lazarus from the dead.
	www.secondexodus.com /html/catholicdefinitions/sacramentalpresence.htm (214 words)

	Statement on Sacramental Practices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (1991)
		This Statement on Sacramental Practices identifies theological foundations and practical principles for Baptism and Holy Communion.
		This Statement is intended to encourage continuation of the process of study and dialogue which led to its formulation.
		It is the practice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada to use the name Baptism for the sacrament of incorporation, and a variety of names for the sacramental meal - Eucharist, Holy Communion and the Lord's Supper being the most common.
	www.worship.ca /docs/sp_stmt.html (2155 words)

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