1. WHAT IS A SACRAMENT?

2. JOURNAL QUESTION: Being the experts in symbols that you are…
What symbol would you use to represent your high school experience right now? Explain…

3. REVIEW OF TERMS SACRAMENTAL AWARENESS/VISION
SACRAMENTAL BLINDNESS/DULLNESS
GRACE
SIGN
SYMBOL

4. The Original Term: The word used in the original Greek was mysterion.
In the 5th century, when the Scripture was translated into Latin, it became sacramentum.
This term was borrowed from an oath of fidelity a Roman soldier took.
Today, the Western Church still employs this understanding of sacraments.

5. Official Definition: The sacraments are:
efficacious ________ of _________,
instituted by Christ and
entrusted to the Church,
by which divine life is dispensed to us.
The visible rites…signify (_________-ize) and make present the _________ proper to each sacrament. (CCC #1131)
GRACE SIGN SYMBOL

6. Official Definition: The 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…signify (symbolize) and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. (CCC #1131)