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What is Sacrament?
Reveals a fundamental Catholic perception of how God related to us and interacts with our history and how we relate to Him.
God relates to us through?
Visible realities
What does it mean to understand the Church as a Sacrament?
It requires knowledge of one's faith and acknowledges that the Church, in its visible form, brings people into communion with God and each other.
What is the difference between sacraments and ordinary signs?
Sacraments do not merely point to something absent; rather, they signify and make present an invisible divine reality.
What is a key difficulty with viewing the Church as a Sacrament?
The Church's imperfect, human nature.
What does Pope John XXIII reminds us about the Church?
That the Church is always in need of reform, renewal and healing.
Why do you think Sacraments are accommodations of God's goodness to our human need?
They serve as tangible, physical signs of His invisible grace. As human beings, we experience reality through our senses—sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell. God, in His goodness, meets us where we are by using ordinary elements like water, bread, wine, and oil to communicate His divine presence and saving power.