Sacraments of Healing
This Gospel passage uniquely connects the forgiveness of sins with physical healing, foreshadowing the sacrament of Reconciliation.
What is Mark 2:1–12 (the healing of the paralytic)?
The baptismal character imprinted on the soul configures the Christian for participation in this threefold office of Christ.
What are the offices of priest, prophet, and king?
The Eucharist is called the “source and summit of the Christian life” in this Vatican II document.
What is Lumen Gentium?
The three degrees of Holy Orders are bishop, priest, and this.
What is deacon?
The ordinary minister of Confirmation in the Latin Church.
Who is the bishop?
This priestly action, accompanied by contrition, confession, and satisfaction, completes the penitent’s reconciliation.
What is absolution?
The essential form of Baptism must be accompanied by this intention from the minister.
What is the intention to do what the Church does?
The accidents of bread and wine remain, but their substance changes, according to this Thomistic term.
What is transubstantiation?
The sacramental grace of Matrimony is primarily ordered toward this mission within the Church.
What is the sanctification of the spouses and the education of children in the faith?
This anointing with chrism oil in Confirmation is the continuation of this ancient biblical rite signifying being chosen by God.
What is anointing for kingship, priesthood, or prophecy?
The anointing of the sick is most closely linked to this epistle, where the elders of the Church are instructed to pray over and anoint the sick.
What is James 5:14–15?
The Church teaches that Baptism of blood and Baptism of desire can supply the grace of sacramental Baptism in these circumstances.
What are cases of martyrdom or sincere desire for Baptism?
The Eucharist makes present the one sacrifice of Christ; it is not a repetition but this kind of offering.
What is a re-presentation (anamnesis) of the sacrifice of Calvary?
The matter of Holy Orders consists of this gesture, practiced since apostolic times.
What is the laying on of hands?
The sacrament of Confirmation strengthens the baptized to defend and spread the faith as soldiers of Christ—this is known as the militia Christi concept from this early Church Father.
Who is St. Cyprian of Carthage?
The matter of Anointing of the Sick is not merely oil, but oil consecrated by this person at the Chrism Mass.
Who is the bishop?
The Greek term for “to baptize” (baptizein) literally means this.
What is “to plunge” or “to immerse”?
The minimum requirements for valid Eucharistic matter specify this type of bread and wine.
What is unleavened wheat bread and natural grape wine?
According to Ephesians 5:25–32, Matrimony is a reflection of this divine mystery.
What is the union between Christ and His Church?
The gift of the Holy Spirit in Confirmation imparts this special grace that deepens the theological virtues and the gifts listed in Isaiah 11:2.
What is sanctifying and strengthening grace?
This effect of the Anointing of the Sick unites the sufferer’s illness and trials to Christ’s redemptive Passion.
What is the grace of union with Christ’s suffering?
In patristic theology, this figure from the Old Testament—who saved humanity through water and wood—was seen as a type of Baptism.
Who is Noah?
The early Church writer who declared, “The bread becomes the Eucharist of the Body of Christ” around 107 AD.
Who is St. Ignatius of Antioch?
The sacrament of Holy Orders confers an indelible character by which the ordained person acts in persona Christi—this Latin phrase meaning “in the person of Christ.”
What is in persona Christi capitis (“in the person of Christ the Head”)?
The unity between Baptism and Confirmation is expressed in the Eastern Churches by the administration of this sacrament immediately after Baptism.
What is Chrismation?