Sacraments
From the side of Christ.
Where does the power of the sacraments come from?
Being sorry for having offended someone whom I love.
What is perfect contrition?
The number of cups at the last supper. It's what happened to the lamb at Passover.
What is 4? What is he was eaten?
Efficacious signs of God's grace.
What are the sacraments?
The difference between signs and sacraments which are efficacious signs.
What is that sacraments do cause grace, while mere signs only symbolize something that had a different cause?
What is the cleansing of all sins and their punishment? What is cleansing of original sin? What is adoption into God's family? What is a new creation in Christ?
I owe this to my spouse.
What is fidelity?
These are the reasons Christ chose the sacraments to give us grace.
What is that we are led from visible to invisible things? What is that we avoid false spiritual practice? What is that we would choose physical things over unveiled spiritual things?
What is domestic work/work done in the home?
Two false versions of fatherhood.
What is machismo and absent/uncaring at home?
This is how children learn what love is.
What is from watching their parents love one another?
This is a very important virtue to teach children in the home because of its sensitivity and how wrong the world is about it.
What is chastity?
This is the primary cause and this is the instrumental cause in the life of grace.
What is God then sacraments?
What is the relationship between man and God, man and his neighbor, man and creation, and man and himself?
The definition of Transubstantiation.
What is a change in substance, not of accidents, from one substance to another, caused by God who is being itself?
The differences in civil marriage and sacramental marriage.
What is grace, God's blessing, and "until death do we part."?
This is how Christ defeated the devil. Then, why he did so.
What is justice not power? What is because justice is higher than power because justice is an end itself while power is the ability to achieve an end?
The three levels to Holy Orders.
What is diaconate, priesthood, and bishop?
This is how confession undoes the division cause by sin.
What is confessing to a representative of God and the Church (fellow man), penance, and having to say the sin myself?
This is what happens to the efficacy of the sacraments when the priest has mortally sinned.
What is the sacraments are still effective?
A woman leaves her husband to get a coffee before the bus comes. A man leaves his wife because the bus is on time. What did they do wrong? Why?
What is they left each other. Marriage is principally about union.
This is the good brought about by disagreements in marriage. This is how it reflects God's saving work on the cross.
What is working together, united, to find a solution without making the other person the enemy? Christ made sin the enemy not sinners as he saved them from death.
The purpose of any vocation.
What is the happiness and sanctification of the person called and brought into union with God?
These are similarities between the incarnation and the Eucharist.
What is God takes the form of something small, innocent, and seemingly unimportant?
These are similarities between Jesus saving us on the cross and the Eucharist.
What is an offering to the Father, broken body/bread, and given to sinners?