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| 2 things needed for our part | Receptivity, Responding |
| What are Signs? | are something used to represent something else |
| Sign are visible symbols of something | that is invisible |
| What do signs conceal much about? | the object it represents |
| What do sacremental signs represent? | many realities all at once |
| Sacremental signs signify | invisble realities but its symbolic value is infinately richer |
| Sacremental are symbols but | they are not merely symbols, genuinely convey the reality they signify |
| Sacrements can be valid but | unreleased or entirely effective |
| What is Grace? | the creative, sustaining, and transforming self-gift of God that is always being offered to us (self gift) |
| Sacrements are | ultimately covenants that God makes with the church, extraordinary, spritual both in the New and Old Testement |
| God sealed his covenants | with an outward sign |
| What is a Sacrement? | is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace |
| Where do sacrements come from? | God |
| Symbolic actions help us | concretely or physically expreess our beliefs and deepest concerns |
| Simple action/ Complex action | shaking somebody's hand/ to make a get well poster for a sick one |
| Some characteristics of Rituals | movements and gestures hat contain meaning, often repeated, can be called symbolic celebration because they broke us of our routines, link people with their past, require people whole heartedly |
| What is ritual worship? | an attempt to get in touch with God and put oneself in harmony with God's grace |
| We can find evidence of sacrements | in the ritual worship of Israel |
| Every sacrement involves | words and actions traditionally the church calls it forms and matter |
| For every sacrement the church | designates an ordinary minister of that sacrement |
| Covenant is | the defining features of Gods relationship with human kind |
| What is a Covenant? | it is an agreement with God |
| Sacrements don't guarentee our fidelity but | guarentee God's help |
