Friday, April 14, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 272 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) Sacramentals are sacred signs or sacred actions in which a
blessing is conferred.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1669)
Sacramentals derive from the baptismal priesthood: every baptized person is
called to be a "blessing," and to bless (Cf. Gen 12:2; Lk 6:28; Rom
12:14; 1 Pet 3:9). Hence lay people may preside at certain blessings; the more
a blessing concerns ecclesial and sacramental life, the more is its
administration reserved to the ordained ministry (bishops, priests, or deacons)
(Cf. SC 79; CIC, can. 1168; De Ben
16, 18).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Examples of sacramentals are holy water, the
consecration of a bell or an organ, the blessing of a house or an automobile,
the blessing of throats on the feast of St. Blaise, receiving ashes on Ash
Wednesday, palm branches on Palm Sunday, the Easter candle, and the blessing of
produce on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1670)
Sacramentals do not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that the
sacraments do, but by the Church's prayer, they prepare us to receive grace and
dispose us to cooperate with it. "For well-disposed members of the
faithful, the liturgy of the sacraments and sacramentals sanctifies almost
every event of their lives with the divine grace which flows from the Paschal
mystery of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. From this source all
sacraments and sacramentals draw their power. There is scarcely any proper use
of material things which cannot be thus directed toward the sanctification of
men and the praise of God" (SC 61).
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