Sacraments Vocabulary

An object or action that points us to another reality. It leads us to look beyond our senses to consider a deeper mystery.

• Symbol

• Ritual

• Sacrament

• Redemption

an established pattern of actions, usually including words, and holding symbolic meaning.

• Mystery

• Sacrament

• Ritual

• Sanctifying grace

A term commonly used within Catholic teaching, means "symbol"

• Sign

• Ritual

• Mystery

• Sacrament

An efficacious and visible sign of God's grace by which divine life is dispensed to us

• Sacrament

• Mystery

• Symbol

• Paschal Mystery

The core of every Sacrament; Christ's Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension into Heaven

• Paschal Mystery

• Ritual

• Symbol

• Liturgical Year

Another term for "Sacraments," especially in Eastern Catholic Churches

• Mystery

• Ritual

• Sacramental Economy

• Sign

The communication or dispensation of the fruits of Christ's Paschal Mystery (grace) in the celebration of the Church's sacramental liturgy

• Sacramental Economy

• Gospel

• Liturgy

• Sanctifying Ritual

The free gift of God's life, first given at Baptism and renewed in us in all the Sacraments

• Sanctifying Grace

• Actual Graces

God's interventions and support in our everyday lives

• Sanctifying Grace

• Actual graces

Jesus' bringing back the People of God to the truth about God and about themselves

• Sanctifying grace

• Sacrament

• Redemption

• Sacramental Economy