sacraments
Church's sacred rituals
Sacraments are religious rites believed to confer divine grace on participants.
In Christianity, the term most often refers to baptism and communion, though Catholic and Orthodox traditions recognize seven sacraments including confession, confirmation, and marriage.
The word implies an outward sign of inward spiritual reality: She received the sacraments before dying.
Extended use covers anything treated as sacred or inviolable: the sacraments of democracy.
Ritual water purification ceremony
- confirmationEstablishing something as true
- matrimonyLegal union of spouses
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
- anointingCeremonial oil application
confession · penance · unction · liturgy · mass · consecration · absolution · transubstantiation
Papal city-state
- papacyPope's office and authority
- catechismReligious teaching guide
- MassCatholic worship service
- priestOne who performs sacraments
bishop · deacon · parish · diocese · Trent · canon law · apostolic · confession
Ornate ritual drinking vessel
- altarSacred ritual table
- vestmentCeremonial religious garment
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- candleWax stick with wick
chrism · font · stole · censer · holy water · oil · ring · bread
Leavened flour product
- wineFermented grape beverage
- chaliceOrnate ritual drinking vessel
- hostOne receiving guests
- transubstantiationChange of underlying substance
altar · tabernacle · paten · consecration · wafer · body · blood · breaking bread
Official government regulation
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- Lord's SupperSacrament commemorating Christ's final meal
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- symbolicRepresenting through signs
Lutheran · Anglican · Methodist · communion table · infant baptism · adult baptism · immersion
Effortless beauty of motion
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- sanctificationMaking someone or something sacred
- divineOf or from gods
sacred · mystery · covenant · doctrine · dogma · holiness · sanctity · spirituality
Unexplained phenomena or events
- holy unctionSacramental oil blessing
- crowningInstalling as monarch
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- patriarchMale head of family
baptism
Ritual water purification ceremony
- confirmationEstablishing something as true
- matrimonyLegal union of spouses
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
anointing · confession · penance · unction · liturgy · mass · consecration · absolution · transubstantiation · sanctification
Vatican
Papal city-state
priest · bishop · deacon · parish · diocese · Trent · canon law · apostolic · confession · penance
chalice
Ornate ritual drinking vessel
candle · chrism · font · stole · censer · holy water · oil · ring · bread · wine
bread
Leavened flour product
transubstantiation · altar · tabernacle · paten · consecration · wafer · body · blood · breaking bread · Lord's Supper
ordinance
Official government regulation
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- Lord's SupperSacrament commemorating Christ's final meal
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
symbolic · Lutheran · Anglican · Methodist · communion table · infant baptism · adult baptism · immersion
grace
Effortless beauty of motion
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- sanctificationMaking someone or something sacred
divine · sacred · mystery · covenant · doctrine · dogma · holiness · sanctity · spirituality · efficacy
mysteries
Unexplained phenomena or events
- holy unctionSacramental oil blessing
- crowningInstalling as monarch
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- Christian doctrinesalvation by faith, trinity, Trinity, Holy Trinity, creeds
sacramentscivil ceremonies
Official non-religious observances
civil union · civil marriage · state ceremonies · legal formalities · graduation ceremonies
sacramentsprofanations
Violations of sacred things
desecrations · blasphemies · abominations · defilements · transgressions
sacramentsatheism
Rejection of deities
secularism · irreligion · godlessness · unbelief · apostasy
- sacramental wineBlessed beverage for worship
- the sacramentSacred religious ceremony
- holy sacramentsReligious rites conveying grace
- auto sacramentalAllegorical Spanish religious drama
- sacramental breadBlessed wheat wafer
- Blessed SacramentConsecrated elements in Catholicism