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Church & Sacraments - PowerPoint presentation from Cycle 1, Day 2.
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Church & Sacraments
COMMUNITIES & SACRAMENTALITY
WHAT IS SACRAMENTALITY?
“An action, such as the Sign of the Cross, a ceremony
resembling a sacrament, or a sacred object, regarded as
being instituted by the Church… and serving as a
means of receiving sanctifying grace.”
DICTIONARY DEFINITION:SACRAMENTAL
The foundational concept and reality of this course is sacramentality.
This can be understood as a quality of things – objects, words, signs, people
– by which unseen and intangible realities are communicated by way of
sensorial means.
COURSE DEFINITION
The human person is a sacrament – someone that reveals the unseen, such as emotions, by way of his or
her actions, words, facial expressions, sometimes even in ways
that are unintentional.
PERSON AS SACRAMENTAL
HOW CAN WE TELL WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO AN
INDIVIDUAL?
The fact that people are sacramental is not just relegated to the individual. These expressive signs are necessarily
communal. A hug, handshake, facial expression – all bear a communal and societal meaning.
SACRAMENTALITY BETWEEN PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES
HOW CAN WE TELL WHAT A COMMUNITY VALUES?
CEREMONY ANALYSIS PROJECT