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sacramental
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sacramental, in the Roman Catholic Church, aid to devotion that is not a sacrament. Sacramentals are commonly divided into six classes: prayer, anointing, eating, confession, giving, and blessings. According to church teaching, sacramentals are not founded by God but by the church, and therefore do not convey grace. Examples are holy water holy water, in Christian churches, water blessed to symbolize spiritual cleansing. In Roman Catholic churches there is a bowl (stoup or font) of holy water near the doors, so that the faithful may bless themselves with it on entering.
..... Click the link for more information. , many blessings, and the rosary rosary [rose garden], prayer of Roman Catholics, in which beads are used as counters. The term, applied also to the beads, is extended to Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist prayers that use beads.
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Christianity sees the love relationship of a Christian couple as sacramentalizing the relationship between Christ and the church, between God and humankind" (Cooke 1983, 86, 89, 91-92, 93).
"An indelicate silence". (Current Theological Writing) by Wolf, Arnold Jacob / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
The Episcopal Church is bracing itself for a convulsion over same-sex unions, over the right of openly gay priests to serve God and their communities, over the very rites that are to be used in sacramentalizing the love of gay and lesbian couples for one another.
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