Catechism in a Year Day 184 - The Church in miniature? // What are Sacramentals? What does it mean to say that the family is a Church in miniature? What the Church is on a large scale, the family is on a small scale: an image of Gods love in human fellowship. Indeed, every marriage is perfected in openness to others, to the children that God sends, in mutual acceptance, in hospitality and being for others. Nothing in the early Church fascinated people more about the New Way of the Christians than their domestic churches. Often someone believed in the Lord, together with all his household; and many ... believed and were baptized (Acts 18:8). In an unbelieving world, islands of living faith were formed, places of prayer, mutual sharing, and cordial hospitality. Rome, Corinth, Antioch, the great cities of antiquity, were soon permeated with domestic churches that were like points of light. Even today families in which Christ is at home are the leaven that renews our society. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sacramentals are sacred signs or sacred actions in which a blessing is conferred. 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. (YOUCAT questions 271-272) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dig Deeper: CCC section (1667-1672) flocknote/catechism
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