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In rabbinic Judaism sanctification means sanctifying God's name by works of mercy and martyrdom, while desecration of God's name means committing sin. [20] This is based on the Jewish concept of God, whose holiness is pure goodness and is transmissible by sanctifying people and things. [21
A sacramental (Latin pl. sacramentalia) is a sacred sign, a ritual act or a ceremony, which, in a certain imitation of the sacraments, has a spiritual effect and is obtained through the intercession of the Church. [1]
The "principle of merit" in which every meritorious action must be founded is "charity founded in sanctifying habitual grace". [19] Furthermore, two conditions must be met for meriting: namely the " facultas merendi " (capacity to merit) and the " status merentis " (state of meriting).
A model of the Tabernacle showing the holy place, and behind it the Holy of Holies. The Holy of Holies (Hebrew: קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים, romanized: Qōḏeš haqQŏḏāšīm or Kodesh HaKodashim; also הַדְּבִיר hadDəḇīr, 'the Sanctuary') is a term in the Hebrew Bible that refers to the inner sanctuary of the Tabernacle, where the Shekhinah (God's presence) appeared.
The words of our Lord testify to the existence of original sin. They suppose that by our natural birth we have not that spiritual divine life in our soul which was given to our first parents in Paradise, and consequently that we have lost the principle of that life, sanctifying grace and all that was connected with it. We are born (spiritually ...
This grace is the source of all our supernatural merits and bestows upon us the right of eternal glory. [4] Saint Paul of the Cross stated that "Prayer, good reading, the frequent reception of the sacraments, with the proper dispositions, and particularly the flight of idleness—these are, believe me, the means of sanctifying yourself." [5]
It commonly is translated as "sanctifying grace." This is the grace that sanctifies an individual, granting the person a participation in the divine nature and ordering him to God as to one’s supernatural end. It is this grace that receives the much greater part of the attention in the treatise on grace.
While the sacraments in the Catholic Church are regarded as means of Divine Grace, The Catholic definition of a sacrament is an event in Christian life that is both spiritual and physical. [28] The seven Catholic sacraments have been separated into three groups. The first three Sacraments of Initiation are Baptism, Communion, and Confirmation.