The Work of the

Church in the World

Based on the article by T. Mackin

Parts 24-47

Presented by Eugene, Mitch, Glu,

April and Ivan

Marriages in the Christian Community

are Sacramental

A love relationship

that climaxes in vision “face to face” – St.

Paul

It enables human beings to singly enter into the final and unending

form of life that God

intends them.

The Sin of the World• According to John the

Baptist, Christ had come to “take away”

• An effort at rescue and a striving to salvage men and women from this sin

• Endemic; from the Beginning

SINHabitual set of human wills in rebellion against the divin will

Shifted the ground of idea of sin• Passed down (genetics)• Now, sinful condition

Condition of Human environment and Condition

within the Soul

theologians’ quest to find out the core of sinfulness of the race

Mackin

Makes us understand that sin is no longer an inherent aspect of the individual

SinMore of a

condition that we are born into

Change

Sin as an inherent impression into a more conditional understanding

Sin’s new

Definition

Sin as a condition from conscious rebellion• Mackin supports

the contemporary understanding that sin is a conscious act or decision that go against what is naturally God’s plan.

Sin as a condition from setting• sin can also be

found in “attitudes, conditions and social structures” even if they are not direct products of a conscious rebellion

Fear: the loss of the self

Loss of the self , but marriage requires self-

giving

Marriage: strategies of

the Church, to heal this FEAR of the loss of

the self

Mackin goes on to identify how both conditions of sin

are generated

Sacraments of initiation

Sacraments of Healing

Sacraments at the service

of Communion

• Baptism• Confirmation• Eucharist

• Penance of Reconciliation

• Anoint of the Sick

• Holy Orders• Matrimony

The 7 Sacraments

• Signs of grace

• Christian rite ordained by Christ that is held by means of divine grace

• A symbol of a spiritual reality

Sacrament

Long established customs and traditions

Early Christians: Religious Jews or Gentiles, different understandings

“Divine Mysteries” that they believe God acts in

Human Dynamis

m

Faith

TRUST• That He

will do so

LOVE • That

desires He to do so

• That God can use these rituals to work his effect in the participants

The First Dynamism of the Christian Sacrament

Sacraments having meanings similar to their gesture• “This Dynamism does not

discard the cultural meaning native to the ritual and simply replace it with its own

The Presence of God’s Action• “-His Spirit”• Animates the fusion

(sacrament) with His intention and meaning

• Union

The Dynamism

not Contradictor

yThe Second Dynamism

The Sacraments are animated from the rituals culturally inherited meaning

Human rituals to manifest God’s meanings

God uses rituals of healing

The Sacraments and Culture

The Transformatio

n of Rituals

• The Transformations are not Physical• It is a transformation of Meaning

Christ• The meaning allows us to

symbolically interact with Him

“Traditional”• “In more Traditional terms, He is really

present to them”