Why Jesus is sacrament?

Answer 1

Jesus is the Primordial Sacrament of the Father. By being the "Primordial Sacrament", Jesus Chriast is much more than simply the originator of the Sacraments. He is at once the SOURCE, the PRIMARY AGENT and the GOAL of all sacramental sctivity.

As SOURCE, Christ is the one in whom all the sacraments are rooted and from whom they derive their efficacy.

As PRIMARY AGENT, he is the one who, through the actions and words of the minister celebrating the various sacraments, baptizes, confirms, forgives, and reconciles, heals, offers himself in sacrifice, binds in faithful love and consecrates for service.

As Goal of all sacraments, Christ is the perfection toward which our life on earth tends.

Answer 2

The dictionary explains a Sacrament as "A formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction.

In biblical times there were many Saraments. The Jews has twisted the Old Law to suit themselves, and brought about many such ordinances that were not in the Old Law as given to Moses.

Today there is only one Sacrament of worth and that is the Sacrament of the breaking of bread and the parting of wine or water in rememberance of our Lord, and that of renewing out covenants with Him. Other sacraments are those still adhered to but other Christian denominations.

Answer 3

Jesus is a living sacrifice in that while he was alive, he willingly allowed himself to be put to death. Because he lived a perfect life and was God, this death atoned for the sins of the world. This is also why Jesus is called the "sacrificial lamb," because he was given up as a sacrifice. Prior to his death, animal sacrifices were made as offerings in order to atone for individual sins, because the price for sin is death and where there is sin, something has to cover it. Thus, Jesus had to die in order to cover the world with his sacrifice.

Answer 4

Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, is THE sacrament in several ways. Most obviously, in the Eucharist which is really and truly Jesus Christ, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. All other sacraments lead up to or flow from the Eucharist, which is not JUST a sacrament, but is truly God present on earth under the forms of Bread and Wine.

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In addition, the Church, itself, is considered a sacrament, and could be considered the first sacrament as all of the others flow from her because the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ (see Acts and St. Paul), so again, the Church, in a very real sense is Jesus Christ, and thus could be considered the "first sacrament".

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to the Church as a sacrament in three different senses:

1. Properly, the Church is the universal Sacrament of Salvation:

　

　

　

774 ... The Church, then, both contains and communicates the invisible grace she signifies. It is in this analogical sense, that the Church is called a "sacrament."

　

2. In the second sense, the Church is the sacrament of the mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit:

　

　

　

　

738 Thus the Church's mission is not an addition to that of Christ and the Holy Spirit, but is its sacrament: in her whole being and in all her members, the church is sent to announce, bear witness, make present, and spread the mystery of the communion of the Holy Trinity...

and, finally to sum up the "universal sacrament of salvation:

　

　

849 The missionary mandate. "Having been divinely sent to the nations that she might be 'the universal sacrament of salvation,' the Church, in obedience to the command of her founder and because it is demanded by her own essential universality, strives to preach the Gospel to all men": (Ad gentes 1; cf. Mt 16:15) "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and Lo, I am with you always, until the close of the age." (Mt 28:19-20)

　

Answer 5

The sacrament of Christ is also called the "Eucharist" or "Communion." In the Catholic Church, bread and wine are used to represent the body and bread of Christ, respectively.

Answer 6

Because it says in The Bible that Jesus will be the last lamb to be offered for our sins and that after Jesus dies our lives will be cleansed from sin