Sacraments

If one or both of them are not of the same religious beliefs of the Priest. If the marriage is just wrong, for the wrong reasons, or dangerous.

If they weren't both of the Christian faith or if one of the persons was still married.

In the Greek Church and all of the churches of the East, Sacraments are the physical symbols of the communion of God with His people. These Sacraments consist of and are not limited to Confession of Sins, Baptism, Chrismation and Communion.

The reason that the Sacraments are not limited to these afore mentioned Sacraments is that in the church of the East, Sacraments are infinite like the rays of the Sun. Life in the Eastern church is Sacramental. Everything from how you get out of bed, how you say your prayers, what you do when you are feasting or fasting, how you treat your wife and kids, driving your car, doing your work, talking to your neighbors, how you sleep is considered sacramental. It is a sacramental life, because you live a life devoted to acquiring communion with God.

Symbolism is treated differently in the East than the definition most of us in the West understand. Symbolism is that which we use to bring past events into the present, or that it is present with us as we act upon it. In that sense, the Sacraments take on life and shape of that which happened, which is happening through the sanctification of time and physical space.

The use of Sacraments in the Greek Church refers to the life of the Church as a living "organism" that flourishes as the bride of Christ, in this world, bringing about the growth and continuance of His Kingdom, here on earth as it is in Heaven, whose truth is protected by the Holy Spirit and defended by "a great cloud of witnesses".

Reconciliation and the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. They are both used for different purposes. Reconciliation is for healing of the soul while anointing is for healing the body and the soul.

In many churches it is their Mass service as well as Baptism, Sacraments like Marriage and Death.

It depends. A sacrament is an earthly symbol with a heavenly meaning. As an example - the water of baptism - water is an earthly symbol but has a heavenly meaning - that of repentance through spiritual cleansing, and rebirth into a new Christian life. If you are a Roman Catholic, there are seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Communion (mass), Matrimony, Ordination, Penance and Unction (prayer for the sick). In other denominations only Baptism and Holy Communion are classed as sacraments as these were instigated (in the case of Holy Communion) and endorsed (in the case of Baptism) by Christ himself.

The purpose of confirmation is to provide an opportunity for our young people to explore the meaning of the Christian faith as understood in the Wesleyan Tradition. Central to this experience is the mentoring relationship, as well as study of the Bible, the basic tenets of the Christian faith, and United Methodist worship and polity.

No. It is the sacrament where sins are confessed and forgiven.

So that those who have a way to heaven when we die and go to heaven then Jesus will judge us on where we go

The 7 sacraments...

Sacrament of baptism

sacrament of confirmation

sacrament of holy eucharist

sacrament of penance

sacrament of extreme unction

sacrament of holy orders

sacrament of matrimony

Sacraments are Holy Communion and Holy Baptism. Other Rites include Anointing of the sick, Confession, Confirmation, etc.

Holy Orders is considered a Sacrament of Vocation, along with the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony (marriage). These two Sacraments are mutually exclusive and represent a path to a holy life through actively seeking the will of Christ. The Sacraments of initiation include Baptism, Holy Communion, and Confirmation.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation exists in order to help mankind achieve a more perfect relationship with God. Sin is anything that interferes with a person's relationship with God (for example, lying because you have injured another it makes your relationship less perfect). Reconciliation allows you to reconcile your relationship with God in order to create a more perfect relationship.

Actually, yes, He did; the Seven Sacraments are not just something that the Holy Church made up. (Actually.... NOTHING that the Holy Church proclaims as true is something that it made up. Everything has a historical basis. I do not say "biblical and/or historical" because biblical is a subcategory of "historical.")

Anywho, continuing.....

biblical evidence for the sacrament of baptism can be found when Jesus was baptized by St. John the Baptist. It can also be found in the Gospel of John, 3:22-30.

biblical evidence for the sacrament of confirmation can be found in several places, one of which is the Book of Acts. in Acts 8:14-17, it states that the people of Samaria were baptized in Christ but did not receive the fullness of the Spirit until they were confirmed by the elders. Too, in Acts 19:5-6, the people of Ephesius were baptized in Christ, but Paul laid hands on them to seal them with the Holy Spirit. This sealing refers to the sacrament of confirmation. Confirmation is a sacrament that Jesus Christ instituted within His Catholic Church to further strengthen those who have reached adulthood.

In Paul's Letter to the Ephesians (1:13), he writes that the baptized Ephesians were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, in reference to confirmation.

In Hebrews 6:2, Paul gives instruction to the Hebrews about the laying on of hands, in reference to confirmation, not ordination. The early Church laid hands upon the confirmand to administer the sacrament of confirmation. (Today, the Church still does that, but they do it in the sacrament of Holy Orders, as well.)

In the Gospel of John (6:27), Jesus says the Father has set His seal on Him. As the Father sets His seal on Jesus, so Jesus sets His seal on us on the sacrament of baptism (ah-hah! another Scripture reference in support of baptism!), and later, in the sacrament of confirmation.

Lastly, in support of confirmation, Revelation 9:4 states that the locusts could not harm those with the seal of God upon their foreheads. This "seal of God" refers to confirmation, and the locusts refer to evil. (See also: Rev. 14:1 and 22:4.)

Support for the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist should be obvious, in that one of the places is the Lord's Last Supper, which took place in the Gospel of Matthew, 26:26-29. Jesus states to "do this in rememberance of Me." Therefore, we should continue to celebrate the Eucharist and remember His Passion and Death which He undertook for the alleviation of our sins.

There is also, in fact, evidence for transubstantiation (the term we use in reference to the fact that the elements used in the Holy Communion ARE the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ; they are not mere symbols). In the Gospels of Matthew (26:26), Mark (14:22), and Luke (22:19-20), the Septuagint (the original Greek text before it was translated - even before it was translated into Latin) states "Touto estin to soma mou." This phraseology means "This is actually..." or "This is really..." "...My Body and Blood."

In the Gospel of Luke (24:26-35), in the Emmaus Road story, Jesus gives a homily on the Scriptures and then follows it with the celebration of the Eucharist. This is an early version of Holy Mass, and the Church has followed this order of the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist for 2,000 years.

There are also MANY other references to the Eucharist, but I'm trying to make this brief, and it's all ready getting extremely long. uhmm.... k, so, next sacrament.

the sacrament of mercy. (a.k.a. - the sacrament of penance, the sacrament of reconciliation, etc. but seldom called the sacrament of confession, as confession only constitutes PART of this sacrament. one must partake in the actual confession of sins and the due penance before the full sacrament is accomplished.)

Evidence for this sacrament can be found in the Gospel of John (20:19-23). It talks about Jesus giving the disciples the power to forgive sins. Actually, that's the title of the segment.... haha. ^.^;; Anywho, Jesus breathes upon the disciples and then says to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." The Church kept the sacrament of mercy.

Evidence for extreme unction (a.k.a. annointing of the sick) can be found in the Gospel of Mark (6:13). The apostles anointed the sick with oil and cured them. This is a sacrament of the Catholic Church instituted by Christ which heals us physically and spiritually.

Also, evidence can be seen in James 5:14-15. These verses demonstrate another example of how priests effect the forgiveness of sins (here, even without the sacrament of mercy [a.k.a. reconciliation]) by the power of Jesus Christ. Protestants have no plausible exegesis of this passage other than to acknowledge the sacrament of the sick.

Again, there are others, but I am trying to keep it as brief as possible.

All rig proud Catholic, myself. also, my Bible was used extensively. ^.^ my knowledge of Church doctrine was used extensively, too. (I'm actually surprised at how much I know.... I be happy!)

Originally posted by R Cath on Yahoo! Answers

Baptism, marriage, extreme unction and the holy orders.

Answer: NO! Those sacraments listed above are one- shots in the Catholic church, with the exception of extreme unction. (If you happen to survive, you can receive extreme unction again at a later date.) Communion and Reconciliation can be repeated regularly. (The seventh sacrament on the list is First Communion, also something you can only do once.)

Yes, Jesus Himself is the Holy Eucharist, one of the Sacraments of Initiation. Jesus, during the Last Supper on Maundy (or Holy) Thursday, offered His Body and Blood under the signs of bread and wine. This process is calledtransubstantiation and the only time transubstantiation happens is in the Consecration. So, yes, Jesus is the Blessed Sacrament, The Holy Eucharist.