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Sashalee
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Posted: Wed Aug 29th, 2007 06:54 pm |
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Do you have a list of the sacramentals and the prayers that accompany them?
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CajunRick
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Posted: Thu Aug 30th, 2007 12:02 am |
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Sashalee wrote: Do you have a list of the sacramentals and the prayers that accompany them?
A "sacramental" is essentially anything which assists in drawing closer to God. A candle may be a sacramental or not, depending on its purpose. A song can be a sacramental, and so can a prayer, a genuflection, a picture, a statue, a medal, a rosary, a book, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia at New Advent lists general categories:
The number of the sacramentals may not be limited; nevertheless, the attempt has been made to determine their general principles or rather applications in the verse: "Orans, tinctus, edens, confessus, dans, benedicens". - Orans indicates public prayer, whether liturgical or private;
- tinctus, the use of holy water and the unctions in use at various consecrations;
- edens, the eating of blessed foods;
- confessus, the general avowal of faults which is made in the Confiteor recited at Mass, at Communion, in the Divine Office;
- dans, alms;
- benedicens, papal and episcopal blessings etc., blessings of candles, ashes, palms etc.
New Advent also distinguishes between objects and actions. A rosary is a sacramental, but so is participation in Eucharistic Adoration or volunteering at a food bank.
So there really is no "list" as such and there can't be, because "the number of sacramentals cannot be limited".
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