Today is the Feast of the Annunciation, where we celebrate the most impressive sacramental God ever gave us: his own self, in the perceptible form of a human body. It’s the perfect day to explain how, ...

Father Chris Alar’s new book tackles widespread confusion about the sacraments — offering Scripture, tradition and common sense to set the record straight. Marian Father Chris Alar has released his ...

The recent story of a priest who discovered he had never been baptized unleashed a torrent of anxieties and questions around the sacraments. We ask Father Hugh, why is the Church so inflexible about ...

This course provides a basic overview of sacramentality and the seven sacraments in the life of a twenty-first century Catholic. Against a backdrop of a sacramental life view and guided by text, this ...

The Incarnation, which made the redemption of mankind possible, “glorified” matter and raised it to previously unknown heights. God took on human flesh! All created matter was “good” in God’s opinion ...

Signs, symbols and figures all are used to communicate. Those who use them want to signify some element of the truth through them. Sometimes they do it by pointing out that truth in a sign or symbol ...

Do Catholics believe that sacraments give grace even if one is in unrepentant sin? No, not quite. Sacraments possess an inherent power to give grace, yet the effect is hindered or rendered null and ...

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of understanding what we mean by the sacraments as channels of divine grace. We might almost say that Christianity is divided into two classes: those who ...

Why receive the sacraments? What do they really provide or contribute to our lives?The sacraments contribute to man's sanctification, help build up the Body of Christ, and help us worship God. As ...

In the first two centuries of Christianity, theology was based in experience. Words that were later taken to refer to things that are outside the realm of experience were originally attempts to talk ...