sacrament
Definitions of sacrament
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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 unctiontypes:confirmatiea sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the churchboetedoeninga Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolutionbelijdenis, biecht, peccavi, schuldbelijdenis(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolutiontype of:
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