A. the Word, discipline, and sacraments.
As in all the sacraments additional rites surround the celebration.
In Christian worship or liturgy, there are two major rituals called sacraments.
There are seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Penance, Holy Eucharist, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony.
The bad life of a prelate means that his subjects do not receive orders and the other sacraments.
Alternatively, “pure” clerical power can use its prerogatives (over sacraments like baptism or marriage or absolution) to exercise authority over everybody else, including worldly rulers.
A Christian denomination, founded in the mid-17th century in England, that rejects formal sacraments, a formal creed, a priesthood, and violence; the Quakers.
Images of saints adorned the walls of the church, where parishioners came for all the sacraments that represented the life cycle of ordinary people.
In the liturgy and the celebration of the sacraments, prayer and teaching are conjoined with the grace of Christ to enlighten and nourish Christian activity.
