2. Marriages in the
Christian Community
are Sacramental
It enables
human beings to A love
singly enter into relationship that
the final and climaxes in
unending form vision “face to
of life that God face” – St. Paul
intends them.

3. The Sin of the World
• According to John the
Baptist, Christ had come to
“take away”
• An effort at rescue and a
striving to salvage men and
women from this sin
• Endemic; from the
Beginning

4. SIN
Habitual set of human wills in
rebellion against the divin will
Shifted the ground of idea of sin
• Passed down (genetics)
• Now, sinful condition
Condition of Human environment
and Condition within the Soul
theologians’ quest to find out the core of sinfulness
of the race

5. Makes us understand
that sin is no longer
Mackin an inherent aspect of
the individual
More of a
Sin condition that we
are born into
Sin as an inherent
impression into a
Change more conditional
understanding

6. Sin as a condition from
conscious rebellion
• Mackin supports
the contemporary
understanding that
sin is a conscious
act or decision that
go against what is
Sin’s naturally God’s
plan.
new
Definition Sin as a condition
from setting
• sin can also be
found in
“attitudes, condition
s and social
structures” even if
they are not direct
products of a
conscious rebellion

7. Mackin goes on to identify
how both conditions of sin are
generated
Marriage:
Loss of the self ,
strategies of the
Fear: the loss of but marriage
Church, to heal
the self requires self-
this FEAR of the
giving
loss of the self

8. The 7 Sacraments
• Baptism
Sacraments of • Confirmation
initiation • Eucharist
• Penance of
Sacraments of Reconciliation
Healing • Anoint of the Sick
Sacraments at • Holy Orders
the service of • Matrimony
Communion

9. • Signs of
grace
• Christian rite
ordained by
Christ that is
Long established customs
held by and traditions
Sacrament means of
divine grace
• A symbol of Early Christians: Religious
a spiritual Jews or Gentiles, different
reality understandings
“Divine Mysteries” that
they believe God acts in

10. The First Dynamism of the Christian
Sacrament
Faith
• That God can use
these rituals to work
his effect in the
participants
TRUST
• That He
will do so
Human LOVE
Dynamism • That
desires
He to do
so

11. The
Dynamism not
Contradictory The Second
Dynamism
Sacraments having The Presence of God’s
meanings similar to their Action
gesture • “-His Spirit”
• “This Dynamism does not • Animates the fusion
discard the cultural meaning (sacrament) with His
native to the ritual and simply intention and meaning
replace it with its own
• Union

12. The Sacraments
and Culture
The Sacraments
are animated from
the rituals culturally
inherited meaning
Human rituals to
manifest God’s
meanings
God uses rituals of
healing

13. The • The Transformations are not Physical
Transformation
of Rituals • It is a transformation of Meaning
• The meaning allows us to symbolically
Christ interact with Him
“Traditional”
• “In more Traditional terms, He is really present to
them”