| INTRODUCTION: PERSONAL ENCOUNTER WITH GOD |
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| A. CHRIST, SACRAMENT OF GOD |
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| I. Humanity in search of the sacrament of God |
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| 1. Sacrament in pagan religion |
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| 2. Israel as sacrament of God |
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| II. Christ the Primodial sacrament |
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| 1. Encounter with the earthly Christ as sacrament of the encounter with God |
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| 2. The actions of Jesus' life as manifestations of divine love for man and human love for God: bestowal of grace and religious worship |
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| 3. Jesus' humiliations in the service of God and his heavenly exaltation: the redemptive mystery of Christ |
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| III. The necessity for the extension to earth of the glorified Christ, the primodial sacrament |
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| 1. Our need to encounter the Christ of heaven |
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| 2. The real possibility of this encounter from Christ's side |
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| 3. The neccessity for earthly sacraments so that the encounter between the glorified Christ and men on earth might take place in terms of mutual human availability |
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| B. THE CHURCH, SACRAMENT OF THE RISEN CHRIST |
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| I. The mystery of the Church, the earthly "Body of the Lord" |
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| 1. The Church, earthly sacrament of Christ in heaven |
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| 2. The ecclesial character of the office of hierarchy and laity |
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| 3. Office and charism in ther Church |
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| 4. A sacrament: offical act of the Church as redemptive institution |
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| II. The sacraments as ecclesial celebration in mysteries of Christ's life |
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| 1. The presence of the mystery of Christ in the sacraments |
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| 2. The sacraments as ecclesial manifestation of Christ's divine love for men (bestowal of grace) and of his human love for God (worship) |
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| 3. Sevenfold ecclesial realization of the one mystery of redemption |
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| 4. The sacramental presence of Christ for the recpient |
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| C. Implications of the ecclesial character of sacramental action |
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| I. The twofold liturgical structure of the sacraments: "sacrament and word" |
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| 1. Historical survey of teaching on liturgical action and liturgical word |
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| 2. Sign activity in action and word |
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| 3. The relationship of the word to the sacramental manifestation of salvation |
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| II. The ecclesial administration of the sacraments |
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| 1. The neccessity of the intention of the Church's minister |
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| 2. Office and charism. The ideal conditions intrinsically required by the essence of the Church |
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| 3. Break between office and charism. The neccessity minimum for the minister's act to be a participation in the visibility of the Church |
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| Note |
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| III. The intention of the recipient |
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| 1. Free acceptance of the visibility of the Church |
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| 2. The problem of sacraments for infants: the assurance of God's redeeming love towards those who can have no knowledge of it |
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| IV. The condition upon which the value of the sacraments as prayer and sanctification depends: institution by Christ |
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| 1. The fundamental institution of the seven sacraments as implicit in the establishment of the sacramental Church |
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| 2. The problem of the separate insttution of the seven sacraments |
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| 3. Consequences |
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| D. THE SACRAMENTS IN THEIR FULLNESS: THE FRUITFUL SACRAMENT |
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| I. Mutual availability in the encounter with Christ |
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| 1. Personal entry into Christ's ecclesial mystery of worship |
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| 2. Sacraments of the living and of the dead |
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| 3. The sacrament bestowal of grace upon infants |
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| II. Sacraments of desire, and the revival of the sacraments |
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| 1. Sacraments of desire |
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| 2. The revival of sacraments |
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| Partial "revival" |
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| E. ENCOUNTER WITH CHRIST IN THE CHURCH AS SACRAMENT OF THE ENCOUNTER WITH GOD: THE EFFECTS OF A SACRAMENT |
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| I. The ecclesial effect as sacrament of the grace effect |
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| 1. The character as the ecclesial effect of three sacraments |
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| 2. The ecclesial effect of the other sacraments |
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| 3. Explanation of the number of sacraments from the nature of the Church |
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| II. The grace effect of the sacraments: sacramental grace as the encounter with God |
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| III. The religious value of the sacraments in the separated Christian Churches |
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| F. SACRAMENTAL ENCOUNTERS WITH CHRIST: CULMINATING MOMENTS IN THE ECCLESIAL CHARACTER OF CHRISTIAN LIFE |
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| I. Sacramental and extra sacramental grace |
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| II. The Christian life itself as sacrament of the encounter with God |
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| III. Everything is "grace made visible" |
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| G. THE MYSTICAL QUALITY OF THE SACRAMENTS |
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| Conclusion |
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