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Sacramentals are material objects or things (sacramentalia) set apart or blessed by the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches and the Anglican Churches to manifest the respect due to the Sacraments, and so to excite good thoughts and to increase devotion, and through these movements of the heart to remit venial sin, according to the Council of Trent (Session XXII, 15).

Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican usage

When the term is used in the singular it is preceded by an article ("a sacramental" or "the sacramental") as sacramental is also an adjective describing the Sacraments.

These churches recognize two differences between the Sacraments and the sacramentals:
  • The Sacraments were instituted by Jesus Christ; most, but not all, of the sacramentals were instituted by the Church.
  • The Sacraments give grace of themselves and are always fruitful when the faithful place no spiritual obstacles in the way; the sacramentals excite pious dispositions, by means of which the faithful may obtain grace. It is not the sacramental itself that gives grace, but the devotion, the love of God, or sorrow for sin that it inspires, and the prayers of the Church that render sacramentals efficacious against evil.
Although the Catholic Church restricts on the reception of the its Sacraments by non-Catholics, this is not true of the sacramentals. The pious use of sacramentals by non-Catholics is permitted and encouraged. As blessed objects or rituals that represent sacred beliefs and persons, disrespect to sacramentals is considered a form of sacrilege.

Examples

Sacramentals used in these churches include:

Protestant usage

In Protestant usage, "sacramental" is used by some groups, in particular Lutheran and some Methodists, to refer to the "five commonly called sacraments" that are recoginzed as Sacraments by the Roman Catholic Church, but not by most Protestants: marriage, confirmation, ordination, confession, unction/annointing.

This usage is intended to emphasize the Protestant belief that only Baptism and the Eucharist are explicitly ordained by Christ in the gospels with parallel rites in the Old Testament (in Circumcision and Passover), but that these sacramentals are nevertheless similar to sacraments in many respects and can be valuable means of grace for believers.

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The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:
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According to Roman Catholicism, a venial sin (meaning "forgivable" sin) is a lesser sin that does not result in a complete separation from God and eternal damnation in Hell. A venial sin involves a "temporary loss of grace" from God.
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  • Sacramental as an adjective means of or pertaining to sacraments.
  • In Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism, sacramentals are objects whose supernatural effects, unlike those of a sacrament, depend on the belief of the recipient.

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Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense, any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege. It can come in the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things.
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