sacramentum
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- noun
- /ˌsækrəˈmɛntəm/
- Specialized
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sacramento
- In Christianity, marriage is viewed as a holy sacramentum, reflecting the commitment between the couple and their faith in God.
- sacramentum of marriage
Examples
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He brought Paul's thought in Ephesians 5 to bear upon the need of husband and wife to remain faithful to one another and calls marriage "a sacramentum," that is, a sacred sign or type, revealing something about the great mysterion of Christ and the church.
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They followed the position of the Scholastic canonists, who saw the sacramentum as the human marriage signifying the union of Christ and the Church.
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Third, the theologians had struggled to identify the mysterion or sacramentum in marriage and to define its nature.
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It appears that the sacramentum of marriage, the reason for its indissolubility, was the spouses' commitment to God to maintain the marriage.
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Augustine introduced the language of "sacramentum" to the discussion of marriage, precisely in relationship to marital fidelity.
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Mackin has traced the development of Augustine's thought on the sacramentum of marriage, citing at least four different uses of it: as an image of the eschatological union of all people in Christ; as the hidden meaning that human marriage is taken up into the union of Christ and the Church; as the cause that brings about the effect of lifelong perseverance in marriage; as the bond that unites the spouses until death.
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Baptism is considered a sacred sacramentum that symbolizes the beginning of a Christian's spiritual journey.
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During the church service, the priest explained the significance of the sacramentum of the Eucharist as a means of receiving divine grace.
Synonyms
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A formal ceremony often held as part of a religious tradition
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A Christian church service where people receive bread and wine to remember Jesus
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A religious ceremony that shows a person's faith and God's blessing
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A Christian service when people bless and eat bread and drink wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
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A Christian ceremony where people share bread and wine to remember Jesus
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A Christian ceremony when people eat bread and drink wine to remember the Last Supper
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A Christian ceremony that blesses bread and wine to remember the Last Supper
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A Christian ceremony when people bless and eat bread and wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
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A religious ceremony where Christians bless bread and wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
A Christian ceremony where people eat bread and drink wine to remember Jesus' death and his rising from the dead
A Christian ceremony where bread and wine are blessed and eaten to remember Jesus' Last Supper
An old Christian ceremony where people receive bread and wine
How Sacred
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sacramentum comes from the Latin root sacer, which means 'sacred' or 'holy', and was used for sacred rites like baptism or the Eucharist that show God's presence. So a sacramentum is a 'sacred sign' that connects people to God's help.