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Day 156: How the Liturgy Is Celebrated

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Power of Signs and Symbols

Since Pentecost, it is through the sacramental signs of his church that the Holy Spirit carries on the work of sanctification. He performs healings and illustrates his preaching with physical signs or symbolic gestures. Sacraments do not abolish, but purify and integrate all the richness of the signs and symbols of the cosmos and of social life. Further, they signify and make actively present the salvation wrought by Christ,. And prefigure and anticipate the glory of heaven.

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