Title: Sacramental - Wikipedia
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Sacramental
Contents
Biblical basis
Denominational usage
Anglican
Catholic
Pentecostal
References
External links

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Sacramental
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Material object or action (sacramentalia) set apart or blessed to manifest the respect due to the Sacraments
A Palm Sunday photo of the blessing of palms, a sacramental in Christianity
A sacramental is a material object or action (in Latin sacramentalia) ritually blessed by a priest to signal its association with the Sacraments and so to incite reverence during acts of worship. They are recognised by the Roman and Eastern Catholic churches, the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, the Church of the East, as well as certain Anglican, Independent Catholic and Old Catholic, Lutheran churches, and Methodist churches. Holy water, for example, is a sacramental that believers use to recall their baptism; other common sacramentals include blessed candles (often given to churchgoers on Candlemas ), blessed palms (given away at churches on Palm Sunday ), blessed ashes (placed on believers' foreheads on Ash Wednesday services), a cross necklace (often taken to be blessed by a pastor before daily use), blessed salt, and holy cards, as well as Christian art, especially a crucifix. Apart from those worn daily, such as a cross necklace or devotional scapular, sacramentals such as a Family Bible, are often kept on home altars in Christian households. As an adjective, sacramental means "of or pertaining to sacraments". Contents
1 Biblical basis
2 Denominational usage
2.1 Anglican
2.2 Catholic
2.3 Pentecostal
3 References
4 External links
Biblical basis
The Biblical basis for the use of sacramentals is that Jesus used a form of sacramentals himself; for example, when Christ healed a blind man, he made a mud paste that He put over the eyes of the man, before telling him to wash in the Pool of Siloam. Denominational usage
Anglican
The Anglican Rosary sitting atop the Anglican Breviary and the Book of Common Prayer
A text of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America includes items such as the Anglican rosary, ashes, and palms among objects counted as sacramentals. Catholic
The Catholic Church currently defines sacramentals as "sacred signs which... signify effects, particularly of a spiritual nature, which are obtained through the intercession of the Church.