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Sacraments in Scripture
Sacraments in Salvation History Made Present is a Bible study on the seven sacraments, prefigured in the Old Testament and instituted by Jesus Christ in the New. Following the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and the Catechism of the Catholic Church on Sacred Scripture, Tim Gray delves into the biblical origin of each of these masterpieces of God's love. In Sacraments in Scripture, Tim Gray guides readers through the Gospels, showing Christ's deliberate acts that inaugurated these sacred signs as the foundation of the New Covenant. With review questions at the end of each chapter, Sacraments in Scripture is ideal for both group and individual study and is perfect for instructing Catholics how to answer contemporary objections to the sacraments.
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96 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2001
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About the author
Tim Gray
63 books38 followersDr. Timothy Gray is President and Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture at The Augustine Institute.
He received an MA from Franciscan University of Steubenville, ThM from Duke University, and PhD in Biblical Studies from Catholic University of America.
Under Dr. Gray’s guidance, the Augustine Institute has created Symbolon, a comprehensive program of faith formation for adults, YDisciple, to inform and inspire youth to deepen their relationship with Christ, Beloved, a twelve part series that explores the mystery and meaning of marriage for marriage enrichment and marriage prep programs, and Lectio an innovative series of Bible studies exploring topics through the lens of Scripture, Tradition and Art.
Tim and his wife Kris, and son Joseph, live in Littleton, Colorado.
He received an MA from Franciscan University of Steubenville, ThM from Duke University, and PhD in Biblical Studies from Catholic University of America.
Under Dr. Gray’s guidance, the Augustine Institute has created Symbolon, a comprehensive program of faith formation for adults, YDisciple, to inform and inspire youth to deepen their relationship with Christ, Beloved, a twelve part series that explores the mystery and meaning of marriage for marriage enrichment and marriage prep programs, and Lectio an innovative series of Bible studies exploring topics through the lens of Scripture, Tradition and Art.
Tim and his wife Kris, and son Joseph, live in Littleton, Colorado.
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June 6, 2018
- The fruits of the sacraments depend on the disposition of the one who receives them. CCC 1128
- Sacraments are visible signs of invisible things whereby man is made holy. St Thomas Aquinas
- A sacramental sign effects what it signifies. It is efficacious. They have the God-given power to effect what they signify. They cause God's grace to be made present.
- Through the Eucharist, Peter can say we've become "partakers of the divine nature." 2 Peter 1:4
- The hemorrhaging woman touched Jesus and he perceived power had gone from him. He had lots of people touching him but his power only flowed to the one who touched him in faith. That's how the sacraments work; if we go to them in faith, we're touched by grace. His grace will bear fruit in us according to how well we're disposed to receive it.
- The sacraments are channels of God's powerful grace, but that grace will bear fruit in us according to how well we're disposed to received Jesus in the sacraments with faith.
- Sacraments are the portals of grace God has chosen to abide with his people. The make Christ present in our lives.
- Greek speaking church fathers called the sacraments "mysteries."
- St John Eudes claimed the goal of our lives is to continue the life of Christ.
- Grace comes before action and the sacraments before morality.
- Baptism of Jesus is basis of Christian Confirmation. He was anointed by the power of the Spirit. Luke tells us he goes forth in the power of the spirit and power.
- Salvation history is prefigured in the OT and made present in Christ.
- The liturgy and the sacraments are our doorway in to the story of salvation.
- My story is a chapter in the life of Christ today.
- The mystery of the economy of salvation: Jesus is prefigured in the OT, made manifest in the NT, and "post-figured" by us living the life of Christ today.
- What makes us "Christian" is that we possess the anointing of the Holy Spirit, given to us in our baptism and completed in the sacrament of confirmation when we are anointed with oil. We're Christians because we are "anointed ones".
- Our lives should bear fruit worthy of those who've been anointed in the power of the Holy Spirit.
- All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. (Romans 8:14) Through confirmation and its graces, we should be emboldened to bear witness to Jesus before all people, sharing our faith as an act of charity to others and as an act of love for God.
- We're anointed (in confirmation) that our lives may give off the aroma of Christ. (I have really experienced the grace of my confirmation in that I am bolder and less timid with my faith.)
- Jesus is at the same time the suffering Servant who silently allows himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel's redemption at the first Passover. CCC 608
- Revelation 5:6 They worshipped "a Lamb standing as though it had been slain." We are to worship Jesus on earth as He is worshipped in heaven. This concept helped me better understand why Catholics embrace the crucifix instead of the cross.
- "You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood." Lev 17:14 God didn't want his people to participate in the life of beasts, so he forbade them from drinking their blood. But they could eat the flesh of certain animal sacrifices, for that signified participation in their death. God wanted them to die to their animal nature.... God wants us to participate in the death and resurrection of Jesus, therefore we eat his flesh. When we drink his blood, we drink his life (the life is in the blood). Through eating his body and drinking his blood we become partakers of his divine nature. 2 Pet 1:4
- Moses called Israel to "circumcise their hearts," but the grace for such a complete conversion was to come only with the New Covenant.
- Matthew 18:18, the power to bind and loose is the power to forgive sins. "He who hears you hears me and he who rejects you rejects me." Luke 10:16 Jesus gave apostles same power that God gave him.
- In reconciliation, "He who hears you hears me." When priest declares sins forgiven, they're forgiven.
- 2 Cor 5. Priests given ministry of reconciliation. The priest ministers on behalf of Christ.
- Interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a return, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward our evil. CCC 1431
- Interior conversion urges expression in visible signs, gestures and works of penance. CCC 1430
- Penance --> paralytic "takes up his mat", leper goes to temple to "make offering according to Moses", the woman wets his feet with tears, wipes them with her hair and anoints them with oil.
- God didn't release Paul from his physical affliction but said, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Thus Paul learned "when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Cor 12:9,10
- By his passion and death, Christ has given a new meaning to suffering; it can henceforth configure us to him and unite us with his redemptive passion. CCC 1505
- Priests offered sacrifices to atone for sin and officiated over the liturgy.
- Priesthood of all believers is know as common priesthood of the faithful. We offer the sacrifices of our lives to the Father in union with the sacrifice of Christ, which the priest presents to God at Mass.
- all --> common priesthood
- Priests --> ministerial priesthood
- Instituted by Christ and passed down from the apostles, they participate in priesthood of Christ by offering God in the Mass the sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary.
- The priest offers the faithful to Jesus and Jesus offers them to God.
- The sacrifice to be offered by the common priesthood is themselves. Rom 12:1
- Priest offers the sacrifice of Jesus to the Father along with the congregation. Jesus takes these sacrifices and offers them holy and blameless to the Father.
- At the elevation we should unite our sacrifices to the sacrifice of the priest on the altar. The priest in turn offers the sacrifice of Jesus and as Paul did, offers the congregation up to God. Jesus takes these sacrifices and offers them holy and blameless to the Father.
- Priest offer faithful to Jesus and Jesus offers them to God.
- The fundamental vocation of everyone is to love.
- Jesus bestows sacramental graces on marriage to enable men and women to be faithful. Likewise, in the new covenant, the bride of Christ is enabled to be faithful to her divine spouse.
- Each marriage should be an icon of the love of Christ and the Church. Eph 5:32 marriage is a great mystery as it represents Jesus and the church.
- Marriage provides lessons in love that need to be contemplated so as to deepen our desire and ability to love God.
- Family fruitfulness gives witness to life-giving power of love.
- Love is generous and true love is modeled on the divine with is self-giving.
- Relationship of marital covenant - steadfast, everlasting, sacrificial and fruitful.
I took more notes than those, but those are the things that really hit me. I thought how the priest "presents" the sacrifice was very good, but I'm still percolating on it and have no words to articulate it yet. Very good points that I want to internalize, but I'm slow on the uptake.
- Sacraments are visible signs of invisible things whereby man is made holy. St Thomas Aquinas
- A sacramental sign effects what it signifies. It is efficacious. They have the God-given power to effect what they signify. They cause God's grace to be made present.
- Through the Eucharist, Peter can say we've become "partakers of the divine nature." 2 Peter 1:4
- The hemorrhaging woman touched Jesus and he perceived power had gone from him. He had lots of people touching him but his power only flowed to the one who touched him in faith. That's how the sacraments work; if we go to them in faith, we're touched by grace. His grace will bear fruit in us according to how well we're disposed to receive it.
- The sacraments are channels of God's powerful grace, but that grace will bear fruit in us according to how well we're disposed to received Jesus in the sacraments with faith.
- Sacraments are the portals of grace God has chosen to abide with his people. The make Christ present in our lives.
- Greek speaking church fathers called the sacraments "mysteries."
- St John Eudes claimed the goal of our lives is to continue the life of Christ.
- Grace comes before action and the sacraments before morality.
- Baptism of Jesus is basis of Christian Confirmation. He was anointed by the power of the Spirit. Luke tells us he goes forth in the power of the spirit and power.
- Salvation history is prefigured in the OT and made present in Christ.
- The liturgy and the sacraments are our doorway in to the story of salvation.
- My story is a chapter in the life of Christ today.
- The mystery of the economy of salvation: Jesus is prefigured in the OT, made manifest in the NT, and "post-figured" by us living the life of Christ today.
- What makes us "Christian" is that we possess the anointing of the Holy Spirit, given to us in our baptism and completed in the sacrament of confirmation when we are anointed with oil. We're Christians because we are "anointed ones".
- Our lives should bear fruit worthy of those who've been anointed in the power of the Holy Spirit.
- All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. (Romans 8:14) Through confirmation and its graces, we should be emboldened to bear witness to Jesus before all people, sharing our faith as an act of charity to others and as an act of love for God.
- We're anointed (in confirmation) that our lives may give off the aroma of Christ. (I have really experienced the grace of my confirmation in that I am bolder and less timid with my faith.)
- Jesus is at the same time the suffering Servant who silently allows himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel's redemption at the first Passover. CCC 608
- Revelation 5:6 They worshipped "a Lamb standing as though it had been slain." We are to worship Jesus on earth as He is worshipped in heaven. This concept helped me better understand why Catholics embrace the crucifix instead of the cross.
- "You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood." Lev 17:14 God didn't want his people to participate in the life of beasts, so he forbade them from drinking their blood. But they could eat the flesh of certain animal sacrifices, for that signified participation in their death. God wanted them to die to their animal nature.... God wants us to participate in the death and resurrection of Jesus, therefore we eat his flesh. When we drink his blood, we drink his life (the life is in the blood). Through eating his body and drinking his blood we become partakers of his divine nature. 2 Pet 1:4
- Moses called Israel to "circumcise their hearts," but the grace for such a complete conversion was to come only with the New Covenant.
- Matthew 18:18, the power to bind and loose is the power to forgive sins. "He who hears you hears me and he who rejects you rejects me." Luke 10:16 Jesus gave apostles same power that God gave him.
- In reconciliation, "He who hears you hears me." When priest declares sins forgiven, they're forgiven.
- 2 Cor 5. Priests given ministry of reconciliation. The priest ministers on behalf of Christ.
- Interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a return, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward our evil. CCC 1431
- Interior conversion urges expression in visible signs, gestures and works of penance. CCC 1430
- Penance --> paralytic "takes up his mat", leper goes to temple to "make offering according to Moses", the woman wets his feet with tears, wipes them with her hair and anoints them with oil.
- God didn't release Paul from his physical affliction but said, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Thus Paul learned "when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Cor 12:9,10
- By his passion and death, Christ has given a new meaning to suffering; it can henceforth configure us to him and unite us with his redemptive passion. CCC 1505
- Priests offered sacrifices to atone for sin and officiated over the liturgy.
- Priesthood of all believers is know as common priesthood of the faithful. We offer the sacrifices of our lives to the Father in union with the sacrifice of Christ, which the priest presents to God at Mass.
- all --> common priesthood
- Priests --> ministerial priesthood
- Instituted by Christ and passed down from the apostles, they participate in priesthood of Christ by offering God in the Mass the sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary.
- The priest offers the faithful to Jesus and Jesus offers them to God.
- The sacrifice to be offered by the common priesthood is themselves. Rom 12:1
- Priest offers the sacrifice of Jesus to the Father along with the congregation. Jesus takes these sacrifices and offers them holy and blameless to the Father.
- At the elevation we should unite our sacrifices to the sacrifice of the priest on the altar. The priest in turn offers the sacrifice of Jesus and as Paul did, offers the congregation up to God. Jesus takes these sacrifices and offers them holy and blameless to the Father.
- Priest offer faithful to Jesus and Jesus offers them to God.
- The fundamental vocation of everyone is to love.
- Jesus bestows sacramental graces on marriage to enable men and women to be faithful. Likewise, in the new covenant, the bride of Christ is enabled to be faithful to her divine spouse.
- Each marriage should be an icon of the love of Christ and the Church. Eph 5:32 marriage is a great mystery as it represents Jesus and the church.
- Marriage provides lessons in love that need to be contemplated so as to deepen our desire and ability to love God.
- Family fruitfulness gives witness to life-giving power of love.
- Love is generous and true love is modeled on the divine with is self-giving.
- Relationship of marital covenant - steadfast, everlasting, sacrificial and fruitful.
I took more notes than those, but those are the things that really hit me. I thought how the priest "presents" the sacrifice was very good, but I'm still percolating on it and have no words to articulate it yet. Very good points that I want to internalize, but I'm slow on the uptake.
August 8, 2021
This is a short book about the Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church by a well-known and knowledgeable author.
Chapter One is more of an Introduction and the next seven chapters [2-8] deal with each of the seven sacraments individually. The chapters have an Overview, and then information from the Old Testament and New Testament and the Application for each one. There are also questions at the end of each of the chapters of the seven sacraments for use as a study guide perhaps in a class.
Per my own preference [and not unlike the way I deal with some non-fiction subjects], I did not read the chapters in numerical order. I picked the Sacraments in the order that they interested me, but of course, reading all of them to the end. The material is not difficult to understand or to digest, and I found the book interesting and informative.
Chapter One is more of an Introduction and the next seven chapters [2-8] deal with each of the seven sacraments individually. The chapters have an Overview, and then information from the Old Testament and New Testament and the Application for each one. There are also questions at the end of each of the chapters of the seven sacraments for use as a study guide perhaps in a class.
Per my own preference [and not unlike the way I deal with some non-fiction subjects], I did not read the chapters in numerical order. I picked the Sacraments in the order that they interested me, but of course, reading all of them to the end. The material is not difficult to understand or to digest, and I found the book interesting and informative.
February 24, 2014
I was a lucky winner of this book here on Goodreads.com. I found this book to be very well written & while I am not Catholic I found much of the book to be very practical for any Protestant religion too. It was great having both New & Old Testament back-up to each sacriment. I wouldn't mind reading more of Tim Gray's work in the future.
May 29, 2013
*I won a free copy of Sacraments in Scripture from Goodreads' First Reads.
This book really shows the origins of the sacraments in a way that people outside of the faith can understand. It is clearly written and easy to understand.
4/5 stars!
This book really shows the origins of the sacraments in a way that people outside of the faith can understand. It is clearly written and easy to understand.
4/5 stars!
June 21, 2013
I received this book via the Goodreads First Reads program.
As a Protestant, I do not know a lot about Catholic theology (besides the theology we do share). I liked how it covered each sacrament in depth. I especially liked the chapters on baptism and anointing the sick.
As a Protestant, I do not know a lot about Catholic theology (besides the theology we do share). I liked how it covered each sacrament in depth. I especially liked the chapters on baptism and anointing the sick.
October 18, 2008
Good overview.
April 21, 2016
Got this book from a Goodreads Giveaway :)
September 4, 2015
scripture origins of holy sacaraments....
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