Excerpt from The Sacramentals of the Holy Catholic Church: Or Flowers From the Garden of the Liturgy
This little book does not profess to exhaust the subject of the Sacramentals: to do so would require a detailed exposition of the whole Liturgy of the Church. All the ceremonies of divine worship, all the blessed articles used in ecclesiastical functions, all the prayers of the Missal, the Ritual, the Pontifical and the Breviary are Sacramentals - that is, they participate of the nature of Sacraments without being Sacraments. They are signs and channels of actual grace, instituted by ecclesiastical authority. The Sacraments are signs and channels of sanctifying, or habitual, grace, instituted by divine authority. The present volume is, however, complete in itself Each sacred rite is, of itself, intelligible and teaches its own holy lesson to the Catholic mind and heart.
I have endeavored to select from the beautiful treasures which the Liturgy offers, in almost inexhaustible variety, to the choice of even a careless explorer, those which fall more frequently under the observation of the faithful and which are, consequently, of greater present utility.
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