"Are Sacraments Narrow?"

1)      Ludwig’s problem is that he believes that the sacraments are not necessary for God to bestow grace upon someone.

2)      When the Church is thinking about “sacramentality” it is not thinking that the sacraments deny God’s universal love and will the save everyone and does not think that unbaptized people are necessarily denied salvation.

3)      When the Church is thinking about “sacramentality” it is thinking about how salvation is a relationship with God and relationships require both people to participate and work with each other.

4)      God reveals and gives his grace through His creations. He works through them.

5)      The Christian doctrine, the incarnation, is the foundation for the Sacraments.

6)      Gobs of modern “spirituality” tell us that God would never bother Himself with the crudeness of matter since he doesn’t dwell in the physical world.

7)      The Christian repudiation is that God likes matter a lot since he declared it “good” when He created it, manifested Himself through it, and took on a physical body.

8)      No. God became man so that he could bodily rise from the dead and give us a second life as human beings and not disembodied beings. It brought us to the freedom of being children of God.

9)      This means that the sacraments impart grace as the physical extensions of Jesus just as Jesus’s actual hands heal when he was man.

10)   G.K. Chesterton said that the sacraments don’t limit God’s grace but only focuses it.

11)  Grace allows God to come down from heaven and touch us.