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00:00Hello brothers and sisters! Welcome back to this class on the sacraments.
00:21In this session we are looking at the seven sacraments in their unity, in their entirety.
00:28how they form a unit, a unit of life, and what our path of discipleship is like.
00:36In the previous video, I was talking about Christ's action in the seven sacraments.
00:41Jesus instituted them, the church continues them, I live them, He meets me through these sacraments.
00:49I had also already told them that it is not an obligation, it is not like a stage or a moral process.
01:01No, it is truly the path of a disciple of Jesus.
01:05Now, before we continue, a brief aside.
01:09I know that many of you are taking this class perhaps because you want to be baptized,
01:15because they lacked the sacrament of confirmation,
01:18because where you were back then there was no catechism,
01:23We moved house, my son lost his catechism, etc.
01:29Perhaps questions also arise within them regarding the sacraments and their conditions,
01:36For example, my son is getting married, he is receiving this catechesis,
01:43So I'm going to marry a girl who isn't Catholic,
01:48She does not have the sacraments,
01:51Can I marry her?
01:52Can we go to church to get married?
01:54She belongs to another Christian denomination, or perhaps she is not even Christian.
02:00What else could happen?
02:04Another case, another example is, what can happen to my baby?
02:08I'm a single mother, can I have him baptized?
02:11Is my son already 15 years old?
02:14Can one approach the sacrament of confirmation when one has also lacked communion?
02:20Phew, finally there are so many, many questions regarding the conditions.
02:27I can't answer them all, and in fact I don't intend to.
02:30Because?
02:31Because just as there are people, just as there are realities, there are also cases.
02:36What I'm inviting you to do is to go to your parish, the nearest one,
02:41and ask, and explain your case to the priest.
02:44Look, Father, I'm so-and-so, my girlfriend, we're planning to get married, we want to get married,
02:52We want to start a family, I am Catholic, she is not.
02:57Can?
02:58Yes, under what condition?
03:00Okay?
03:01Or for example, I'm the grandmother, I want to baptize my son, my grandson, excuse me,
03:07But how can I baptize this child if his parents aren't here?
03:13Everything is possible, but let's ask the parish, let's ask the nearest priest.
03:20I couldn't answer all the cases here because there are so many.
03:25Okay?
03:25There are so many of them that it wouldn't be a class anymore, it would be something else.
03:30Okay?
03:31So I invite you, brothers, to truly consider making an appointment with the priest.
03:36from your parish, from the nearest church you have, and explain the case to them
03:41When there is, for example, a disparity in religious beliefs between the couple, when the baby is going to be baptized
03:49But one of my parents is from another religion, or I want to get closer to it because I was never baptized.
03:59whatever it was.
04:01Okay?
04:01Just as there are conditions, there are cases; go, ask, explain your situation to the priest.
04:09And the priest is there to listen to them and to accompany them because then we come back to the same thing.
04:17It is Christ himself who acts in the sacraments; it is the church that is then accompanying his children.
04:25Christ acts in the sacraments and the church is there to shelter me.
04:30The priest then has the obligation to accompany me, to comfort me, to provide me with the divine good that is the sacraments.
04:40Something very interesting that we can see is, and I had it here with you,
04:53I wanted to tell you the following.
04:56Holiness.
04:58The holiness of life that the sacraments imply.
05:02The congruence of life implied by the seven sacraments.
05:05The sacrament of the Eucharist, for example, implies a cleansing of my soul.
05:16It demands of me a righteous life.
05:21A purified conscience to approach this sacrament.
05:26Saint Paul says it very clearly.
05:28Whoever approaches this sacrament can consume, can eat their salvation, or can consume, eat their own condemnation.
05:42What does Paul mean by this?
05:44This means that I must approach this sacrament, the Eucharist, with complete uprightness of life.
05:52In the awareness of not having a mortal sin in my soul.
05:56And if not, or rather, if I do have it, I first approach the sacrament of confession.
06:07And the seven sacraments must always be received freely.
06:12You can never force someone to receive a sacrament.
06:16That's very important.
06:17I cannot force someone to get married in a church.
06:20Sometimes this tendency exists, for example, when the boys were dating and a teenage pregnancy occurs.
06:32What does the bride's father do, or even the groom's father?
06:36My little boy, you answer, you get married.
06:39My little girl, that child who is coming into the world, you're getting married.
06:44No, no brothers.
06:45We cannot force anyone to receive a sacrament.
06:48It seems contradictory with regard to the baptism of babies.
06:53There, it is the will, the desire of the parents that will prevail, that will pass as the desire of the baby.
07:01When a baby is baptized, it is the parents who want it, who ask the church for the baptism for their child.
07:10As I mentioned before, where does the baby's free will fit in?
07:16At what point do we appear to be manipulating the baby by baptizing him?
07:21No.
07:22It is the desire of the parents, and the desire of the mother, that prevails as the natural desire to receive the sacrament of baptism.
07:37Okay?
07:37That's very interesting, and it's very important that we find it out.
07:42And that is why it is the path of righteousness, the path of holiness.
07:47The sacraments demand of me, they oblige me in the Christian sense to be holy, to seek holiness.
07:56And that's why the sacraments don't end.
07:59That's why the sacraments have accompanied me throughout my life.
08:01That's why I can go to mass every Sunday.
08:05That's why I can go to mass every day.
08:09That's why I can even go to mass twice a day.
08:13True, there are conditions.
08:14True, there are disciplines regarding the sacraments.
08:18But the path to holiness in the church, the evidence of the sacraments, is every day.
08:26Let me explain.
08:27Certainly there are sacraments that demand or imprint a character on me.
08:34In other words, an indelible mark.
08:36A hallmark such as livestock farming.
08:40Or a tattoo.
08:41When I talk to young people about this catechesis, I talk to them about tattoos.
08:45And wow, they open their eyes and prick up their ears because they want to hear what their brother is going to say about the tattoo.
08:53It's not the tattoo we thought it was.
08:58Or rather, if they want to, yes.
09:01When soldiers of antiquity, Roman soldiers, were branded by the emperor.
09:11Or rather, with the acronym, the initials, or the symbol of the emperor.
09:17To mark that they belonged to the emperor.
09:22That they were fighting for the emperor's causes.
09:26Let's think about the soldiers of the Roman Empire.
09:30And it was also for practical reasons.
09:32When the soldier died, it was easy to identify his body.
09:35Let's also think about the cattle, the cows.
09:39What does a rancher do?
09:41What does a farmer do with his cow?
09:44The burn imprints a hot iron on her skin, on her leg.
09:52To say, this cow belongs to me.
09:55And well, an initial, a symbol, or a horseshoe is burned in such a way.
10:02And this mark cannot be erased.
10:04This stamp is to say, this cow, this cattle, belongs to such and such person, to such and such rancher.
10:13Thus, the seals that imprint the sacrament, or some of the seven sacraments.
10:20There are three sacraments that are received once and cannot be erased.
10:25Like a tattoo, like a brand on a cow, like an indelible mark.
10:34Saying, you belong to me.
10:36What does God say?
10:37With this seal, you are mine.
10:39You are one of my consecrated ones.
10:42Three, then, are the sacraments that imprint this seal, this character.
10:45It is the sacrament of baptism.
10:48Once it is received and I cannot receive it again, it cannot be deleted.
10:54The sacrament of confirmation, likewise, is received and cannot be repeated.
11:01And above all, it cannot be erased.
11:03And the sacrament of priestly ordination.
11:07A man consecrated as a priest cannot be erased from the list of priests or have his priestly ordination taken away.
11:22There are certain conditions, it is true, brothers, it is true, you know it, when the Holy Father, because of a very great scandal, can ask a priest to step away from the priestly life.
11:36But in reality, he is asking him to be part of the exercise as a priestly function, of the functions of the priest.
11:43That he is no longer in a parish, that he is no longer in a church, that he no longer wears a Roman collar or a habit.
11:50And above all, that he not celebrate Mass or any other sacrament.
11:55For disciplinary reasons.
11:56But the indelible mark cannot be erased.
12:00They even say that we will see these three seals in the sky.
12:03That in heaven we will see the soul that will have these three seals, or two seals, for the one who was not ordained a priest.
12:11The seal of baptism, the seal of confirmation.
12:15The other sacraments can be received multiple times.
12:21Just as there is life, one can receive the sacrament that does not create a character, that does not create an indelible impression.
12:31For example, the most important of all, the sacrament of the Eucharist.
12:36I was able to receive the Eucharist every day of my life.
12:41I even told them that we can receive it twice.
12:45Yes, for the sake of discipline the church asks us to do it twice a day, no more.
12:49And preferably not at the four o'clock and five o'clock masses.
12:52Not at the ten o'clock and eleven o'clock masses.
12:55There must be a space between the two daily communions.
12:58If one day I want to go to mass, and I can go to mass twice on the same day,
13:04Well, let it be a mass in the morning and a mass in the afternoon, so we can receive communion twice.
13:09If by chance, because I'm the sacristan, because I work in the church,
13:13I want to go to three, four, five masses; I'm at a sanctuary, on a pilgrimage.
13:19Let's think about the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, where there are masses every hour,
13:23At the third mass, I no longer receive communion, a spiritual communion.
13:29But that's a disciplinary matter.
13:32The ordinary way is that I can receive communion every Sunday.
13:35Every day, at every Eucharistic celebration, I can receive communion.
13:40I can receive the food, Christ himself, present in the bread of life.
13:45The sacrament of confession, likewise, I can confess every day
13:50as long as a priest is available.
13:54There are saints who achieved at one stage of their lives,
13:57I'm thinking, for example, of Saint Charles Borromeo, or John XXIII,
14:03who went to confession every day of their lives.
14:06How lucky! And above all, what a blessing to have had a priest
14:10so that he may confess them every day!
14:13The sacrament of anointing of the sick can also be received several times.
14:19If one is going to receive this sacrament because one is hospitalized,
14:27She is going to undergo surgery,
14:31because he is already bedridden,
14:34because he has been ill for a long time,
14:38or even up to a few days, one can receive this sacrament.
14:41If there is a relapse, the sacrament of anointing of the sick can be received again.
14:47Heads up! I'll make a brief digression here, which we'll discuss later.
14:49when we look at this particular sacrament.
14:53This sacrament, the church recently, about 50 years ago,
14:5750-40 years, with the Second Vatican Council,
15:00It was adopted to keep only one name.
15:03Previously, this sacrament was also known as extreme unction,
15:08But it would be very ugly.
15:10Imagine a sick person saying, I don't know, my grandmother is sick,
15:13And I say to her, "Grandma, here's the priest,"
15:16He comes to see her to give her the last rites.
15:19Many people thought,
15:20Oh! If it's extreme, it goes all the way.
15:23Then Grandma is going to die.
15:25No, no, it's not extreme unction, it's anointing of the sick
15:29because Christ wants to accompany the sick person in their illness.
15:34In his illness, Christ wants to meet me,
15:37with the sick person, with every sick person.
15:40Okay?
15:41And this name or this request that the church makes of us
15:44if not to call it extreme unction,
15:47It makes me discover something that depends on you and me.
15:51Because sometimes my grandma is sick
15:53And I'm waiting for her to get really sick
15:56to go and find the priest.
15:57My dad is sick
15:59And then he fell ill, and they took him to the hospital.
16:03He's hospitalized and I'll see what happens in the coming days.
16:07The doctor is not giving good signs.
16:09Ah, well, then this might be a good time to look for the priest.
16:13so that he may administer last rites.
16:16No, brothers, no, we must not wait until the last moment.
16:21Could be.
16:22Maybe there's no other way, or maybe we just didn't think of it, but no.
16:25We need to get the Christian mindset ingrained in our minds.
16:29that the anointing of the sick can be given
16:31from the early stages of the disease.
16:34Even from the first symptoms.
16:36Okay?
16:37That's very important, brothers.
16:38Let's never again call it extreme unction
16:41because it's not something you receive until the very end of your life,
16:44the last days of life.
16:45In other words, no, we can receive it from a very early age.
16:50the disease appearing in us or in any sick person.
16:54Okay?
16:55That's very important.
16:56That's why it can be before a surgical procedure.
17:00before a blood transfusion,
17:02of an organ transplant,
17:06intensive care, intermediate care.
17:08Okay, fine?
17:10That said, there's another aside.
17:11The sacrament of extreme unction is not received.
17:16Well, the anointing of the sick,
17:18because I'm going to have surgery to remove my wisdom teeth
17:20or because they're going to remove an ingrown toenail.
17:24Okay?
17:24This is also part of common sense.
17:27that we should have as Christians
17:29when it truly involves a case of illness.
17:34Okay?
17:34There is no disease that deprives us
17:39or that she is not worthy of this sacrament.
17:41No.
17:42Okay?
17:42But that too is discerned with the priest.
17:44when we invited him,
17:46When we ask him to come and give the holy anointing,
17:50the anointing of the sick,
17:51to the sick person, my relative,
17:53my grandma, my dad, my mom,
17:56myself or even a young person.
17:58Okay?
17:58That's important.
18:00We'll see it when we see it.
18:01the sacrament of anointing of the sick
18:04instead.
18:06Now, let's get back to where we were.
18:09The number of times one can receive the sacrament, then
18:12We already saw it,
18:13some once,
18:14others several times.
18:16The sacrament of marriage.
18:17What about the sacrament of marriage?
18:19Can it be received once?
18:21Several times?
18:22Five?
18:24Ten times?
18:26Actually,
18:27the marriage rite
18:29Take a word that comes from Jesus
18:32in the Gospel.
18:33Which is it?
18:34Till death do us part.
18:38So,
18:39In fact,
18:40If one of the couple dies,
18:42If the spouse dies,
18:44can,
18:45Can one remarry?
18:47Through the church?
18:48Yeah,
18:48under all conditions.
18:52No problem.
18:53Yeah,
18:53It's natural.
18:55It is something that God put in nature,
18:58that a man can remarry
18:59when the partner is missing.
19:01When the couple had already departed for heaven,
19:03one can find another new partner
19:05and get married in heaven.
19:07So far,
19:08I'm not saying anything more.
19:09because I know that many can,
19:11If you are watching this class as a couple,
19:13They're going to tell him,
19:13old,
19:14If I were to die one day,
19:16You're not going to marry anyone else.
19:18Okay?
19:18I leave that to discernment.
19:20of each couple
19:21And it's also something we can see
19:23in spiritual direction,
19:24in the advice that as a couple
19:26we can go and look
19:27on our path of discipleship,
19:29since as a couple
19:31We do it together
19:31And we can do this
19:33with a priest.
19:35Now, brothers,
19:36With this I will conclude.
19:38While we are recording this class,
19:40We are in this time
19:41of health emergency,
19:43caused by the coronavirus,
19:46COVID-19
19:47And it's been several days now,
19:50several weeks,
19:50several months
19:51here in Monterrey,
19:54but practically all over the world,
19:58locked up.
19:59Stay at home
20:00as the main health measure
20:03for all of us.
20:05So what happens?
20:06The problem is that there are no sacraments.
20:08Many have said on social media
20:10There are no sacraments.
20:12No no.
20:12What the church does
20:15following government authority,
20:18health authorities,
20:19It is to avoid causing crowds of people
20:23that can cause the virus to spread
20:28because it is easily moved.
20:30The sacraments continue.
20:33The priests continued celebrating Mass.
20:38As a religious person
20:39I had mass,
20:40I was blessed,
20:41I have the blessing
20:42arrest
20:42the holy mass
20:44every day.
20:46But one might ask
20:48And that's what I'm getting at.
20:49with the term
20:50from this video.
20:51What if then
20:52I have a sin
20:54in consciousness,
20:54I feel very bad,
20:56whether or not
20:56health emergency,
20:58I'm sending him a message
20:58from WhatsApp
20:59to the priest
21:00that I know,
21:01I have your contact information
21:02and I send him my sins.
21:04I can even tell you,
21:05Father, get ready,
21:06I'm going to send you
21:06an audio message,
21:08a voice note
21:09with my sins
21:11and you command me
21:12another voice note
21:13with the acquittal.
21:15Oh father,
21:17Where can I download it?
21:19The Eucharist?
21:21And I'll print it now.
21:23I can even print it out
21:24on a 3D printer
21:25and consumption
21:26the Eucharist.
21:29No.
21:30Because?
21:31Why can't I confess?
21:32via audio note
21:33from WhatsApp
21:34or by video call,
21:36on any platform?
21:38Why can't I
21:39to receive the Eucharist
21:40where I go
21:43Should I buy it?
21:45No.
21:46Why can't I
21:47receive confirmation
21:48only like that
21:49like a piece of paper
21:51that arrives at my house
21:52by mail?
21:53No.
21:54Because?
21:55Because what I was telling you,
21:57the sacraments
21:58They are gestures of Christ.
22:01There is the word of Christ,
22:02there is an element,
22:04the word joins
22:05to the element
22:06and the sacrament arises.
22:08I can't
22:08confess
22:10by a message
22:11text
22:12from the cell phone.
22:13Because?
22:14Because I need
22:15the contact
22:16material,
22:18physical
22:19with the minister
22:20so that there may be a word,
22:23so that there can be contact,
22:24so that there is an element.
22:26Okay?
22:26That's very important,
22:27siblings,
22:28that we never lose it
22:29from a point of view.
22:30That's why the sacraments
22:31They are not virtual.
22:33That's why,
22:33as Catholics,
22:34we believe
22:35that the sacrament
22:36It involves interaction.
22:38of people.
22:40That's why I can't
22:41confess by a note
22:43of voice,
22:44I can't put
22:45to a platform
22:46my sins,
22:48I upload them to the cloud
22:48and then I download
22:50the acquittal.
22:50No,
22:51No.
22:51It happens
22:52through physical contact,
22:55in quotation marks,
22:56can only
22:57the laying on of hands
22:58or the gift
23:00of the Eucharist,
23:02the water
23:02of baptism
23:03and so
23:03the seven sacraments.
23:05Because?
23:06Because Jesus,
23:08upon becoming a man,
23:10the word of God,
23:11the Son of God,
23:12upon becoming a man,
23:13upon becoming incarnate
23:14and have a body
23:15like ours,
23:17he gestured
23:17to perform
23:19miracles
23:20and above all
23:20gestures
23:21to perform
23:22salvation.
23:24Let's think
23:24when
23:25laying hands on him,
23:27when it was time
23:28to the sick,
23:29when he took
23:30bread,
23:31when this bread
23:32raised it
23:33to give thanks
23:33bye bye,
23:35when he addressed
23:36the words
23:37to his disciples,
23:40Let's also think
23:41in the text
23:42as I already mentioned,
23:43John 20,
23:44when is it going to give
23:45the Holy Spirit
23:46to the disciples,
23:47What does Jesus do?
23:48Blow on them.
23:49There is a gesture
23:49of Christ.
23:50That's why the church
23:51continues
23:53these gestures
23:55of Christ
23:55And that's why
23:56in the symbology
23:57or at the celebration
23:58of the seven sacraments
23:59there always are
24:00items
24:01physical,
24:04items
24:04palpable,
24:06could be
24:06the oil,
24:07the wine,
24:08bread,
24:09the imposition
24:10of hands,
24:11etc,
24:12so that there is
24:13sacraments.
24:14Okay, brothers?
24:16Is that clear?
24:17Do we see the importance?
24:18so
24:19of the sacraments?
24:21I know they liked it
24:22This video.
24:23Thank you so much,
24:23thank you so much
24:24Thank you for your attention.
24:25Let's keep persevering,
24:27persevering on this path
24:28for reflection
24:29about the sacraments
24:30and above all
24:30This reflection.
24:34Let's bring it to life,
24:35Let's take it
24:36to the Christian experience,
24:38Let us become
24:39in true disciples
24:41of Jesus
24:41living off the seven
24:43sacraments
24:43like a meeting
24:46with Christ,
24:48the gift
24:48of the divine life,
24:49Christ who gives himself
24:50us.
24:51Thank you so much,
24:52See you in the next video,
24:54in a future class.
24:55Meanwhile,
24:56God bless them.
24:58Thank you.
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