Re-Emphasizing the Sacramental Life

There is a significant de-emphasis in American Christianity on the sacramental life. Instead, many Christians are more focused on their personal faith. What are the dangers of this? Michael Gormley and Dave VanVickle take up these questions as a conclusion to this series on Mystagogy.

Snippet from the Show
All of the sacraments are material, visible, sensible signs that communicate the invisible, the hidden power of God.

St. Leo the Great Quotation from CCC #1115

"What was visible in our Savior has passed over into his mysteries."

Subjective Dispositions of Reception: How do you prepare to receive Him?

• Dave starts Sunday on Saturday night.
• Gomer covers the readings ahead of time, but gets 20 minutes of pre-Mass prayer.

Hebrews 12:18-24

For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them. For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.