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nouna formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unctiontype of:
Definition that contains sacrament
- receive partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
- confession (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
- celebration the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual
- confirmation a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church
- baptism a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
- penance a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
- matrimony the ceremony or sacrament of marriage
- administer perform (a church sacrament) ritually
- sacramento a city in north central California 75 miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River; capital of California
- absolution the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance