Sacramental Grace and the (7) Sacraments

[ConstantineTG]

The RC never really defined that there was only 7 Sacraments until Trent.

 

[Vico]

Assyrian Church of the East Sacraments (Raza) of the Church are:

1. The Priesthood.
2. Holy Baptism.
3. Oil of Chrismation (Unction) – used many ways*
4. Oblation of the Body and Blood of Christ (Holy Qurbana).
5. Absolution (Khusaya).
6. Holy Leaven, the king (Malka).
7. The sign of the Life Giving Cross.

• No specific Confirmation or Anointing of the Sick.
  Marriage is not a Raza.

Catholic

1. An excerpt from the Profession of Faith of Michael Paleologus
   II Council of Lyons, 1274
   

       The same Holy Roman Church also holds and teaches that there are             seven sacraments of the Church: one is baptism, which has been             mentioned above; another is the sacrament of confirmation which             bishops confer by the laying on of hands while they anoint the             reborn; then penance, the Eucharist, the sacrament of order, matrimony             and extreme unction which, according to the doctrine of the Blessed             James, [James 5:14-15] is administered to the sick. The same Roman             Church performs (conficit) the sacrament of the Eucharist with             unleavened bread; she holds and teaches that in this sacrament             the bread is truly transubstantiated into the body of our Lord             Jesus Christ, and the wine into His blood. As regards matrimony,             she holds that neither is a man allowed to have several wives             at the same time nor a woman several husbands. But, when a legitimate             marriage is dissolved by the death of one of the spouses, she             declares that a second and afterwards a third wedding are successively             licit, if no other canonical impediment goes against it for any             reason.nst it for any reason.
   
     
       Source: The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the             Catholic Church, rev ed., ed. J. Neusner and J Dupuis, (New York:             Alba House, 1982), no. 28 (p. 19) = Denzinger-Schönmetzer, *Enchiridion*, 860]

 

[yawsep1569]

Assyrian Church of the East Sacraments (Raza) of the Church are:

1. The Priesthood.
2. Holy Baptism.
3. Oil of Chrismation (Unction) – used many ways*
4. Oblation of the Body and Blood of Christ (Holy Qurbana).
5. Absolution (Khusaya).
6. Holy Leaven, the king (Malka).
7. The sign of the Life Giving Cross.

• No specific Confirmation or Anointing of the Sick.
  Marriage is not a Raza.

Yes, the Assyrian Church officially adopted the list of seven sacraments from Mar Abdisho but this was only very recently (2004?). This is not the only list of seven sacraments as Patriarch Mar Timothy II supplied a different one that does include Marriage as a sacrament. The point in my previous post is that these lists of seven are foreign to the Mesopotamian and Syrian traditions - this idea of only seven came from the west. I do not think Mar Abdisho ever wished to exclude Marriage as a “raza” but he only chose the seven that were most directly related to Christ and salvation. The relationship of the Chaldean and Syro-Malabar Churches to the Assyrian is different from that of other Eastern Catholic Churches to their Orthodox “counterpart”. The Assyrians are not exactly considered as being more “authentic”. It is interesting to note that Timothy II and Abdisho were contemporaries and Timothy II became Catholicos-Patriarch after the death of Metropolitan Abdisho.