SACRAMENTS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Noun

a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it

Example: 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 unction