Why does the Catholic church have 7 Sacraments? Why not just one really big one? You'll find out but you really have to LISTEN!

Why? Why is it that the sacraments are of the Roman Catholic Church? I mean, for crying out loud, Christianity has hundreds of different divisions.

Don't they have

right to the sacraments? Some of the denominations do have sacramental life.

What

is that, sacrament light? Sacrament light or

life? Life, L-I-F-E.

For instance, they recognize the sacrament of baptism in the Episcopalian Church or the Anglican Church.

The different...

Lutherans, for instance, some Lutherans would regard the Eucharist as a sacrament.

We, though, regard seven sacraments in the Church, and those sacraments in our teaching go right back to the time of Christ.

And our ways in which Christ continues to make himself known to us through grace and through physical signs.

So that's what we celebrate in each sacrament.

The physical sign, for instance, of baptism is water.

Now, Martin Luther, of course,

obviously, historically wanted to cut the umbilical cord, but which sacraments did he drop? You said, well, he kind of recognized in his own way and what many of the Protestant churches are.

What I say is, with great respect, known hierarchically as low churches or high churches.

That's a technical term.

That is, yeah.

It's used,

right? And the high churches are

far closer to Catholicism.

Right.

In fact, in Anglicanism, or Episcopal in this country, there is hardly any difference in many ways.

And

so

Why? Why is it that the sacraments are of the Roman Catholic Church? I mean, for crying out loud, Christianity has hundreds of different divisions.

Don't they have

right to the sacraments? Some of the denominations do have sacramental life.

What

is that, sacrament light? Sacrament light or

life? Life, L-I-F-E.

For instance, they recognize the sacrament of baptism in the Episcopalian Church or the Anglican Church.

The different...

Lutherans, for instance, some Lutherans would regard the Eucharist as a sacrament.

We, though, regard seven sacraments in the Church, and those sacraments in our teaching go right back to the time of Christ.

And our ways in which Christ continues to make himself known to us through grace and through physical signs.

So that's what we celebrate in each sacrament.

The physical sign, for instance, of baptism is water.

Now, Martin Luther, of course,

obviously, historically wanted to cut the umbilical cord, but which sacraments did he drop? You said, well, he kind of recognized in his own way and what many of the Protestant churches are.

What I say is, with great respect, known hierarchically as low churches or high churches.

That's a technical term.

That is, yeah.

It's used,

right? And the high churches are

far closer to Catholicism.

Right.

In fact, in Anglicanism, or Episcopal in this country, there is hardly any difference in many ways.

And

so