Synonyms for sacrament
ˈsæk rə məntsacra·ment

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1. sacrament

   Any religious act, especially a public act, viewed as a means of serving God is called a service; the word commonly includes the entire series of exercises of a single occasion of public worship. A religious service ordained as an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace is called a sacrament. Ceremony is a form expressing reverence, or at least respect; we may speak of religious ceremonies, the ceremonies of polite society, the ceremonies of a coronation, an inauguration, etc. An observance has more than a formal obligation, reaching or approaching a religious sacredness; a stated religious observance, viewed as established by authority, is called an ordinance; viewed as an established custom, it is a rite. The terms sacrament and ordinance, in the religious sense, are often used interchangeably; the ordinance derives its sacredness from the authority that ordained it, while the sacrament possesses a sacredness due to something in itself, even when viewed simply as a representation or memorial. The Lord's Supper is the Scriptural name for the observance commemorating the death of Christ; the word communion is once applied to it (1 Cor. x, 16), but not as a distinctive name; at an early period, however, the name communion was so applied, as denoting the communing of Christians with their Lord, or with one another. The term eucharist describes the Lord's Supper as a thanksgiving service; it is also called by preeminence the sacrament, as the ratifying of a solemn vow of consecration to Christ.

   Synonyms:
   ceremony, communion, eucharist, Lord's Supper, observance, ordinance, rite, service, solemnity

Princeton's WordNet

1. sacramentnoun

   a 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 unction

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. sacramentnoun

   Synonyms:
   rite, ceremony, solemnity

2. sacramentnoun

   Synonyms:
   [With The prefixed.] eucharist, communion, lord's Supper

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1. Voltaire:

   When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

2. David Hains:

   I hope that Catholics in Catholic Diocese of Charlotte will understand that it would be sinful to receive a fake sacrament from a woman priest and that includes attending a fake mass.

3. Francis Cardinal George, OMI:

   On the cross, Jesus overcame sin. On the evening of the day he rose from the dead, Christ gave his apostles power to forgive sins. In the Sacrament of Penance, through the ministry of the Church, Christ releases the power of Easter into our lives.

4. Simone Weil:

   The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty. Love of this beauty proceeds from God and descends into our souls and goes out to God present in the universe. It too is something like a sacrament.

5. Francis Cardinal George, OMI:

   Because marriage celebrated in the Church is a sacrament, it cannot be undone. The Church cannot break a bond created by Christ himself.