#12457 Are the Sacraments Necessary for Salvation? Faith and Grace - Tom Nash

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“Are the Sacraments Necessary for Salvation?” This episode delves into the essential role of sacraments in Catholic faith, exploring questions about their necessity and significance. Additionally, we tackle inquiries about the relationship between faith and grace, as well as common misconceptions surrounding sacraments in Catholicism.

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0:00 – AMA Sacraments & Catholicism

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome to Catholic Cantras Live. My name is Edgar Luano, producer for the show,
0:36.6	call screener as well. And today, your Phil and host, Size out for the day. So you get me and you get me for the full two hours. Don't worry. There's nothing to be afraid about. So I will be back tomorrow for an episode with the one and only Jimmy Haken. But today, we have an awesome show for you guys. Second, Tim Staples, it's going to be an ask me anything about Catholicism, so you can ask them what you want there. But for this hour, we have one of our in-house apologists, and newest in the office, we have Tom Nash here in the office. Tom. Great to be here with you, Edgar, filling in for Sai and looking forward to our program and talking about the sacraments of salvation.
1:16.2	Absolutely. Yeah, we're going to be talking about, it's an ask me anything or your questions
1:20.1	on the sacraments. So any question on the sacraments, you're more than welcome to call
1:23.9	from baptism to marriage to confession to the Eucharist.
1:29.4	Ask those questions.
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1:38.1	St.
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1:39.8	Amen.
1:40.4	Amen to that.
1:41.2	So if you have a question, you want to ask Tom, you're more than welcome to call.
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1:52.5	Again, one more time, 8888-3-187-884. So Tom, let's jump right into it. Whenever we talk about the sacraments, there's one thing that
2:04.6	are Protestant brothers and sisters always say. You Catholics think that these things are necessary
2:09.7	for your salvation, and that is absurd. So, Tom, let me ask you, are the sacraments necessary for our salvation?
2:18.8	They are normatively necessary.
2:21.7	If someone is invincibly ignorant about that reality, then we commend him to God's mercy.
2:27.8	If they are truly invincibly ignorant, God can find a way, as it says,
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