Where did we get the seven sacraments?

Tim Staples next on Cathay Ganser's focus.

Hello and welcome again to Cathay

Ganser's focus.

I am Cy Kellett, your host,

and we are delighted here to be joined again by the

Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at Catholic Answers Tim

Stapels. Hello, Tim. Hello, Cy Kellett. And we have a problem here in the Catholic Church because we added a lot of stuff on that Jesus didn't add on.

Boy, I've heard that a few times.

Have you heard that? Okay, so let's talk about the seven sacraments then and what possible

way can we Catholics contend that Jesus himself establish the seven sacraments? Yes, well, I've got you now, Tim Staples.

I'm going to tell you, brother, a lot of it's right there in that Bible of ours.

Yeah, actually, the Council of Trent declared all seven sacraments to have been instituted by Jesus Christ.

And I think one way to approach this is to first understand that Jesus in his very nature in the

incarnation is sacramental. Everything Jesus did was sacramental. What do I mean by that?

John 114, the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. What is a sacrament? The Baltimore Catechism famously says an external

sign instituted by Christ that gives grace, and we would add the grace that it symbolizes, right?

Well, Jesus is the ultimate sacrament in that sense

because he is the word,

right, grace itself that's coming into the world, but he comes in a visible form.

The word was made flesh.

Why?

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