Sacraments are not like man-made. They're the works of God. The catechism says they're like the master

works of the Holy Spirit. And the reason why we believe in the sacraments is because of the incarnation

of Jesus. So who is Jesus? Well, the God that we cannot see becomes visible in Jesus. The God

we cannot touch becomes tangible in the person of Jesus. So the sacraments are like physical stuff

that God then takes and infuses supernatural power through them.

So God is using something physical to infuse something supernatural.

Well, why would we believe God can do that?

Because he did that when he took flesh and dwelt among us.

The God of the universe that we cannot see now took flesh and dwelt among us.

Does that make sense?

Yes.

So the sacraments sort of extend the incarnational principle

through time and history, that we can still have a physical encounter with Jesus today through the

sacraments. The sacraments are essential to us because they are Christ becoming manifest to us

in our circumstances, in our time. They are really at the center of our faith.

So the question is, where does the initiative come from? Like, was it our idea? And we're

like reaching out to God through the sacraments? Or are they his idea? And he's reaching out to us,

just like through the incarnation. And now we have a physical encounter with him through

the sacraments. Well, I think about my time working in a parish, right?

And I did a lot of sacrament preparation.

And I heard a lot of people come in lifelong Catholics.

The sacraments happen at a certain age because they're almost a right of passage.

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