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Appendix A. Glossary • 527

SACRAMENTS OF HEALING:

Designation given to the Sacrament

of Penance and Reconciliation and

the Sacrament of the Anointing of

the Sick.

SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION:

Designation given to those

Sacraments that bring a person

into membership in the Church—

Baptism, Confirmation, and the

Holy Eucharist.

SACRAMENTS AT THE

SERVICE OF COMMUNION:

The term

communion

refers to

the Community of the Church.

Holy Orders and Matrimony are

the Sacraments at the Service of

Communion (the community of

the Church). This means they are

primarily directed toward the salva-

tion of others. If they benefit the

personal salvation of the ordained

or married person, it is through

service to others that this happens.

SACRIFICE:

A ritual offering made

to God by a priest on behalf of the

people as a sign of adoration, grati-

tude, supplication, penance, and/

or communion.

SAINT:

A person who, after having

lived a life of virtue, dies in the state

of grace and has been granted the

reward of eternal life by God. The

saints enjoy the beatific vision and

unceasingly intercede for those still

in earthly life. They also serve as a

model and inspiration to us. (See

also “Canonization.”)

SANCTIFYING GRACE:

See

“Grace.”

SATISFACTION

: An act by which

a sinner makes amends for sin. The

penance received from the priest in

Confession is a form of satisfaction.

All real satisfaction for sin needs to

be a participation in the satisfaction

for sin won for us by Christ.

SCRIPTURE (BIBLE):

The books

that contain the truth of God’s

revelation and that were composed

by human authors, inspired by the

Holy Spirit, and recognized by

the Church.

SCRUTINIES:

During three

Sundays of Lent, those preparing

for entrance into the Church are

led through prayerful reflections

designed to help them turn from sin

and grow in holiness.

SENSES OF SCRIPTURE:

Tradition notes that there are two

senses or aspects of Scripture—the

literal and the spiritual. The literal

meaning is that meaning conveyed

by the words of Scripture and

discovered by exegesis following

rules of sound interpretation. The