What is a Sacrament? | Introduction to the Sacraments of the Coptic Orthodox Church

The Seven Sacraments are an important part of the faith of all the Orthodox and Catholic churches.
But What is a Sacrament? Where did these Sacraments come from? And why are they even important? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this video.

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Footnotes:
1. Mettaous, Sacramental Rites in the Coptic Orthodox Church, (Mariut, Alexandria, Egypt: St. Mina Monastery Press, 2000), 13-14; Matthew the Poor, Al-Īfkhāristia ‘Ashaa’ Al-Rāb (Wadi El Natrun: Saint Macarius Monastery Press, 2000), 38-39.
2. Basilios, “Sacrament” in Coptic Encyclopedia (New York: Macmillan, 1991).
3. Mettaous, Sacramental Rites, 7-9.
4. Mettaous, Sacramental Rites, 9-10.
5. Mettaous, Sacramental Rites, 10-11.
6. Matthew the Poor, Al-Īfkhāristia, 37-38.
7. Daniel G Van Slyke, "The Changing Meanings of Sacramentum: Historical Sketches," Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 11, (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007), 246-249.
8. Van Sylke, “Meanings of Sacramentum,” 250-254.
9. Matthew the Poor, Al-Īfkhāristia, 37-38.
10. Mettaous, Sacramental Rites, 13-14; Matthew the Poor, Al-Īfkhāristia, 38-39.
11. Shāms al-Riyʾāsah Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabr, Miṣbāḥ al-Ẓulmah fy-Īḍāḥ al-Khidmah, Chapter 16.
12. Silas McBee, The Constructive Quarterly; a Journal of the Faith, Work and Thought of Christendom, (New York: George H Doran Company, 1914), 306.
13. Norman F Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages, (New York : Harper Collins, 1993), 18.1.
14. Clarence R. McAuliffe, Sacramental Theology (Missouri: B Herder Book Co, 1958), 8.
16. Matthew the Poor, Al-Īfkhāristia, 37-38.
17. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy, (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1998), 11-22.
18. Tadros Y Malaty, Christ in the Eucharist. (Orange, California: Coptic Orthodox Christian Center, 2001), 16-18.
19. Matthew the Poor, The Communion of Love, (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984), 217.
20. Mettaous, Sacramental Rites, 29-30.
21. Mettaous, Sacramental Rites, 134-135.
22. Matthew the Poor, The Communion of Love, (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984), 217.
23. Tadros Y Malat, Unity of the Church and the Church Sacraments, (California: St .Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church, 1999), 22.
24. Justin, The First Apology 65.1-5.
25. Didache 9:5; Justin, The First Apology 66.1.
26. Didache 4:14, 14:1.
27. Ignatius, The Epistle to the Philadelphians 3.
28. Ignatius, The Epistle to the Polycarp, 5.
29. Ignatius, The Epistle to the Smyrnaeans, 8.
30. Ignatius, The Epistle to the Ephesians, 4; Ignatius, The Epistle to the Magnesians, 6; Ignatius, The Epistle to the Trallians, 2.
31. Ignatius, The Epistle to the Magnesians, 4.
32. Justin, The First Apology 65.5; Justin, The First Apology 66.5.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - What is a Sacrament?
1:40 - Origins of the Word Sacrament
3:08 - Enumeration of the Sacraments
6:55 - Salvation through the Sacraments
8:26 - Veracity of the Sacraments
10:16 - Fullness of the Sacraments
11:46 - Unity of the Sacraments
15:54 - Outro