Relics And Sacramentals

[Brother Adam]

What is the difference between a sacramental and a relic?

Thanks!

[Livin_the_MASS]

Sacramentals are like crucifixes, statues, anything that brings your mind to God. The Rosary is one of the most Holy Sacramentals! Sacramentals help us meditate on God.

Relics are usually a bone from a saint or a piece of cloth from there clothing. Then you have different degress of relics, say I touch a piece of cloth to the actual cloth of St. Faustina. That one that I touched too the original would be then called a second class relic

God Bless
Jason

[thicke]

[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13292d.htm"]Sacramentals[/url]

[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12734a.htm"]Relics[/url]

Edited April 17, 2004 by thicke

[Brother Adam]

Thank you Jason and Thicke