Sacramentality in the ordinary sense is something ceremonial, ritual, which has entered life as a kind of well-established tradition. It is believed that the word itself has Latin roots and in translation means oath, promised.
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Sacramental today can be religious rituals, oaths, ceremonies and even phrases that have gained immense popularity, but filled with deep meaning. Do not confuse the meanings of the words "sacramentality" and "sacredness", despite the fact that in modern language these two concepts have practically become synonyms. Indeed, in the first case we are talking about the traditional, and in the second it has the meaning of secret, sacred, secret and even in some moments of magic.
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So sacred can be such rituals as baptism, communion, confession and marriage. In other words, the sacramental is obtained as a result of the mental and physical activity of a person, while the sacred, rather, from the higher, unknown.
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Traditionally established today there may be questions, for example, the notorious "what to do?" and "who to be?", phrases that came from the distant Soviet past or became winged thanks to their favorite films and heroes, a variety of quotes and aphorisms. Many remember the well-established in the 90s: "saw-saw, fly like an arrow" or the words once uttered by Faina Ranevskaya and became loved for many decades: "Loneliness is a state that there is no one to tell about."
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The phrases from the notorious "Irony of Fate", the famous comedy "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession", the wonderful "Office Romance", the ironic film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" have become sacramental, everyone can remember a dozen or two of such capacious expressions that have entered the tradition of the modern Russian language …
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The described category of expressions that have gained fame and overgrown with some subtext can also include phrases, sometimes purely formally pronounced in the form of oaths, as these include the judicial "I swear to tell the truth" or the notorious Hippocratic oaths in medicine, the oaths of marital fidelity taken at marriage …
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The modern Orthodox and Catholic churches, filled with all kinds of ceremonies and rituals, are considered examples of sacramentalism, which is expressed in all kinds of blessing, consecration, and this also includes going to church during ecumenical holidays. In everyday life, the elements of the described concept are all the rituals of everyday life, for example, established wedding abductions of the bride, ransom, meeting a couple with bread and salt, honeymoon trip of the young.
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Decorations chosen for the home can have a hidden meaning and sacramentality, for example, a horseshoe over the door traditionally bringing good luck, clothes tried on for the occasion and according to the weather, it can be either the usual everyday vestments of a clergyman, or a warm jacket, which is customary for a child to wear during cold snap on the street.