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Sacramentals are not just objects, such as brown scapulars or Miraculous Medals, but the Catechism notes that blessings, of people, objects, meals and places, are primary among the sacramentals.

Sacramentals are not only religious articles that we carry with us, but also include blessings of “persons, meals, objects, and places” (CCC 1671). For example, ...

A. Sacramentals aid the ignorant in learning the truths of faith as children learn from pictures before they are able to read. Thus one who cannot read the account of Our Lord's passion may learn ...

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These rituals or practices are called sacramentals. These sacramentals are objects, actions, practices, or places that help Catholics become aware of the presence of God’s grace around us.

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Both sacraments and sacramentals make available to man “divine graces which flows from the paschal mystery of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ,” according to Sancrosanction Concilium.

Stressing how potent sacramentals can be, Iannuzzi said these objects—such as holy water, exorcised oil and salt, scapulars and the Benedictine cross—should be used for protection against evil.

One of the country's leading exorcists reminded Catholic priests to perform the blessing of sacramentals, or religious objects, properly to avoid "demonic infestation.". Father Michell Joe Zerrudo, ...

Why not? said Air Force chief Lt. Gen. Benjamin Defensor who thinks that talismans and sacramentals inside military planes might work for the pilots’ greater safety, ...