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And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

We can see that the sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist is an essential gift for us and give us also the possibility to love the others and to work for the others.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.