Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.
And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body - just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future.
A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.
No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
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