[Judith Anne]

Did you know the efficacy of the sacrament is determined by the INTENT of the priest? So my friend you may have been baptized or confirmed or confessed sin or received communion.without benefit.. it is all about the priest..

I'm pretty sure that is wrong. A perfect God supplies sacramental grace, not an imperfect sinful human.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Did you know the efficacy of the sacrament is determined by the INTENT of the priest? So my friend you may have been baptized or confirmed or confessed sin or received communion.without benefit.. it is all about the priest..

I'm pretty sure that is wrong. A perfect God supplies sacramental grace, not an imperfect sinful human.

Uh-oh...

[RnMomof7]

Did you know the efficacy of the sacrament is determined by the INTENT of the priest? So my friend you may have been baptized or confirmed or confessed sin or received communion.without benefit.. it is all about the priest..
I'm pretty sure that is wrong. A perfect God supplies sacramental grace, not an imperfect sinful human.

The Roman Catholic church hold that the efficacy of the sacrament depends on the "secret inteThe priest must, at the moment of performing his actions and pronouncing the words,have in his mind the intention of doing what the church intends to do in that sacrament.

In other words. the priest might say all the prescribed words, and preform all the required actions, yet if he does not have in his heart and mind the secret intention of conveying grace through the sacrament, the recipient does not receive any grace at all. The sacrament is null and void.

Council of trent Session 7

Canon 11. If anyone says that in ministers, when they effect and confer the sacraments, there is not required at least the intention of doing what the Church does,[6] let him be anathema.