Bažnyčios Sakramentalumo Teologinė Pers Pektyva
Theological Perspective of Church’s Sacramentality

Summary/Abstract: One of the most prominent features of the ecclesiology of Vatican II is the emphasis on the sacramentality. The conception of the Church’s sacramental theology of the Mystical Body of Christ was a basis for the development. Soon after it found resonance in multiple ecclesiological reflections by Catholic theologians and finally in the official teaching of Vatican II . This article presents the development of Church’s sacramental theology from the 19th century to the documents of Vatican II and discusses it from a Christological perspective. The Church is like the sacrament body of the mystic unity between Christ and his community. Christ and the Church form one body; therefore, the Church is a very real residential place and shape of the Resurrected. This way the Church is also a salvation place where the mystery of Incarnation and Christ’s Easter event are actualized and made present. Due to Christ’s Easter event the salvation reaches all humanity. His salvation work and the grace of salvation are passed on and continued in history by His gathered community – the Church. By proclamation and by all of its activities, the Church delivers to the people Christ’s invisible salvific action and His grace. Thus, the Church, being a concrete form and realisation of salvific grace, is Christ’s visible tool which the Lord uses in history to spread God’s kingdom.

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