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  • Catholic doctrine teaches that the sacraments work ex opere operato, i.e., objectively, though not impersonally and automatically like machines.

    Liturgy 2009

  • Catholic doctrine teaches that the sacraments work ex opere operato, i.e., objectively, though not impersonally and automatically like machines.

    Protestantism 2009

  • Catholic doctrine teaches that the sacraments work ex opere operato, i.e., objectively, though not impersonally and automatically like machines.

    Peter Kreeft on "The Sacraments" 2009

  • Catholic doctrine teaches that the sacraments work ex opere operato, i.e., objectively, though not impersonally and automatically like machines.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • Catholic doctrine teaches that the sacraments work ex opere operato, i.e., objectively, though not impersonally and automatically like machines.

    Ecumenism 2009

  • Rituals are deemed to be efficacious not ex opere operato, but on the strength of the interior conviction that they express.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Rituals are deemed to be efficacious not ex opere operato, but on the strength of the interior conviction that they express.

    Savitri Era Religion at the right point of history Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • That the power of sacramental baptism ex opere operato, by which we are initiated into the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, is our ontic incorporation into the divine life, is manifest in the theophany of the Trinity at Jesus' own baptism.

    Theophany and vocation Mike L 2008

  • Every time I approach the sacrament of reconciliation I have a concrete experience of being justified by grace, "ex opere operato," as we say in theology.

    Archive 2008-12-01 papabear 2008

  • Every time I approach the sacrament of reconciliation I have a concrete experience of being justified by grace, "ex opere operato," as we say in theology.

    Zenit: Father Cantalamessa's 1st Advent Sermon papabear 2008

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