What is a Sacrament?

<p>Imagery lies at the heart of human significance.&nbsp;Birthdays just wouldn’t be the same without candles and cakes, weddings without dresses and rings, the Fourth of July without fireworks, or Christmas without trees and presents.&nbsp;What <em>are</em> all of these things: the cake, the dress, the candles, the trees, and the fireworks?&nbsp;In and of themselves trees are trees.&nbsp;But a Christmas tree is both a tree and something more.&nbsp;Similarly, dresses are dresses, but a wedding dress isn’t just another dress; it’s something more.&nbsp;What is that extra thing, that “something more”?&nbsp;The wedding dress by its design and color suggests or bespeaks something else, namely pageantry, solemnity, grandeur, and purity.&nbsp;Thus, the wedding dress is an image of the significant qualities of the bride at her wedding.&nbsp;All imagery works like this, the natural object ordinary and meaningful in itself, but used as an image, suggesting something far more significant.</p>