As Jesus is the original sacrament, so we who are
baptized into the risen Christ become sacrament. Today it is Christ's
body the Church which is the sacrament, the revelation of the
loving plan of God. The Second Vatican Council teaches that Jesus
"rising from the dead, sent his life-giving Spirit upon his disciples
and through this Spirit has established his body, the Church,
as the universal sacrament of salvation" (The Dogmatic Constitution
on the Church, #48).
The Church itself is sacrament. Another point in enriching
our understanding of sacrament is to think of sacraments not so
much as something we receive but something that we are.
We are sacrament, instruments of grace; we are the ordinary way
God graces today's world.