| His inspirational talks before each meeting and his willingness to provide sacramentals such as prayer, Mass and commissioning etc are such an important part of Vincentian life. |
| The Decretum dealt with the sources of the law, ordinations, elections, simony, law of procedure, ecclesiastical property, monks, heretics, schismatics, marriage, penance, and sacraments and sacramentals. |
| Sacramentals include the use of holy water, incense, vestments, candles, exorcisms, anointing and making the sign of the cross, fasting, abstinence, and almsgiving. |
| This is especially the case with Eastern Orthodoxy, whose predilection for symbolical theology has spread from sacraments to sacramentals and everything associated with worship, including dress. |
| The sacraments, sacramentals, the liturgy, canon law, and Church teaching, all exist for the sake of man's salvation. |
| He laments the passing of sacramentals such as a proliferation of statues and praying the rosary. |
