La chiesa edificata dai sacramenti.

The rich and suggestive dedication ceremony of a church shows per ritus et preces the mystery of the religious building and its symbolic association with the Cristian community gathering inside its walls. The ritual continuously refers to the interconnection between the church’s living stones (the Christians) and its real stones (elements of the building). The rite not only emphasizes the features of the church as home to the Lord’s people, it even embraces sacraments, representing an interesting starting point for a sacramentary theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]