Sacramentality in the ordinary sense is something ceremonial, ritual, which entered into life as a kind of established tradition. It is believed that the word itself has Latin roots and in translation means oath, promised.
Instruction manual
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Religious rituals, oaths, ceremonies, and even phrases that have gained immense popularity, but filled with deep meaning, can be sacramental today. You should not confuse the meaning of the words "sacramentality" and "sacredness", despite the fact that in the modern language these two concepts have practically turned into synonyms. Indeed, in the first case we are talking about the traditional, and in the second it has the meaning of secret, sacred, hidden and even in some moments magical.
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So sacred can be such rituals as baptism, communion, confession, and marriage. In other words, the sacramental is obtained as a result of the mental and physical activity of a person, while the sacred is more likely from the higher, the unknown.
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Traditionally settled today may be questions, for example, the notorious "what to do?" and “who to be?”, phrases that came from the distant Soviet past or became winged thanks to your favorite films and movie heroes, various quotes and aphorisms. Many remember the established in the 90s: "saw, fly, like an arrow" or the words once uttered by Faina Ranevskaya and become beloved for many decades: "Loneliness is a condition that there is nobody to tell about."
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The phrases from the notorious “Irony of Fate”, the famous comedy “Ivan Vasilievich Changes the Profession”, the wonderful “Office Romance”, and the ironic film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” became sacramental, everyone can recall a dozen or so of such capacious expressions that have become part of the tradition of the modern Russian language.
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The described category of expressions that have gained fame and have acquired some kind of subtext include phrases, sometimes purely formally pronounced in the form of oaths, such as judicial “I swear to tell the truth” or the notorious Hippocratic oaths in medicine, oaths of marital fidelity, taken at marriage.
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The modern Orthodox and Catholic church, filled with all kinds of rites and rituals, are considered examples of sacramentalism, which is expressed in all kinds of forms of blessing, sanctification, this also includes visiting the church during the universal holidays. In everyday life, the elements of the described concept are all the rites of everyday life, for example, the well-established wedding abductions of the bride, ransom, the meeting of the couple with bread and salt, the honeymoon of the young.
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Decorations chosen for the home can have a hidden meaning and sacramentality, for example, traditionally bringing good luck to shoeing over the door, clothes that are suitable for occasions and weather, this can be either ordinary everyday attire of a clergyman or a warm jacket that a child is usually worn during cold snap on the street.
