Sacramentos, símbolos de comunhão: elementos para um mútuo reconhecimento entre as igrejas.

Affirming the sacraments as symbols of communion raises the question of how to enable this communion to take place between churches that currently celebrate their sacraments separately. Sacramental communion is an ecumenical question. Is it possible for a consensus on the doctrine and celebration of the sacraments to enable churches to recognize each other sacramentally? The purpose of this article is to answer this question by presenting the convergences and consensus that the ecumenical dialogue on the sacraments allows us to reap. The method we use is the qualitative analysis of the bibliography that presents the sacramental theology in an ecumenical perspective. And the results achieved show that a mutual sacramental acceptance requires from the churches a structural reception, in their doctrines and liturgies, of the convergences already reached in the dialogue about the sacraments. As a consequence, they also need a joint effort to re-signify rites, gestures and symbols, as well as remaking the semantic universe of semantic universe of sacramental terminology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]