Indeed, sacramental wine is traditionally red, by analogy with the blood of Christ.

Often movies end up grappling with whether the words, rites and sacramental objects of the Catholic church have power of their own, regardless of the beliefs and righteousness of the wielder.

The board also is completing a registration system, with people who use cannabis for medicinal or sacramental purposes expected to have access to it by April, according to Hannah Carty, the board’s executive director.

Conference of Catholic Bishops were quick to point out that the blessings approved Monday were pastoral and not liturgical or sacramental.

The overall goal is to make it abundantly clear to the couple and those around them that the blessing is not a liturgical or sacramental ritual, and that it in no way resembles a marriage.