You couldn't make it up dept no.87: the sermon will not be televised

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From www.floridatoday.com:
A church giving sermons about sex may have to find a new home. Brevard Public School District's risk-management department has threatened to boot New Hope Church out of Sherwood Elementary because of a worship series titled "Great Sex for You."

Church leaders mailed 25,000 fliers, asking residents "Is Your Sex Life A Bore?" The three-week program kicked off inside the school auditorium. Pastor Bruce Cadle had said the Christian church has been "shamefully silent" on the taboo topic.

Mark Langdorf, the director of risk management, says the mailers generated complaints, were not appropriate for elementary school children and shouldn't be used to advertise the sermon in the school.

Langdorf says the church's lease contract is under review.

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[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

To put it another way, the Sacraments, instituted by Christ, aren't merely signs or human acts, but the means by which God directly effects particular graces. They are the tangible aspect of particular spiritual realities. This is not out of absolute necessity; God is in no way limited to the Sacraments as means for conferring grace. However, the Sacraments, simultaneously material and spiritual, are the means most fitting our nature as simultaneously material and spiritual beings, and God has therefore made them the normative means for the reception of the graces associated with them.

(FWIW, these days, Extreme Unction/Last Rites is more typically termed the Anointing of the Sick, at least in the United States, as it is used more widely than it used to be, in situations which do not necessarily involve the immediate danger of death.)