 The Sacraments are intended merely to recall to man's mind the ever-beneficient presence of the Creator.
As every Catholic knows in their heart, a sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace. Let's repeat that for the hard of hearing and heart: Only Jesus Christ instituted the Sacraments, because only GOD can endow signs with the power to give grace. So, no, the Sacraments were not "intended to recall to man's mind the ever-beneficient presence of the Creator." Though that sounds noble, it is misleading and very humanistic, pantheistic if you will. You see with such an error it denies Christ's role and in denying our Lord's participation, it erodes the idea that He is the Savior and Messiah. This false notion is one which the ultra Modernists, along with Jews and agnostics, can live with for they know they can't eliminate the concept of sacraments or their heresy would be even more glaring. But by their omission of the God-Man, they cater to the idea of a "Creator" who could be to them any one. One very, very, very important fact to remember in light of the invalid false "pope" Giovanni Montini's sacking the divinely-ordained sacraments in order to establish more contemporary "sacraments" that would please unbelievers: The Church has NO POWER to institute or change sacraments! That is because Christ cannot make a mistake, He cannot err. Therefore, what He established is perfect and to tinker with perfection is insane and results in a corrupted conclusion. Always remember that a sacrament is an outward sign. That means it is perceived by our senses. We can see it and hear it. The external aspect or action is called the matter, such as the water for baptism which we can see and feel. The formula for the words, exact words to be said, are the form of the sacrament. In the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, the Modernist Montini dared to alter the set formula contradicting Christ, and numerous infallible Papal decrees over two millennia including Pope Saint Pius V's De defectibus on the matter and form of confecting Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (cf. also Quo Primum), Pope Leo XIII's Apostolicae Curae  and Pope Pius XII's Sacramentum Ordinis. Sacraments are the channels by which grace enters our souls, to feed and nourish them. If these sacraments are not pure as they were intended and the intention that the power to give grace from God comes through the merits of Jesus Christ, then anything can be called a sacrament today and usually is; as the demarcation line of what constitutes a sacrament is blurred and stretched where sacraments are no longer held to be divinely ordained in the New Order counterfeit church of conciliarism but something that brings people together for the "unity of community" no matter their persuasion religious or sexual. That has led to diversity not only in the secular sector, but in ecclesiastical climes where a sacrament can be anything you want it to be, thus opening wide the doors of tolerance for sin. As Bishop Louis LaRavoir Morrow so astutely wrote in his masterpiece catechetical work My Catholic Faith in concert with the Catechism of Trent, "The sacraments derive their efficacy from Christ, by Whose merits we possess them. They do not derive any merit from the person administering them. Therefore the sacraments give grace of themselves, even when the priest or person administering them is unworthy, as long as the recipient has the proper dispositions and the form of the sacrament is intact. Good medicine is good regardless of the druggist or physician." But, as His Excellency points out, it has to be the right medicine and if it alters in any way from its original formula and loses its originally intended properties, then it becomes another medicine and though, on the surface it may seem a remedy, it cannot be said that the correct medicine helped the recovery process but rather a substitute remedy. So also with the sacraments. If they are altered they become a substitute that cannot be efficacious to the soul for they defy God's directive as Christ instituted these divine sacraments. This, as we know, the Modernists have done to the Sacraments of Penance, the Holy Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders and Extreme Unction.
Sacraments which, if performed in the conciliar rite with the corrupted form, are absolutely NULL AND VOID!
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