“A Sacrament is an Efficacious signs of inward grace instituted by Jesus Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions".
~Catechism of the Catholic Church 1131
Holy Matrimony & Holy Orders.