ABSTRACT
Christian sacraments are ritual enactments, in present time, of a freedom that is granted to all who worship in the spirit of Christ. Since the message of the gospel is liberation, and since a sacrament celebrating that gospel is the performance of a freedom, a Christian sacrament tends to break through any particular form. Christian sacraments celebrate something that is humanly absurd, something literally unbelievable and beyond all worldly expectation. The distinctive role Segundo identifies for Christian sacraments is that of being "signs" of the realm of God. Although flexibility of space is a very important principle for Christian worship, since spontaneous movement is the analog of liminality and freedom, this principle has been violated by most church architecture, which has reflected a hierarchical structure and an ethic of obedience in the church. The performance of freedom in the sacraments serves to delegitimate, in Christians' eyes, all powers in the world that enforce inequality and destroy peace.
