Sentences with phrase «at sacramental»

No preacher can explain the gospel, how we experience it at sacramental baptism.

To understand the Christianity of this period [Victorian] we must look not only at public symbols of civil religion... but at the sacramental character of the home.

Tonight I add a fourth chapter to prayer.I pray first for the ministries of priestswho serve me at our sacramental feastsand showed a way back from my black despair.

At sacramental baptism your faith gets confirmed by God in a way, which can not be described by human words.

Not exact matches

Father Timothy Finigan is the parish priest of Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen, and a visiting tutor in Sacramental Theology at St John's Seminary Wonersh.

By the virtues of self - mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.»

The Church can certainly not give up the principle of the indissolubility of a consummated sacramental marriage, because she is bound by the words of Christ in the gospel, even, despite a single contrary intervention at the Council, in the case of an innocent party.

For many television viewers the Mass at Westminster Cathedral was their first experience of sacramental religion.

Varela said the Roman Catholic Church «has conferred to all the priests legitimately approved to hear sacramental confessions, who are in the archdiocese of Madrid during August 15 to 22, the delegated power to remit during the sacrament of penance the excommunication... corresponding to the sin abortion, to the faithful who are truly sorry, imposing at the same time a convenient penance.»

It's not a sacramental marriage and I as a Catholic won't acknowledge it, but have at it.

This is where the global pentecostal - charismatic movement may enter because, at its best, it seeks to recover a catholic spirituality that fuses the sacramental and the charismatic.

There are many Christians for whom the sacramental life of the Church and the Holy Communion would have power beyond anything they can at present imagine if a genuine connection should be established in their understanding between the Sacrament and the mutual ministry which is going on all the time in the life of the Church.

They denied that even symbolically the icon could have any sacramental value at all.

At the same time this sacramental connection is geographically global; it is spatial.

If the theological perspective has any depth at all, then erotic love will always have its sacramental overtone: this love is born of God's love, is a reflection of that love, and may be in a real sense participation in that love.

Father Paul Keller is assistant professor of sacramental theology at Mt St Mary's of the West Seminary, Cincinnati, and is also the author of 101 Questions & Answers on the Sacraments of Healing: Penance and Anointing.

There seems to be at present a tendency to speak of preaching as sacramental in the sense that Christ is present speaking his Word, but not a sacrament in the sense of ex opere operato.

Awareness of all four ways of religion and of their respective temptations allows us to approach the subject of revelation in such a way that in inter-religious dialogue, areas of religious agreement may show up more obviously than when we look only at the obvious sacramental differences.

Mysticism, as we are using the term here, perceives more explicitly than sacramentalism the presence of an ultimate unity of mystery beyond finite realities and seeks to enter into this unity immediately and intensely, at times with little apparent need for sacramental mediation.

The «way of silence,» which is likewise an ingredient, at least to some degree, in all religion, is so alert to the inadequacy of any sacramental images of mystery that it sometimes puts them completely aside, intending thereby a radical purification of religious consciousness.

To the extent that they are at all open to mystery they unanimously agree that no set of sacramental expressions can ever adequately communicate the content of religious experience.

It is extremely difficult, and probably impossible, for all peoples on earth to reach agreement all at once on the appropriateness, decisiveness, or normativeness of a specific sacramental mediation of mystery.

He is also a visiting tutor in sacramental theology at St John's Seminary, Wonersh.

She is responsible at the Abbey for running sacramental preparation programmes, catechist training and other more general adult catechesis.

At the extremes the papal Church itself has still not entirely shed the mantle of imperial Rome; and the Gospel fundamentalists and evangelicals still sometimes lack ascertainable norms, and appropriate symbolic and sacramental channels of communication.

When Cairns moved with his family to Virginia to teach at Old Dominion, they began to worship at an Episcopal church, which fed his increasing sense of sacramental reality.

Malick's film aspires to an elevated and mature look at nuptial vows, love, faithfulness, and infidelity within the context of sacramental marriage.

The theological implication of the view would be to deny that it is not at all possible for the sacramental bread to lose its «bread nature» (substance and yet for the qualities accident) shape, taste, color, etc. to remain.

After sacramental baptism we «must» believe, because we were almost physically at Calvary together with our Lord.

Second, what kind of structure of the church will facilitate such dialogue and struggle which will at the same time strengthen the central elements of the church's being as the sacramental sign and interpreter of God's universal gift of salvation in Christ?

The community, in causing the actions of the Mass to become sacramental, is itself transformed by that sacramental action to live at a new intensity and to continue the process of the Church.

Most men could see without too much persuasion that looking at pornography and masturbating are incompatible with receiving Holy Communion without first obtaining sacramental reconciliation with God and the Church.

[21] We come to see that at the heart of the sacramentality of the word of God is the mystery of the incarnation itself: «the Word became flesh» (Jn 1:14), the reality of the revealed mystery is offered to us in the «flesh» of the Son... The sacramental character of revelation points in turn to the history of salvation, to the way that the word of God enters time and space, and speaks to men and women, who are called to accept his gift in faith.»

Grudgingly, the Roman churchmen must give way to their Western laity and translate their sacramental rituals into comprehensible terms as therapeutic devices, retaining just enough archaism to satisfy at once the romantic interest of women and the sophisticated interest of those historical pietists for whom the antique alone carries that lovely dark patina they call faith [The Triumph of the Therapeutic, pp. 253 - 254].

The Western Protestant experience, which included church splits and the formation of new denominations on the basis of national, ethnic and class differences — as well as differences of doctrine, sacramental practice and biblical interpretation — had been exported to the mission fields, where many of these differences seemed to be of even less enduring significance than they were at home.

Recent work includes historian C. John Sommerville's The Secularization of Early Modern England, sociologist Marcel Gauchet's The Disenchantment of the World, philosopher Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, and literary critic Regina Schwartz's Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism.

Therefore, when inquiring about the larger context in which preaching takes place — the human community at every level, from the neighborhood to the globe — it is helpful to begin by placing that inquiry within the sacramental context that is also the implicit or explicit context of every act of preaching in Christian worship.

The preaching of the Gospel as a sacramental event is at the heart of Reformation theology.

Most Practical (and Sacramental): Cody C. Delistraty at The Atlantic with «The Importance of Eating Together»

The latest contrarian argument: We all grow grapes, drink wine, get drunk, and become oblivious to GW,... or at least make sacramental wine, go to Mass, & repent of our GHG sins, before we reach that really hot place.

And so, while not supported by sacramental formulas, this declaration must possess the requisites of a formal acts to make it verifiable at any moment.

The courts below did not err in determining that the Government failed to demonstrate, at the preliminary injunction stage, a compelling interest in barring the UDV's sacramental use of hoasca