Sentences with phrase «christian ecclesial communities»
The experience of Christian ecclesial communities that have adopted similar strategies in the past two centuries strongly suggests that those which compromised their Christian identity in one generation held little interest for subsequent generations.
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Ok, Iceman, which of the 30 - 40,000 ecclesial communities that call themselves Christian is Jesus» Church if you think it is not the Catholic Church?
This is the calling of every individual Christian and of the ecclesial community.
It is not sufficient, however, to point out that there are innumerable ministries in the several Christian communities that insist on the objectivity of truth, the authority of Scripture and Spirit - guided interpretation, the ecclesial means of grace, and the reality of moral good and evil.
It is not sufficient, however, to point out that there are innumerable ministries in the several Christian communities that insist on the objectivity of truth, the authority of Scripture and its Spirit - guided interpretation, the ecclesial means of grace, and the reality of moral good and evil.
But for this to come about what is needed is to first remake the Christian fabric of the ecclesial community itself present in these countries and nations...»
Our own time is rightly understood as a time of the martyrs, and it is a most encouraging development that Christians today increasingly recognize and revere those members of the several ecclesial communities who, in the century past and still now, offer the ultimate witness to the lordship of Christ.
«Well beyond the monastic cloister, numerous faithful have benefited from his project,» wrote Pope John Paul II, «becoming aware that the unfolding of the «mystical seasons» of the liturgical year» can help them «to relive the different stages of the Mystery of Christ... It is by their participation in liturgical life in the heart of the ecclesial community that the faithful are to affirm their faith, because they are put in permanent contact with the sources of revelation and the whole of the Christian mystery.»