Sentences with phrase «christian ecclesial life»
The result of that evolution, Evangelical Catholicism, is an expression of the four enduring marks of Christian ecclesial life — unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity.
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All ecclesial traditions currently hold that the Christian life is about a transformational journey.
Christians will always be cultural exiles insofar as Christian Tradition is not co-extensive with any single culture or any form of ecclesial existence and thus calls all forms of life into judgment in the light 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.»
Archbishop Chaput: Millions of young people, alone and in the new ecclesial movements, believe in Jesus Christ and live their lives with a Christian zeal that I find astonishing.
A genuine ecclesial life is in fact the sine qua non of the very thing Mr. Benne thinks missing from neo-Augustinian ecclesiology, the impulse to provide a comprehensive Christian witness to the world.
We therefore need a different framework, rooted in the key sources of the Christian Faith, ecclesial, and transmitting the fullness of Catholic culture and life, as well as in a realist philosophy adequate for proposing the word of God (cf Fides et Ratio81 - 83).