Sentences with phrase «christian initiation»

Marriage preparation began to develop in North America (where it has probably been worked at more consciously / thoroughly than in other areas of the world) in the 1940s, before the role of the adult sponsor in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was re-developed after Vatican Council II.

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This involves a post-baptismal catechesis,... presenting again some elements from the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults with the purpose of allowing a person to grasp and live the immense, extraordinary richness and responsibility received at Baptism.

Furthermore, the Eucharist is what completes the process of full Christian initiation into the Church and is the power house that continues the work of salvation for the rest of our lives.

For those involved in parish catechesis, a clear explanation of the Sacraments of Christian Initiation can be difficult to come by.

scandalous division over something as basic and fundamentally simple as Christian initiation must stop; it devastatingly hinders the mission of the Church to evangelize the world according to the Great Commission of Christ; it keeps churches from sharing each other's Christian riches to their mutual great impoverishment.

And then you subsequently attended RCIA [Rite of Christian Initiation] class.

Aidan Kavanagh, The Shape of Baptism: The Rite of Christian Initiation (New York: Pueblo Pub.

In recent years the Western churches have been greatly influenced by the Orthodox and Oriental churches; they have felt the appeal of many Eastern rituals: the strong emphasis on the paschal mystery; the attention to the role of the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic rite; the value of commemorating such events as the baptism of the Lord; and the unity of Christian initiation.

I entered the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults last fall.

The number of adult converts per year has been growing steadily and is testimony, in part, to the success of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA), a program of evangelization and catechesis begun after the Second Vatican Council.

[7] The restoration of the Rites of Christian Initiation for Adults flows from this principle and is specifically called for in Sacrosanctum Concilium.

All the marks of induction into the Aaronic priesthood — anointing, investiture, participation in the sacrificial meal — were included in Christian initiation.

Nevertheless, «if Christian initiation [i.e., baptism] is a trinitarian event, the church must speak of the Trinity as its determining reality.

Methodists, Lutherans and Episcopalians have taken a whole new look at the process of Christian initiation and have come up with new approaches much more in keeping with the practices of the early church.

Two points are crucial in these new approaches: they assume that Christian initiation is complete at one occasion, and they assume that the renewal of this experience is a lifelong process.

My understanding comes from the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) classes that adult converts to the Roman Catholic Church must attend for 9 months to a year before becoming a member.

The new Roman Catholic «Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults» has also attracted attention as a means of making the conversion of an adult an experience shared in community rather than an individual matter.

Not long before he died, Rich had completed the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults, the catechism course that prepares persons for reception into the Catholic Church.

I went to a program the Catholic Church has called The Right of Christian Initiation (RCIA for short).

Not exact matches

Relations with the departed ancestors were declared idolatry, any Christian marriage had to be monogamous and initiation practices must be given up.

«It is our common Baptism that places us in real, if imperfect, communion with other Christians so that the initiation of the baptized, though not an ecumenical activity, requires a particular ecumenical sensitivity.»

Chapter 3: Initiation into the Christian Experience: Q2.

It is entirely appropriate, therefore, that both the Christian rite of initiation into the community of faith and the chief Christian action of worship should have this sacramental nature.

This can be seen in the shift in accent in Biblical interpretation prompted by the work of Karl Barth following World War I. Prior to his initiation of a new approach, the Bible was being approached primarily as a body of content from the Judeo - Christian tradition.

If baptism isn't just a symbol of initiation but is an initiation, then Zach was already a Christian.

Beyond this initiation of direct discussion between Catholic theology and death - of - God theology, Altizer calls on all Catholics and Protestants to occupy a common theological frontier with regard to atheism — examining together if it be a genuine possibility that atheism might be the final stage in the development of Christian faith.

The Hijrian year 290, for example, corresponding to the year 902 of our Christian Era, evokes two feminine names of considerable eschatological importance in Islam, Maryam (mother of Jesus: M + R + Y + M = 290) and FATIR, the initiation name of Fâtima, daughter of the Prophet, ancestress of the Fatimites (F + A + T + R = 290).

Infant Baptism is only a rite of initiation and commits parents and godparents to bringing up the child in a Christian home.

Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.

Finally, let it be stated that the value of early Christian thought finds expression in contemporary renewal, especially in the areas of liturgy and the rites of initiation (baptism, confirmation, Eucharist).

According to Meeks, the Christian baptismal initiation reversed the division of male and female, returning to the gender unity found in Adam before Eve and in God.

Initiation into the life of the Christian fellowship was the hoped - for effect of the proclamation of the Word.

Manu Fico and the right John the Baptist, ancient pagan and Christian symbols of fertility and initiation, used here to spiritualise the matter of contemporary art.