Sentences with phrase «christian rites»

In Germany, this day is celebrated, combining pagan and Christian rites.

It explores the connection between John the Baptism and the recreation of the ritual of baptism in modern Christian rites of passage.

When I served as a rural priest in Tamilnadu in the 1980s I was intrigued to discover how many Dalit Christian communities wanted their native Dalit religious rites and Christian rites to co-exist.

The words of institution of the Lord's Supper, still heard around the world in the most sacred of Christian rites, bear witness to this conviction, «This cup is the new covenant in my blood» (I Cor.

I am a scholar / practitioner who is often torn between my academic interest in ritual performance and my responsibilities as a member of the Christian clergy and am myself ordained to perform Christian rites and rituals.

Marriage is older than christianity, therefore any comparison to other christian rites is moot.

* By performing Christian rites, one implies that Jews have rejected their own messiah and that Mormons and Muslims follow false prophets.

As early as the fourth century these gifts were enumerated in a prayer for the Spirit that was part of Christian rites of baptism (and later of confirmation).

Someone should just start a company named Christian rite oil co..

The embalming only serves to protect the body for a viewing, which is not a Christian rite in any way.

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.

Baptism is not a uniquely Christian rite.

A set of resources to help students explore this Christian rite of passage, and to evaluate some of the reasons why people choose to do it.

A literacy - rich RE assessment, based on the Christian rite of passage, infant baptism.

Not exact matches

Christian Communion is vampiric, The Great Rite is just using other people to get one's jollies, tell me a religion (modern or ancient) and I bet there will be at least one similarity regarding the control of people.

Since the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which called for funeral rites to «express more clearly the paschal character of Christian death,» the homilies and general aura of Catholic funerals have often ignored Purgatory and instead canonized the deceased among the heavenly blessed....

In the first centuries of Christianity, the Cybele / Attis religions were quite popular and some of the rites have parallels with Christian ones.

The straightforward seriousness of the rites reflected the metaphysical depth of the Christian understanding of life and of its end.

Too often in Jewish - Christian exchanges, Jews play the Holocaust as trump, and Christians, on cue, engage in unseemly and implausible rites of self - denigration.

The drama of sacraments as occasions in which the power of God comes to dwell in the believer can become obscured when a church takes its rites for granted or forgets the radical nature of Christian identity.

I am a Christian who recently joined a Western Rite Orthodox Church.

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.

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.

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 modernist — the extreme modernist, infidel in all but name — need not be called a fool or hypocrite because he obstinately retains, even in the midst of his intellectual atheism, the language, rites, sacraments, and story of the Christians.

All in all this is a remarkable and valuable book, not only for the illustrations it offers of ancient rites, but also for the accurate accounts it offers of the way in which baptism was addressed by early Christian writers from the New Testament to the fourth century, making great use of Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom in the east and Ambrose and Augustine in the west.

The images that surround the sites of early Christian baptism, therefore, not only conveyed interpretations of the rite, but also contributed to the believer's very experience.

On this second view, insofar as persons have apprehended God through the medium of Christian myths, symbols, and rites, their subjectivity will be shaped by a distinctive dynamic and structure which then dictates the proper movement and structure of theological study.

The rites and myths of the contemporary pagan cults afford impressive materials for comparison, and they undoubtedly had an influence on the later development of the Christian sacrament.

I know it doesn't cover the aspect of rite of Lord's Supper or any other rites that a Christian may participate in, but would something like «Immersed in Sacrifice» work?

Christians get up in arms whenever anybody messes with the «rites» of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and we get up in arms whenever anybody messes with our legal «rights,» such as the right to free speech, the right to practice our religion, or the right to bear arms.

A great controversy had arisen as to whether, in order to become a Christian, a Gentile must submit to the Jewish rite of circumcision.

the only difference between Christian and Mormon theology (which are both pure folklore) is that mormonism sprang out of masonic rites that tell the secret history of our nation.

Ignatius» epistles show that the Eucharist was the central rite of Christian worship at the beginning of the second century.

11:24 - 25), or only that they continued Jesus» practice of a fellowship - meal with his disciples, is much disputed, but the testimony of Paul (I Cor.11: 23) taken in conjunction with the firm tradition that Jesus had given to bread and wine a new significance at the Last Supper, support the view that from the very earliest days Christians repeated the substance of that rite.

Our reception of specifically Christian revelation ordinarily requires therefore that we abide within a communal context guided by the Spirit and given expression through the Christian story in word and rite.

«The Christians, you know, worship a man to this day — the distinguished personage who introduced their novel rites, and was crucified on that account.

[5] The rite of burial should be revised to show more clearly the paschal character of Christian death.

Communion among Christians includes the recognition of certain sacred rites, especially the sacraments or ordinances that come to us from Christ and the apostles.

This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»

The Decree Lamentabili (now in its centenary year) directed against Modernism condemns the opinion that, «The Christian community brought about the necessity of baptism by adopting it as a necessary rite and joining to it the obligations of the profession of a Christian.»

Last month, the author, Christian Caryl, visited Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Chaldean - rite Catholics, refugees from ISIS's summer campaign, live in tents in a church courtyard: Continue Reading»

It is decisive for the Christian that this objectivation comes to pass precisely through freedom, for only in this way will doctrine, rites, etc., truly belong to the free person who realizes himself before God, either towards or against him, and thus becomes the person who will be able to work out either his salvation or his eternal loss.

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.

To scold Christmas and Easter crowds as lapsed Christians may miss the point: that they are loyal family members performing their household rites of affinity.

For the author, the cult of the icon has served to create a cordon sanitaire around the Orthodox churches, allowing them to immure themselves in a gated community of obscurantist ecclesiastical politics and attempted geographical hegemony whereby Western Christians (or Eastern churches in union with Rome) can not exercise their religious rights (and rites) in the lands of traditional Orthodoxy, but the Orthodox bodies are allowed to evangelize at will in the lands of the Western Enlightenment.

The motu proprio, he insists, «compromises thecoherence of the Church's self - understanding and threatens to reduce the liturgy to a simple matter of individual «taste» rather than what it is meant to be: an accurate reflection of what we believe as Catholic Christians who live in the twenty - first century»: for that, of course is utterly different from what Catholic Christians who lived in previous centuries (and in the twentieth century before the sixties) believed: hence, the absolute indefensibility of what he calls «this medieval rite».

If you have been feeling that something is missing in your Christian walk, I suggest you look into having the magical rite of salt water performed on you.

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

It remains only to say that alteration of the wording of much of Christian worship, with the eradication of sub-Christian ideas that have been allowed over the centuries to creep in and still remain to deform worship, and with the necessary implementation of the traditional rites by new vistas of divine truth that have been vouchsafed to later ages, not least our own, is an urgent task for today's Christian fellowship.