Sentences with phrase «eucharist called»

«According to Alnetonae, the ancient Brahmins had a kind of Eucharist called «prajadam.»

The Eucharist calls us to be united with God and united with one another.

In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itself.

Not exact matches

We know the world can be fulfilled and transformed because, even in Babylon, God's kingdom is already present in the supreme political action called the Eucharist.

«If we acquire this perception we shall see that the One who created the world and the One who was born in a grotto in Bethlehem and who continues to dwell among us in the Eucharist, is the same living God who calls us, who loves us and who wants to lead us to eternal life.»

John Dominic Crossan called the early Christian Eucharist the embodiment of justice.

He will then go on to explain what following this call will mean: a life of charity, lived out in celibate chastity, in obedience to him and his successors and nourished and strengthened in prayer, focused especially on Our Lord in the Eucharist.

The Eucharist is particularly designed to call these events to memory.

It is called the last supper, communion, the eucharist, a sacrament.

When Martin Luther called the Eucharist «the Lord's Supper» it was «a complete innovation».

Then, at the Eucharist, which incorporated so much of the Hindu temple ritual, the celebrant called us to communion with the words, «Jesus invites us all to share in God's limitless love».

Although «his presence is veiled» the Lord of heaven and earth meets us in the Eucharist and calls us into communion with him.

When the Christian church celebrates the central act of its worship — whether it calls it Mass, Eucharist, Holy Communion, or Lord's Supper — it points back not only to these events in the upper room, but to the whole drama of God's redemptive action that Jesus is symbolizing in his words and gestures.

Its concern is with what is sometimes called «liturgical preaching», but I do not mean this in the narrower sense of preaching upon the appointed lections in the celebration of the Eucharist.

Thus the four-fold action of the Eucharist, following the pattern of Christ's action, came to be what Dom Gregory Dix has called the «shape» of the Liturgy.

It was worship through what has been called by many names in the Christian tradition: the Lord's Supper, the Holy Communion, the Eucharist, the Divine Liturgy, the Holy Mysteries, the Mass..

This calls into question, for example, whether the eucharist is essential, whether scripture is normative, and whether the resurrection is optional.

On great festivals, like Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and the so - called «saints»» or «holy» days, the eucharist is offered with simplicity but with the beauty of vestments and always — as at the daily evensongs — with the singing of great music by a magnificent choir of men and boys.

which clearly shows that there existed in the early Church what we shall call an eschatological judgment pronouncement tradition having its roots in Christian prophecy and its Sitz im Leben in the Eucharist.

But then why not equally call religion an aberration of the digestive function, and prove one's point by the worship of Bacchus and Ceres, or by the ecstatic feelings of some other saints about the Eucharist?

One of the most seriously troubling portions of the Synod Report is the omission from section 86 of the part of the paragraph from Familiaris Consortio 84, which states that the divorced and civilly divorced may not receive the Eucharist and balances an earlier portion of the same paragraph that calls for «discernment» about how the divorced and civilly «remarried» can participate in the Church.

One simple way that the Eucharist can be seen as having an impact on Tolkien's work is in the elvish bread called Lembas that is given to the members of the fellowship by Galadriel, the elven queen.

Indeed, the central prayer of the church is often called the Prayer of Thanksgiving and one of the names for the Communion service is Eucharist, from the Greek word for thanksgiving.

In the Athanasian Creed, that ancient canticle of Christian faith still found in the service books of many Christian communions, there is a fine statement which gives the proper setting for any discussion of Christian worship and, a fortiori, for a discussion of the central act of Christian worship, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, the Divine Mysteries, the Liturgy, the Mass — call it what you will.

The manner of it becomes dearer when we consider the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist (the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper, or, as it is called in some Western churches, the Mass).

He pointed out that Christians of the first centuries called it eucharist, thanksgiving, and the sacrament of thanksgiving.

What we now called the «tripod»... was born: the Word, the Eucharist, and the Christian community» (The Kerygma 2014: 62).

The spoken word - like Baptism and Eucharist - is said to have a sacramental quality; the church itself is called a sacrament of the kingdom.

In fact he said that given our Lady's relationship to Christ, and that the Eucharist is Christ, we can call her a «woman of the Eucharist in her whole life» (EdE53 and Abide with Us Lord 10).

This explanation of the Eucharist has been called «transignification» or «transfinalization.»

Christ, then we can actually call Mary «Mother of the Eucharist».

The followers of Jesus, soon to be called Christians (after «Christ», meaning the Anointed, a name given early on, to Jesus), began to meet together in the earliest days, to celebrate this remembrance, which they called also thanksgiving, eucharist.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church quotes St Justin Martyr: «On the day we call the day of the sun, all who dwell in the city of country gather...» and notes that «The liturgy of the Eucharist unfolds according to a fundamental structure which has been preserved throughout the centuries down to our own day.

[11] But he appears uncomfortable with this teaching, probably because he wishes to distance St Thomas from the Protestant view of the Eucharist as just a memorial, a symbolic means of calling Calvary to mind.

So all we learn from this passage regarding the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist is what the first sentence, taken alone, says: that the sacrament is called a sacrifice because it represents the Passion, in other words, just what St Thomas expounds in III, q. 83.

It has been said over and over again, by Christians of all kinds in this mainstream of historic Christianity, that the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, the Liturgy, the Divine Mysteries, the Mass — call it what you will — is the Church's characteristic action.