Sentences with phrase «eucharist leading»

Eucharist leading to charity, and all of this because of the response to and entrance into life lived in and with Christ: certainly there could hardly be a better definition of Christianity.

These two sacraments can be understood as closely linked to the two-fold meaning of salvation which we have already considered — penance leading to the forgiveness of sin committed after baptism, and the Eucharist leading to the fullness of God's own life.

Not exact matches

«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.»

Rather than staying becalmed in the sacristy, the sanctuary, and the presbytery, the clergy of his day, he urged, should lead a demanding, Gospel - centered life of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the sacraments, nourishing their people with the tangible realities God had entrusted to human hands as pathways to the Trinity: the Bible and the Eucharist.

He wrote 14 encyclicals, made 748 visits to parishes in Rome and adjacent territories of which he was Bishop, created nine specially dedicated Years (for the Eucharist, for Mary, etc) and led the Church in a three - year preparation for, and eventualcelebration of, a Great Jubilee in the year 2000.

The formation of the home leads quite naturally to the local parish, Tabernacle of God with men, around which the local family of God gathers for the common life in Christ of the Eucharist, Sacrifice and Sacrament of the world.

It includes a meal by the lake - side where the Christian experience of meeting the Lord at the Eucharist is reflected back into the Easter story; and it leads up to the rehabilitation and commissioning of Peter as the leader of the mission, a foreshadowing of his death, which had happened, of course, long before this Gospel was written, and a discussion of the destiny of the «beloved disciple», possibly John.

The story resonates with images — God's gift of manna in the wilderness as Moses led the people, the approaching final meal that Jesus will eat with his disciples, and the Eucharist.

This fundamental misinterpretation and misguided perception of the music of the sacred liturgy that is leading us down the path towards ever more fashionable styles of music being introduced to the Eucharist.

He hoped Christians would be led to profess the faith more fully and with conviction; to deepen their encounter with Jesus Christ in the Liturgy, especially in the Eucharist, and to witness the faith more credibly by the example of their lives.

Its true purpose was to lead people to a personal encounter with the Lord, present in the Eucharist, and thus with the living God, so that through this contact with Christ's love, the love of his brothers and sisters for one another might also grow.

On the other hand, the omission of the qualifying portion can plausibly be said to indicate that the Synod was not endorsing all of FC 84 and was permitting «discernment» that could lead to reception of the Eucharist and arguably have the stronger position since attempts to get the clarifying portion included were defeated.

For instance, if priests were permitted to decide that some divorced and remarried Catholics could partake of the Eucharist, many knew well that this would lead Catholics to conclude that marriage is not a pledge to life - time fidelity, is not indissoluble.

As fate would have it, I did not have to wait long, for we discovered that next summer that we each inhabited the same island as cottage owners in the Ottawa Valley: a discovery that led to many evenings spent together on each other's front deck, bourbon in hand, after sharing a common celebration of the Eucharist and a common meal.

The Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith, and so we can only come together and receive Communion if we truly are in communion with one another, and that means being in full communion with the Catholic Church, led by the bishop of Rome.

It was only when I reached my twenties that I came fully to understand that the center of the liturgy is the Eucharist and not, as I had been led to conclude as a child, the sermon.

In 1054 that claim led to a formal breach when legates of the reforming and vigorous Leo IX laid a sentence of excommunication on the altar of St. Sophia when it was ready for the Eucharist, and the Ecumenical Patriarch, in return, excommunicated the legates.

If a minister is ordained to a ministry of word and sacrament, why does he need to go through what looks like re-ordination every time he leads the Eucharist?

There are no sacraments in Berlevaag, no Eucharist; perhaps a more robust conception of Christ's flesh and blood made manifest in bread and wine would lead them to take more delight in the act of eating and all the world's physical pleasures.

Last Tuesday, the Pope took to the podium to lead us in a hymn of praise to the Eucharist through his Apostolic Exhortation, Sacramentum Caritatis.

This leads us to reflect on the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper.

This means our communion with Christ in the Eucharist, where we encounter the full depth of his love, should lead to the practice of loving others and accepting their love for us.