Sentences with phrase «eucharist when»

But I sense God's presence at both services and recall Quaker friend Brent Bill's words, «Worship becomes Eucharist when we sense God present with our group.»

They are denied the Eucharist when they need it most — after an abusive, failed marriage.

Not exact matches

It has happened before, for example, when gay rights activists crashed catholic masses in San Fransisco and desecrated the Holy Eucharist.

When this happens, the couple «can not be precluded from participating in the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.»

Farrow is at his most articulate and passionate when he speaks of «the politics of the Eucharist.»

Because even when it is celebrated on the humble altar of a country church, the Eucharist is always in some way celebrated on the altar of the world.

They show that the Old Testament can, and must, be read as a Christian book, prophetic of Jesus; that the paradox that the Messiah should suffer death can be understood in the light of the scriptures; and that the risen Lord's presence, even if it is not recognized at other times, is to be discerned when he encounters his people in the breaking of bread (the Church's Eucharist).

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

His teaching was both unsystematic and vivid, and when he spoke about the Eucharist I remember he urged us to receive Communion on the tongue — because, he said, we should be as docile and receptive as children being fed by their mother.

When the mystery is solved, they walk off into the mist together — not to consummate their relationship, but to share a private Eucharist and a moment of spiritual reflection.

If and when Christians rethink and transform the eucharistic communities to participate in the ongoing human search for a more just and peaceful world, the Eucharist will be one of the greatest sources and agencies of human liberation.

And when Christians, in many different ways, gather together to celebrate the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Holy Communion, Eucharist, or Mass, the words and gestures together form the total meaning.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

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.

I have said all this because I wish to emphasize in this chapter that the proper setting for preaching should be the Eucharist — although of course there will be other important occasions when the proclamation of the gospel will stand by itself or take place in other contexts.

At the same time, and as a necessary consequence, there is a communion among those who have been caught up into Christ, so that when the Eucharist takes place those who are assisting at its observance find themselves belonging with each other in a new and vitalizing fashion.

The reception of the Holy Eucharist is the most misunderstood aspect of the Catholic faith, and when the likes of such public policy - makers as Nancy Pelosi make a national mockery of Communion without consequence, there is little wonder why it has become a mere symbol of self - affirmation rather than the efficacious sign of personal transformation through the Cross of Christ and the «renewal of the mind» (Rom.

A real conundrum I find with Christians of various theological persuasions is that they harp on how we must be engaged in studying the Bible, how the Bible is our guide in life, and hold the Bible on a pedestal, much like rabbinic Jews hold the Torah or Catholic hold up their Eucharist, but when it comes to the nitty - gritty of how they have come to know God, no matter how they explain it, it ends up being on the basis of experience.

The most remarkable occasion when the Eucharist was given was at the Last Supper for Christ was there standing in front of His Apostles, yet His body remained intact in front of them.

It follows also that our mortal flesh can not perceive the risen body of Christ, and so it is not our fleshly body that is eating the body of Christ but our eternal spiritual person who is becoming united with the risen Christ (body, blood, soul and divinity) when our mortal bodies eat and digest the sacred species in the Eucharist.

2 - 3), and whether it is apt to celebrate communion in the morning when Jesus instituted the Eucharist after supper (16.1 - 17.1), the pastor in Cyprian returns at the end of the letter to assure forgiveness to those who may have erred in good faith in the past (18.4), and requesting his people to recognise that since Christ's «second coming is now drawing near to us,» (18.4), it is incumbent upon them to act so that «He may find us upholding what He has counselled, observing what He has taught and doing what He Himself has done.»

When the LCA began allowing some laypersons to read the «lessons» (another term that presumes lay ignorance) and assist with communion, the pastor's role was described as «chief liturgical officer» or «president of the Eucharist.»

When you peel the layers off their conscious mind and reach the subconscious, you will find most times that they mean they don't like the teaching this institution gives about poverty, prayer, attendance at the Eucharist, and their sexual life, whether in or out of marriage.

This takes place particularly through the celebration of the Eucharist, when thereal presence of Jesus under the species of bread and wine reveal and effect the union for which the universe longs.

This is especially true in the case of the Eucharist, when Christ is exercising his ministry of salvation.

The reception of Christ in the Eucharist reminds us that when we pray for the removal of sickness, we're in fact aiming much higher.

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).

And when he included the institution of the Eucharist among the new mysteries of the rosary it was, he said, because «Mary can guide us to this most holy sacrament because she herself has a profound relationship with it» (ibid).

While the Letter to the Hebrews does not specifically mention the Eucharist, it surely has this in mind in when it states in connection with Christ's priesthood, «We have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the Blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His flesh.»

Luther defended belief in the «real presence» of Christ at the Eucharist and insisted that when Jesus said of the bread «This is my body», his words were to be taken literally.

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.

Did you marry some else first, or were you single when denied the Eucharist?

The Eucharist celebrates that night when «heaven is wedded to earth and [humanity] is reconciled with God.»

But when it came to the Church, the eucharist, the nature of the Mass, the invocation of Saints, negotiations broke down.

The bible also says you are product of insest (guess god didn't think that through when he only made two people to start with), jesus has multiple family lineages back to david and adam with little overlapping patriarchs (true, look it up), teaches being born is a sin (thats why they baptize), and encourages the worship of a zombie via ritualistic cannibalism (jesus after the cross and the eucharist).

This second passage helps O'Connor's case only if we assume the point at issue, that when St Thomas says the Eucharist contains Christ who has suffered, he means the Real Presence contains Jesus in a wounded condition.

Jesus continues to give himself to us his disciples when we gather to celebrate the Eucharist.

The Eucharist is seen as our meal, that time when we can show that we are God's family through our sharing.

When we gather to celebrate the Eucharist, to offer praise and thanksgiving to God Our Father, we too are aware of our inadequacy, of the imperfections and failings in our lives.

In the same homily Benedict encouraged Christians to «ask the Lord to grant that we may overcome our limits, our world, to help us to encounter him, especially at the moment when he places himself into our hands and into our heart in the Holy Eucharist.»

We shall say more about the kind of remembrance here in view when we come to the «memorial aspect» of the Eucharist.