Sentences with phrase «eucharist which»

Isn't it strange how eating someone's flesh and drinking their blood is considered cannibalism yet this is the very thing which became a central part of Christianity, namely the eucharist which symbolizes the eating of Jesus» flesh and the drinking of his blood.

Olive Wyon, The Altar Fire, is a devotional introduction to the Eucharist which has considerable theological content Liturgy and Worship eds.

Through this centering of the Church in and through the Eucharist which is the Living Christ, He is also the Lord of the Magisterium, the true word of the Word Incarnate.

Well, toward morning, the conversation turned on the Eucharist which I, being a Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend.

By means of his theological understanding he is able to reject doctrines of the Eucharist which are guilty of «psychologizing» it as merely a memory of a past event on the one hand, and «magical tendencies of some traditional doctrines» on the other (PPE 229).

The act of baptism was followed by the Eucharist which was also limited to ascetic Christians.

The story must be told by the life of the Church, and by the Eucharist which is the source and summit of the life of the Church, and therefore of the world.

We are made members of the Body of Christ through receiving three sacraments - Baptism, Confirmation, which we receive only once, and the Holy Eucharist which is Christ Himself.

Not exact matches

Knowing that someone is «spiritual,» Palmer says, is not the same as offering them «chapel,» or «mass,» or «eucharist,» which are the sorts of choices he wants to puts in front of patients.

In his approach to the question of divorce, remarriage, and reception of the Eucharist, he speaks of the need, in some cases, to rely on the «internal forum,» which means private consultation with a priest.

Could it be that the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist was that which Judas could not accept?

The words confirmation, penance, and eucharist aren't in there either, except for the Catholic version, which is an altered Bible.

Holloway links priestly loving, chastity and the Eucharist in a manner which throws light upon this.

Just before His crucifixion, Jesus had his Last Supper on Maundy Thursday with His disciples, during which He first instituted the Eucharist.

Instead, he is making an ecclesiological point: At any given place, there should be only one Eucharist celebrated to which all Christians «in good standing» should be admitted.

I was rather surprised to find myself quoted in the recent issue of FIRST THINGS as claiming, «Any church excluding Christians at a given place is not merely a bad church, but rather is not church at all, since a Eucharist to which not all the Christians at a given place might gather would not be merely a morally deficient Eucharist, but rather no Eucharist at all.»

To consider why this is so, let us go back to the very beginning, the institution of the Eucharist... Approximately two thousand years ago, Jesus had a roller - coaster Holy Week ride, which ultimately saw Him, through God's power, famously defeat sin and death, thereby providing us with the possibility of eternal life.

They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist.

Which brings us back to the source and summit of any effort to catechise and re-evangelise: the Eucharist.

The final definition, which Our Lord gives us, is that the Eucharist is simply «Me».

«The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.»

The frequent reception of Our Lord in the Eucharist is a pious practice which should be widely recommended.

These days there is a lot reclaiming of Eucharist or Communion for which I'm glad.

Martyrdom, Dan concludes, is an act of remembrance, like the Eucharist, in which «we make the past present», and is an act we should perform often, and with gratitude.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

The eschatological vision of the just reign of God which the Eucharist provides is far more, radical than any human social program.

There was need of that long, heroic journey through the mystical dark night, and of an exceptional development of the theological virtues of faith, hope and love, before matter could become «diaphanous» to Pere Teilhard's eyes and could reveal to him within itself not only the hallowing stream which flows from the Incarnation and the Eucharist but also the radiant presence of Christ.

Your will is that, with the help of your Eucharist, between men and my brother - men there should be revealed that basic attraction (already dimly felt in every love once it becomes strong) which mystically transforms the myriads of rational creatures into (as it were) a single monad in you, Christ Jesus.

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 Eucharist, in which the Lord's obedience on the Cross embraces us all, purifies us, and draws us up to that perfect worship offered by Jesus Christ.»

We say that rather «The Eucharist went to the Cross», so every Mass is the One same offering of Christ in time and space which was ratified by his perfect obedience unto death on the cross and is offered in heaven as an eternal offering.

The greatest expression of Caritas as gift and relationship lies in the Eucharist, which is why the «holy communion» of God with men is realised most fully on earth among those gathered around the altar for the Eucharist.

The Eucharist is in this way the anticipated new politics of the Kingdom in which justice and love will be again and forever one.

The new Temple of our self - offering is Jesus's Risen Body into which the Christian is incorporated by Baptism and of which he partakes in the Eucharist.

The mystery of the Eucharist also flows directly from the plan of the Incarnation which is primarily about the «divinisation» of man in Christ.

The grace which we received in the bishop's laying on of hands and the constant renewal of grace in the sacraments of the Eucharist and Confession deify us: through that grace we grow in virtue, through that grace we shine as «other Christs» in this world and for all eternity.

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.

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.

The Pope wishes us to pray and consecrate ourselves to God through lives of faith and holiness accompanied by an outpouring of prayer for vocations, without which we would have no Eucharist.

Since then, she has founded a ministry known as The Food Pantry, which she describes as an extension of the Eucharist.

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.

In our discussion we shall ask first what theological statements can be made on the subject of private prayer, examining afterwards if liturgical prayer (as distinct from the Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments with which we are not here concerned) can be preferred to it at all, and if so, what such a preference means for the practice of the Christian life.

Only that last doctrine comes from the Methodist Church to which he actually belongs (though with which he does not now commune — the Episcopalians down the street have drawn him in with weekly celebration of the Eucharist).

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».

But the «making present» of the Eucharist does not withdraw celebrants from the rough terrain of the political; it brings to the surface those conflicts with which the political order must cope.

Yet the central expression of this spirituality is found in the celebration of the Eucharist, which he sees as the proleptic sign of the future fellowship in the kingdom of God, which no political order can fulfill.

What I have found most relevant is Colossians ch.3 in the light of which it is legitimate to speak of the gospel as the news of the New Man Jesus Christ («Put on the new self, the new humanity»); and more especially it is valid to present the new fellowship of mutual forgiveness created by the Divine Forgiveness in Christ and expressed in the Eucharist and the social koinonia of the church as the foretaste of true human community as the essential gospel («Forgiving one another as the Lord forgave you»).

Their most common punishment was exclusion from the main meal, which included a «holy» portion, perhaps similar to our Eucharist.

The thorny issue of eucharistic sacrifice is integrated by Jenson into the anamnetic theory of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, which agrees with the best results in ecumenical dialogue.

Well, toward the morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend.