Sentences with phrase «father by his sacrifice»

It would not be the God - man who satisfies the wrathful judgment of the Father by his sacrifice.

Jesus obeyed his Father by sacrificing his life at the time of his Passion.

Not exact matches

But our Father is a fair and just God who wishes us all to seek his comfort, peace, serenity, guidance and spiritual abundance and who demonstrated sacrifice by sending His son Jesus who endured great pain and suffering so we could be free indeed.

If by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, who redeems his children by the atonement and sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan of salvation revealed in the Bible and ascribed to by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.

«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.»

In fact Father Maillard, the director of Frères du Monde, actually declared: «If I noticed that my faith [true, he did not add «Christian»] separated me by however little from other men and diminished my revolutionary violence, I would not hesitate to sacrifice my faith,» A clear statement of the conviction latent in Shaull's writings; namely, that revolution is more fundamental than the faith.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

By showing his willingness to sacrifice what is his for what is right and good, he also puts his son on the proper road for his own adulthood — the true test of the good father.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

Although you may see it as just some sort of rough weekend and not a big deal, or that the whole sacrifice thing may have happened on the fly to fix some faux pas by God the Father, I see it as something that was specifically planed right from before this world was created and that it was not some sort of ad hoc contingency, but something that was part of the Father's plan all along.

God sacrificed Himself, so man would know just how much we're loved by the Father.

Since the Syriac fathers see the old order of sacrifices as having lost its former value, it is curious how firmly both Aphrahat and Ephrem held a tradition which is strange to the New Testament, namely, that Christ as High Priest «according to the order of Melchizedek», actually received the Aaronic priesthood by unbroken succession of imposition of hands through John the Baptist, who was of priestly family; when the former priesthood was repudiated, the power continued in Christ and he passed it on to the Apostles.

What the Reformation ends up with is not a God whose very Nature is Unconditional Love; but a Father God whose Love can never be immediately experienced by the believer; but only through a scape - goated Son cruelly sacrificed in our stead — Calvin's Cosmic Bully!

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

At first this cult, or worship was conducted by the father of the household, but in time there arose a specialized priesthood for the performance of the appropriate sacrifices and rituals, and the hymns were probably largely produced by them and for their use in the cult.

The liturgical scholarship of the past hundred years has uncovered some fascinating insights into the rites used in the early Church but these indications are often incidental to the principal concern of the Fathers, which was to affirm that the Eucharist was the perfect sacrifice prophesied by Malachi, to emphasise the awesome mystery of the sacred action, and to exhort the faithful to approach it with a clear conscience.

Fr Crean's article on the Eucharist (Sept 09) stresses the need to see the sacrifice of our Lord's mortal body as the essential fact which makes the offering of the Mass a sacrifice; and his thesis is usefully complemented by the editorial comment, which reminds us that «the presence of the Lamb that was slain for our sins is inseparable from his risen and glorified presence before the Father in heaven».

He revealed the Father who sent Him, above all by His Sacrifice, the New Covenant, God's irrevocable pledge of loyalty.

Having committed Himself to His Sacrifice by instituting the Holy Eucharist, that is, having entered upon His Passion, Jesus could say, about God the Father, «Henceforth you know him and have seen him» (John 14:7).

Christ opening himself up to the «least of these» and identifying with them was, for many liberationists, the act of self - sacrifice that fulfilled the historical Jesus's indwelling by God the Father.

He came to declare God, to reveal Him to mankind, and to offer Himself as sacrifice for OUR sins, so that by trusting in Him, we could be reconciled to the Father, or Creator.

Even Jephtah's daughter, who was brutally sacrificed by her father in the name of God, inspired the women of Israel to honor her in a ceremony every year.

When an undertaking in which a whole nation is concerned is hindered, when such an enterprise is brought to a standstill by the disfavor of heaven, when the angry deity sends a calm which mocks all efforts, when the seer performs his heavy task and proclaims that deity demands a young maiden as a sacrifice — then will the father heroically make the sacrifice.

The priest acts in the Person of Christ in so far as He exercises His Mercy towards men by offering Himself to the Father in sacrifice for the expiation for their sins.

For first we offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; then next we plead and represent before the Father the sacrifice of the cross, and by it we confidently entreat remission of sins and all other benefits of the Lord's Passion for the whole Church; and lastly we offer the sacrifice of ourselves to the Creator of all things which we have already signified by the oblations of his creatures.

What feels to me like an endless cycle of dishes and diapers, punctuated by the odd disaster, must look like brilliant threads of golden perseverance, scarlet sacrifice, and soft blue - grey shades of faith, all woven tenderly into my life's tapestry by my Father's skillful hands.

As a man becomes a father, he learns by necessity to sacrifice things like sleep, convenience, and a previously active personal social life as he helps his partner through pregnancy and begins to raise that little boy or girl that has come into his life.

Andrew also benefited from watching his father in office; he saw how badly he was hurt by those budget battles, by failing to set priorities, by resisting sacrificing in one area to gain in another.

Lady Bird's father, played by Tracy Letts, makes sacrifices for every member of his family, and he's happy for them even though he's sad for himself.

Thor returns to Asgard victorious, with the horned skull of Surtur as a trophy, only to find his brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) masquerading as their father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) as a play (in which Matt Damon plays Loki, Luke Hemsworth plays Thor, and Wilderpeople's Sam Neill is Odin) and statue commemorate the heroic sacrifices made by Loki.

The movie's title refers to the Greek myth of Iphigenia, who was offered as a sacrifice by her father Agamemnon to satisfy the goddess Artemis after he offends her.

When the story circulates about the church's kid gloves treatment of molester Father John Geoghan, the paper's editor - in - chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber, «Pawn Sacrifice»), newly arrived from The Miami Herald and not bound by local «traditions» or religious loyalties, assigns the Spotlight unit to dig into the story.

She felt it was made clear to the children that acceptance by their mother was contingent upon rejection of the father and they appeared willing to sacrifice a very secure relationship with the father and step - mother in order to resolve the issue of their mother's commitment to them.

For those of you who let your children go rather than keep them in the hell of continuously being verbally abused by their fathers for your very presence in their lives, remember your sacrifice.