Sentences with phrase «god consecrates»

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This requires a holy and consecrated lifestyle that doesn't compromise the infallible truth of God's Word.

[JB:] Until the body of Christ, I believe, begins to pray, fast and consecrate itself and realize that there needs to be a desperation for God, we will not see spiritual transformation in this nation, let alone social transformation, which is always the result of a moving of God across a people.

This woman lived a consecrated life, preached the Gospel, gave generously toward God's project, and helped many needy in her area.

Following tradition and a practice recommended by saints, I can join my spirit to the body and blood of Christ by lifting up to God my desire for Holy Communion even when I don't consume a consecrated host.

The word «holy» was to show that followers of God were «set apart» (sacred, consecrated, venerated) from other people who were not God's followers.

In a homily in Nazareth on 14 May 2009 Pope Benedict dwelt on «the sacredness of the family, which in God's plan is based on the lifelong fidelity of a man and a woman consecrated by the marriage covenant and accepting of God's gift of new 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.

As Selvaggi writes, «the nature of consecrated virginity [is] holiness of body and soul, the one inseparable from the other, both for the glory of God in humble service and modest living in a stable way of life.»

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

The marriage vows said before God and consecrated within the bed chamber is a Holy act.

Ultimately, the systematic wholeness of truth can be traced to the fact that God is himself the author of all truth... The recovery of the Christian mind and the development of a comprehensive Christian worldview will require the deepest theological reflection, the most consecrated application of scholarship, the most sensitive commitment to compassion, and the courage to face all questions without fear.

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

Recalling the lives of the consecrated virgins who lived during the few centuries prior to the emergence of structured religious orders, Dohen claimed for herself an ancient precedent for the life of freedom and union with God.

All of us are consecrated to the one God» Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» in whose name we are baptized (Ephesians 4:4 - 6).

Jeremiah did not take his life in his own hands, no doubt because God had declared to him years before, «Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you...» (Jeremiah 1:5).

(«The saints» is one of the recurrent designations of Christians, meaning, not persons of perfect character, but members of a community consecrated to God, e.g. I Corinthians 1:2, 3:17, cf. Acts 20:32).

While in its original use this was probably a reference to sacramental participation in the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist, there is a possible further extension of its meaning so that it will include a relationship with the whole natural order, seen as a sphere of the divine activity and hence as a way of contact with the God who is operative within it.

Christians have built churches of great beauty in many places, which are consecrated or set apart for the worship of God.

In itself it meant no more than a person «anointed,» or consecrated, to an office of special solemnity; but always it was an office bound up with the peculiar status of Israel as God's own people.

143:10 Matthew 3:13 — 17 Luther's hymn on Baptism is a wonderful way to observe this festival and great even in our Lord's life: To Jordan Came our Lord the Christ To Jordan came our Lord the Christ, To do God's pleasure willing, And there was by Saint John baptized, All righteousness fulfilling; There did He consecrate a bath To wash away transgression, And quench the bitterness of death By His own blood and passion; He would a new life give us.

It is out of the question to try to grasp God through sight (which is the equivalent of reducing truth to reality), to claim that what one sees can be God (in this case one converts reality into truth), or to make a representation of something in the spiritual realm (which is the same as consecrating a religion, since religions always belong to the visual realm).

Thanks to them, the world is lifted up towards God... In this year consecrated to the Eucharist, reviving the figure of Dom Guéranger is an invitation for all the faithful to rediscover the roots of the liturgy and to give a new breath to their journey of prayer, taking care to place themselves always in the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and quality.

The first engenders a history, while the second consecrates a nature full of gods.

I am sure it was with laughter in his eyes that he confused those who objected to his companions» plucking the grain heads as they passed through the fields on the Sabbath with a reminder of what David, the idealized hero, had done, entering the «house of God,» taking the consecrated bread from the Holy Place, and giving it to his companions because they were hungry.

[15] Focusing on the cup, Cyprian writes that he has been constrained to address this issue because of the «ignorance or naïveté» of some people, who in consecrating the Lord's cup and in its administration «do not follow the precepts and practices of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, the Author and Teacher of this sacrifice» (1.1).

There, indeed, priests, strictly so - called, performed cultic acts, in properly consecrated sanctuaries, acts addressed to God on behalf of the people.

When one serves God by all means at one's disposal, one consecrates one's entire life to God, making one's service of God integrated and complete.

He may eat his God's food, some of the most sacred as well as the sacred, only he must not approach the Veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a defect in him, lest he profane my sanctuary; for it is I, the Lord, who consecrate [Lev.

As Rosa Marta's song says so clearly, a mujerista is one who struggles to liberate herself, who is consecrated by God as proclaimer of the hope of her people.

They can live a radical Eucharistic life, poured out for God and for others, a life centred on Jesus Christ which can take on many aspects of poverty, chastity and obedience, and sometimes much more heroically than consecrated religious.

Paul says, «A woman who is really widowed and left without anybody can give herself up to God in hope and consecrate all her days and nights to petitions and meetings for prayer» (1 Tim.

Then comes a list of lesser things «beyond necessity, purely as a special service to God, which is contrary to faith... Tonsures, chasubles, albs... altar cloths, lights... bells, holy water, holy salt, incense», and a further list of ambivalent things: «veiling of statues, keeping fasts (except for the clergy), Litany of the Saints, Hymns to Mary of an evening, Confession torture, Palm swallowing, Passion sermons eight hours long, Consecrating the fire,... St Martin's Goose... three Christmas Masses, Oats on St Stephen's Day, St. John's draught».

The various styles each in their own way point to God, and the consecrated building or sacred space even today challenges the secular assumptions of society.

In baptism, we are all anointed, that is, «marked» with the sacred oils, which means that we are set aside, consecrated, and dedicated for the work of God.

44 I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy.

We need the God Who dwells above, the One who comes to us, not to confirm and affirm and consecrate us in our worldliness, but seeks to draw us up to Himself.

To redeem evil is to reunite God with His Shekinah, and this is the ultimate task to which all the ages of men must consecrate their lives.

We are all called to give generously: parents, in the efforts they put in for their children; young adults, in recognising that their bodies are «for the Lord» and should be considered as something holy; consecrated religious, in giving themselves in prayer out of a perfect love for God; and especially priests, who are told at their ordination that they must imitate what they celebrate at the altar.

«The inspiration came to him to consecrate to the Mother of God his own virginity — that being to her the most agreeable of possible presents.

As God's holy and priestly people, we have all been consecrated by that offering of the Body of Jesus Christ... «for our good and the good of all his Church».

Toward the end of the tenth century agitation began for the Peace of God, which sought to exempt from attack all persons and places consecrated to the Church — churches, monasteries, clergy, monks, and virgins.

Their insistence that Israel is a holy people, set apart, dedicated, consecrated, to the service of God, «a kingdom of priests and a holy nation» (Exod.

The consecrated man felt he could not face his superiors or his God if he had not fulfilled the rules, which seemed to flow so ineluctably from the Church and its Canon Law.

The word things will make one think that it's not good enough unless you have it that way, but when you are pure and consecrated to Gods way, then the only reference you will have is with your helpmeet, spouse... AND THAT»S EXPLOSIVE!

See, for example, Charles de Condren (1588 - 1641): «the body of Jesus Christ... at the resurrection... entered into a more perfect state, higher, holier, more absolutely consecrated to God» (The Priesthood and Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, 1899, p. 81).

«If this can be said of mere mortals like yourselves, why is it blasphemy for him whom the Father consecrated and sent to refer to himself as the Son of God?»

It is obvious that within this broad context the conception of the minister practically lost its priestly dimension as traditionally conceived, and became that of a consecrated functionary, called of God, who directed the purposive activities of the visible church.

12:3); they have been washed, consecrated, and set in a right relationship to God (I Cor.

the whole world being at peace, Jesus Christ, eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to consecrate the world by his most loving presence, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and when nine months had passed since his conception, was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judah, and was made man:

In American the meaning of the name Elisa is: consecrated to God.