Sentences with phrase «holy orders since»

One of the key sacraments is Holy Orders since only the priest says Mass, hears confessions, confirms, ordains and annoints.

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Since the diaconate is a grade or degree of Holy Orders (The Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], § 1554), the unity of the sacrament seems to require that its subject, who is the sacramental sign, be a baptized male.

What you are saying might have some truth in it if we evolved; But since we were created by a thrice holy God, that told us about marrying, who: (marry whom you will, only in the Lord), and how: (Thou shalt not lay with mankind as with womankind), then in order to please him: (Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life...) we have to abstain from this.

Since the book draws from the imagery of the seven sacraments — baptism, confession, communion, holy orders, marriage, healing, and confirmation — stories that center around those experiences are much more likely to strike a chord with where I'm at creatively with this project.

Of course, if someone is so close with God and Jesus as the apostles and many Christians in the 1st century were, that believer won't need the Bible in order «to hear» God speaking since he hears the Holy Spirit directly.