Sentences with phrase «sacrament meeting»

Oddly enough, here in America, we get to choose and aren't you going to be crying in Sacrament meeting when your silly Romney with the Ape - like arms (I mean look at the picture!

There are so many falsehoods spread about the Mormon faith both intentionally and unintentionally that I would invite anyone who has a negative impression about Mormons to attend a Mormon Sacrament meeting on any given Sunday.

Maybe attend a sacrament meeting?

When scripture and sacrament meet, people are driven to the intimacy of prayer and the life of discipleship.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints participate in fast - and - testimony Sacrament meetings, Sharing Time in Primary, sharing - oriented teaching methods, family history networks, Family Home Evenings, date nights, and husband - wife councils.

Not exact matches

The Catholic Church is being invited to meet the risen Lord in Scripture, the sacraments, and prayer, and to make friendship with him the center of Catholic life.

This is the church of the Council of Trent, that series of meetings in the 16th century which, in reaction to the Reformation, declared the Roman Catholic Church the sole vehicle of salvation, defined the nature of the seven necessary sacraments, approved prayers to the saints and set down the requirement of attending mass.

I guess most priests feel that it is the desire to meet God in the sacrament, not the absence of sin, that makes the communicant «worthy» to receive.

For me, my needs are met in the Church... being fed by the Sacraments I not only kept my Faith alive but it has flourished; it is by the grace of God and all I have to do is bask in his goodness offered freely to me.

The sacrament «is stripped of its essential character when it no longer includes an elemental, life - claiming and life - determining experience of the other person, of the otherness, as of something coming to meet and acting hitherwards.»

But even though we may have to endure a spiritual odyssey and may meet many unexpected obstacles, we ought to make a little more progress than those who have merely been indoctrinated with a little external Christianity which expressed itself merely in a bored attendance at Sunday Mass, perhaps an Easter confession and the receiving of the last sacraments.

He tells this true story: Four groups met to prepare children with disabilities for the sacrament of confirmation.

Let us illustrate this point of view toward which our whole discussion has been moving by looking briefly at the sacraments of the Church, the Christian meeting of death, and the Christian life of active service as expressions of the way which is enclosed in the grace of this kind of community.

Arranging the book around seven sacraments, (baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, anointing of the sick, and marriage) gave shape to my story and connected it to the stories of all who have met God in those tangible, tactile ways.

The Church is the place where we meet Christ through the sacraments; and if one is concerned with the most direct encounter that is possible for us with our Lord, it is in the Holy Communion that we shall find this, and this is known in and of the Church.

This is the same thing that the traditional church structures attempt to do through a gathered community of believers that meets to celebrate with Word and sacrament the Christian way of understanding and experiencing life.

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

However, Calvin said, if a man meets the tests of a profession of faith, an upright life, and participation in the sacraments, the probabilities are that he is among the elect and he should not worry.

But one of both of the partners failed to meet the spiritual form of the sacrament.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus earlier this summer by proposing to a meeting of liturgists in London that the Catholic Church return to the practice of priest and people praying in the same direction during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: a change in liturgical «orientation» the cardinal described as the entire congregation looking together toward the Lord who is to come.

Sacrament's devs launched a Kickstarter earlier this spring that ended in failure with only $ 3,155 pledged toward a $ 250,000 goal and a vow to return on Patreon, now met; the creators seek a minimum of $ 850 per month.

Among the greatest examples of his painting are: Abduction of the Sabine Women, (1634 - 8, Met NY / Louvre, Paris), Et in Arcadia Ego (1637, Louvre), The Continence of Scipio (1640, Pushkin Museum), the series of the Seven Sacraments (1644 - 8, National Gallery of Scotland), The Holy Family (1650, Harvard University Art Museum); Death of Sapphira (1652, Louvre); The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1657, Hermitage), and The Four Seasons (1660 - 64, Louvre).

Only Christian faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: the goodness of creation, the drama of sin, and the patient love of God who comes to meet man by his covenants, the redemptive Incarnation of his Son, his gift of the Spirit, his gathering of the Church, the power of the sacraments, and his call to a blessed life to which free creatures are invited to consent in advance, but from which, by a terrible mystery, they can also turn away in advance.