Sentences with phrase «sacrament shown»

Not exact matches

At the first school we had a look at, the sixth former who was showing us round, when I asked whether the chapel was ever open (it wasn't) and whether the Blessed Sacrament was reserved there, asked me what the Blessed Sacrament WAS.

There are many theologies of the sacraments and the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant doctrines show important differences.

In this excellent article by David Dunn, he shows us that the church has no business asking the state to help us define and defend our sacraments.

This is, of course, an opportunity for the Church to show by word, sacrament and service that there are answers to ultimate human questions that are not, and can not be, answered by the current scientism.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

And I believe our acting out of that «sacrament» (not a biblical word) is a wonderful act of obedience which shows our whole hearted desire to enter into God's covenant with him.

A papal style which reflects this greater love will enable the church to experience the Petrine office as God's gift by showing all of us how we can become signs and sacraments of God's love for humankind.

Still trying to agree on a definition of the Eucharist, theologians over a wide range of background had finally agreed in the Wittenberg Concord that «with the consecrated bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ are truly and substantially present, shown forth and received», also that the sacrament has its authentic value in the Church and does not depend on the status of either the minister or the recipient.

While the church frequently gave its blessings to civil persecutions, in its internal ecclesiastical practice its disapproval was even more frequently shown through the refusal of sacraments and ostracism from the common life.

If you want to show that you are good Christians by handling the sacrament and boast of it before the world, then Herod and Pilate are the chief and best Christians, since it seems to me that they really handled the body of Christ when they had him nailed to the cross and put to death... No, my dear friends, the kingdom of God does not consist in outward things, which can be touched or perceived, but in faith.

I just happen to worship with a community of Jesus - followers at an Episcopal church, where I've reconnected with the power of communion and the sacraments, and where I've been loved mightily for just showing up, even with my doubts in tow.

Then in the responsio St Thomas shows that different names used of the sacrament apply fittingly to its different aspects.

It also shows, anti-Walker rhetoric notwithstanding, that workers» right to bargain is no Democratic Party sacrament.

Schumann's puppet shows also come with a piece of bread to remind participants about the sacraments of eating.

You must also show proof that you have received the sacrament of baptism.