Sentences with phrase «sacrament with»

«The angry papists write... that people have received the sacrament with «lay hands».

The new congregation combined perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with missions at home and abroad.

Vast processions of the Blessed Sacrament with an altar server giving out incense and girls strewing rose petals before the monstrance carried by a priest under a canopy held by four reverent men, weekly benediction with our heads bent low; «Truly this is the Son of God» we could say since we all lived this belief.

In contrast, Lutherans believe that God works through the sacrament with the Word, and so God actually confers grace in and through baptism and the Supper.

Benedict commended it in the context of an effort to balance desire for the sacrament with respect for it.

On the plus side, he makes clear that Christian worship is an encounter in Word and Sacrament with the living Christ, who is present to the church by his Spirit and who forms the church as a divine and human communion.

All the sacraments with their peculiar garments and oils.

In our discussion we shall ask first what theological statements can be made on the subject of private prayer, examining afterwards if liturgical prayer (as distinct from the Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments with which we are not here concerned) can be preferred to it at all, and if so, what such a preference means for the practice of the Christian life.

The government should have no say in who may or may not be married, but should honor all recipients of those sacraments with the same legal protections and privileges.

Surrounding the sacraments with elaborate preparatory rites manifested distrust in God's promise, which means distrust in the potency of sacraments.

Not exact matches

«The picture is as clear as if it took place yesterday: the padre with his chaplain's scarf, the ragged and emaciated men kneeling, if they could, to receive the sacrament of God's love.

This is a sacrament and should be observed with the highest regard to its ultimate purpose as taught by Jesus himself.

This friendship with the Lord Jesus is found in the Word of God recognized as such by the Church in the Bible; in the sacraments; in works of charity and service; and in the fellowship of those who have recognized and embraced the risen one.

The real question with which I am confronted when I approach the sacrament of penance is whether I believe that Christ speaks the truth when he says that whatever the Church shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

They threaten you with excommunication and refusal of their sacraments and much ostracizing but SO WHAT?

The new focus on the sacraments is what gives Luther's theology after 1518 a very different shape from his early thought, even though he continued to be concerned with many of the same issues.

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.

Joy comes, however, from knowing that you are accepted in Christ's work and coming to you in word and sacrament, with his promises and assurances of forgiveness, which is outside of yourself and therefore «sure».

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

As for Pentecostals being sacramental but not valuing the sacraments, as Schuler suggests, I concur with him.

Truth be told, it is a death and resurrection project that we really don't have muct to do with other than placing ourselves in the path of the Living Word and receiving the sacraments.

sacraments — true you probably don't need a church for them — baptism is commanded (for believers), it's special, but not neccesssarily a sacrament, it can be done by any believer, although possibly it was only the apostles who baptized (I tend to go with the baptist view on baptism, because that's what I read in the Bible.

With communities usually called evangelical, Kasper notes, there is agreement on «fundamental dogmatic questions» along with continuing divergence on ecclesiology, sacraments, and minisWith communities usually called evangelical, Kasper notes, there is agreement on «fundamental dogmatic questions» along with continuing divergence on ecclesiology, sacraments, and miniswith continuing divergence on ecclesiology, sacraments, and ministry.

I'm uncomfortable with both the term and the way we have ritualized the «sacraments.»

My son Stephen and I spent an unusual, albeit unusually moving, Independence Day: We attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration of my friends Piotr and Teresa Malecki, which began with a Mass of thanksgiving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Cracow's Wawel Cathedral — the place where Piotr and Teresa had exchanged vows on July 4, 1964, kneeling before their old kayaking and hiking friend, the archbishop of Cracow (who, as Pope St. John Paul II, was canonized some two months before the Maleckis» jubilee.)

These are some of the verses that coincide with the Church's teaching on the Sacrament of Confession / Reconciliation.......

When a man and woman unite in the Sacrament of Matrimony, they have the gift of possibly bringing life to the world as long as they remain open to this covenant with God.

Where the Word is proclaimed in it's purity (law and gospel) and where the sacraments are given in accordance with that gospel... there is the Church.

When the term is used at all, it tends to be conflated with the bond of sacrament, as in the phrase «covenanted love.»

So my independent critical thinking is this: Jesus Christ founded His Church for His people so when we fall into sin we have His inst!tuted Sacraments to bring us back to the relationship we had with Him at our Baptism; to leave the Church in search of something «man made» because of someone's sin would just mean that I would go somewhere else where there are people and people the world over sin!

Meanwhile, Eucharistic adoration throughout the night is always filled with young people offering up an unceasing litany ofRosaries, Chaplets of Divine Mercy, songs, and silent prayer, while any priest who sits down and puts on a stole to offer the Sacrament of Penance will quickly find a line of young people forming for confession and could easily spend several hours dispensing the healing power of Christ's sacramental grace to his children.

In summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

For my own church story, coupled with reflections on the sacraments, check out Searching For Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church.

The core principle of the sacraments of the Church therefore lies in this nature of man as «spirit wrapped in matter» or, perhaps better to say, matter integrated into spirit, which has been created by God for intimate union with Himself through Jesus Christ.

Prayer is «the Churches banquet,» an idea that brings together word and sacrament in a phrase: in prayer we get our nourishment for the journey; in the church with its rich liturgical legacy, that food for the soul is preserved and prepared.

All the sacraments incorporate us into Christ with a restoration that simultaneously sweeps us onwards into the love of God.

They are my journey with the sacraments, and in many ways with the church as a whole.

In the Sacrament of the Sick a person is encouraged to unite their sufferings in prayer with those of Jesus.

Suarez, for example, argued that just as language and symbol are natural to humanity, so the sacraments are appropriate as means of communion with God.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

Sex finds its purpose in God in that sexual union is a symbol or a sacrament of union with Christ.

I didn't grow up with the sacraments.

In the sacraments matter and spirit are linked in an effective instrumental union — «outward signs of inward grace» — but are never identified with each other.

«It is not only while the sacrifice is being offered, the sacrament is constituted, that Christ is truly Emmanuel, «God with us».

Despite my growing awareness, I approached Searching for Sunday with a limited awareness of the sacraments and what they meant to the church.

With them we share a catholic and creedal Trinitarian heritage, a commitment to confessionalism, a direct Reformation genealogy, and a common concern for sacraments, always connected to the preached Word.

It had to do with the sacrament not of matrimony but of the Eucharist.

Wisest: Richard Beck with «Social Media as Sacrament» [The comment section is also definitely worth a read]

It is the intimate and indissoluble union of the two which prevents preaching from becoming merely a hortatory exercise or a public address, and which prevents the sacrament from becoming merely routine with suggestions which might seem to border on «magic.»

As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integrator.