Sentences with phrase «sacraments also»

Sacraments also well illustrate a third of the fundamentals — the consciousness of dependence.

Not exact matches

There are some of us who work hard to take care of our families while also accepting the responsibility of serving God's people through the ministry of the Word and in the Sacraments — don't discount the number of faithful men and women who make this sacrifice — willingly and without thanks.

You also are required to do confession and participate in the sacraments.

There is also a Sacrament of Healing we call the «Anointing of the Sick».

You can find her amazing work at www.RuthMeharg.com, where you can also order prints of this series on the seven sacraments.

This truth applies not only to the Eucharist, but also as a general principle to all the sacraments.

The Catechism also speaks of the sacraments as the dispensation of the «plan of salvation as one vast blessing» (CCC 1079).

Perhaps the deletion of marriage as a sacrament has also diverted Christians from seeing marriage as life in God.

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

This concentration in Jesus» teaching upon his action made it possible for the disciples to conceive of his death also as divine action, which in turn led to the primitive Christian sacraments as custodians of «Jesus» understanding of himself».

We who are preachers of the gospel are also ministers of the Church, administrators of the sacraments; we are ministers of Christ in his Church and we are ministers of the Church of Christ.

However, most priests also encounter the opposite problem when the sacrament is requested in inappropriate circumstances.

When, therefore, we find them also possessing sacraments, fairly magical in their efficacy — especially baptisms, whether of water or of blood, and sacred meals that conferred union with the deity — the query inevitably rises in how far in these regards they influenced Christianity.

You will also commonly find a cynicism about the sacraments» efficacy as part of that.

Through the sacrament of baptism Christians participate not only in the death of Christ but also in his resurrection.

Just as we have often succumbed to the danger of recasting the Scriptures in our own images through selective use of them, so we have also humanized the sacraments by making them our own acts rather than God's.

Sustained by prayer, especially before the Blessed Sacrament and in the Divine Office of the Church, and by the sacramental life, she was immersed in theology, particularly spiritual and mystical theology; she also retained her love of literature.

For me, it's also powerfully evangelistic because the words teach people what the Church requires of them and explain what the Sacraments do for them.»

But there are surely many possibilities to make it clear also by legislation that laymen have not only the right to receive the sacraments from the clergy, as the present Code of Canon Law states.

She is also the author of The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life (Loyola Press, 2003), and coeditor of Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments (Dutton, 2000).

My fourth and final statement under historical - metaphorical - sacramental approach to scripture also leads to my conclusion, seeing the Bible as sacrament of the sacred.

For I see the Bible not simply as a lens through which I see God, but I also see it as a sacrament.

He declares, in effect, the independence of the Church not only in matters of ordinary governance (sacraments and the episcopacy) but also with regard to schools, religious orders, marriages, families, and sodalities.

We have no more knowledge about the so - called rebirth, the new birth out of Water and Spirit which is the sacramental baptism (please consider that also Protestants believe in sacraments; I am a Lutheran).

Spirit - see Acts 1:8) We also do not believe that salvation comes from participation in the sacraments, but that they are symbolic testimonies that we make to the fact that we have received that grace.

He is also selling out the ministry of Word and sacraments.

Now it says «For medieval Christians, the Eucharist (the sacrament of Communion) was not only at the heart of the Mass — but its presence and symbolism also wielded enormous influence over cultural and civic life.»

At last, the gorgeous surface of things comes to appear as a true mystery, a sacrament destined to transform our imaginations, leading us to reread the world as a poem produced by the one idea, the one who imagines things into being, the sun who is also and always the Son of God.

(Kimel also betrays ignorance of contemporary liturgical scholarship when he uses the term «command,» harking back to Reformation understandings of the sacraments as «ordinances» we must obey rather than gifts for which we give thanks.)

The priest also teaches and preaches; he governs and cures souls; he presides over the church; but above all he offers the, sacrifice of Christ in the Eucharist and is the minister of those sacraments «through which the grace of the Savior flows for the good of mankind.»

The priest, however, must exercise other functions besides administering the sacraments and institutional means can not empower him to fulfill these duties; hence he needs to practice spiritual discipline, cultivating all the Christian virtues; he also needs to study, for «how can he teach unless he himself possess knowledge» and have gained a «full grasp of the Catholic teaching on faith and morals?»

It also can be an experience of intimate friendship that lays foundations for deeper appreciation of expressions of God's love through the sacraments.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

I forgot to mention preaching and teaching in addition to the Sacraments (also components of God's Word).

Fourthly, the Eucharist as action establishes, thanks to that presentness», a communion between God and humanity and also among those men and women who are privileged to assist at the celebration of the sacrament.

If we find the life of the Church a continual support and fulfillment for what the pastor seeks to do, we also discover that the experience of personal and mutual ministry in the Church deepens our participation in the Church's worship, sacraments, and witness to the world.

The very fact that it nowhere appearsto give a clearly comprehensible list of the sacraments, for example, but prefers to distribute them in different models, while never synthesising them simply and clearly, is surely not only inadequate doctrinally, but also unhelpful educationally for teacher and for student.

The musterion [a Greek word that can also be translated sacrament] is something so rich in intelligible content, so inexhaustibly full of delectation for the mind that no contemplation [of it] can ever reach its end.»

For a Christian to be unattached to a congregation is «unthinkable» as a reality.31 The church also comes together for the sacraments.

Laudato Si», Pope Francis» 2015 encyclical, considers the connection between contemplation and the sacraments and attests that man's stewardship of creation is not only a material responsibility but also a spiritual responsibility.

I do believe also in the Sanctity of Marriage and that is a life long commitment and God instituted sacrament.

«He also suggested that parishes introduce Forty Hours» Devotion, where Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is kept up continuously at a succession of different churches.

St. Paul also talk about the sacrament of reconciliation.

He's also pointed out to me how much of what we do, think, or feel, can often de-rail the benefits that Christ wants to give us in His sacraments.

Father Paul Keller is assistant professor of sacramental theology at Mt St Mary's of the West Seminary, Cincinnati, and is also the author of 101 Questions & Answers on the Sacraments of Healing: Penance and Anointing.

Admittedly his spiritual direction often included numerous theological references and his constant catch phrase: «I can't go into all that just now», but there was also the constant referral to the living presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament and recourse to Our Lady.

Just as God does not mean to Jesus a higher nature to be enjoyed in the sacrament, God's forgiveness also is no sacramental grace but a personal act of God.

It was also to this woman, Janet McKane, that O'Connor wrote of receiving communion and the sacrament of the sick (formerly known as extreme unction).

«Peter, though, is strong in confronting those who would deny the sacrament of baptism to the Gentiles, and argues for an acceptance of believers who do not follow the circu - mcision rules of Leviticus (which is also where we find a condemnation of ho - mose - xuality).»

As it is improper to reject gifts, it is also not proper to not desire the comfort and strengthening and forgiveness offered in the sacraments, and also shared in the community.