Sentences with phrase «sacraments cause»

An important principle of sacramental theology is that Sacraments cause by signifying.

The sign of the sacrament causes what it signifies.

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Sometimes the sacrament is requested for those at risk from other causes, e.g. a hazardous journey or undertaking, or military activity.

As a sacrament, it causes by signifying.

Chapter headings include the following: «Christ the Sacrament», «Signs of Grace», «Causes of Grace», «Mystery of Grace and the Mystery of the Church», and «Why We Need the Sacraments».

As St. Thomas held, «a sacrament in causing grace works after the manner of an instrument» (ST III, q. 62, a. 5), and it is only in this sense that the Society understands the «instrumentality» of the sacraments.

5 Cause for automatic excommunication also exists in regard to priests who culpably fail to teach the Word of God in its fullness, especially when having been advised of the deficiency and continues to refuse to correct the fault — a clear grave sin of omission the other sacraments a legal priest fulfills legal requirements and has the moral duty to appropriately council, admonish, instruct and approve or disapprove.

Concerning Rahner, Vass quotes a commentator thus: «He denies that these sacraments are in any way unique in causing grace, or that they are always more effective than other «merely sacramental activities»; something which is not strictly speaking a sacrament might in particular case «work» better in actuallybringing grace to the individual than a sacrament does.»

Fr Stephen Brown on the Sacrament of Reconciliation - «I think confession is a win - win situation for us because we are healed of the wounds that our sins cause us and we are therefore brought closer to God.»

Probably the most familiar description is that of St. Thomas, who borrows St. Augustine's idea that sacraments are outward signs instituted by Christ causing inward grace.

In Thomistic theology sacraments are primarily signs, but they are not ordinary signs, because they also cause what they signify.

What they cause is grace, and this takes place both because the sacrament is properly performed (ex opere operato) and because the recipient is of good disposition (ex opere operands).1 A sacrament is properly performed when one uses the correct matter (material symbols) and the correct form (formal symbols, i.e., language).

Furthermore (and this bears repeating) you will hear no support for the likes of Francis Phillips, or any other lay Catholic swimming against that particular tide, from the English bishops, if for no other reason that it might cause the faithful to call to mind an (at the moment) dormant issue: their continuing support for the Soho Masses, at which homoerotically active homosexuals (self - proclaimed as such) regularly, and some say blasphemously, receive the Sacrament of the Altar.

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.

Many people erroneously believe that the dark ages were caused by the Catholic Church and its hatred of science / love of superstition, and its dominant The liturgical life of the Catholic Church revolves around the Eucharistic sacrifice and the sacraments.

For example, restricting the disclosure of an individual's religious affiliation, room number, and health status to a priest could cause significant delay that would inhibit the ability of a Catholic patient to obtain sacraments provided during the last rites.