Sentences with phrase «spirit at his ordination»

Where else do we get the opportunity to be fed with the Word of God, explained to us by some one filled with the Holy Spirit at his ordination?

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Geoffrey Wainwright allows for alternatives, but insists that churches use «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» at key points of Christian worship such as baptisms, eucharistic prayers, creeds and ordinations.

Men are conformed to Christ in their very being at ordination so that repentant sinners can hear the words, «I absolve you of your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit», and know their power and effect for real.

But Gregory did not develop a doctrine of the indelibility of ordination, while the weighty contemporaneous Apostolic Constitutions supply an ordaining prayer beseeching God never to withdraw his Holy Spirit.50 At the Council of Chalcedon (canon 29) the Eastern fathers will presently give evidence of continuing uncertainty as to whether, for example, a bishop for disciplinary reasons may be reduced to the rank of presbyter, or whether he should be eliminated from the clergy altogether and classed as a layman.