Sentences with phrase «accepted sacrament»

Because she accepted sacrament as truth, she found it easy to view the natural thins of this world as vehicles for God's grace.

The suggestion that Pentecostalism holds a sacramental worldview is borne out in the ease of my accepting the sacraments of the Church.

In the absence of proof that the God so confidently invoked by the orthodox bishop really exists in the world, perhaps Merrick in his last moments is yet attempting, in his confused way, to «Follow the way by which [others] began,» as Pascal wrote, accepting the sacraments, discipline and consolations of the church and now imitating Christ's death as if he believed in their efficacy.

Not exact matches

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».

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.

The administration of the Church's sacraments is equally important, of course, and this is especially true for us if we accept the position of the sixteenth - century Reformers that in the celebration of the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion, as well as in the pulpit, the gospel is proclaimed and expressed.

Why is our American culture less likely to accept extra ecclesiam nulla salus and more likely to accept that marriage is a sacrament or that abortion is an infernal sacrament?

They accept His grace and mercy; they seek to follow His example by being baptized (see Matthew 3:13 - 17), praying in His holy name (see Matthew 6:9 - 13), partaking of the sacrament (communion)(see Luke 22:19 - 20), doing good to others (see Acts 10:38) and bearing witness of Him through both word and deed (see James 2:26).

The meaning and power of this Sacrament is for many Christians realized for the first time when they have passed through the crisis of personal failure and have discovered the accepting and sustaining community.

Counselling against «inquirpng] too curiously» he concludes: «It is better simply to accept the words of Christ, of Scripture, of the tradition and of the Church's magisterium which tell us what we need to know: Christ is really but invisibly present in this sacrament.»

Indeed I often pray the Offertory prayer in my own private devotions before the Blessed Sacrament: (Suscipe Sancte Pater...) «Accept O Holy Father Almighty and Eternal God, this holy and unblemished victim which I thy unworthy servant offered unto Thee, my living and true God for my own innumerable sins, offences and negligence and for all here present and for all the faithful living and dead that it may profit me and them for salvation to eternal life».

For many of us, it has been a source of irritation for some years that people who do not frequent the Sacraments, do not accept many basic teachings of the Church, and spend a great deal of time celebrating all this, should keep announcing that they are Catholics.

The sacrament of confirmation is supposed to be the acceptance of Christ as our Lord and Savior, but it's treated in the Catholic Church like «okay, you're going to go through this sacrament even though you may not have spiritually accepted Christ into your heart.»

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North India.

Rather than take the difficult pastoral road of reminding people that there are circumstances in which some change needs to be made before receiving Holy Communion, we seem to have accepted that everyone should routinely present themselves for the sacrament every time they attend Mass..

The discourses of Jesus, for example, upon Baptism (3) and upon the Eucharist (6) reflect the same fundamental conception of the significance and necessity of these two rites; that this conception was that of the evangelist is plain, e.g. from 3:16 - 21, where Jesus» words have passed insensibly into the evangelist's reflection upon them; if the evangelist was the son of Zebedee, it would be natural to accept his accounts as substantially correct records of incidents and discourses from Jesus» ministry, but, if he was not, a comparison with the synoptic gospels and with the teaching of Paul and others on the sacraments would suggest doubts as to the historical value of both discourses.