Sentences with phrase «administered sacrament»

The novelty and power of Thatcher's accomplishment is evident, first of all, in his central thesis that the core of Christian marriage should lie in the partners» «mutually administered sacrament.»

If a priest is not sure, he will administer the sacrament.

But, as Cardinal Dulles argued, to bar a priest from publicly celebrating the Mass and administering the sacraments is to rob him of his sacred calling, his lifelong identity, his good reputation, and his sole means of support — effectively a death penalty.

PLEASE STOP STEREOTYPING «The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the Sacraments to himself.

At the parish level the pastoral problem is solved by leaving such matters off the table unless the lay person brings them up with the priest who administers the sacrament without questioning whether or not the communicant is «worthy.»

Only a bishop or a priest may validly administer the sacrament.

Where this is the case, we are to be generous in administering the sacrament.

Where there is already confusion in the minds of people — and many lay people do not appreciate that deacons are not co-workers since they do not share in the ministerial priesthood, nor can they confect the Eucharist or administer the Sacrament of Reconciliation or the Sacrament of the Sick — it seems that the introduction of deaconesses may simply add to the confusion.

They were forbidden to administer the sacraments.

The only things to exclude from professional theological education are the preparations to preach, arrange liturgies, administer the sacraments, and fill the role of institutional leader as each denomination defines that role.

And not all religions use the one - man - one - woman Christian rule for administering this sacrament.

And that purpose id the proclamation of the Word and to administer the Sacraments.

«All the priests that are administering the sacrament of confession during World Youth Day have the general authority to give absolution from the penalty of excommunication for abortion if someone comes to confession... if someone has this need,» Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told CNN on Thursday, referring to the event that brought Pope Benedict XVI to Madrid on Thursday for a four - day visit.

Since the days described in the New Testament Christian ministers have preached and taught; they have led worship and administered sacraments; they have presided over the church and exercised oversight over its work; they have given pastoral care to individuals in need.

In his work the pastoral director carries on all the traditional functions of the ministry — preaching, leading the worshipping community, administering the sacraments, caring for souls, presiding over the church.

The church personnel gave much time and attention to externally administering the sacraments, partly believing in their quasi automatic impact: ex opere operato.

In those periods when clear - cut ideas of the ministry prevailed pastors and people were relatively agreed on the acceptable answer to the question: By what authority do you do these things, i.e., preach, care for souls, preside over the church and administer the sacraments?

From Chrysostom («On the Priesthood») to Pius XI («On the Catholic Priesthood») the idea of the priesthood is marked by emphasis on the importance and greatness of the work of administering the sacraments.

But the traditional work of the ministry in teaching the Word from God, the word to God and words about God, of administering the sacraments, of building the Church and caring for souls seemed to have too little direct relevance to the needs of men so naturalistically or socially understood.

In a heroic manner Mühlenberg set out to bind together the scattered Lutheran congregations, to give them adequate pastoral care, to preach, administer the sacraments, and to work out a common worship service.

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?»

He proved an excellent leader, but the group were hampered by his inability to administer the sacraments and to perform marriages.

The ruling elder performed many functions of an assistant pastor, though he could not administer the sacraments.

The bishops are the successors of the apostles who teach, administer the sacraments, and govern the Church on earth.

Although the Congregational Union of England and Wales were the first to ordain a female minister, the denomination was not alone in giving women a platform to lead, preach and, where tradition allowed, administer sacraments.

Preaching the grace of God and administering the sacraments is what gives life to Jes.

By contrast, the institutional church is a specific differentiated community charged with the task of preaching the gospel, administering the sacraments and being a witness to God's love in the context of the worshiping community.

This «outfront» role, enacted «before the congregation,» is of course very public: administering the sacraments, preaching the word, and being of service to other human beings within and without the congregation.

The act of acceptance — making the sign of the cross or blinking one's eyelids — was surely not the same as repentance, and administering the sacrament after death, of course, asked for no act of will at all, and was scarcely defendable even if one made the curious concession to time that the body must not be cold.

In taking this position I do of course raise a very old question in the doctrine of the ministry, the question of whether the minister's authority to preach the Word, administer sacraments, and act as pastor inheres in his office and ordination or whether it inheres in his person and is dependent upon his faith.

He was finally killed after receiving a head wound while administering the sacraments.

Just as the state is called by God to an irrevocable task of doing public justice, so also is the institutional church called by God to proclaim the Gospel in its fullness, administer the sacraments and to ensure that its members are living up to their calling before the face of God, who has redeemed them in Jesus Christ.

If with this we associate the usual «catholic» view that a priest is especially assigned the responsibility of administering the sacraments of the Church and in particular the celebration of the Eucharist, we have a proper setting or context for the labor of proclamation.

They observe that a priest administers the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick «for strengthening and accompanying someone in a vulnerable and suffering state.»

Preaching, administering the sacraments, praying, and doing one's job in life, here and now, was the task of a Christian — it was God's rather than Man's concern to see how the world aggregate of such activities hung together.

His visitation amounted to administering the sacraments and leaving as soon as possible.

«God - distributing bishops» administer the sacrament to Arthur's knights; churchmen speak Latin «at such a speed that the rafters rang with genitive plurals.»

They proposed that the goal should now be a «discipleship of equals,» and set out an elaborate plan for a church without hierarchy or priests endowed with special power to administer sacraments.

The challenge of the ecumenical movement, then, must be to enter into a persistent, loving, patient, and honest engagement with all those who preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and administer the sacraments, seeking visible unity.

This meant that he would be «received by the churches as an accredited and regular preacher» although he could not «administer the sacraments.

Preaching, conducting public worship, and administering the sacraments constituted only a part of the pastoral office as it was defined in the post-Reformation years.

He had the power to preach, to bind and to loose, and to administer the sacraments.

Our church has been proclaiming the gospel and administering the sacraments since 1916.

Not exact matches

Catholics, for example, believe that grace is primarily communicated in the sacraments administered by a sacramentally ordained clergy.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

As the context makes clear, binding and loosing cover Church discipline, and Church discipline involves administering and removing temporal penalties (such as barring from and readmitting to the sacraments).

But so long as a minister was in union with the One Church, the sacraments he administered were valid.

Where there is doubt as to death, the sacrament may be administered (and not just conditionally as under the old Code).

Michael, you are touching upon two of the four sacraments Catholics recognize that may be received more than once - the anointing sick and confession, both of which are administered by a priest.

It is seen as a sacrament in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches and is administered by a bishop when a child reaches the» age of reason» or early adolescence.