Sentences with phrase «as sacrament in»

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.

Though he devotes the first chapter to «Marriage as Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Tradition,» Witte's analysis concentrates principally on the medieval centuries and concludes with some brief remarks on the marriage legislation of the Council of Trent in 1563.

Instead, he argues that marriage should be viewed as a sacrament in the sense that it expresses «divine love.»

Not exact matches

While specific churches (notably the Santo Daime) have been granted legal permission to use ayahuasca as a holy sacrament in the U.S.A., many people prefer to experience the medicine in Peru or Brazil instead.

This friendship with the Lord Jesus is found in the Word of God recognized as such by the Church in the Bible; in the sacraments; in works of charity and service; and in the fellowship of those who have recognized and embraced the risen one.

But traditions (e.g., sacraments not found in the Bible) gained force only as explications of what was implicit in Scripture.

In «Felix Randal,» the sacraments of penance and last rites are as physical as the farrier's old labor and the illness that ends it.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion about the Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.

My son Stephen and I spent an unusual, albeit unusually moving, Independence Day: We attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration of my friends Piotr and Teresa Malecki, which began with a Mass of thanksgiving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Cracow's Wawel Cathedral — the place where Piotr and Teresa had exchanged vows on July 4, 1964, kneeling before their old kayaking and hiking friend, the archbishop of Cracow (who, as Pope St. John Paul II, was canonized some two months before the Maleckis» jubilee.)

Besides, who can deny that God has blessed the preaching and sacraments and ministry of evangelicals in Latin America, Africa, and China» contributing at least as much as Catholics to the conversion of sinners and building up the saints in holiness?

A related pair of loosely organized sects that originated in Jamaica, the Rastafarians and the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, use marijuana as a sacrament.

On the plus side, he makes clear that Christian worship is an encounter in Word and Sacrament with the living Christ, who is present to the church by his Spirit and who forms the church as a divine and human communion.

Thanks jellyfishdude — I am fully educated on the schism and consider my orthodox brothers the same as me but I do not appreciate how some of the orthodox churches deny some sacraments in western christianity.

When a man and woman unite in the Sacrament of Matrimony, they have the gift of possibly bringing life to the world as long as they remain open to this covenant with God.

When the term is used at all, it tends to be conflated with the bond of sacrament, as in the phrase «covenanted love.»

We are enabled to live as a disciple of Christ, and can draw daily on the grace given by God in this sacrament so as to witness to Christ, fight against evil and defend the Church.

My ordination has served me well — particularly in the hospital setting where I was able to provide sacraments (or ordinances, as Baptists would prefer) for patients.

The core principle of the sacraments of the Church therefore lies in this nature of man as «spirit wrapped in matter» or, perhaps better to say, matter integrated into spirit, which has been created by God for intimate union with Himself through Jesus Christ.

So far from matter being a remedial tool in God's saving plans, the Holy Spirit empowers material things as essential instruments of Christ's divinising ministry throughout time and space in the sacraments, which the Fathers referred to as «the Mysteries».

They are my journey with the sacraments, and in many ways with the church as a whole.

[1] Perhaps in this context it could be mentioned that Fr Holloway was of the opinion that as the priest would naturally face the people while celebrating at least six of the sacraments, for he stands in for Christ, so it is preferable for the priest to celebrate the Eucharist facing the people.

He is so after the offering of the sacrifice, the making of the sacrament, as long as the Eucharist is kept in churches and oratories.

The Society of Friends has as much claim to the label Christian as has any other group, in spite of its rejection of traditional sacraments.

This in turn makes it possible to present the sacraments as a natural consequence of the relationship between Christ and his Church without making matter or human actions pre-determine divine grace.

I am a Christian because of the sacraments, which Kerlin describes as «faith under our fingernails,» and where Jes says «abundant life is not only personal, but communal,» experienced in bread, wine, water, words, touch, sound, and smell.

«[The lay person does] not participate intrinsically in the Liturgy of the Eucharist as Sacrifice and Sacrament and ministryfrom the persons of the sacred ministers to the People of God».

In the sacraments, as in the Incarnation, the natures remain distinct and unconfused yet are truly joined in the person and work of God the SoIn the sacraments, as in the Incarnation, the natures remain distinct and unconfused yet are truly joined in the person and work of God the Soin the Incarnation, the natures remain distinct and unconfused yet are truly joined in the person and work of God the Soin the person and work of God the Son.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

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

The drama of sacraments as occasions in which the power of God comes to dwell in the believer can become obscured when a church takes its rites for granted or forgets the radical nature of Christian identity.

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.

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».

As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integratoAs in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integratoas the integrator.

As one who weekly receives God's self - giving through Word and sacrament, the Christian is enabled to give himself or herself for others in a struggle that outlasts each of us.

Rather than staying becalmed in the sacristy, the sanctuary, and the presbytery, the clergy of his day, he urged, should lead a demanding, Gospel - centered life of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the sacraments, nourishing their people with the tangible realities God had entrusted to human hands as pathways to the Trinity: the Bible and the Eucharist.

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.

Ordination might as well be seen as a sacrament; it has kept sacramental characteristics in most churches.

According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).

Her autobiography reveals her in her younger days as a prayerful person, devoted to the Blessed Sacrament and insistent on living out the principles of her faith.

As we settle upon a state in life, some of us will receive holy orders or embark upon the sacrament of marriage.

In recent months there has been much discussion as to what the first Christians believed about marriage and the discipline of the sacraments.

Most of the Reformers of the 16th century and John Wesley in the 18th were prone to speak of the sacraments as «means of grace» in which the agency is divine.

``... as soon as one of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the fitting time has come for him or her to receive this sacrament has certainly already arrived.»

First, she claims that the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood would not be threatened since «the unity» of the sacrament resides in the bishop: Scripture gives him the authority to delegate as necessary, and Tradition allows for several grades within the sacrament.

But the sense of the sacraments as sign - acts through which God acts here and now to accomplish his own purposes seems strangely absent in most baptisms and celebrations of the Lords Supper.

The grace which we received in the bishop's laying on of hands and the constant renewal of grace in the sacraments of the Eucharist and Confession deify us: through that grace we grow in virtue, through that grace we shine as «other Christs» in this world and for all eternity.

While some would argue it is harmless to grant such a request, in fact, it encourages superstition: the sacrament might easily be viewed as some lucky talisman warding off evil.

I see two indications: recent developments in sacramental theology have helped us to understand the sacraments more clearly as divine actions, and the new sacramental services of the major denominations have made this understanding much more explicit for all to grasp.

To conclude this activity, it is important to explain that in the Sacrament, although they see a priest and he will say «I forgive you» because he is there in the person of Christ, it is Jesus who does the forgiving as He did in the Gospels.