Sentences with phrase «as a sacrament of»

So too the dignity of man, made male and female as the sacrament of Christ and his Church (cf. Ephesians 5:32), is strikingly reaffirmed, and from this many of the Churchs moral and social teachings can be beautifully explained and underlined.

Baptism has long been recognized as the sacrament of equality (Gal.

There is a third option, and that is the one I want to conclude with: the Bible as sacrament of the sacred.

My fourth and final statement under historical - metaphorical - sacramental approach to scripture also leads to my conclusion, seeing the Bible as sacrament of the sacred.

Some of our traditions reckon baptism as a sacrament of constitutive importance for Christian existence.

It is variously known as the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion, or the Eucharist, or the Mass..

He will be able to do it only if he views the Church as the sacrament of the salvation of the world.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

extra-ecclesial communication (Church as sacrament of the Kingdom within the unity of mankind); and

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

«As a sacrament of the Church, marriage... [is] a word of the Spirit which exhorts man and woman to model their whole life together by drawing power from the mystery of the «redemption of the body».

Catholic faith and theology see world, Scripture, Church, and Christ (the sacrament) as sacraments of God — as body in which, by which, and through which man (because man is body) receives God's presence and returns his love.

So I conclude by returning to this theme of Christianity as a sacrament of the sacred — as a tradition that mediates the reality of God to us — and the Bible as a collection of stories that invites us to see in a particular way, to see reality in a certain way, and to see our own lives in a certain way.

John Murray Cuddihy has written eloquently on the «Protestant smile,» the certain sourire -RCB- of ingenuous niceness that he rightly saw as a sacrament of American civility.

Hellenistic Christianity saw baptism as a sacrament of dying and rising, thus sharing in the experience and destiny of the crucified and risen Lord.

That wide embrace of the universe as a sacrament of God is nourished by the pentecostal poetry of Psalm 104.

And in an Indian situation where baptism is the legal mark of change of one religious community to another, each with its own civil codes recognized by the Courts, communalisation of church life is imposed by Law and perverts the meaning of baptism as sacrament of faith.

Catholics put this to work institutionally in what is popularly called confession and formally known as the sacrament of reconciliation.

The point at which the Eucharistic liturgy takes on this specifically «married» character is also the point at which it is most clearly seen as a sacrament of unity.

Where this imagery of Eucharist as marriage is most clear, is also the point at which the Eucharist is most transparently seen as a sacrament of unity.

As Evangelicals and Catholics, we do not agree on the status of marriage as a sacrament of the Church.

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However, it was Christ's intention to make the visible part of the sacrament as simple as possible.

«The picture is as clear as if it took place yesterday: the padre with his chaplain's scarf, the ragged and emaciated men kneeling, if they could, to receive the sacrament of God's love.

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.

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.

As I recall, the sacrament of baptism was for those repenting — not for anyone who just felt like having it.

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.

Evangelical Catholicism celebrates the seven sacraments as divinely given means of sanctifying life.

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.

They might not use the word «mercy» as much as he wants, but they talk extensively about divine love, grace, the sacraments, and charity, all of which pertain to God's mercy, and which they develop into soteriology, the study of the saving action of God.)

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.

Used correctly, as a means of Grace rather than an object of faith, both Sacrament and Bible point beyond themselves to the Ultimate Reality of the Living God.

Furthermore, once it was no longer a sacrament, control over it passed from ecclesiastical to secular authority, which allowed the introduction of such measures as divorce, and ultimately presaged the complete secularization of marriage.

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.)

Thatcher argues that gay and lesbian sexual unions express the sacrament of God's divine love just as heterosexual unions do.

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.

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.»

Haught can not explain what happens at death, nor the meaning of the sacraments as taught by the Church, nor the human need for true interior life.

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.

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».

The oneness of the church — one Lord, one faith, one baptism — is as integral to being a part of Christ's body as receiving the sacrament of bread and wine.

Suarez, for example, argued that just as language and symbol are natural to humanity, so the sacraments are appropriate as means of communion with God.

[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.