Sentences with phrase «as the bride of»

The disciples do however later refer to the Church as the bride of Christ.

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).

First, the Church as the Bride of Christ receives her being and life from the Incarnate God in the form of vivifying substance (the Eucharist) and the words of pardon (sacramental absolution).

Verse 20 immediately falls under suspicion, since it seems to provide a reason for early Christian fasting, and, more importantly, it uses the allegory bridegroom = Jesus (This allegory is itself a product of early Christian piety, arising out of the concept of the Church as the bride of Christ [II Cor.

the Bible also mentions the Church as the Bride of Christ so that could be what it means and not that he had a wife... if only some people would actually look things up themselves

Which is better — to go through a rosy life and to end up in hell or to endure such issues and grow closer to God as the result — and entering into heaven as the Bride of Christ?

Ambrose was clearly a source for eleventh — and twelfth — century bridal mysticism, and, in his On Virginity, he even encouraged the aristocratic women who wanted to enter convents to use the Song of Songs to think of themselves as brides of Christ.

What he finds an impediment to men is the later development in which «the individual Christian, body and soul, came to be seen as the bride of Christ.»

The Church can not sanction any act of sex outside of true, ie male / female, marriage, because it directly goes against the Church's primary vocation as the Bride of Christ, i.e. that Body of believers who spend their lives seeking «him whom my soul loves» (Sg 3:3) and making him the first priority of their lives.

But unless it can be shown otherwise, any tampering with Communion for the divorced and remarried will corrupt the doctrine of marriage, and — by diminishing the image of the Church as bride of Christ — debase the Church.

You see a jealous God as a negative I see Jesus when he referred to the church as the bride of Christ.

Many years prior to their conversation, I had a dream, which clearly could only be interpreted as the bride of Christ being molested and raped.

This Frankenstein film would be part of Universal's planned interconnected cinematic universe of monster films alongside Tom Cruise's The Mummy, Johnny Depp's The Invisible Man, as well as Bride of Frankstein.

Seductive, humorous, and foreboding, the machine has visually and literally «taken» the woman, alluding to the femme fatales of cult films such as The Bride of Frankenstein as well as making highbrow reference to Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, (1915 - 23).

Not exact matches

Danish Crown Prince Frederik and his bride Princess Mary kiss as the royal couple appear on the balcony of Christian VII's Palace after their wedding on May 14, 2004, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The bride and groom pick a theme, such as «Vision in White» or «Seaside Serenade,» and the resort takes care of everything from the cake to the bouquet.

At first glance, Seinfeld's website looks like a smattering of random phrases, such as «Bride Magazine / Give My Regards To Your Balls / Rhinoplasty.»

She uses Social Mention among other services to follow Ben Bridge, but also flag mentions of «ring shopping,» so as to find and start conversations with brides - to - be under her Twitter handle @BenBridgeGirl.

As weddings grew more secular over time, and people weren't limited to dress codes of religious buildings, strapless dresses (for brides, bridesmaids, and guests alike) skyrocketed in popularity.

The standard of request is even more bizarre in Australia, where tasks have included flying to Texas to collect an engagement ring, dressing up as a stormtrooper to walk a bride down the aisle on her wedding day, and being paid to find the best fried chicken in Sydney.

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR - 15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.»

Hammond says two of the plays tonight — «Girl» and «The Hare's Bride» — «deal with issues incorporating art as therapy,» the former dealing with bipolarism and the latter with abuse.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

We relate best to God as we relate to a male and therefore God's bride the church best relates to the male head of the church, but only as long as the male is focused on his responsibility of care for the church.

Language referenced as Jesus being married coincides with the canonical gospels that the Church is the bride of Christ.

Any historian of theology would know that at the time that this fragment was written, the idea of the Church being the «Bride of Christ» had not yet been created (let alone the CATHOLIC church which originated the idea, as this was a COPTIC fragment).

Not to brag about myself, but forever, I will be known as the kind hearted maiden, compassionate, beautiful and charming bride of Isaac, who drew water for Eliezer and his ten camels.

The church is referred to throughout the New Testament as «the bride of Christ.»

The Bride of the Lamb is not always easy reading, but Orthodox readers will welcome the appearance of a master in a new translation by Boris Jakim that makes him as accessible as possible, and Western Christians should welcome a theological challenge that can enrich their own understanding of the Christian mystery.

What if the reality is «religion» — which unfortunately a large part of the church has become — died on the cross, and was re-birthed as the Bride in the resurrection: they just haven't figured it out yet.

They forget the old Protestant conviction that Christ comes to us in the external word of the Gospel, as a Bridegroom promising himself to his Bride.

As I eagerly embraced my new title of girlfriend, I found myself losing sight of my heavenly identity — the bride of Christ and a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).

5) Abraham did not want his son to marry a Canaanite, so he sent his servant to Paddan Aram (as the Haran region of north Mesopotamia is called) to secure a bride for Isaac.

Wife was a misunderstanding and thus corruption of the «Bride of Christ» gospel that means in parable form, that the Christians who are called up into the «Marriage Supper» of the Lamb» (of God) are referred to as the «Bride of Christ».

Weeellll, I wouldn't go so far as to call the Catholic church the whore and the Protestant church the false bride, but I do see your point and agree with you that much of institutional religion is not at all what God intended or wanted from followers of Jesus.

Jesus also refers to His body as His bride, using parables and analogies of wedding banquets and feasts between Himself and His people — even a literal «marriage supper of the Lamb» that will occur in heaven.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

Finally, when men of God will have been reduced to nothing but the love of and for God, women, who are the image of Christs bride / wife, will be appreciated by us as the Christ like servants they have always been.

This time he received it in the form of sour wine, and with it he took to himself his bride — the whole world of us, whose sins he bore by uniting as one flesh with us.

First, chastity as total consecration, in the image of Christ the Bridegroom who is wedded to mankind, and to the Church as His Bride.

As many have noted, this happened just before the first annual International Day of the Girl, meant to highlight gender inequity around the world — particularly as it concerns lack of education, child brides, and slaverAs many have noted, this happened just before the first annual International Day of the Girl, meant to highlight gender inequity around the world — particularly as it concerns lack of education, child brides, and slaveras it concerns lack of education, child brides, and slavery.

Steve — Do you really see the human - made structure of Christian demoninations normally refered to as «the institutional church» as the «Church» that is the proverbial Bride of Christ?

The time signifies the breaking of ice between the bride and the groom as there are several other playful activities that take place, subsequently.

We will uphold the «holy catholic church» as the body and bride of Christ.

Goldman's got a history of coming up with good ideas, as the screenwriter for both All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but the idea for Princess Bride 2 just won't come.

Six months later, January 1963, having just signed a historic treaty, they again attended a mass together at Reims, and «Some observers referred to the ceremony as «the marriage of the two old men,» because Adenauer and de Gaulle knelt at the front of the congregration, side by side, on a prie - dieu before the altar as would a bride and bridegroom.»

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church says, it is «an eschatological image of this heavenly Bride of Christ [the Church] and of the life to come» (922 - 4).

The whole understanding of the role of Mary, the understanding of Christ's relationship with his Church as that of Bridegroom and Bride, and the understanding of men and women as a gift to one another - all this is crucial.

Doing so adds a richness to our understanding and perception of the Martyrs, not through knowing them more intimately as individuals but through their united love of God and his bride the Church.

«And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.