Sentences with phrase «become sacraments»

The result is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH us.

Western Christianity has become more deistic than theistic and Scriptures that reveal a metaphysics of Divine Transcendence and a deterministic legal agenda rather than a love story of God's relationship with the people S / He has chosen to prepare to become sacraments of Divine Love in the world.

The mystery of love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed than in this: the sexual attraction which man shares with the animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it leads to the possibility of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments of the spirit.

Another thought, on another blog, I read the comment that if men could become pregnant, abortion would become a sacrament.

The churches are so introvert that they are incapable of becoming a sacrament of this community of open communities in this world.

The love of a man and a woman, lived out in the power of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the fullness of the eternal wedding.»

Everything desires to be hallowed... in the kavanah of redemption in all its worldliness; everything desires to become a sacrament.

Solidarity with the agonies and problems of modern men and women become the sacrament of God's serving presence in the midst of the world.

In this broad sense of the word sacrament, virtually anything from time to time can become a sacrament.

It's probably just as well that foot washing never became a sacrament.

Hence he became the sacrament of God's love; in him the Action of God, which is the love of God, was decisively at work.

Not exact matches

The position became vacant after archbishop Arthur Roche took up the position of secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome.

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 is the intimate and indissoluble union of the two which prevents preaching from becoming merely a hortatory exercise or a public address, and which prevents the sacrament from becoming merely routine with suggestions which might seem to border on «magic.»

Sacraments are concrete actions by which Christians may be marked, fed and touched by the Holy Spirit so that the reality of God and the work of Christ become embedded in the body and psyche.

In chapters like «The Meaning of Sex,» «Becoming a Singular Sensation,» «The Gift of the Present Moment,» «Winning the Spiritual Battle,» and «Craving Heaven,» Eden describes God's design for human sexuality, why sex is reserved for marriage, the importance of modesty, how singles struggling with loneliness and unrequited love can empower themselves through prayer and the sacraments, and why shared values with one's spouse are so vital for a successful marriage.

The cross becomes a present reality first of all in the sacraments.

Instead, the sacraments have become for vast segments of American Protestantism simply memory exercises whereby we try to remember what God has done.

Dulles explains: «Avoiding the term «member,» which had become bogged down in controversy, [the Council] spoke of perfect and imperfect realizations of the sacrament.

All symbols are ever in danger of becoming spiritual, and not binding images, instead of remaining real signs sent into life; all sacraments are ever in danger of becoming plain experiences, leveled down to the «religious» plane, instead of remaining the incarnate connection between what is above and what is below.

It is the call to become a Minister of Word and Sacrament.

It is sufficient then that we see the Church's sacraments as promises, for it is in the mode of promise that God becomes most intimately present to us now.

The distaste for «presence» that we find in so much modern philosophy, art, and literary criticism is something we need to attend to if we think of the sacraments only as ways in which God becomes present to us.

The distinctively Christian element in his life came through the sacraments by means of which Christ became redemptively present to him.

On Easter 2010, Adrian, with his wife and children, received the sacraments and became full members of Christ's one, holy, Catholic Church in their home state of Colorado.

For church and sacraments see Bernard Lee, The Becoming of the Church (New York: Paulist, 1974).

And finally, «I was reminded of how often I saw scenes like this at the market, and it occurred to me that this had become, in fact, a kind of sacrament,»

Therefore, Pope Francis teaches that the «Sacraments are a privileged way in which nature is taken up by God to become a means of mediating supernatural life» (235).

How could Romney sit under and practice the teachings of a religion that until the late 1970's decree and believe that African - Americans were decendents of Cain and therefore cursed, that they were not allowed to become priests and take part in the churchs» sacraments?

East Anglia and Leeds (Bishop Roche, lucky old thing, is off to Rome to become Secretary of the Congregation ofDivine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments) are waiting for new bishops.

Nevertheless, like the sacraments (which would otherwise become bare symbols), the kerygma necessarily assumes the form of tradition, for it is more than a summary of general truths, and is itself part of the eschatological event.

We become more human the more deeply we are committed to Jesus in the Church, the sacraments and in prayer.

The truth: The Sacraments are good in itself, but only become effective by faith.

The Sacrament of Eucharist becomes a ritual contra ritual in that it brings to a close a cultic tradition of animal sacrifice for the expiation of sins.

In the Protestant tradition, Scripture and the two sacraments have been regarded as the primary means of grace through which Christ becomes a reality of life to believers.

Through the sacraments and rituals of the church people are reminded of our need for grace and permitted to become receivers.

For his understanding of sacrament and transparence, see his doctoral dissertation (unfortunately only in German) that has become a book of reference on the matter for the immediate post-Vatican II period: Kirche als Sakrament im Horizont der Welterfahrung.

If, in the past, the sacrament came to be seen merely as legalistic box - ticking and «wiping the slate clean», it is not surprising that it became a chore and a bore in which sincerity and devotion were lacking, both for the people and for the priest.

Through the grace of the sacraments and a spiritual vision, the person becomes the priest.

Things can become unbalanced when the communal aspect begins to outweigh the needs of ministering to the individual conscience and the integrity of the sacrament.

Through worthy participation in the sacraments the person spiritually becomes the Bishop.

Furthermore, through holy Baptism they become members of the Church and, being united with Christ and participating in the sacraments, they acquire the power to defeat death and attain deification.

Along comes the New Covenant, the Law of Love (rather than the Law of the Flesh), and within the freedom established by these absolute boundaries, establishes the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, and the 7 Sacraments through which we become United to that Body of Christ, of which, one is Marriage.

That conception still survives in the Christian theology of the sacraments, according to which ordinary actions become extraordinary in signifying a new conveyance of divine grace.

A papal style which reflects this greater love will enable the church to experience the Petrine office as God's gift by showing all of us how we can become signs and sacraments of God's love for humankind.

The manner of it becomes dearer when we consider the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist (the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper, or, as it is called in some Western churches, the Mass).

Seen in this way the other elements of spirituality meditation, participation in sacraments, worship — all become a source of strength for the liberative experiences.

In January 1588, he wrote to a friend in the Electoral service, Johann Loser, asking him to be godfather to his son «whom God has given me this night by my dear Katie, so that he may come out of the old Adam's nature to the rebirth in Christ through the holy sacrament of baptism, and may become a member of sacred Christendom.

The dialogical relationship in love fostered among human beings becomes the appropriate language and sacrament for the experience and expression of the divine mystery.

The ecumenical language of «sacrament, sign, and instrument» became more common.