Sentences with phrase «becomes sacramental»

just for fun, here is a piece of wordcraft i wrote whil in the school of spiritual direction called «living becomes sacramental»:

Cosmic evolution itself becomes a sacramental revelation of God's personality.

We must create what has traditionally been called a «eucharistic community» — a Christian community that meets together around the supper, around bread and wine, around Christ's very presence in the community and that becomes a sacramental presence of God's love and grace within the larger community.

It's not for someone looking for a casual read, but I've found it to be one of the most enlightening and convincing takes on how marriage becomes sacramental through the expression of erotic love over time.

The community, in causing the actions of the Mass to become sacramental, is itself transformed by that sacramental action to live at a new intensity and to continue the process of the Church.

Louise understood something of the power and love of God, and Louise became the sacramental presence of God that evening among us.

Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.

Not exact matches

Indeed, it becomes an explicit theological axiom for Luther that inward and spiritual grace is given only in and through the public, bodily, sacramental practice of the Church.

Now, if we be allowed an imaginative look into the future, such communities might in certain circumstances choose an «elder» (presbyter) from their midst who would then become their priestly president through sacramental ordination by the bishop.

All hopes for any provision within the CofE fade further and further away — the invention of women bishops means that any notion of sacramental assurance is now inevitably confused, and trying to find some sort of safe corner becomes surreal.

In a word: By sacramental baptism you become a Christian in that sense, that you must and can follow Jesus after baptism.

I agree with you that St. Paul was a Jewish Taliban or Jewish Jihadist before he became a Christian through repentance, faith in Jesus and the rebirth (sacramental baptism).

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

Unbelief, it seemed, was no obstacle to becoming a pilgrim journeying through a sacramental world on the way to a nonexistent divine ideal.

Furthermore, this plain truth that we are organic psychosomatic «becomings» provides a natural reason for the use of sacramental means of worship and Christian nurture, as well as a vindication of the traditional emphasis on the eucharist or Holy Communion as central in our relationship, as Christian people, with the divine reality in whom alone we can find genuine fulfillment of our creaturely potentiality.

With the Enlightenment, the sacramental vision of the continuity between the afterlife and everyday life became more deeply ruptured, as William Blake subjectivized heaven and hell, and Tennyson struggled to believe in the soul in a scientific age.

This does not present us with facts of the past in their bare actuality, nor does it lead to encounter with human existence and its interpretation, but, as a sacramental event, it re-presents the events of the past in such a way that it renews them, and thus becomes a personal encounter for me.

A Catholic baptism is valid, but only becomes effective, if someone repents and believes that he has got metaphysically connected with Christ's sacrifice by the sacramental baptism (mostly infant baptism).

It is sacramental in the sense that it is not abstract but seeks concrete ways in which the future can become present and tangible.

If mysticism loses touch with sacramental symbols, with apophatic patience, and with the needs of the social world, it becomes a form of religious escapism.

They assume after sinning their sacramental baptism had become invalid (this assumption is wrong).

Isolated from its sacramental nursery, the «way of silence» has now become the «way of suspicion» iconoclastically declaiming the revelatory possibilities of all symbolic expression.

You only can become spiritual through sacramental baptism.

And finally, if religious activism breaks its ties with sacramental, mystical, and silent religion, it becomes indistinguishable from secular humanism, such as Marxism for example.

And the community of the faithful in the Church is in contact with God, with his Word and with sacramental grace... and this is a personal God, who became one of us, born as a baby, a participation in our destiny up to his death on the Cross for our sins.

As Luther saw, and as Gustav Aulen has recently argued in a study of the eucharistic doctrine of Luther, the fact that by a memorial action Christ becomes present in the sacramental rite means that his sacrifice itself becomes present also, for we have to do with the «whole Christ» and the «whole Christ» includes all that he experienced in the days of his flesh.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

[21] We come to see that at the heart of the sacramentality of the word of God is the mystery of the incarnation itself: «the Word became flesh» (Jn 1:14), the reality of the revealed mystery is offered to us in the «flesh» of the Son... The sacramental character of revelation points in turn to the history of salvation, to the way that the word of God enters time and space, and speaks to men and women, who are called to accept his gift in faith.»

Such acts are also sacramental in the sense that they become places of encounter with the purifying fire of the Spirit of God.

It has proved powerfully effective in drawing people back to sacramental confession when it was becoming almost extinct.

[6] In particular from the later nineteenth century (if not earlier) his teaching on sacramental signification commonly became a source of embarrassment or a subject for ridicule.

Meanwhile, the conception of the church under the impact first of «toleration» and then of complete freedom and separation had largely lost the sacramental dimension which traditionally had sanctified her regular observances under Episcopal direction by making them intrinsically meaningful, and had become that of a voluntary association of explicitly convinced Christians for the purpose of mutual edification in the worship of God and the propagandization of the Christian faith as the group defined it.

The latest contrarian argument: We all grow grapes, drink wine, get drunk, and become oblivious to GW,... or at least make sacramental wine, go to Mass, & repent of our GHG sins, before we reach that really hot place.