Sentences with phrase «bread and wine becomes»

(a) Grocery store bread and wine becomes the flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus pocus over it in church of a Sunday morning.

Bishop Theophanis likens the miracle to Holy Communion when the bread and wine becomes the body and blood of Christ (transubstantiation / metousiosis).

nah — they believe that grocary store bread and wine becomes the flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus - pocus over it in church of a Sunday morning; that a being reads my mind whenever I pray and intervenes to change what would otherwise be the course of history in small ways to «answer my prayers»; and that I will survive my own physical deathand live happily ever after if I follow some rules laid down by goat herders in Bronze Age Palestine.

However in the Eucharist the bread and wine become fully Christ so the Council of Trent teaches us; they no longer «remain» because now they have been assimilated to the Son of God made Man.

A stone and a bucket of water, a map and a compass, bread and wine all became instruments of prayer and meditation.

Not exact matches

Communion: In Catholicism, the bread and wine «become» the body and blood of Jesus Christ, meaning that Jesus is truly present on the altar.

In the final frame the menorah becomes a smoldering cross, and in a nearby cave (an empty tomb), bread and wine are set at a table with the words «Do this in remembrance of me.»

«Thus says the Lord of hosts: «Now, ask the priests concerning the law, saying, «If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?

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.

This could become a burning issue today if the «strong» were to maintain that all kinds of food and drink may be eaten and drunk at the Lord's Supper while the «weak» declared that only a little consecrated bread and wine may be taken.

Whereas in the Didache the Eucharist was a thankoffering for the blessings of creation and redemption, Justin Martyr thought that the bread and wine were consecrated through the repetition of Jesus» words and thereby became the body and blood of Christ.

It is indeed a difficult task to «switch gears» from a theology based on static, spatial models alone, such as the essence of God, the natures of Christ, and the substance of bread and wine, to a theology that is concerned with spatio - temporal models, such as change in God, Christ becoming divine, and the on - going process of revelation.

It is a claim that God's grace is mediated through the material: in the incarnation, God became human flesh and dwelt among us; in the Passion, it was Christ's body that was crucified; in the Eucharist, Christ is truly present in the elements of bread and wine; as we partake of these elements, approaching the altar with our bodies, eating and drinking, we become the very body of Christ; and in the eschaton, it is this very materiality of creation that God will transform and glorify.

Sitting around eating bread and drinking wine has it's place but like anything can become a simple case of chronic loafing if that's all you do.

Furthermore, since the death and resurrection of Jesus was central to Christian belief and practice, and since teaching was often done with the help of symbols, it probably became customary as a part of nearly every meal where Christians were gathered, to remind people that the bread they were eating represented the body of Jesus which was broken for them, and the wine they were drinking represented His blood.

The wine becomes the mystical blood of Jesus Christ and the bread becomes His mystical body....

In the Eucharist we become members of his Body; the Spirit enters not only the bread and the wine but the members of the congregation; and the glory of God the Father becomes present in the act of worship.

Jesus gave bread to his friends and said «this is my body, given up for you» and the cup of wine became his blood.

According to this view, the bread and wine after the prayer of consecration became the body and blood of Christ.

He recalled how his fellow priests had in many cases become very casual, and how in Rome «I heard, among other clever and coarse anecdotes at mealtimes, members of the papal curia laugh and boast about how some said Mass and with reference to the bread and wine spoke these words: ««Panis es, panis manebis; vinum es, vinum manebis» — «Bread you are and bread you shall remain; wine you are, and wine you shall remain» — and with these words they elevated the host and the wine in the usual way.

One - fourth of Catholics agree that Christ becomes present in the bread and wine only if the recipient believes this to be so.

Forgiveness and love became the «wine and bread» of acceptance and redemption.

Catholics believe that bread and wine are transformed during the mass to become the real Body and real Blood of Christ — the fruit of the Tree of Life.

This will no doubt become the table on which bread and wine are placed in a future worship service.

I am not about to get into the complex history and debate surrounding consubstantiation (the Lutheran view) and transubstantiation (the Catholic view), except to say that both, in one way or another, see the bread and wine as becoming something more than just bread and wine, and in this way, the elements become holy and impart grace to the believer.

Within a few months the hardships were beginning to bite as the winter came on and there was heating nowhere except in one room where the brethren could go to warm up if the cold became too intense; and with Advent at the beginning of December the meals fell to one a day with only some dry bread and wine in the evening.