I don't know about baptism but I'd like to exchange
bread and wine for cheezits and diet dr pepper for communion.
Not exact matches
Pope Francis says that divorced
and remarried people are «not excommunicated»
and should not feel «discriminated against» — he stops short of directly saying they are welcome to take the
bread and wine at Eucharist, but then adds in a footnote: «I would also point out that the Eucharist «is not a prize
for the perfect, but a powerful medicine
and nourishment
for the weak.
Milk,
bread,
and other groceries can be bought
for $ 1 apiece, while a bottle of quality
wine can be had
for $ 6.
For if a man or a woman's body — or his or her status as a married person, or his capacity to be a father or hers to be a mother — doesn't matter for his or her sex life, why, then, should anyone imagine that the body of the Son of God matters, whether it is in a manger, on a cross, risen, or fully and really present under the signs of bread and wi
For if a man or a woman's body — or his or her status as a married person, or his capacity to be a father or hers to be a mother — doesn't matter
for his or her sex life, why, then, should anyone imagine that the body of the Son of God matters, whether it is in a manger, on a cross, risen, or fully and really present under the signs of bread and wi
for his or her sex life, why, then, should anyone imagine that the body of the Son of God matters, whether it is in a manger, on a cross, risen, or fully
and really present under the signs of
bread and wine?
A makeshift church was erected
for worship,
and rice
and tea were substituted
for bread and wine.
For example, last year for Lent I gave up bread and wine so the only time I had these things was at communi
For example, last year
for Lent I gave up bread and wine so the only time I had these things was at communi
for Lent I gave up
bread and wine so the only time I had these things was at communion.
The Fosters had us over
for book study,
and Pastor Kathryn served communion with the Fosters homemade
wine (made using elder berries Julia grew in the front yard)
and beer
bread.
God is not serving gifts of stone or snake
for the children who ask, there is only a Father of Lights handing out
bread and wine to the entire hillside, this is a party.
* Luke 7:33
For John the Baptist came neither eating
bread nor drinking
wine;
and ye say, He hath a devil.
The Last Supper was not merely the new Passover, but the new
bread and wine of the Presence, showing God's love
for us.
The priest might put his foot down
and ban the use of hymns that contain doctrinal errors: the one where Jesus is reported as saying «I am with you in this
bread and wine»
for example.
For what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dilla
For what do we long
for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dilla
for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past
and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the
bread and drink the
wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew
and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillard?
As
for the Lord's Supper, it began so simply that at first every meal where disciples ate together was a sacred communion,
and their ordinary
bread and wine were memorials of their Lord's sacrifice.
The saying about not drinking
wine until the kingdom of God comes accompanies the first cup; but after the distribution of the
bread Luke continues (22:20), «
And likewise the cup after supper, saying, «This cup which is poured out
for you is the new covenant in my blood.»»
For example, for Christians the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper may intensify loyalty to Jesus and his cause through the imaginative association of the elements with the body and blood of the crucified Jes
For example,
for Christians the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper may intensify loyalty to Jesus and his cause through the imaginative association of the elements with the body and blood of the crucified Jes
for Christians the
bread and wine of the Lord's Supper may intensify loyalty to Jesus
and his cause through the imaginative association of the elements with the body
and blood of the crucified Jesus.
Wine and bread, these are the gifts of God
for the people of God, Amen!
You likely deny evolution
and global warming
for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable
and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god
and turning grocery store
bread and wine into flesh
and blood.
You all fight
for first place at a table that eats
bread and wine, but it doesn't give you carte blanche to pass judgement on others.
And we are ready to have someone point to what is in our midst and say, There it is, the peace you yearn for: everlasting Love given to you in what looks to be but mere bread and wine» gift, pure gift, questions answered, wounds healed, loneliness vanished, and death of every sort conquer
And we are ready to have someone point to what is in our midst
and say, There it is, the peace you yearn for: everlasting Love given to you in what looks to be but mere bread and wine» gift, pure gift, questions answered, wounds healed, loneliness vanished, and death of every sort conquer
and say, There it is, the peace you yearn
for: everlasting Love given to you in what looks to be but mere
bread and wine» gift, pure gift, questions answered, wounds healed, loneliness vanished, and death of every sort conquer
and wine» gift, pure gift, questions answered, wounds healed, loneliness vanished,
and death of every sort conquer
and death of every sort conquered.
But as Catholic theology progressed, it was decided that the power of the meal was not in what happened during the meal, or in the gathering of people
for the meal, or really in the food itself, but in the
bread and the
wine after it had been blessed by the priest.
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.
For thousands of years the Jews had been participating in the Passover, they had used red
wine and a broken piece of
bread without knowing why these two elements were added.
He said that the
bread represented His body broken
for them
and the
wine represented His blood shed
for them.
Go, eat your
bread with enjoyment,
and drink your
wine with a merry heart;
for God has already approved what you do.
Both told of a Last Supper linked with the blood sacrifice whose symbolic recreation by eating
bread and wine provided salvation
for all worshippers.
It is not necessary
for us to make a detailed examination of the various sorts of ritual associated with these meals; it will suffice if we see that the Jew worshiped God not only in the synagogue
and in the Temple, but also in his home, where families or groups of friends met regularly
for a holy supper, often held in connection with great festivals of the Jewish religious year, in which
bread and wine, eaten
and drunk, were believed to have a peculiar significance in establishing anew a sense of the covenant which God had made with his chosen people.
For me I do believe in the Sacraments
and the role they play in Salvation - Jesus did change
wine into this blood
and the
bread into his body during the last supper
and told believers to do this in his memory
and he did foreshadow what would happen on the Cross he gave up his life so we maybe could be saved, because not all who profess Christ is Lord or believe in God will be saved, there are many people who claim they can abuse, sleep around, steal, cheat
and that they'll still go to heave because 1 day they said the sinner's prayer, actions speak louder then words.
It was true
for Jesus, as it is true about the Bible... about preaching
and teaching...
and about the
bread and wine and water of the Sacraments.
Indeed it may be called the Christian sacrifice,
for it is the offering of thanks, praise,
and prayers, along with
bread and wine, to God known through Christ.
In seeking to develop a theology of nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate other images from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love
for the poor
and treatment of animals as sisters
and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of creation,
and the use of the elements of
bread and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-human natural world,
and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.
For over a thousand years, Communion, the Eucharist, or the Lord's Supper has usually entailed little more than a bit of
bread and a tiny taste of
wine or grape juice.
Returning to Cyprian, he then goes on to pick up the figure of Melchizedek of Salem from Genesis 14: 18 - 19a: «
And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine, for he was a priest of God Most High and he blessed Abraham.&raq
And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out
bread and wine, for he was a priest of God Most High and he blessed Abraham.&raq
and wine,
for he was a priest of God Most High
and he blessed Abraham.&raq
and he blessed Abraham.»
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.
31 Do not listen to Hezekiah;
for thus says the king of Assyria: «Make your peace with me
and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine,
and every one of his own fig tree,
and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern; 32 until I come
and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain
and wine, a land of
bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees
and honey, that you may live,
and not die.
These respondents appreciate the moments of silent meditation on the
bread and wine, but consider to be superfluous the reading or singing of the same words from a book each time in preparation
for these moments.
In Catholic theology a valid sacrament requires the right matter,
for example
bread and wine at the Eucharist,
and the right intention.
This takes place particularly through the celebration of the Eucharist, when thereal presence of Jesus under the species of
bread and wine reveal
and effect the union
for which the universe longs.
I don't need a seat at their table — in Christ, really, there is only one table, laid out with the
bread and the
wine, there is room
for me there.
For example, there is a widely used English setting for the Agnus Dei which says «Hear our prayer, hear our prayer, in this bread and wine we share may we be your sign of peace everywhere&raqu
For example, there is a widely used English setting
for the Agnus Dei which says «Hear our prayer, hear our prayer, in this bread and wine we share may we be your sign of peace everywhere&raqu
for the Agnus Dei which says «Hear our prayer, hear our prayer, in this
bread and wine we share may we be your sign of peace everywhere».
The
wine also stands
for enhanced vitality («spirit»)
and the
bread for the enduring sustenance of life.
Jesus gave
bread to his friends
and said «this is my body, given up
for you»
and the cup of
wine became his blood.
John Leith, in Introduction to Reformed Tradition, writes: «It is probably impossible today to realize the spiritual excitement of the congregation when [under Zwingli]
for the firsttime, believers passed the
bread and the
wine among themselves using wooden plates
and cups.»
This reminds of a later time when another King of Jerusalem, who is also a High Priest, brings
bread and wine to his disciples
and tells them that it represents His body broken
and His blood shed
for them (1 Cor.
And so Old Adam still will have his day As celebrant at feasts some people keep For flesh and blood that never wake from sleep, This bread and wine of human show and pl
And so Old Adam still will have his day As celebrant at feasts some people keep
For flesh
and blood that never wake from sleep, This bread and wine of human show and pl
and blood that never wake from sleep, This
bread and wine of human show and pl
and wine of human show
and pl
and play.
An ad uploaded in a make - your - own - Super-Bowl-ad competition featured a priest swapping out communion
bread for Doritos
and wine for Pepsi - which owns Doritos
and sponsored the contest - in hopes of boosting church attendance.
Ultimately it is just
bread and wine, symbolizing Jesus
and what He did
for us, so any Christian should be welcome.
They would eat
bread and drink
wine in remembrance that Christ their savior died on the cross
for their sins
and thereby effected their deliverance from sin
and death.
A narrative of a Lenten meditation in poetic form written from the standpoint of the apostle Thomas:
And if it were not for his love, his grace that sought me out behind locked doors, called me to touch and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the bread and pour the wine as he did years a
And if it were not
for his love, his grace that sought me out behind locked doors, called me to touch
and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the bread and pour the wine as he did years a
and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the
bread and pour the wine as he did years a
and pour the
wine as he did years ago.
At the Last Supper, Jesus served the disciples the
bread and wine which they themselves had prepared
for the meal.
The following is a simple, logical argument
for my belief that the appearances of
bread and wine are literally the appearances of Jesus in the Eucharist.