Sentences with phrase «bread of life christ»

Not exact matches

Then like these men I wonder anxiously where life is leading me... May this communion of bread with the Christ clothed in the powers which dilate the world free me from my timidities and my heedlessness!

A sample: for the feast of Corpus Christi, we are given some practical grounding in Christ's words about being the «living bread come down from heaven», together with thoughts about how we are united to the Father through Jesus, and also with one another - quoting St Paul - and finally a profound look towards eternity as «Jesus» gift of himself is transmitted to us beyond time and space».

«Man» does not live by «bread» alone which means one does not live by Christ's teaching alone but by the very word of GOD, the Father of God, Christ Jesus!

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

This defense of the accuracy of the Fourth Gospel in reporting the words of Jesus is undertaken, in spite of what must appear to the disinterested student insuperable obstacles, because to these lovers of the Gospel the alternative seems to be surrendering the authenticity of some of the most precious and manifestly true of Christ's reported words: «I am the bread of life... I am the light of the world... I am the good shepherd... If you continue in my words... you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free... He that drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst... I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live... I am the way, the truth and the life; no one cometh to the Father but by me»... and many more.

In the Eucharist the worshipper does not unite himself with Christ, but he receives the gifts of bread and wine by which he expects inner nourishment from the sources of spiritual life upon which he depends.

offering of Christ to his heavenly Father, as we are nourished by his risen life in the receiving of bread and wine and so «make memorial» of him and of all that he did and was.

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.

Indeed, Christ the Bread of Life, and not simply natural bread, is to be eaten.