Sentences with phrase «broken body of the church»

Although we know that the broken body of the church is real, we also come together in hope for its healing.

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Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

The late 1980s merger of the old American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC, a much smaller body that broke earlier with the Lutheran Church» Missouri Synod) resulted in an organization of 5.3 million members that has been producing red ink, membership losses, and general demoralization since its start.

the blood of the martyrs fills the soil of our country from north to south and from east to west... many of the bodies are recovered and are broken between churches all over egypt and the rest of the world and by the way the movie was not made by Coptic Christians at least not orthodox anyway.

... a broken marriage is a broken marriage; something that stands out as an unnatural smashing of what was built to last, a blasphemy against the unity of Christ and his church, an amputation inflicted upon a living body....

The church — every gathering of the church, everywhere, under every form — remembers that on a certain night its Founder said and did certain definite things, briefly reported: that on the same night he fell into the hands of his enemies; and that he suffered a violent death (for the broken body and the shed blood can mean nothing else).

But it is worthwhile to recall that within the first generation it was possible for Paul not only to describe the «breaking of bread» at the fellowship meal of Christians as «sharing in the body of Christ,» 24 but to pass on from that to the idea that the church (the new Israel as it emerged in history) is itself the «body of Christ,» each member of which is «in Christ,» as Christ is «in him.»

The Church of England and the Methodist Church have been challenged to «break the logjam» in relations between them in a set of radical proposals to both bodies.

Take, bless, break, give — the bread was taken and offered to God; thanksgiving was said over it — and here we need to recall that for the Jew, all blessings have always been in the form of a thanksgiving to God for the objects which are to be blessed; the bread was broken, as Christ had done at the Last Supper and as His physical body was broken on the Cross; the bread was given — distributed, so that the believer might partake of it and thereby, as the Church believed, partake of Christ Himself and become one with Him.

Seriously — the thought that came to my mind about your leadership meetings being drunken messes was the reputation of cannibalism the early church had for their communion meetings got from «this is my body broken for you».

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

We the members of the Church are members of Christ's own body, manifested by the breaking of the one bread.

In a sense this is an ideal rather than an actual description of the churches, for Christ's body is broken by many divisions.

You will look long, hard, and futilely to find in His Holiness any serious analysis of the Pope's ground - breaking nuptial theology of the human body, or his emerging feminism, or his intense ecumenical outreach to Orthodoxy and the Reformation churches, or his commitment to a theological dialogue with Judaism unprecedented in nearly two thousand years, or his refocusing of Catholic social doctrine, or his passionate interest in the universality of sanctity in the Church, or his dialogue with atheist and agnostic philosophers and scientists, or his commitment to the «method of persuasion» in a revitalized Catholic evangelism, or his millennial sensibility.

They are seen as the birth pangs of the Church from the broken body of the Lord.