Sentences with phrase «by sacramental»

And so, while not supported by sacramental formulas, this declaration must possess the requisites of a formal acts to make it verifiable at any moment.

Jesus is made present again, or re-presented, by a sacramental event that corresponds to the Jesus - event.

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.

Many congregations have adopted such post-Vatican II reforms as the new lectionary and common calendar, but are left largely untouched by the sacramental reforms.

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).

In obedience to the truth borne by the sacramental life of the Church, Bernanos knew himself to be free.

The releasing strength and power of the real Redeemer Jesus Christ we receive by the sacramental baptism (Churches believing in sacramental baptism do not practice rebaptism, but accept the one Holy Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized again).

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

Sustained by prayer, especially before the Blessed Sacrament and in the Divine Office of the Church, and by the sacramental life, she was immersed in theology, particularly spiritual and mystical theology; she also retained her love of literature.

According to Romans 6, 7, 8 the body of the Christian gets not redeemed, not even by sacramental baptism.

Just as the Church fills up in the bodies of her members the sufferings of Christ, so also the consolations of the Lord overflow to others through her as she fills out the full measure of the healing love of Christ by her sacramental ministry (cf. Col 1,24).

The real faith is the faith, which is assured by the sacramental baptism.

Faith is now sharply defined by this sacramental situation: faith is openness to and acknowledgment of Christ's authority in its concrete sacramental exercise.

This question arose from Luther's deep religious or existential insight into the inauthenticity of all human works before God — an inauthenticity systematically denied by the sacramental rituals, dogmatic faith, and mystical aspiration of traditional Christianity.

Not exact matches

So Protestants in their way degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in this world.

So Protestants in their ways degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in the world.

It is only after he had begun to be disturbed by the indulgence sales that we find him for the first time considering sacramental issues in earnest in his lectures.

From 1518 on, it is the particularity and concreteness of God's presence that now foreclose idolatry; the true God, who by definition can not be used, is the God who makes Himself available as He chooses, in the flesh born of Mary and the Church's sacramental practice, not in our religious speculation and self - interest.

Many of his novels are profoundly Catholic without being pious, cloying, or sentimental — literary gems shaped by a Catholic sacramental imagination that is both unyielding and redemptive.

The sacramental baptism confirms the doctrine of salvation by faith and grace alone.

We surmised that «the rules» in these matters must only apply to sacramental marriages in the Church, entered into by Catholics.

The state of neo-scholastic sacramental theology in the mid twentieth century may be typified by Bernard Leeming's magisterial work, Principles of Sacramental Theolsacramental theology in the mid twentieth century may be typified by Bernard Leeming's magisterial work, Principles of Sacramental TheolSacramental Theology (1955).

An important principle of sacramental theology is that Sacraments cause by signifying.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

It is due to this profoundly personal sacramental meaning of the body that we find a consistent teaching about homosexuality in the Bible (Gn 3 and 19:1 - 11; Lev 18:22 and 20:13; 1 Cor 6:9; Rm 1:18 - 32; 1 Tim 1) and throughout the tradition, wherein this teaching would be infallibly taught by the ordinary universal episcopal magisterium.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

This is the meaning and message of the Passover, and participation in it has the sacramental efficacy of producing rebirth; this is also the meaning of the commemoration of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, for by participating in the death of Christ who sums up all of the past, we also participate in his resurrection, which attains the eschatological future.

This was eliminated by Protestants during the Reformation, and Protestants thereby lost individual opportunities for self - examination, reassessment and recommitment in a sacramental context.

It presupposes a sound formation in the fullness of the Catholic faith, nourished by the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church.

By the seventeenth century, however, the Anglican divines had begun to develop a theology of marriage to replace the sacramental model of marriage that the Thirty - Nine Articles clearly denied.

It is given its raison d'etre by living the Prayer of the Church both in the Sacramental life and in the obligation to pray the Divine Office.

The recent sacramental rites published by Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, the United Church of Christ, Presbyterians and United Methodists have a much richer and deeper theology of God acting in and through the sacraments to give himself to us.

I want in this article to explore a sacramental vision, a kind of «seeing beyond», that is empowered by faith in the God - man who reveals the transcendental attributes of beauty, goodness and truth of the Godhead.

At sacramental baptism your faith gets confirmed by God in a way, which can not be described by human words.

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.

By the virtues of self - mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.&raquBy the virtues of self - mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.&raquby the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.&raquby prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.»

The Church can certainly not give up the principle of the indissolubility of a consummated sacramental marriage, because she is bound by the words of Christ in the gospel, even, despite a single contrary intervention at the Council, in the case of an innocent party.

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

We have to start by understanding that liberalism has a sacramental character.

Thus, cosmic symbols of folkloric themes such as Water, Tree, Vine, the plough and the axe, the ship, chariot etc which have been already assimilated by Judaism are passed on to the Church, which gave them sacramental meaning.

It may be that our sacramental needs and capacities have, ironically, been best understood and most creatively used by secular institutions.

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.

To suggest that the Church can, by accompaniment, usher believers into suicide with a sacramental endorsement is inconsistent with Catholic moral theology.

by Maurice S. Friedman, p. 161 f.; Israel and the World, «The Faith of Judaism,» pp. 21 - 24; Hasidism, «Spirit and Body of the Hasidic Movement,» p. 79, «Symbolical and Sacramental Existence in Judaism,» p. 142 f. Cf. Moses, p. 22 f. for Buber's contrast between «technical magic» and «magic of spontaneity.»)

People need to realize again the meaning of sacramental baptism (sacramental baptism was not invented by the lousy pope, but be Jesus Christ himself).

To find a better way to do youth ministry, we need to begin by asking the young what they themselves see as the supreme sacramental moment of their church gatherings over the past year.

They practice a sacramental piety, recognizing baptism, communion, and absolution as means by which God bestows unearned grace and forgiveness on sinful humanity.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

But they do not find comfort, much less evangelical leadership, from priests who imagine they can avoid clericalism by unwittingly denying the truth of their own sacramental vocation and its distinctiveness.

However odd this sounds, that by movie's end it seems both plausible and fitting bespeaks the artistic triumph of In Bruges: its ability to convey the Christian sacramental sense of divine presence within the created order, and most especially in self - sacrificing acts of love by imperfect beings themselves being perfected by Christ.