Sentences with phrase «celebrating eucharist»

The sacramental action of the Church in celebrating the Eucharist is the living enactment of the gospel which is proclaimed by preaching; Luther was insistent on the point that the gospel is enacted in the sacrament, and he was altogether right in this insistence.

As early as AD 140, Aristides of Athens wrote, «If one of the faithful dies, obtain salvation for him by celebrating the Eucharist and by praying next to his remains.»

This manner of celebrating the Eucharist seems to have been practised in several places so as to merit attention and cause Cyprian to exclaim that he is «truly astonished how this practice can have arisen whereby, contrary to the prescriptions of the gospel and of the apostles, in some places water, which by itself is incapable of signifying the blood of Christ, is offered in the Lord's cup.»

It becomes an earthly reality as the Holy Spirit guides the Church in rightly praying, celebrating the Eucharist, guarding church tradition, and uniting believers in love and service.

It says: «From that time onwards the Church has never failed to come together to celebrate the paschal mystery...» And those celebrations are a description of our liturgy: ``... reading those things «which were in all the scriptures concerning him» (Luke 24:27), celebrating the Eucharist in which «the victory and triumph of his death are again made present», and at the same time giving thanks «to God for his unspeakable gift» (2 Cor 9:15) in Christ Jesus, «in praise of his glory» (Eph 1:12), through the power of the Holy Spirit».

Because of its evangelical background, the church had a tradition of celebrating the Eucharist infrequently.

It must come as something of a shock to many of these people to realize that over the last yen years the bulk of his time has been spent in a ministry whose chief work is preaching, baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, teaching, counseling the troubled, comforting the sick and bereaved.

The most controversial chapter is Ratzinger's critique of the practice of celebrating the Eucharist versus populum, that is, the priest facing the congregation.

A few years ago I celebrated the Eucharist with my father and so to now be in a position where I can't serve at the altar with him - I was surprised by how much it hurt.

And it won't be made by churchmen who wonder aloud whether the world wouldn't have been better off without Jesus, or who substitute treacle for the Creed, or who throw public hissy - fits rather than celebrate the Eucharist.

[1] Perhaps in this context it could be mentioned that Fr Holloway was of the opinion that as the priest would naturally face the people while celebrating at least six of the sacraments, for he stands in for Christ, so it is preferable for the priest to celebrate the Eucharist facing the people.

It tells Christians: «On the Lord's own day [Sunday], assemble in common to break bread and offer thanks [i.e. celebrate the Eucharist]; but first confess your sins so that your sacrifice may be pure.»

We celebrate the Eucharist in a very traditional way....

His church, unlike the vast majority of non-denominational and evangelical parishes, celebrates the Eucharist weekly.

How about these references to it in Scripture, where he commands us to celebrate the Eucharist?

The Prophets were sent to remind Israel of its covenants with the Lord; Christians celebrate the Eucharist with the words of Jesus, «Do this in remembrance of me» (Luke 22:19).

A man and a woman stood before an altar that was properly dressed with flowers, candles and the elements necessary to celebrate the Eucharist.

«We can not live without joining together on Sunday to celebrate the Eucharist... How will we be able to live without him?»

Today, we celebrate Eucharist (the new passover) because Jesus command us to in scripture.

There are times and places where the very act of coming together to celebrate the Eucharist can be a public witness.

For several centuries house churches served as the locus for small groups of Christians to pray, hear Scripture, sing praise, eat meals, celebrate the Eucharist and share offerings with the poor.

Jesus continues to give himself to us his disciples when we gather to celebrate the Eucharist.

When we gather to celebrate the Eucharist, to offer praise and thanksgiving to God Our Father, we too are aware of our inadequacy, of the imperfections and failings in our lives.

The ordination was completed with the kiss of peace all around and then the new bishop moved on to celebrate the Eucharist.

Above all, the church must celebrate the Eucharist as the dramatic depiction, and as the succession of tableaux, that it intrinsically is.

The Roman Catholic Church has reaffirmed its ban on the use of gluten - free altar breads to celebrate the Eucharist during mass.

Not exact matches

Regular participation in the Eucharist enables evangelical Catholics to enter more fully into the communion of the saints in glory, whose witness is celebrated throughout the church year, and enables the people of God to plumb more deeply the riches of the Word of God, through the cycles of readings appointed for the liturgy.

As he explains, «The real presence effected in the Eucharist that is celebrated on the earthly altar is, as the liturgy indicates, a presence in and with Christ in heaven, where he stands before God as our great high priest.»

The meal they prepare every Sunday for the neighborhood is not an expression of their social or ethical commitments in distinction from their liturgical life; the meal they prepare and the Eucharist they celebrate are parts of a single story.

He explained that though it is the tradition of the church, that the Eucharist be served every Sunday, the congregation no more had the right to decide how often the Eucharist would be celebrated than to decide whether it would say the Lord's Prayer.

I have been able to celebrate Holy Mass in chapels built along mountain paths, on lakeshores and seacoasts; I have celebrated it on altars built in stadiums and in city squares... This varied scenario of celebrations of the Eucharist has given me a powerful experience of its universal and, so to speak, cosmic character.

Instead, he is making an ecclesiological point: At any given place, there should be only one Eucharist celebrated to which all Christians «in good standing» should be admitted.

Because even when it is celebrated on the humble altar of a country church, the Eucharist is always in some way celebrated on the altar of the world.

Such a Eucharist celebrates no longer the breaking of God's man that occurred for us but our potential for healing ourselves.

Rather than staying becalmed in the sacristy, the sanctuary, and the presbytery, the clergy of his day, he urged, should lead a demanding, Gospel - centered life of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the sacraments, nourishing their people with the tangible realities God had entrusted to human hands as pathways to the Trinity: the Bible and the Eucharist.

The Lord's Supper is not only a Eucharist that celebrates the kingdom that has come; it is a messianic meal which is an antepast, a foretaste of the coming kingdom.

And when Christians, in many different ways, gather together to celebrate the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Holy Communion, Eucharist, or Mass, the words and gestures together form the total meaning.

It will be proper, therefore, to discuss in this chapter the way in which that sacramental action is indeed, as Luther said, the setting - forth of the Gospel which is presupposed whenever the Eucharist is celebrated.

There is some evidence that by the end of the first century the Eucharist was celebrated on «the Lord's day», and that Gentile Christians did not observe the Sabbath.

When the Christian church celebrates the central act of its worship — whether it calls it Mass, Eucharist, Holy Communion, or Lord's Supper — it points back not only to these events in the upper room, but to the whole drama of God's redemptive action that Jesus is symbolizing in his words and gestures.

In the new - world Cambridge, Coakley sang in the ecumenical Harvard University choir and participated in the Eucharist at the regular weekday service celebrated by the Cowley Fathers, an Anglican order with roots in the Oxford movement of the 1830s.

Extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist are vastly over-used in U.S. parishes, a practice that risks of signaling that the Mass is a matter of the self - worshipping community celebrating and feeding itself.

In protest, Kirill denied the validity of the Eucharist celebrated by Sergi and his supporters.

Catesby Leigh, an art and architecture critic, addressed the spiritual dimension of Reed's labors in a remembrance delivered at the Requiem Eucharist for Reed celebrated at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue.

The Eucharist» celebrated constantly throughout the world and this night with a particular intensity» turns our world upside down.

Again, baptism and the Lord's Supper or eucharist are celebrated in all the mainline Christian communities; only the Society of Friends and the Salvation Army fail in this respect.

This can already be seen in the way Christians celebrate their chief ritual, known variously as Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper or the Eucharist.

Every day, during term, I attend in that chapel the service of sung evensong; on Sundays I am present also at the eucharist that is celebrated in the chapel every day of the week.

Faith Movement were proud to welcome Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury Diocese who celebrated Mass and addressed the conference encouraging and challenging young Catholics to live out their faith in the public square with a special devotion to Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

2 - 3), and whether it is apt to celebrate communion in the morning when Jesus instituted the Eucharist after supper (16.1 - 17.1), the pastor in Cyprian returns at the end of the letter to assure forgiveness to those who may have erred in good faith in the past (18.4), and requesting his people to recognise that since Christ's «second coming is now drawing near to us,» (18.4), it is incumbent upon them to act so that «He may find us upholding what He has counselled, observing what He has taught and doing what He Himself has done.»