Sentences with phrase «consecrate wine»

In traditions that believe in the real presence of Christ, the priest or pastor may get tipsy from drinking the consecrated wine that is left over at the end of the service, since the blood of Christ can not just be poured down the drain.

The text declared that it was heretical to point out that the three parts of the Sacrament of Penance, contrition, confession, and satisfaction are not to be found in the New Testament; it was heretical to say that the laity should communicate in both the consecrated bread and the consecrated wine; it was heretical to say that it was contrary to the will of the Spirit to burn heretics; and soon, along with the more technical doctrinal matters of Indulgences, good works, and free will.

Not exact matches

Actually, they have had the wafer and the wine analyzed before and after it is consecrated.

Peyote is the focus of the worship service, much as the consecrated bread and wine are the focus of mass and communion.

There are perhaps parallels with the devotion shown by some Christians to the consecrated bread and wine at the Mass..

This could become a burning issue today if the «strong» were to maintain that all kinds of food and drink may be eaten and drunk at the Lord's Supper while the «weak» declared that only a little consecrated bread and wine may be taken.

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.

While in its original use this was probably a reference to sacramental participation in the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist, there is a possible further extension of its meaning so that it will include a relationship with the whole natural order, seen as a sphere of the divine activity and hence as a way of contact with the God who is operative within it.

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.

A year after writing The Mass on the World, Pere Teilhard further defined his thought, in Mon Univers: «To interpret adequately the fundamental position of the Eucharist in the economy of the world... it is, I think, necessary that Christian thought and Christian prayer should give great importance to the real and physical extensions of the eucharistic Presence... As we properly use the term «our bodies» to signify the localized centre of our spiritual radiations..., so it must be said that in its initial and primary meaning the term «Body of Christ» is limited, in this context, to the consecrated species of Bread and Wine.

Still trying to agree on a definition of the Eucharist, theologians over a wide range of background had finally agreed in the Wittenberg Concord that «with the consecrated bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ are truly and substantially present, shown forth and received», also that the sacrament has its authentic value in the Church and does not depend on the status of either the minister or the recipient.

Consider the singing of a Bach cantata, or the flying buttresses of a Gothic cathedral, or the poetry of George Herbert, or the embrace of lovers long separated, or the gift of time and love to the dying, or the Christian assembly on its knees as bread and wine are consecrated on the altar.

At that time, on the night before his death, he will take wine, and consecrate it, giving us the Eucharist.

The essence of the consecrated bread and wine is Christ, not just symbolic of Him — after all, if it were just symbolic, why would Christ pick eating bread as the way to remember Him?

Given my belief that communion wine can be validly consecrated into the Blood of Christ, and communion bread into the Body of Christ, we can now cue all the folks who will make jokes about cannibalism, etc. (just as the Romans did about early Christians — very little anti-Christian humor is original).

Biel taught a mysticism which said that the soul of a worthy participant was changed into the body of Christ through a most intimate union, when he or she consumed the consecrated bread (only priests took the wine as well).

And... bread is brought, and wine and water, and the president similarly sends up prayers and thanksgiving to the best of his ability, and the congregation assents, saying the Amen; the distribution and reception of the consecrated [elements] by each one takes place and they are sent to the absent by the deacons....

Some lesser lights may illustrate concrete applications even better — Father Huntington who at some moments seemed almost to make the Single Tax an article of the Creed, Father William, friar of the Society of the Divine Compassion, leading a demonstration of the unemployed of Plaistow in 1900, Basil Jellicoe describing his housing projects and recreational activities in Somers Town as an extension of his priestly work of consecrating bread and wine.

These and other artists typically placed the twelve apostles at the dining table as Christ prepared the offering of consecrated bread and wine.