Sentences with phrase «consecrated bread»

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

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.

In this piece all the old arguments about the precise definition of the «presence» of Christ in the consecrated bread are gone over, because Luther felt that the agreement in the Wittenberg Concord had been betrayed by the Swiss reformers.

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).

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.

At Mass there was communion, but they only went to communion a few times a year, some only at Easter; and then they took only the consecrated bread.

At Wittenberg he had continued to have the consecrated bread «elevated», lifted up by the minister for all to see, as in the old papist days, right up till 1542 when he felt the point had been sufficiently made.

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?

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.

On the other hand, he hesitated to say that the consecrated bread was «mere symbol» of the body of Christ.

The «Host», the consecrated bread was still «elevated», lifted up for all to see — other reformers had omitted this for some years.

I am sure it was with laughter in his eyes that he confused those who objected to his companions» plucking the grain heads as they passed through the fields on the Sabbath with a reminder of what David, the idealized hero, had done, entering the «house of God,» taking the consecrated bread from the Holy Place, and giving it to his companions because they were hungry.

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.

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.

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.

But Jesus reminded the critics that when David was fleeing from Saul he made the priest at Nob give him the consecrated bread of the Presence («show - bread»), which the law reserved for the use of the priests (I Sam 21:1 - 6; Ex 25:30; 39:36; 40:23; Lev 24:5 - 9).

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

This did not bother Jesus in the least, for David and his men ate the consecrated bread on the altar of the Tabernacle, and the priests changed the twelve loaves on the altar of the Temple every sabbath and ate what they took off.

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

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.

Not exact matches

«This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind» St Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, third century

(Exodus 31:14) If bread is consecrated, it may be eaten only by the priests at the appointed time; otherwise «it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.»

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.

And the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in effect common, even though it was consecrated in the vessel this day.»

He says that the bread is basically common bread, even though it was consecrated in the vessel this day.

This realisation was not one that human beings are able to reach of their own accord, anymore than they can distinguish, without revelation, ordinary bread from that which has been consecrated by a priest.

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.

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).

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....

The power of that mystery which the prophet saw the priest interprets; and as with a tongs he holds fire in his hand with the bread... The power of the Spirit comes down unto a mortal man, and dwells in the bread and consecrates it....