Sentences with phrase «consecrated within»

Rather than fearing contamination by the «other,» Catholicism habitually attempts to consecrate whatever can be consecrated within its own sacred story, even when it leads to substantial adjustments in that story.

The marriage vows said before God and consecrated within the bed chamber is a Holy act.

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We have to be able to state that the primary purpose of marriage as a sacrament, and of its bodily union as an act, is the blessing of offspring within a ministry of consecrated love.

A. Festival Religious festivals were occasions for a break from life's larger concerns, a special time, or «parenthesis» within life, consecrated to the Lord in joy.

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.

It is obvious that within this broad context the conception of the minister practically lost its priestly dimension as traditionally conceived, and became that of a consecrated functionary, called of God, who directed the purposive activities of the visible church.