Sentences with phrase «consecrating someone»

The literal translation of the Hebrew word moshiach (messiah) is «anointed,» which refers to a ritual of consecrating someone or something by putting holy oil upon it.

The local Bishop, Johann Bonemilch von Lasphe, put the symbolic stole, a long thin scarf, and the chasuble, the vestment, on him and said, «Receive the power of consecrating and sacrificing for the living and the dead.»

Although arriving in his mid-sixties and living well into his eighties, when most men find it necessary to slow down, Theodore traveled extensively through the island, creating dioceses, consecrating bishops, and improving the education of the clergy and the public worship.

GAFCON says although the Anglican Church in North America is the consecrating Province, this is an initiative of the wider Anglican Communion.

It is clear that this pope sees the corruption that has infiltrated his administration as inspired by the evil one: and now, in consecrating the Vatican to the Holy Archangel's protection and in asking him «to defend us from the evil one and banish him», he has invoked, on the entire process of Curial reform, the archangel's active and by no means necessarily peaceable help.

Then comes a list of lesser things «beyond necessity, purely as a special service to God, which is contrary to faith... Tonsures, chasubles, albs... altar cloths, lights... bells, holy water, holy salt, incense», and a further list of ambivalent things: «veiling of statues, keeping fasts (except for the clergy), Litany of the Saints, Hymns to Mary of an evening, Confession torture, Palm swallowing, Passion sermons eight hours long, Consecrating the fire,... St Martin's Goose... three Christmas Masses, Oats on St Stephen's Day, St. John's draught».

[15] Focusing on the cup, Cyprian writes that he has been constrained to address this issue because of the «ignorance or naïveté» of some people, who in consecrating the Lord's cup and in its administration «do not follow the precepts and practices of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, the Author and Teacher of this sacrifice» (1.1).

It is out of the question to try to grasp God through sight (which is the equivalent of reducing truth to reality), to claim that what one sees can be God (in this case one converts reality into truth), or to make a representation of something in the spiritual realm (which is the same as consecrating a religion, since religions always belong to the visual realm).

Consecrating a blueberry muffin, San Francisco Chronicle, March 11.

«The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

On Jan. 9, 2015, the executives of the newly consecrated Walgreens Boots Alliance wba came together to ring the opening bell at the Nasdaq stock exchange.

The flag doesn't mean anything useful if it is not consecrated to «a source», just like we have explained in the «Magic Stamp article».

The Onion recently consecrated the genre by launching a parody podcast with the spectacularly redundant title, «A Very Fatal Murder.»

Something about their consecrated life kept the rest of us on the right track, reminded us of the mystery in which we believe.

This requires a holy and consecrated lifestyle that doesn't compromise the infallible truth of God's Word.

I turn to writer Flannery O'Connor, who, though she never wrote stories about the consecrated or even ostensibly Catholic life, had a great deal to say concerning the intersection of invisible and visible, of grace and nature.

5 Then He speaks to them in His anger and terrifies them in His wrath: 6 «I have consecrated My King on Zion, My holy mountain.»

The arrangement of allowing a Jerusalem cleric to serve the parish while commemorating the Antiochian bishop worked fine until March 2013, when Jerusalem decided to consecrate its priest in Qatar as the «Archbishop of Qatar.»

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Thus, in discussing «women publicly consecrated to virginity,» the draft says: «Their witness stands out precisely because many achieved a certain autonomy with respect to men, a certain «emancipation» and a self - direction in pursuit of the spiritual life, advanced studies, and apostolic works.»

Like Luther, Lumen Gentium affirms the common priesthood of the faithful and grounds it in a shared participation of all believers in the one priesthood of Christ: «The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 - 10).

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

But in a larger sense we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.

After the ordination of eight of our brothers, there are over fifty of us studying for the priesthood or preparing to live life as a consecrated brother, about to be joined by fifteen more on July 25.

[JB:] Until the body of Christ, I believe, begins to pray, fast and consecrate itself and realize that there needs to be a desperation for God, we will not see spiritual transformation in this nation, let alone social transformation, which is always the result of a moving of God across a people.

Some Catholic bloggers had expressed outrage at the initial plans to use a consecrated host, calling it «sacrilegious to the highest extent.»

I, too, was struck by Trump's emphasis on «will,» and especially by the way in which he spoke of the Polish nation as consecrated by «the blood of patriots.»

«Since there is no empirical way to show that one host is consecrated while another is not — consecrated hosts do not glow in the dark — there is also no way for anyone but the organizers to know whether a host used in a black mass has been consecrated or not,» Clooney said.

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

While the modern secular person dismisses Being altogether, the modern religious person meets Being only on consecrated ground: it is all deafness to Being, one way or the other.

The reason for the celebration is twofold (both dating back to c. 165 BCE): the miraculous military victory of the small, ill - equipped Jewish army over the ruling Greek Syrians, who had banned the Jewish religion and desecrated the Temple; and the miracle of the small cruse of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple's menorah instead of just one.»

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.

It was Scotland who came to our rescue and consecrated our first bishop, Samuel Seabury.

Deciding to have communion, we found an old hot dog roll and a bottle of green soda pop, and though the only two clergy among us were Presbyterians who had not received permission to labor outside the bounds of their own presbyteries, we consecrated these elements as the body and blood of Christ.

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

While there is no parallel in Christian theology, there is ample parallel in Christian folk - belief — a consecrated communion wafer worn around the neck has been thought to be the best defense against Dracula, and crosses and medals are put to similar use against modern dangers.

Women will be able to be consecrated as bishops of the Anglican Church in Wales by September 2014, a...

Pope St John Paul consecrated the world to Mary in 1984, and things did indeed change dramatically in Russia.

It is for family in a consecrated state of loving, and makes that loving an office and a ministry in the Church, in time and for eternity.

During this time, members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and of Societies of Apostolic Life are asked to work towards the new evangelisation with a renewed union to the Lord Jesus, each according to their proper charism, in fidelity to the Holy Father and to sound doctrine.

One condition; you must consecrate your firstborns for deliverance from bondage from a king or prince, and that requires a payment to be made; slaves must be purchased, not stolen.

He celebrated his last Mass with just the two of us, and I could barely keep him from consuming the host before he had consecrated it.

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

We have not mounted philosophical arguments that prove Christ is really present in the Eucharist despite appearances, or that He is wholly present in each part of each consecrated host; nor have we proved, from reason alone, that He is really present in a consecrated host in the Cathedral of Tokyo and Paris at the same time.

Obviously, Christ's Eucharistic presence is not limited in this way because He is truly and substantially present in every consecrated host in every tabernacle of the world.

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.

This woman lived a consecrated life, preached the Gospel, gave generously toward God's project, and helped many needy in her area.

Following tradition and a practice recommended by saints, I can join my spirit to the body and blood of Christ by lifting up to God my desire for Holy Communion even when I don't consume a consecrated host.

About music, Van der Leeuw suggests, «The inclination to the absolute, which is called silence,» is the sacred extremity of music.54 What Van der Leeuw describes has been expressed in a more down - to - earth way on a poster: «The «consecrated spot» can not be distinguished from the playground.

The word «holy» was to show that followers of God were «set apart» (sacred, consecrated, venerated) from other people who were not God's followers.