Sentences with phrase «ecclesial life»
"Ecclesial life" refers to the collective religious activities, traditions, and practices within a specific Christian church or community. It involves participating in worship services, engaging in religious rituals, and being part of a community that shares and lives out their faith together. Full definition
The result of that evolution, Evangelical Catholicism, is an expression of the four enduring marks of Christian ecclesial life — unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity.
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Without it, ecclesial life risks being reduced to mere bureaucracy and functionalism — something he was clearly concerned about.
Martha is alive and well at countless meetings at which there is no vision, consultations at which there is no passion for an authentic ecclesial life, planning groups in which there is no strategy based on the Gospel.
The Incarnate Word conscripts the tangibilities of ecclesial life, and even creation itself, to draw us into the divine life.
The Fathers also spoke of the need for specific programs of marriage preparation aimed at giving couples a genuine experience of participation in ecclesial life and a complete introduction to various aspects of family life.»
However, where a church meets makes a huge difference to its ecclesial life and the argument for house churches has considerable merit in my judgment.
A critique of the sort of theology that fits the cult of the great theologian must inevitably be a critique of the ecclesial life that produces the cult.
But it will bring the churches together in their ecclesial life — in membership, mission and ministry — and it takes seriously the valuable diversity possible within organic unity.
Since we make no serious effort to think together about who or what God is and what implications God's reality has for our personal or ecclesial life, we depend more and more on a shared rhetoric that has little or no reference beyond itself.
First, the churches do not all mean the same thing when they refer to «the local church» as the basic unit of ecclesial life.
... it is clear, as the sacraments show, that a Christian does indeed live a tangible and ecclesial life, but that the ultimately Christian thing about this life is identical with the mystery of human existence... To be a Christian is simply to be a human being, and one who also knows that this life which he is living, and which he is consciously living, can also be lived even by a person who is not a Christian explicitly and does not know in a reflexive way that he is a Christian.