Put even more theologically, was not the Christian story of death - and - life at baptism and
eucharist here the ultimate «carrier» of Jimmie's identity?
Not exact matches
I said, «I hope if President Bush came over
here from the White House and wanted you to share the
Eucharist with him, you wouldn't commune with him.»
Here Coll presumably means a commissioning for service (pp205 - 206) rather than a definition of ordination in terms of the liturgy of the Mass and «its relationship to the
Eucharist» (pp171, 214).
In our discussion we shall ask first what theological statements can be made on the subject of private prayer, examining afterwards if liturgical prayer (as distinct from the
Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments with which we are not
here concerned) can be preferred to it at all, and if so, what such a preference means for the practice of the Christian life.
Here we are bound to raise the most serious questions concerning the doctrine and practice of the Lord's Supper whereby very early the Agape and the
Eucharist were sundered,
We can not
here deal with the theory, first advanced by Hans Lietzmann and then by Oscar Cullmann, of two types of
Eucharist in the New Testament: a joyful meal with the risen Christ, and a sorrowful meal in which the crucified Christ is eaten.
10:16 Or
here where he talks about not receiving the bread and cup (
Eucharist) unworthily: 1 Cor.
Here is exactly what one of the thanksgiving prayers in the
Eucharist asks: that we «offer God our souls and bodies, to be a living sacrifice», which means that we know ourselves to be «sent out to live and work to God's praise and glory.»
Obviously, we have no wish
here to soften the sense of the divine presence sacramentalized in the
Eucharist.
Ignoring what the Church teaches about proper reception of the
Eucharist is really a form of asserting one's own will against the experience and wisdom of the believing community — because that's what the Church is, a community of believers committed to God's truth, not just
here and now, but across time.
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Here it may help to recall that Pope John Paul II had made reference to the «sacramental character of revelation» and in particular to «the sign of the
Eucharist in which the indissoluble unity between the signifier and the signified makes it possible to grasp the depths of the mystery».
In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose
here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or
Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itself.
Here he asks «Whether Christ is sacrificed in this sacrament [the
Eucharist]?»
There is an objective connection
here with the
Eucharist «(my italics).
We shall say more about the kind of remembrance
here in view when we come to the «memorial aspect» of the
Eucharist.