Sentences with phrase «for full communion»

In such a situation, the ecumenical task» the quest for full communion among all Christians» is not optional for those who would be faithful to the church's Lord.

Such, much too briefly and too generally, is the state of the quest for full communion with the Orthodox, with the Anglicans, with the Lutherans, with the mainline - oldline - sideline, with evangelical and Pentecostal Protestantism, and with the burgeoning Christianity of the South.

As the Princeton Proposal makes painfully clear, ecumenism as the quest for full communion has, in the West, come upon very hard times.

It is fair to say that, between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, the only thing lacking for full communion is full communion.

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Evangelical Catholics know what «all that» is by reference to what is taught by the bishops of the Church in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the vital center of the Church's unity, who bears a special responsibility for preserving the integrity of the truth Christ left to his Church.

As for the Orthodox, «Pope Benedict emphasizes that we are already in nearly full ecclesial communion with these churches.»

Strictly speaking, it is unreasonable for an evangelical catholic of the Lutheran tradition not to aspire to full communion with the Roman Catholic Church in some form, this side of heaven.

Now that we are safely within Peter's fold and the full communion of the Catholic Church, people seem to want a piece of us: they come with eagerness — campaigners for the Extraordinary Form, enthusiasts for a New Movement or some other group.

Now we hear of hopes for mutual acknowledgment, eucharistic intercommunion and full communion in ministry.

These rites bring the whole liturgical enterprise for English sacral language into full communion with the Catholic Church.

Had it not been for the unpleasantness of the sixteenth century, Lutheranism might have become a distinct tradition of spirituality — somewhat like the Franciscans or Dominicans — in full communion with the one Church that Luther wanted to reform.

After all, the great Eastern Fathers of the Church (for instance, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, and Maximos the Confessor) are Catholic saints who were in full communion with the successor of Peter and the Catholic Church.

Over the last twenty - five years, the Russian Orthodox leadership persistently rejected Rome's proposals for a meeting of pope and patriarch, and based those rejections on its distress at the revival and vitality of the Eastern Catholic Churches (and especially the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), which are Byzantine in liturgy and polity but in full communion with Rome.

This formidable move in response to requests over the course of twenty years from Anglican bishops, priests, and laity offers a way for Anglicans and other Protestants as well as unconfirmed Catholics to be received into the full communion of the unified Catholic Church while retaining and developing the Anglican patrimony of liturgy, music, patristic theology, and pastoral care.

If, however, full communion is Christ's will for his Church, and it surely is, then Oscar Cullman was certainly right to emphasize that it will be achieved by Him and not by our ecumenical schemes.

Just for your information, the Episcopal Church is a member in full communion with the 80 million member Anglican Communion, which regardless of differences over social issues among its churches is still the THIRD largest body of Christians in the WORLD after Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity.

In those bodies, once describing themselves as the ecumenical churches, it seems that nobody of influence is pressing for or is even seriously thinking about the visible unity in full communion under discussion here.

When full communion among all Christians is realized, nobody will feel a need to speak of the Roman Catholic Church, and there will certainly be no talk of «returning» to Rome, for then there will be, quite simply and comprehensively, the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

The pope also asks the provocative question: «Is not this same attachment at the heart of what I have called a «dialogue of conversions Is it not precisely this dialogue which clearly shows the need for an ever more profound experience of the truth if full communion is to be attained?»

If ecumenism is understood as the quest for full visible unity, and if full visible unity is understood as what the Catholic Church means by «full communion,» then it is perhaps not quite accurate to speak of «the role» of the Catholic Church.

The hoped - for consequence of the Catholic Church's irrevocable devotion to full communion among all Christians will bring with it changes that we can not now anticipate, as is also made clear in Ut Unum Sint.

In fact, it's almost certainly the case that, for many of those who came into full communion with the Catholic Church from other Christian communities, it was the doctrinal and moral confusions in the community of their baptism that led them to seek a Church that knew what it believed, why (and Who) it worshipped, and how it proposed that we should live.

He said: «This is the journey that awaits us in the new phase of the dialogue, devoted to reconciliation: we can not speak of prayer and charity unless together we pray and work for reconciliation and full communion.»

We know ourselves to be part of «a great company which no man can number,» for in such worship we enter with full awareness into «the communion of saints» and know ourselves to be «members of the blessed company of all faithful people.»

The reaction of shame before the other, of wife before husband or vice versa, betrays an awareness that the urge to bodily intercourse is not of the same human quality as the desire for the communion of persons, and can not give this desire full effect.

She must ever live in full communion with Christ because she is the spouse of God, for her separation is unthinkable, let alone the divorce of apostasy; she is the body of which the Messiah is the head, and a living body may not be truncated and yet live.

In this very old prescription only two simple sacrifices are called for: the burnt offering (the complete consumption by fire of an animal victim), signifying the worshiper's homage to the god - ness of God; and the peace offering, a joyous, religious, communion meal celebrating the full three - member relationship of the Covenant by enacting the oneness at the common board of the Lord with his people, and his people with each other.

My most sincere hope is that with the revival of the Kyivan Church Study Group that functioned so well in the 1990's, we might continue to search out how it would be possible for the Ukrainian Greco - Catholic Church to re-establish full and visible communion with her Mother Church in Constantinople and Orthodoxy worldwide, without losing the full and visible communion she now enjoys with Rome and the worldwide Catholic Church.

For example, in Europe since 1973, Lutheran and Reformed churches have enjoyed the experience of full communion and mutual recognition of ministries through the Leuenberg Agreement.

In August 1990, just before he entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, Richard preached for two Sundays in a row from his father's old pulpit at St. John's Lutheran Church in Pembroke, Ontario.

In North America, through the Caribbean and North American Area Council of the Alliance, dialogue intended to establish a similar relationship of full communion between the Reformed and Lutheran churches has been ongoing for decades and now seems to be nearing completion.

He saw off once and for all the so - called «alternative magisterium» of Kung, Schillebeeckx and their ilk: and as a result he made it possible for hundreds of thousands of non-Catholics like myself, tired of the uncertaintiesof secularised versions of Christianity, to come into full communion with the Holy See.

Thus the classical view, brought in Aquinas to a fullness that was less developed in Aristotle, holds simultaneously that, in one sense, the inherent end of personhood is communion and, in a reciprocal sense, that the inherent end of a true community is full respect for the personhood of each of its members.

This means our communion with Christ in the Eucharist, where we encounter the full depth of his love, should lead to the practice of loving others and accepting their love for us.