Sentences with phrase «for sacramentality»
She reports on three Evangelicals whose journeys reflect a «sacramental yearning» and an «ache for sacramentality» that can not be satisfied in traditional Evangelicalism.
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Question: So that if the subject were to exclude the sacramentality of marriage, just as if one were to exclude children, for example, at the moment of the wedding, this could also make the contracted marriage null.
Luther's impatient arguments for the reform of sacramental practice and theology, and his frequent vilification of received usages and opinions, should not therefore be allowed to obscure what might be called his «deep catholic» commitment to the sacramentality of grace, with its unmistakable Patristic resonances.
«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»
As McBrien noted, this powerfully suggests the need to be attentive to justice issues within as well as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347).
In the second part of the catechesis the Pope considers the application of his adequate anthropology and deals firstly with celibacy for the kingdom, the sacramentality of marriage and thirdly to love and fruitfulness (a reflection on Humanae Vitae).
In Fr David Barrett's September 2007 article in this Magazine «The Church and Sacramentality», he explained Edward Holloway's definition of a sacrament as «the enfleshing... of an objective gift of God,... in Christ, enwrapped in matter as befits... the economy of God who became enwrapt with a human soul and body for the perfection and the beatification of His creature.»