Sentences with phrase «from full communion»

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Although they are urged to attend Mass and make a «spiritual communion,» being barred from full participation in the sacraments no doubt feels like excommunication to many.

I am a Catholic that is from one of the NINE Byzantine Rite Churches 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.

How full and deep is this volume of accumulated resources transmitted from generation to generation, and whether the volume is made deeper with values more profound, or made shallow with values more superficial, depends on how full and deep is the communion between parent and child, between man and man, between diverse divisions of society and of humanity.

The committee quotes the official ecumenical directory which says, «The work of preparing the reception of an individual who wishes to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church is of its nature distinct from ecumenical activity.»

Those who come from other ecclesial communities and enter into full communion with the Catholic Church encounter great joy among some Catholics that they have, not to put too fine a point on it, «come over to our side.»

Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a noble endeavor.

He defines the Gospel as «a great movement from lower to higher, going through estrangement and crises, but also through atonement and salvation, and so directed towards its ultimate goal, a Glorified Humanity in full communion with God, of which goal the Risen Christ is the guarantee and first fruits».

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.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., on Pope Francis and Christians in the Middle East: The Chaldean and Syriac Catholic Churches of Iraq and Syria, while differing in rite and tradition from the Latin West, are integral members of the universal Catholic Church, in full communion with the....

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.