Sentences with phrase «from sacramental»

She quotes from the teachings of the Catholic Church, such as Gaudium et Spes, on a whole range of issues from the sacramental nature of marriage to theimportance of the being open to new life.

In his address to the College of Cardinals in 2014, in numerous interviews since then, and in personal correspondence, Cardinal Walter Kasper often suggests that there would be nothing really new about the Catholic Church, after due deliberation and consensus - building, finding a «path» toward admitting a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic to Holy Communion after a penitential period, an «honest judgment of the person concerned about his personal situation,» and support from a sacramental confessor.

We know of more than one case where confessions have actually been killed off completely in some parishes because priests have openly discouraged it, to the point of tacitly eliminating it altogether from the sacramental life of a parish.

Isolated from its sacramental nursery, the «way of silence» has now become the «way of suspicion» iconoclastically declaiming the revelatory possibilities of all symbolic expression.

(«In Bernard Cooke's learned book, The Distancing of God (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1990), the author laments the way in which God has been gradually distanced from sacramental modes of mediation.

The shift in our understanding of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all of our relationships shallower and made each of us less capable of the profound gift of self on which marriage is founded.

Not exact matches

From 1518 on, it is the particularity and concreteness of God's presence that now foreclose idolatry; the true God, who by definition can not be used, is the God who makes Himself available as He chooses, in the flesh born of Mary and the Church's sacramental practice, not in our religious speculation and self - interest.

This question arose from Luther's deep religious or existential insight into the inauthenticity of all human works before God — an inauthenticity systematically denied by the sacramental rituals, dogmatic faith, and mystical aspiration of traditional Christianity.

The net effect of Luther's new focus on the authority of Christ in the sacramental sign is to subordinate the old strategy of contrariety to a new strategy of particularity, well summarized in a line from one of Luther's later sermons: «We have a definite Lord, one we can grasp.»

Through sacramental baptism and faith we enter Christ, and in Christ we can do works of righteousness and love despite our natural sinfulness which we have inherited from Adam.

What he says, which may be different from what he means, lends the impression that the requirements for receiving sacramental Communion should be no more demanding than the requirements for receiving spiritual communion.

His apparent elision of spiritual communion and sacramental Communion may be a minor distraction from his larger argument, but it may also be revealing.

Better understanding this «sacramental» vision of the world — one Klassen is convinced underwrites The Canterbury Tales — helps us recover Chaucer from the postmodern irony so often projected onto him.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

First, the Church as the Bride of Christ receives her being and life from the Incarnate God in the form of vivifying substance (the Eucharist) and the words of pardon (sacramental absolution).

Your whole man gets involved in that process and after sacramental baptism you are born from above and a new creature in Christ.

Now, if we be allowed an imaginative look into the future, such communities might in certain circumstances choose an «elder» (presbyter) from their midst who would then become their priestly president through sacramental ordination by the bishop.

Tonight I add a fourth chapter to prayer.I pray first for the ministries of priestswho serve me at our sacramental feastsand showed a way back from my black despair.

From this intrinsic sinfulness we can only get set free through faith and sacramental baptism (sacramental baptism is the rebirth).

The most solid sacramental theology you hear this week may come from the five - year - old who tells you she thinks she is ready to receive communion because, simply, «I can eat.»

From soap operas to news to sports, commercial telecasting performs a fundamentally sacramental function: it mediates and legitimates a belief in the American way of life.

This separated religion is man's greatest danger whether it manifests itself in the form of a cult in which sacramental forms are independent of everyday life or of a soul detached from life in devotional rapture and solitary relation with God.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

Those who in conscience can not receive the sacramental ministry of women should not be excluded from being considered for ordination

Traditionally, an exaggerated mysticism, having lost its connection to the sacramental, silent, and active aspects of religion, has turned our attention toward a spiritual world existing apart from the physical universe.

To a great extent, the dimension of hope or futurity has been lost sight of in sacramental theology, just as it has disappeared from our inherited notions of revelation.

Among other significant ways that preliberal Christianity contributed to an expansion of human choice was to transform the idea of marriage from an institution based upon considerations of family and property to one based upon the choice and consent of individuals united in sacramental love.

In living a sacramental life, we begin to realise the joy that comes from knowing, loving and serving God, and nothing in this world can fill our hearts the way Christ can.

While McNamara recounts a history of repeated efforts on the part of the Church hierarchy to cloister women both from the world and male clerics, thus preventing any participation in sacramental or authoritative roles, her account also tells the story of countless women religious who endured, thrived, and often achieved renown despite such restrictive efforts.

Perhaps both Jews and Muslims might have learned from Christians to understand more fully God's sacramental or incarnational presence in the world.

Their liberalism moves very swiftly from sexual ethics to sacramental theology, and thence to other foundational issues — the nature of the priesthood, the authority of the Bible, the very identity of Jesus Christ.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

But they do not find comfort, much less evangelical leadership, from priests who imagine they can avoid clericalism by unwittingly denying the truth of their own sacramental vocation and its distinctiveness.

Here were people who had been distanced from a grand narrative of the spiritual and the sacramental and I was reminded of Mother Teresa's words that she had to come to the West to see «spiritual» poverty».

Our personal spiritual lives too, which are not separate from the ecclesial, sacramental and liturgical life, derive from and relate directly to the humanity of Jesus.

These criticisms should not detract from the fact that The Sacraments and the Mystery ofChrist is a very welcome addition to the canon of sacramental theology.

This baptism is even valid, because every sacramental baptism comes directly from heaven and God himself is the invisible baptist.

If it is removed from the social fabric the coming of God is likely to be interpreted in a purely historical rather than sacramental manner, frustrating the reach of God into our human, social world, undermining the human hope that God can answer our deepest yearning.

If the imagination and intellect are impoverished of experiences and images from the natural world, the sacramental experience itself would be diminished.

And we articulated the second objection by insisting that a Christian theology of revelation must not be isolated from the revelation of mystery as it occurs in the sacramental, mystical, silent, and active features of other religions as well.

In the first place, hope has to come to expression in quite specific and concrete sacramental images in order to connect with present reality and thereby to avoid the docetic and gnostic temptations to escape from the present altogether.

And finally, if religious activism breaks its ties with sacramental, mystical, and silent religion, it becomes indistinguishable from secular humanism, such as Marxism for example.

(Permanent deacons are men ordained into the sacramental ministry of the Church and are to be distinguished from «transitional» deacons who are seminarians on their way to priesthood.)

It follows from this understanding of sacrament that, if creation is sacramental, there must be something in creation itself that: corresponds to this definition of sacrament.

That perfect response is one which she, free from original sin, is able to make perfectly, but which we can only make by the redeeming grace of God, through our incorporation into the Body of Christ in its sacramental life.

Thomas says an exorcism usually takes from 45 minutes to two hours and involves reciting prayers, reading scriptures and using sacramental objects such as crucifixes and holy water.

The least that can be said from a reading of this passage is that John Paul II, while not explicitly rejecting the concept of remedium concupiscentiae, suggests that «traditional theological language» on the matter has remained one - sided precisely because of a failure to weigh the sacramental implications of marriage.

It is this essentially sacramental character of the Scriptures — the special forms of the words and sentences which give them unique power to point beyond themselves to the sources of being from which untold possibilities spring — that explains what is meant by the statement that for the believer the Bible is the Word of God.

It has always been assumed that, under the Free Exercise Clause, these laws did not prohibit churches from providing sacramental wine to minors participating in the celebration of the Lord's Supper.

And from that reality flows the entire sacramental life of the Church.