Sentences with phrase «full communion through»

they could, as countless converts to Roman Catholicism have done before them including many former Anglo - Catholics, apply to enter into full communion through the normal processes.

On this scenario, the Lefebvrists would be given a pass on the Council's affirmation of religious freedom, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue, and would return to full communion through the mechanism of a «personal prelature,» the same structure that governs Opus Dei.

Not exact matches

The Church of England — like the Anglican Communion Churches of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales — is in full communion with the Church of Sweden through the Porvoo Agreement.

Furthermore, we have said that it is the Christian claim that in Christ and through His power, there is effected that which men have otherwise found to be impossible, no matter how much they may have sought it — the possibility of a full and selfless offering of human life to God, in consequence of which a free communion is established between God and man in Christ.

Each year the number of adults entering into full communion with the Church through this program has grown, and will, please God, continue to grow in the future.

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».

Catholics must want all people to be in full communion with the Catholic Church, since we believe it is the Church of Jesus Christ most fully and rightly ordered through time.

The creation of the Moscow Metropolitanate was a direct reaction to the fact that the Church of Kyiv (Kiev) had re-established full communion with Rome at the Council of Florence through Metropolitan Isidore.

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.

Furthermore, the Kyivan Church re-established full communion with Rome in 1596 through the Union of Brest, an explicit revival of Florentine models of unity, only to be beaten back by rivals who did not accept this Union.

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.