Sentences with phrase «full communion with»

Here we can offer our lives, our intentions, our whole humanity so that the work of reconstructing full communion with God can begin and can move forward — always aware that this is a work that will only be fully accomplished when God is all in all at the end.

This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church - state studies at Baylor University, decided to return to the faith of his childhood and was received back into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in....

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.

Some Anglo - Catholics have left the Anglican communion to join new groups professing to be orthodox Anglicanism, many others are entering into full communion with Rome, and Rome has declared that disappointments and setbacks require a redoubling of ecumenical effort.

It is certainly the case that denial of truths declared by the Church to be «divinely revealed» or to be «definitively held by faith» harms one's full communion with the Church.

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 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.

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.

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.

The Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith, and so we can only come together and receive Communion if we truly are in communion with one another, and that means being in full communion with the Catholic Church, led by the bishop of Rome.

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....

At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with the Catholic Church.

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.

St Barnabas Society (offers pastoral and financial assistance to clergy of other denominations who come into full communion with the Catholic Church.)

We may be called on to catechise others in the Church, such as children and young people or adults seeking full communion with Christ.

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.

I have mentioned Anglicans and Lutherans, but that of course does not address the great majority of Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church.

It would be tremendous if they would be faithful to the Gospel, live in full communion with the Church, and fully commit themselves to teaching and sharing ALL of the teaching of Christ instead of using a portion of His teaching to justify other activities.

Eastern rite churches in FULL communion with Rome are married.

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.

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».

The number of adults moving into full communion with the Catholic Church is one of the important untold stories in contemporary America.

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.»

That is the Catholic proposal, and those who come to believe that it is true are, says the Council, conscience bound to enter into and remain in full communion with the Catholic Church.

These churches lack full communion with the Catholic Church because they do not accept the doctrine of the papal primacy, which, according to the Catholic reading of the scriptures, the successor of Peter objectively has and exercises over the whole church.

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.»

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.

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.

I am an Eastern Catholic (one of the 21 independent Churches in full communion with the Roman Church).

In the late 1980s, shortly before I entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, Professor Cullman and I had an exchange on his views regarding the future of ecumenism as «communion in diversity.»

In this sense, Paul, following in the Lord's footsteps, carries the sins of all men and feels himself in full communion with them.

I am a Catholic that is from one of the NINE Byzantine Rite Churches in full communion with Rome.

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.

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.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal John O'Connor, whom Richard John Neuhaus called «my dear friend» and who received him into full communion with the Catholic Church in September 1990 at the chapel in his residence.

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.

Among the Orthodox, according to Catholic doctrine, there are not just ecclesial communities but «particular churches,» although they are, in the language of CDF, «wounded» by the lack of full communion with the ministry of Peter exercised by the bishop of Rome.)

The Council teaching readily recognizes the evidence of Christian faith and holiness outside the boundaries of the Catholic Church; evidence, one might add, that is sometimes more conspicuous than the evidence found among some who are in full communion with the Church.

Some years ago, when William F. Buckley heard that a prominent Protestant had entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, he exclaimed: «This is great news.

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

The small oratory at Littlemore» dark but warm, dominated by red damask hangings that exude Victorian piety» is the room in which John Henry Newman was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

Lutherans who have in recent years entered into full communion with the Catholic Church tell their stories and reasons why.

There are many reasons to convert: but once in full communion with the Catholic Church all that is in the past.

Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.

Christ was always going to enter the world to bring us to full communion with the Father.

When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that, less than a month before and still a few weeks shy of his 41st birthday, Shevchuk had been elected Major - Archbishop of Kyiv - Halych and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — the largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine in liturgy and governance while in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.

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.

They may only enter into full communion with the LDS church as adults, no longer in the custody of their apostate parents, and only by virtue of affirming their faith in the principles their parents reject.

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.

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.