Sentences with phrase «give sacrament»

I did give sacrament.

That's why Our Lord gave us the sacrament of confessing our sins so he can deliver us from those bad choices we might have made and thus delivering us from the grip Satan has on us.

Perhaps only Puritans can give sacraments their due.

In this chapter we are to consider the ways in which Christian prayer is carried on and carried out at the Eucharist — from the Greek word for «Thanksgiving» which was the name given the sacrament in early Christian days.

It was indeed a day of joy for parishioners of St. Sylvester Catholic Church New Nyanya in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State as eighty couples were given the sacrament of matrimony by the Catholic Bishop of Lafia Diocese, Most Reverend Dr. Mathew Ishaya Audu.

Not exact matches

The new focus on the sacraments is what gives Luther's theology after 1518 a very different shape from his early thought, even though he continued to be concerned with many of the same issues.

For Griffiths, the Church is a place, through the sacraments and the works of mercy, for learning the practices of receptivity and gifting, and thereby of conformity to Christ's self - giving love.

Evangelical Catholicism celebrates the seven sacraments as divinely given means of sanctifying life.

PLEASE STOP STEREOTYPING «The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the Sacraments to himself.

At one point, for example, Carter describes beautifully the creedal portions of the Catholic belief in the sacraments, only to end by claiming that «the entire purpose of the sacraments was to give an outward sign of belief.»

Where the Word is proclaimed in it's purity (law and gospel) and where the sacraments are given in accordance with that gospel... there is the Church.

We are enabled to live as a disciple of Christ, and can draw daily on the grace given by God in this sacrament so as to witness to Christ, fight against evil and defend the Church.

In summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

It is those who give time and attention to getting to know Him in the personal relationship of prayer, reading the scriptures and receiving the Sacraments.

In all aspects of Christian life, especially in the Sacraments and most especially in the Eucharist, we receive the free gift from God given through another person.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

On the issue of sacraments, which dominated much of the discussion (partly due to Leithart's firm insistence on the absolute necessity of weekly communion), Sanders said little, given his low - church Zwinglianism on the issue, Trueman admitted their importance but stressed the centrality of the Word, and Leithart camped out on his own more sociological De Lubacian sacramentology.

As one who weekly receives God's self - giving through Word and sacrament, the Christian is enabled to give himself or herself for others in a struggle that outlasts each of us.

The sacrament of baptism, the Catechism (1213) tells us, «is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which gives access to the other sacraments.»

Earlier, in a Mass focused on mercy, a signature theme of his papacy, Francis urged the faithful to not give up on the sacrament of reconciliation, especially those who continue to backslide.

One way of expressing the new concepts is to say that God employs the sacraments as a means of giving himself to us just as he uses preaching.

First, she claims that the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood would not be threatened since «the unity» of the sacrament resides in the bishop: Scripture gives him the authority to delegate as necessary, and Tradition allows for several grades within the sacrament.

We must avoid giving the impression that the sacraments are magic.

Finally, we must always remember that though we may turn away from Jesus, he will always be ready to welcome us into a life - giving encounter through the Church and the sacraments.

The recent sacramental rites published by Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, the United Church of Christ, Presbyterians and United Methodists have a much richer and deeper theology of God acting in and through the sacraments to give himself to us.

The first talk was given by a young Scottish priest, Fr Martin Delaney, who explored the joy of a life rooted in the sacraments.

I've known I've been called to ministry since I was a child and played pastor with my stuffed animals by giving them pieces of bread and grape juice enacting the Sacrament.

From the gospel accounts of his spoken words at the Last Supper, the unity of Catholic tradition holds that the Real Presence is divinely given in the sacrament of the Eucharist — substantively more than any lesser parallelism on our part of either seeing or hearing.

For the gospel we are commanded to believe has the same efficacy as a sacrament: It gives what it signifies to those who receive it in faith.

For some, immediacy is the defining characteristic of Evangelicalism, and any Protestant who gives too central a place to liturgy and sacraments is driven from the camp.

Both the predella and the triptych give visual expression to Luther's deep conviction that God, who is hidden and invisible, accommodates God's self to our finite and fallen nature by revealing God's disposition toward us through material things: in the incarnation, in the sacrament and in the Good News of scripture received, above all, through hearing (a material reality, but not visual, to be sure).

«All the priests that are administering the sacrament of confession during World Youth Day have the general authority to give absolution from the penalty of excommunication for abortion if someone comes to confession... if someone has this need,» Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told CNN on Thursday, referring to the event that brought Pope Benedict XVI to Madrid on Thursday for a four - day visit.

Retaining the sensuous tastes of Latin Catholicism, he imagined every visible surface to be a sacrament, a material sign giving form to an ideal truth.

Since the days described in the New Testament Christian ministers have preached and taught; they have led worship and administered sacraments; they have presided over the church and exercised oversight over its work; they have given pastoral care to individuals in need.

The prominence given to Holy Table or altar, to cross and candles, does not indicate so much that this is the place where the sacraments are celebrated as that it is the place of prayer.

The church personnel gave much time and attention to externally administering the sacraments, partly believing in their quasi automatic impact: ex opere operato.

(Kimel also betrays ignorance of contemporary liturgical scholarship when he uses the term «command,» harking back to Reformation understandings of the sacraments as «ordinances» we must obey rather than gifts for which we give thanks.)

In a heroic manner Mühlenberg set out to bind together the scattered Lutheran congregations, to give them adequate pastoral care, to preach, administer the sacraments, and to work out a common worship service.

The chaplain gave Chris solid if general spiritual advice — regular prayer, reception of the sacraments, and a life of charity — but he wasn't sure how to tailor it to a young Christian experiencing same - sex attractions.

The Church's existence, then, remains essential to revelation as the sign or «sacrament» of God's fidelity to the promise first given to Abraham and ratified in Jesus» being raised up to new life.

So the Church was founded, the Bible was given, Baptism and the Lord's Supper — the sacraments — were offered, all that men might respond to God's call.

This is true even in the churches which give little or no emphasis to baptism, the Lord's Supper, or the other five sacraments recognized in Catholicism: confirmation, penance, marriage, extreme unction, and, for priests, ordination.

The very fact that it nowhere appearsto give a clearly comprehensible list of the sacraments, for example, but prefers to distribute them in different models, while never synthesising them simply and clearly, is surely not only inadequate doctrinally, but also unhelpful educationally for teacher and for student.

For God gives Himself there in the promises of the Gospel, sealing those promises in the Sacraments.

The Catholic Church teaches that Christ is present in the Eucharist as a causal agent, somehow giving us bodily strength and health, and Catholics» acceptance of that teaching is expressed in the way in which they receive that sacrament, but the doctrine of Christ's bodily presence in the Eucharist is one with which even Catholics today have difficulty, and it would be unrealistic to make it thecentre of the belief that Christ was the Son of God.

Following further prayer and meditation, the retreatants are given the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Penance, and then to spend time with the healing love of Jesus in Eucharisticadoration.

Although the Congregational Union of England and Wales were the first to ordain a female minister, the denomination was not alone in giving women a platform to lead, preach and, where tradition allowed, administer sacraments.

In the Sacrament of Confession we are all given the same liberating opportunity.

Preaching the grace of God and administering the sacraments is what gives life to Jes.