Sentences with phrase «holy communion»

How do you resolve, for instance, the difference between requiring confession before every reception of holy communion and seeing ongoing communion as being essentially parallel to regular confession?

Just as holy communion is, just as prayer is, if I'm open to receiving and giving.

As might not be expected, only 1 per cent of those who prefer liturgical tradition considered «holy communion with full liturgy» to be «very important.»

God bless you Pastor Joel, you heard the church called winners chapel international, the main church is found in Ota Nigeria, and the church auditorium is the biggest in the world a capacity of 50,000 and only a Sunday's service about 200,000 people gather in the church and once in a month on Sundays take holy communion for all 200,000 people.

I made my first holy communion in it.

Unfortunately, too many holy communions are more expressions of holy hygiene (with their disposable, individual, antiseptic plastic cups) and sanctified sobriety (with their lock - step directions from officious ushers and nervous ministers) than of the worship of God.

Having been nurtured on a lifetime of Methodist teetotaling, Welch's - grape - juice holy communions, having gone to the Lord's table only to find a meager repast of stamped wafers, compressed cubes or dried pellets, I know what it is to hunger and thirst and yet be sent away empty.

The water and the blood symbolize the cleansing power Jesus exerts in baptism and the property of everylasting life he confers through sacrifice, celebrated at holy communion.

A Presbyterian, Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin took a small communion kit with him to the Moon so he could take holy communion there.

That was the decision to continue regularly to participate in the sacrament of holy communion and the liturgical forms that surround it.

Finally, may I suggest that Cardinal Farrell and others celebrating what they deem a Franciscan revolution in the Church refrain from the harsh biblical analogy the cardinal deployed when he said that defenders of the Church's classic teaching on marriage, and on worthiness to receive holy communion, are like the cranky older brother in the parable of the Prodigal Son?

I made my first holy communion, I was confirmed, I pray, I support my church, one of my closest friends is a priest, I baptize my children.

To take holy communion is to rehearse a significant event in the life of my community — one whose celebration historically has been absolutely central to the life of the community.

He returns from this holy communion with the most precious gift, the forgiveness of sins, the healing of the broken covenant.

The greatest expression of Caritas as gift and relationship lies in the Eucharist, which is why the «holy communion» of God with men is realised most fully on earth among those gathered around the altar for the Eucharist.

As a child I went to a catholic primary school, was taught by nuns, did the holy communion thing and all that.

They were a gross distortion of the Catholic faith and revealed an almost wilful ignorance of the Catechism in answering questions about mortal sin, confession and holy communion.

Original Sin then - that overlooked but vital doctrine of the reality of our state, and the introduction into the material universe for the first time of «the problem of evil» - teaches the rupturing of that living, holy communion of good by which, from the first pair, men were to minister life and fulfilment to one another through Christ.

One of the main associations we make between Jesus and food (besides the holy communion) is the feeding of the multitudes.

My church does not practice the holy communion «naturally».

The sacraments (holy communion and baptism for most Protestants), as well as sacred rites such as marriage, confirmation, healing practices, and funeral services are symbolic ways of dealing with the major stress - points and crises of living.

She said again that she was devoured with two unassuageable fevers, one for the holy communion, the other for suffering, humiliation, and annihilation.

-- Lt. General William Boykin, US Army «Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant — baptism and holy communion — must be denied citizenship.»

Baptism, holy communion, marriage and ordination are all paths open to me and, as my pastor says every Sunday - everyone, everyone everyone.

The first family of Royalhouse Chapel International, Rev. Sam and Rita Korankye Ankrah, then officially welcomed the president and his entourage with the ministration of the holy communion.

In a broad proclamation on family life, Pope Francis called for the Roman Catholic Church to be more welcoming and less judgmental, and he seemingly signaled a pastoral path for divorced and remarried Catholics to receive holy communion.

This includes prayer, fasting, repentance, holy communion and the other sacraments of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Lessons are focused on the sacraments of holy communion, ordination and confession but homework tasks cover baptism and death rites.

This includes prayer, fasting, repentance, holy communion and the other sacraments of the Eastern Orthodox Church.