Sentences with phrase «in sacramental»

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I believe we live in a sacramental world.

In each sacramental action the Church actualises its own identity «as the ongoing presence of eschatologically victorious grace».

What before the reforms passed for transcendence in liturgy was cast in a hardened ritualistic shell that muted the profoundly personal reality taking place in the sacramental act.

When modern governments try to overcome divisions and create solidarity, they aspire to something found in the sacramental communion in Christ that the Church affords.

«That sounds logical, but if that happened, then the concern for Christian unity — in terms of overcoming the inherited separations in doctrine and in sacramental life — would be lost officially.

As Luther saw, and as Gustav Aulen has recently argued in a study of the eucharistic doctrine of Luther, the fact that by a memorial action Christ becomes present in the sacramental rite means that his sacrifice itself becomes present also, for we have to do with the «whole Christ» and the «whole Christ» includes all that he experienced in the days of his flesh.

It is the already present reality of the Father's glory which Christ shares with us and confers upon us by the indwelling of Holy Spirit in the sacramental life.

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.

When marriage is said to give graces to fight against lust it emerges in its sacramental nobility, for lust is always an enemy of love.

The attributes of the totem animal (for instance, the speed and strength of the kangaroo), are thought to be acquired by the person consuming this animal in the sacramental feast.

He is also a visiting tutor in sacramental theology at St John's Seminary, Wonersh.

Of all four, it is in the sacramental arena that differences stand out most sharply.

It is not the case, however, that in his remarks in Commentary Professor Wistrich affirmed his respect for the Catholic belief that the Church is, in a sacramental and transcendent sense, sinless.

First of all, Mr. Neuhaus can rest assured that as far as I am concerned, Catholics who wish to do so have every right to believe that the Church is sinless in a sacramental, transcendent sense.

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.

The ecclesial dimension (life as being) focuses on life in a sacramental community.

In the sacramental mystery cults, which were so influential in the Mediterranean world of the first century, the term (or its equivalent,» Lady») was regularly used to designate the deity who was believed to preside over the cult.

Often in our sacramental provision for secondary schools Confession does not have a very high profile.

He emphasized the powerful logic of a Catholic belief in sacramental efficacy.

The releasing strength and power of the real Redeemer Jesus Christ we receive by the sacramental baptism (Churches believing in sacramental baptism do not practice rebaptism, but accept the one Holy Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized again).

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.

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.

The Greek word for baptism in its sacramental form is «Baptisma,» not the form used in the verse.

Rather, the priest in his preaching, and the catechist in sacramental preparation can use the texts of the Liturgy to illustrate the faith.

Here also we find the true meaning of the Church as the predestined continuation of the Incarnation — the eco-system of God's life and love for man lived out in her sacramental worship.

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.

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.

Renewal is embodied in the sacramental life of the church in the sacrament of baptism, a kind of rebirth which brings the individual into the church, the communion of saints, who, because they are in Christ, share a provisional form of paradise.

In the sacramental life of the Church, Baptism is given once for all; but Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, is a continually repeated sacramental action.

Father Timothy Finigan is the parish priest of Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen, and a visiting tutor in Sacramental Theology at St John's Seminary Wonersh.

It is given its raison d'etre by living the Prayer of the Church both in the Sacramental life and in the obligation to pray the Divine Office.

I see two indications: recent developments in sacramental theology have helped us to understand the sacraments more clearly as divine actions, and the new sacramental services of the major denominations have made this understanding much more explicit for all to grasp.

I did this because the Archbishop had done his doctoral studies in sacramental theology, and some time ago Fr David Barrett had written some articles on this subject.

However, unless that vision is rooted in the sacramental and liturgical realities it proclaims, and in a personal life of the spirit, and unless that formation is translated into action in the moral and social life of the individuals and group, there will be little or no harvest.

This was eliminated by Protestants during the Reformation, and Protestants thereby lost individual opportunities for self - examination, reassessment and recommitment in a sacramental context.

To make sense of Kasper's statement, we may have to assume that he used the term «spiritual communion with Christ» to mean the state of being already properly disposed to receive Christ in sacramental Communion.

As the Catechism puts it: «It is the whole community, the Body of Christ united with its Head that celebrates» in every sacramental liturgy (CCC 1140).

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.»

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

The problem in sacramental theology that proved crucial for Luther was that of the relation among the outward sacramental action, the grace of God, and the faith required of the participant in the sacrament.

Not exact matches

So Protestants in their way degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in this world.

In the early morning darkness, once my heart calmed and breath eased, I looked beside me to the silhouette of the precious one who took a sacramental leap of faith when marrying me.

Throughout the book, «laity involvement» means a desire for less episcopal authority, a diminution of the sacramental priesthood, and a conviction that the special place accorded to Latin in the liturgy and in the universal Church is a threat to «the Spirit of Vatican II.»

In reality, only the death of a spouse dissolves the bond of a sacramental marriage.

So Protestants in their ways degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in the world.

Catholics hold that the Church is the body of Christ, a sacramental and mystical communion in which Christ is truly and effectually present and through which his justifying and sanctifying grace is mediated.

It is only after he had begun to be disturbed by the indulgence sales that we find him for the first time considering sacramental issues in earnest in his lectures.

This is indeed new; Luther seems to have paid no serious attention to sacramental theology until he got embroiled in the indulgence controversy.

Mr. Jenson is too in love with the «preaching and teaching and hymns and prayers and processions and sacramental texts» to recognize that these are exactly a Christian version of pharisaism.