Sentences with phrase «including eucharist»

He is the author of numerous books, including Eucharist and Human Liberation, Planetory Theology, and Mary and the Human Liberation.

This meant that parishioners had no way of receiving the sacraments, including the Eucharist.

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It is precisely in the community gathered for worship, and most expressly in the Eucharist, that the Church «puts its faith into action,» «focuses on Christ's teaching,» including the command to «do this» in remembrance of him, and offers its chief service (Greek: leitourgia) to God and to the world.

Many theologians, including St. Thomas Aquinas, argue that the Eucharist is the empress and epitome of all the sacraments.

It includes a meal by the lake - side where the Christian experience of meeting the Lord at the Eucharist is reflected back into the Easter story; and it leads up to the rehabilitation and commissioning of Peter as the leader of the mission, a foreshadowing of his death, which had happened, of course, long before this Gospel was written, and a discussion of the destiny of the «beloved disciple», possibly John.

This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

Their most common punishment was exclusion from the main meal, which included a «holy» portion, perhaps similar to our Eucharist.

While in its original use this was probably a reference to sacramental participation in the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist, there is a possible further extension of its meaning so that it will include a relationship with the whole natural order, seen as a sphere of the divine activity and hence as a way of contact with the God who is operative within it.

The bottom line: no bypassing of the bishops of the world gathered around the bishop of Rome, handing on the Mystery of Christ in the Word of God and in the life of the church, including the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharist.

In this deeper sense, Saviour includes all that He is for us: Teacher, Healer, Good Shepherd, Bread of Life and Holy Eucharist.

Although Cyprian writes that there is no need to «offer a long list of proofs,» (9.1), he feels obliged to draw from various books of the Bible, including the Gospels, Psalms and the recording of the institution of the Eucharist in First Corinthians, to bolster his case and reaffirm and reiterate that although

On the other hand, the omission of the qualifying portion can plausibly be said to indicate that the Synod was not endorsing all of FC 84 and was permitting «discernment» that could lead to reception of the Eucharist and arguably have the stronger position since attempts to get the clarifying portion included were defeated.

In 1982, the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, following a long and arduous journey, published the document entitled «Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry,» following a meeting in Lima, Peru, where representatives of «virtually all major church traditions,» including «Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, United, Disciples, Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal,» [7] reached theological convergence on various issues regarding baptism, eucharist and Eucharist and Ministry,» following a meeting in Lima, Peru, where representatives of «virtually all major church traditions,» including «Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Methodist, United, Disciples, Baptist, Adventist and Pentecostal,» [7] reached theological convergence on various issues regarding baptism, eucharist and eucharist and ministry.

He denies the historicity of the Last Supper, including the institution of the Eucharist.

And when he included the institution of the Eucharist among the new mysteries of the rosary it was, he said, because «Mary can guide us to this most holy sacrament because she herself has a profound relationship with it» (ibid).

This is echoed by non-Catholic writers: Massey H Shepherd in A Handbook of Christian Theology comments: «It is now commonly admitted... that in the early Church no clear distinction was drawn between baptism and confirmation, since both rites were part of a single complex of initiatory ceremonies that included also the celebration of the Eucharist...» 19

Because the Eucharist is the living God, Jesus Christ, in all the events of his Eternity including his earthly life, and because Jesus did all these things both as man and as God, he achieved something for us men, for our salvation.

You can only imagine the way it must have haunted them for the rest of their lives as they looked back on how they had actually sat there with him, eating and drinking and talking; and through their various accounts of it, including the above passage from John, and through all the paintings of it, like the great, half - mined da Vinci fresco in Milan, and through 2,000 years of the church's reenactment of it in the Eucharist, it has come to haunt us too.

In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itself.

Stewardship of the mysteries equally includes the right to admit men to the Church by baptism and «the power of administering the other sacrament, the sacrifice of the eucharist.»

Aims to cover most significant bits of content including: Eucharist, Baptism, Worship, Pilgrimage.

The lessons included are: Eucharist 1 (keywords and concepts) Eucharist 2 (meaning and interpretation) Artistic views of the Nativity and Crucifixion Christian Worship (including denominational differences) Christian Prayer (including types and aids of prayer)

He quarreled with Pope Innocent III over church appointments in England and taxes paid to the church, and consequently Innocent issued an interdict against England in 1208 (which prevented the clergy from conducting most religious services, including marriages and celebration of the Eucharist), and a year later excommunicated the king.