Sentences with phrase «intention as a sacrament»

If you truly believe that marriage is god's intention as a sacrament or religious rite, that's fine.

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However, it was Christ's intention to make the visible part of the sacrament as simple as possible.

So, as when a Christian first joins God's Church, he does so through the formal Church rite of the sacrament of baptism, and as when his life further progresses it is marked and strengthened by other sacraments of the Church, so when he had damaged his relationship with God and his Church, and, by doing so, threatened or injured that of others, a sacrament of the Church makes provision or formal statements of sorrow by the sinner, of God's forgiveness by his Church, and for a means of spiritual help, grace, to help the sinner to carry out his intention to amend.