It is variously
known as the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion, or the Eucharist, or the Mass..
Catholics put this to work institutionally in what is popularly called confession and formally
known as the sacrament of reconciliation.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, once it was
no longer a
sacrament, control over it passed from ecclesiastical to secular authority, which allowed the introduction of such measures
as divorce, and ultimately presaged the complete secularization of marriage.
The
sacraments,
as Luther, Calvin and Wesley
knew, are what God makes of them.
The
sacrament «is stripped of its essential character when it
no longer includes an elemental, life - claiming and life - determining experience of the other person, of the otherness,
as of something coming to meet and acting hitherwards.»
Through the
sacraments we were spiritually connected, and
knowing this enriched our relationships in a unique way and deeply united us
as brothers and sisters within a matter of months.
i do nt
know if people here still view the bible
as literal, but its interesting to me that many who say they trust the bible or
sacraments over direct experience of God seems ironic considering the bible details from beginning to end story after story of Gods supernatural intervention time and time again.
Standing
as a permanent
sacrament of the Transfiguration, it draws forward the old city into the new and eternal city of beauty — a city in which truth, justice, and beauty embrace in God — a city on which all men and women (whether they
know it or not) have already set their hearts.
She can not take the
sacrament (
known in many Christian churches
as Communion), receive a calling to serve the church or give talks in the church.
It was also to this woman, Janet McKane, that O'Connor wrote of receiving communion and the
sacrament of the sick (formerly
known as extreme unction).
Jesus
no more teaches a mystic relation to God than he conceives of access to God
as mediated through cult and
sacrament.
Yet the Reformers combined this radical freedom with the insistence that the new life is lived in the community of the church with its tradition, its scriptural authority and the celebration of the
sacraments, for now the church is
known as the community which God creates by his grace.
He
knows the Church and its
Sacraments as the channels of grace.
As well as sharing in God's work of creating people, husbands and wives also have a share in God's work of bringing them to salvation, bringing them into union with Christ in the Church by getting them baptised, bringing them to be fed by Christ in the Eucharist and to be cared for by him in the other sacraments; bringing them to know and love God through teaching, prayer, bible reading and exampl
As well
as sharing in God's work of creating people, husbands and wives also have a share in God's work of bringing them to salvation, bringing them into union with Christ in the Church by getting them baptised, bringing them to be fed by Christ in the Eucharist and to be cared for by him in the other sacraments; bringing them to know and love God through teaching, prayer, bible reading and exampl
as sharing in God's work of creating people, husbands and wives also have a share in God's work of bringing them to salvation, bringing them into union with Christ in the Church by getting them baptised, bringing them to be fed by Christ in the Eucharist and to be cared for by him in the other
sacraments; bringing them to
know and love God through teaching, prayer, bible reading and example.
The Church
as they
knew it — with its Latin Mass and Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament — had changed beyond their recognition, and the readjustment to the «new Church» — with its guitar Masses and handshakes of peace — was very traumatic.
But if the «word and
sacrament» ministry is where it is at and this is specifically the ministry of the church,
as opposed to diakonical service, which is secondary to the word and
sacrament, then we should
know what that is and what it is for.
Those who are apathetic and
no longer participate in the
sacraments,
as well
as those who attend half - heartedly, need a form of Eucharist neither cerebral nor emotional, neither isolated from daily life nor reduced to one component within it.
To this day, much Jewish faith requires a specific homeland
as the indispensable
sacrament of its encounter with the mystery
known as God.
And Seimetz (who also popped up in Ti West's
as - yet - unreleased «The
Sacrament») made her mark
as a director
as well, helming the sweaty, steamy
no - budget noir «Sun Don't Shine.»
I raised my children to receive the
sacraments, but
as I grew older I still believed in God, saints and Angels, but could
no longer believe in the Church.
Coincidently, the Cathars invented their
sacrament of unbaptism
as a solution for this problem, and thereby were the target of the first crusade, the Albegensian Crusade, that attempted to exterminate all who
knew this secret.