Sentences with phrase «like eucharist»

I do like Eucharist / communion, and normally perform the ceremony once per year on / near Passover.

Martyrdom, Dan concludes, is an act of remembrance, like the Eucharist, in which «we make the past present», and is an act we should perform often, and with gratitude.

Not exact matches

Sounds like «heaven on earth» and real Eucharist to me.

I want the sloppy prayers and the hope and the flags and the unreasonable and embarrassing expectations for the voice of God to break through my life and the unprofessional dancers and the praying in tongues and the Eucharist and the Book of Common prayer being read aloud like it's slam poetry in an old warehouse.

I would like to suggest that this important text refers not only to the Incarnation of the Son of God in Bethlehem but also to the Holy Eucharist and that it is prophetic of the Church's development of doctrine, supporting that development, and putting it within a cosmic context.

I had my moments of disconnect: sitting out the Eucharist because I'm not Catholic, hearing the gospel reduced to salvation from hell, welcomes that felt patronizing from people who have been praying that I come to my senses and go back to believing, behaving, and voting just like them.

And, believe it or not, the box looks like the Tabernacle in Catholic churches, where they store the consecrated host from the Eucharist.

But there has not yet been anything like a satisfactory attempt to relate this newly discovered eschatology in a systematic way with a theology of the Eucharist.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

The reception of the Holy Eucharist is the most misunderstood aspect of the Catholic faith, and when the likes of such public policy - makers as Nancy Pelosi make a national mockery of Communion without consequence, there is little wonder why it has become a mere symbol of self - affirmation rather than the efficacious sign of personal transformation through the Cross of Christ and the «renewal of the mind» (Rom.

A real conundrum I find with Christians of various theological persuasions is that they harp on how we must be engaged in studying the Bible, how the Bible is our guide in life, and hold the Bible on a pedestal, much like rabbinic Jews hold the Torah or Catholic hold up their Eucharist, but when it comes to the nitty - gritty of how they have come to know God, no matter how they explain it, it ends up being on the basis of experience.

On great festivals, like Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and the so - called «saints»» or «holy» days, the eucharist is offered with simplicity but with the beauty of vestments and always — as at the daily evensongs — with the singing of great music by a magnificent choir of men and boys.

What about the historic Christian sacraments like baptism and the Eucharist, and what about the liturgies of the churches?

When you peel the layers off their conscious mind and reach the subconscious, you will find most times that they mean they don't like the teaching this institution gives about poverty, prayer, attendance at the Eucharist, and their sexual life, whether in or out of marriage.

And yes, like Steve said, I get to partake in His divinity in the Eucharist.

The spoken word - like Baptism and Eucharist - is said to have a sacramental quality; the church itself is called a sacrament of the kingdom.

The Catechism teaches that «like Baptism, which it completes, confirmation is given only once, for it too imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark, the «character» which is the sign that Jesus Christ has marked a Christian with the seal of his Spirit by clothing him with power from on high so that he may be his witness».20 Baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist are seen as forming a unity (CCC 1306).

Divorced Catholics CAN receive Eucharist as long as they are not in a state of mortal sin, just like everyone else!!!

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.

If a minister is ordained to a ministry of word and sacrament, why does he need to go through what looks like re-ordination every time he leads the Eucharist?

Had I effectively missed Mass by deciding to miss Mass, like you could receive the Eucharist by sincerely desiring to receive it, though you were not physically capable of doing so?