Sentences with phrase «man as a sacrament»

However, this alone is not enough to constitute man as a sacrament, because a sacrament is not just a sign, a sacrament is an outward or material sign.

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«The picture is as clear as if it took place yesterday: the padre with his chaplain's scarf, the ragged and emaciated men kneeling, if they could, to receive the sacrament of God's love.

When a man and woman unite in the Sacrament of Matrimony, they have the gift of possibly bringing life to the world as long as they remain open to this covenant with God.

The core principle of the sacraments of the Church therefore lies in this nature of man as «spirit wrapped in matter» or, perhaps better to say, matter integrated into spirit, which has been created by God for intimate union with Himself through Jesus Christ.

So too the dignity of man, made male and female as the sacrament of Christ and his Church (cf. Ephesians 5:32), is strikingly reaffirmed, and from this many of the Churchs moral and social teachings can be beautifully explained and underlined.

If Mary constitutes the subjective feminine holiness of the Church then Peter (Office and Sacraments) constitutes the objective / masculine holiness of the Church as it is entrusted to men (although those men who hold office still exist within the comprehensive femininity of the Church).

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.

As business / charitable activities has led me into relationships with the Eastern Orthodox Church, Father P ***, Bish S **** introduced as Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membershiAs business / charitable activities has led me into relationships with the Eastern Orthodox Church, Father P ***, Bish S **** introduced as Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membershias Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membershias well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membershias church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membership.

In his recap of the visit, he urged the Church «to re-propose the sacrament of matrimony as a gift and indissoluble commitment between a man and a woman, the natural environment for the welcoming and education of children.»

The purpose of the sacraments is the reconciliation of God and man, a reconciliation of God to man as well as of man to God, for the priest is always the mediator between God and humanity.

Fourthly, the Eucharist as action establishes, thanks to that presentness», a communion between God and humanity and also among those men and women who are privileged to assist at the celebration of the sacrament.

The Church, as Christ the Saviour working upon all men in word, in life and in sacrament, is not accidental or incidental to the order of human history, but part of that order and the sign of the deepest meaning of human culture in time and for eternity.

The resurrection of Jesus is just as difficult for modern man, if it means an event whereby a living supernatural power is released which can henceforth be appropriated through the sacraments.

But the sacrament and story are as true as the faith, and the faith rests firmly upon what men had actually found in Jesus, and find there still.

Still in his book on the Trinity (1986), Boff holds that the Church is, in reference to Lumen Gentium 1.48 where it is considered as «sign and instrument» of salvation, revealing (sign) and realizing (instrument) of the «mystery of the love of God towards Man», the «historical sacrament» of the Trinity, it later loses this prominent place in Boff's writings.

As much as concupiscence darkens the horizon of the inward vision and deprives the heart of the clarity of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace of the sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty of the gift, united to the awareness of the spousal meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349As much as concupiscence darkens the horizon of the inward vision and deprives the heart of the clarity of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace of the sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty of the gift, united to the awareness of the spousal meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349as concupiscence darkens the horizon of the inward vision and deprives the heart of the clarity of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace of the sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty of the gift, united to the awareness of the spousal meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349).

There are two elements in this passage which tell us that man is constituted as a sacrament right at the outset.

The sacrament, as a visible sign, is constituted with man, as a «body,» by means of his «visible» masculinity and femininity.

«As a sacrament of the Church, marriage... [is] a word of the Spirit which exhorts man and woman to model their whole life together by drawing power from the mystery of the «redemption of the body».

Catholic faith and theology see world, Scripture, Church, and Christ (the sacrament) as sacraments of God — as body in which, by which, and through which man (because man is body) receives God's presence and returns his love.

St. Francis can speak of it as a sacrament «of evil».49 Yet he does not call upon all men to give up their possessions.

To Luther's amazement, Erasmus when he was dying did not ask for the last sacrament, but his heir, who was with Erasmus at his death said, «As was his life, so was the death of this most upright of men.

And what's more, it looks to me as though the Christian Religion lifted out of this mental atmosphere becomes a fish out of water, and rationalistic arguments used against the sacraments and ministry, just as destructive of the Incarnation, in the hands, that is, of a man who would consent to be consistent.

[23] In the eschaton, the body as the primordial sacrament, will give way to the divine prototype; the union of the sexes is not man's end all and be all, it is only an icon of the end all and be all.

[5] As a result, he presents the sacrament as a partnership between God and man, even though there is a radical difference between Creator and creaturAs a result, he presents the sacrament as a partnership between God and man, even though there is a radical difference between Creator and creaturas a partnership between God and man, even though there is a radical difference between Creator and creature.

«Because God is man's personal Environment... the sacraments can not be the manifestations of what man already is, they are a gift of something he does not possess fully from conception, a gift he could never... dare claim as his rightful possession.»

«The Church can not therefore be understood as the mystical body of Christ, as the sign of man's covenant with God in Christ, or as the universal sacrament of salvation unless we keep in mind the «great mystery» involved in the creation of man as male and female and the vocation to conjugal love, to fatherhood and to motherhood.»

[4] Coupled with this, he sees the sacraments as actions of God and of man:

Nature and Grace As a result the sacraments can not be the manifestations of what man already is, they are a gift of something he does not possess fully from conception, a gift he could never attain on his own nor dare claim as his rightful possessioAs a result the sacraments can not be the manifestations of what man already is, they are a gift of something he does not possess fully from conception, a gift he could never attain on his own nor dare claim as his rightful possessioas his rightful possession.

What we call church and what we call the explicit and official history of salvation, and hence also what we call the sacraments, are only especially prominent, historically manifest and clearly tangible events in a history of salvation which is identical with the life of man as a whole.

Holloway's approach as we have seen would not view the sacraments as effective expressions of the life - giving relationship between God and man, summed up and brought to completion in Christ.

Ti West (BFA 2003 Film and Video) Writer and director, The Sacrament (2013), The Innkeepers (2011), The House of the Devil (2009) hailed by critics as «One of the best horror films of the decade; Trigger Man (2007), The Roost (2005)

Only Christian faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: the goodness of creation, the drama of sin, and the patient love of God who comes to meet man by his covenants, the redemptive Incarnation of his Son, his gift of the Spirit, his gathering of the Church, the power of the sacraments, and his call to a blessed life to which free creatures are invited to consent in advance, but from which, by a terrible mystery, they can also turn away in advance.