Sentences with phrase «mystery of faith»

The occasional sense of the «timeless moment» should be a threshold to the deeper mysteries of faith.
We proclaimed the great mystery of the faith — that Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again.
So too with the paschal mystery, wherein «the darkest mystery of faith is at the same time the most luminous symbol of boundless hope.
Contributing to the relativisation of the natural - supernatural distinction was the very success of theologians in explaining mysteries of the faith.
The various theological controversies of the early centuries of Christianity — regarding our understanding of the two central mysteries of the faith, the Incarnation and Trinity — saw the question itself first deepened and clarified, and then answered with philosophical rigour.
Like Owen, I believe in the good news that Jesus Christ is Lord and would gladly join him in proclaiming the great mystery of the faith — that Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again.
The mysteries of the faith were to be praised, described, but not explained.
The mysteries of faith must be apprehended by faith before they can be comprehended by reason.
The doctrine of the Eucharist is among the most sublime of the mysteries of faith whereas metaphysics holds the foundational place in the realm of pure reason.
In the Eucharist, mystery of faith and source of the new evangelisation, the faith of the Church is proclaimed, celebrated and strengthened.
Such a survey will also demonstrate the need for at least a basic grounding in philosophy, if we are to better understand and communicate the mysteries of our faith.
The drama of divine incarnation and atonement ought not to be — as it has easily been — abstracted from the teaching of Jesus, his proclamation of God's kingdom made into an incidental preamble to the «deep» and «real» mystery of faith.
Even the mysteries of faith are mysteries not because they are believed with no reason whatsoever, but rather because we depend on God to reveal the evidence of these mysteries to us.
And in recent weeks the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a major document on preaching, «Preaching the Mystery of Faith: The Sunday Homily.»
That is the mystery of faith.
If looking for the answer to the «mystery of faith» a structure is only meeting ground.
And that, perhaps oddly, is why I am drawn to the mystery of faith in most historical science.
They experience the mysteries of faith (or fail to) in the fullness of their humanity — through their emotions, imagination, and senses as well as their intellect.
In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, theologians argued that differing approaches to the mysteries of faith can, in fact, possess a profound harmony, rooted in the gospel itself.
Fr Tolhurst's book is an admirable presentation of the mystery of our faith, in a series of daily readings for Lent.
It can not be content to withdraw into the sheltered compound of churchanity and to speak a language available only to those initiated into the mysteries of its faith.
A frustrating blessing of the mysteries of faith is that we can never wrap our minds around them completely.
The mystery of man is the mystery of faith!
The Catholic sacramental vision in which God offers Himself in finite, intelligible signs, calling for a response of love, unites all the mysteries of faith.
When the mysteries of the faith are summarized or given a facile explanation, they lose their symbolic power.
One of the ironies of our situation is the fact that at the very time the church seems to have given up on its hope, an extraordinary resurgence of interest in religion, particularly in the non-rational aspects of religion, is being observed in groups as diverse as Marxists interested in eschatology and «cultured despisers» interested in the mystery of faith.
This sentence saved my faith from suffocating certainty: «The mysteries of the faith are degraded when made into objects of affirmation or negation, when they ought to be the object of contemplation.»
«The mysteries of the faith are degraded when made into objects of affirmation or negation, when they ought to be the object of contemplation.»
There is a connection: both realities, the eucharistic body and the physical body, are the Body of Christ: they are both the mystery of faith.
why do the priests play dress up and wear gown and hats and carry around golden stuff and burn incense and ring bells and sing «let us proclaims the mystery of the faith» and splash water on people and eat horrible tasting bread pretending its a human body — sounds like some crazy middle eastern cult
But first we must go to the one who uniquely, and above any other saint, shows us how to approach the Mass, which is the Mysterium fidei, the mystery of faith - the one to whom, above all, the Holy Father is entrusting the Year of Faith as a «time of grace».
The nature of the Church's message and the power of the media to communicate are necessarily in tension, for at least seven reasons, which are worth enumerating: (1) The mystery of faith calls for an approach by reverence, by worship, while the investigative mode of the press makes for irreverence.
We tried to model a posture of lifelong learning, to demonstrate that following Jesus is about more than knowing and parroting the right answers; it's about exploring the riches of God's love, the depths of the mystery of faith, and changing the world in the process.
Instead of these mysteries of our faith being cherished, they have often been neglected at best; at worst, openly ridiculed.
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