Sentences with phrase «n't sacramental»

The rites of preparation in high liturgies suggest that the materials of the liturgy aren't sacramental enough just by being the materials they are.

The prosecution argued not that the seal of confession was irrelevant, but either that Garnet must have heard of the plot outside of the confessional, or that the confession was not sacramental because the plotters lacked true contrition for what they were planning to do.

It's not a sacramental marriage and I as a Catholic won't acknowledge it, but have at it.

It is not sacramental washings that make a man pure, but only a pure heart, that is, a good will.

Not exact matches

From 1518 on, it is the particularity and concreteness of God's presence that now foreclose idolatry; the true God, who by definition can not be used, is the God who makes Himself available as He chooses, in the flesh born of Mary and the Church's sacramental practice, not in our religious speculation and self - interest.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism, knowing that its being a Church of sinners is another impediment to mission, emphasizes that friendship with the Lord Jesus is a matter of constant conversion of life; that this conversion involves the rejection of evil and sacramental reconciliation with Christ and the Church when we fail; and that there are degrees of communion with the Church that are not identical with the canonical boundaries of the Church.

If Pentecostals are sacramental, then it is highly ironic that they tend not to believe that there is any real spiritual power invested in the rites of baptism and Holy Communion, holding instead that they are only symbols and marginalizing their presence in their services.

Luther's impatient arguments for the reform of sacramental practice and theology, and his frequent vilification of received usages and opinions, should not therefore be allowed to obscure what might be called his «deep catholic» commitment to the sacramentality of grace, with its unmistakable Patristic resonances.

As for Pentecostals being sacramental but not valuing the sacraments, as Schuler suggests, I concur with him.

If sacramental uses of wine are protected and sacramental uses of peyote are not, it must be because of some compelling difference between the drugs or the rituals.

1) Sacramental not a sacrament.

They do not grasp that sacramental baptism is the gateway or entry door to Christian life.

They are even worse than the Roman Catholic Church, because they don't even keep the sacramental baptism, but re-baptize.

I don't know who invented the argument that anybody lower than you on the sacramental realism scale is supposed to be called gnostic, but it's an argument that has caught on.

Pope St. John Paul II's Familiaris Consortio, for example, communicates an interpretation of the Bible and tradition with respect to the issue of marriage and sacramental discipline in the contemporary Catholic Church: Divorced and remarried persons may not receive Communion (Familiaris Consortio § 84).

It is not as if matter has been invested with some divine quality in its own right — that would indeed be a magical understanding — rather it is the dynamic, Spirit filled presence of the Christ in an enfleshed relationship with his People that constitutes the principle of sacramental life - giving empowerment.

The language of the body is not only natural, it is also sacramental.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

«Were we to separate legal and sacramental marriage, it would solve all sorts of problems, not the least of which is the growing discomfort that many of us have that legal marriage is available only to some responsible adults who are in monogamous relationships.»

They were «sacramentals» in the wider sense, but they were not guaranteed as saving actions.

But the priestly sacramental tradition knows that even deep dislocation can not empty life of the mystery of God, a mystery that requires us to engage in concrete action and sustained thought.

According to Romans 6, 7, 8 the body of the Christian gets not redeemed, not even by sacramental baptism.

St. Francis championed the Church's sacramental life, but the drama of his imitation of Christ took place in the world, not within the Church's sanctuary.

So if they [divorced and remarried Catholics] can receive spiritual communion, why not also sacramental Communion?»

This is not to advocate for Luther's sacramental theology.

The sacramental substance can not be manipulated through special acts or intentions (kavanot).

It does not share the fundamental Catholic convictions about sacramental marriage: an exclusive, lifelong union of man and woman that is open to new life, a faithful and unbreakable bond mirroring God's love for humanity and, specifically, Christ's love for the Church.

Of course, it is never fair to criticize an author for the book that he did not write, but the omission of a contemporary presentation of the sacramental model accounts in my judgment for the somewhat skewed presentation that Witte gives of the Catholic theology of marriage.

It's not for someone looking for a casual read, but I've found it to be one of the most enlightening and convincing takes on how marriage becomes sacramental through the expression of erotic love over time.

They wouldn't call themselves committed singles: they're just single for now and if God sends someone their way they'll hope to get married, but right now they're focused on the mission they feel God has called them to, such as the pro-life movement or renewing sacramental catechesis.

It is the paradox of the sacramental principle, in which infinity is contained within the limited and tangible; but Adam Gopnik, resolute secularist and anti-Catholic that he is, can not be expected to understand that.

He concludes that, since «sexual union is not part of the essence of marriage, as the Catechism of the Council of Trent and Vatican II teach, consequently, the exercise of the sexual act between divorced and [civilly] remarried couples does not harm the existing sacramental bond.»

Hence he can, for example, be of the opinion that the Church could give up the indissolubility of sacramental marriage just as well as the ecclesial form of contracting a marriage, or that she could change the very principles of sexual morality because formerly she took a different authoritative, though not definitive, view of their application, which will perhaps have to be revised.

At sacramental baptism your faith gets confirmed by God in a way, which can not be described by human words.

For despite the interconnection of all the elements we must distinguish between the one saving act of Christ which is made present in the liturgy (though its efficacy is not restricted to this presence) and the external sacramental action as such.

(I Corinthians 10:16 - 21) Was this the meaning of the Fourth Gospel also when it put on the lips of Jesus words of high sacramental import — «Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.

For it can surely not be seriously denied that, according to Mt 25, a man may encounter Christ in his neighbour more truly and decisively as his Saviour than in a eucharistic communion which, despite the Real Presence and its sacramental efficacy ex opere operate is but the sign and the means of that union with Christ in the Holy Spirit which happens in the difficulties of our daily life even unto our «dying in the Lord».

«I have always taken the view that the sacramental ministry of women is not something possible for the Church of England [but] we have come to the conclusion in the Church that this is something we can hold together on.»

The Church can certainly not give up the principle of the indissolubility of a consummated sacramental marriage, because she is bound by the words of Christ in the gospel, even, despite a single contrary intervention at the Council, in the case of an innocent party.

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

Man is a sacramental animal who can not deny his own nature.

He went so far as to suggest, but did not develop the idea, that homosexuals who had been ordained were not validly ordained, homosexuality being an «impediment» to ordination in the same way that there may be impediments to a valid sacramental marriage.

We did not feel comfortable using our talents in service of a ceremony that would wrongly lend sacramental blessing to what the Bible labels sin.

George Lobo says that while the visibility of Christianity is needed for the sacramental role, the fellowship of faith, if true to itself «has to be essentially charismatic and not a power structure or rigid institution seeking to safeguard its own interests».

It is sacramental not only because physical contact is employed to express and increase human love but also because the human relationship in love is symbolic of, an expressive medium for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a deep relationship with God, for God is Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward humanity.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

Those who in conscience can not receive the sacramental ministry of women should not be excluded from being considered for ordination

People need to realize again the meaning of sacramental baptism (sacramental baptism was not invented by the lousy pope, but be Jesus Christ himself).

The Greek word for baptism in its sacramental form is «Baptisma,» not the form used in the verse.

For his Catholic readers, it could provide a useful matrix not only for bridging the gap between law and love but also for reaching across the chasm between moral theology and sacramental theology.