Sentences with phrase «of full communion»

In North America, through the Caribbean and North American Area Council of the Alliance, dialogue intended to establish a similar relationship of full communion between the Reformed and Lutheran churches has been ongoing for decades and now seems to be nearing completion.

For example, in Europe since 1973, Lutheran and Reformed churches have enjoyed the experience of full communion and mutual recognition of ministries through the Leuenberg Agreement.

Half - a-dozen years before he administered to me the grace of full communion he came to serve as the pastor of St. John's, the church on the Creighton University campus, where I then taught.

It is fair to say that the two long - standing dialogues in the West that bore highest promise and once seemed to discern on the horizon the prospect of full communion were the dialogues with the Anglican and Lutheran communions.

The goal is no longer an institutional merger but a committed relationship of full communion among the participating churches in 2002, with the name Churches Uniting in Christ.

If, on the one hand, the goal of full communion between all mainstream Christian denominations seems as far away as ever, I would want to say, on the other, that there is a sense in which fundamental aims of the mid-20th-century ecumenical movement have already been achieved.

Among the Orthodox, according to Catholic doctrine, there are not just ecclesial communities but «particular churches,» although they are, in the language of CDF, «wounded» by the lack of full communion with the ministry of Peter exercised by the bishop of Rome.)

Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.

Not exact matches

If Williams should question full communion with Brunne, he will add endorsement to the traditionalist positions of Anglican Archbishops Peter Akinola of Nigeria and Henry Orombi of Uganda and their American supporters.

The Church of England — like the Anglican Communion Churches of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales — is in full communion with the Church of Sweden through the Porvoo Agreement.

Evangelical Catholics know what «all that» is by reference to what is taught by the bishops of the Church in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the vital center of the Church's unity, who bears a special responsibility for preserving the integrity of the truth Christ left to his Church.

The Presbyterians could not understand why the American Puritans would not admit good Presbyterians to full communion and to the privilege of voting.

They may only enter into full communion with the LDS church as adults, no longer in the custody of their apostate parents, and only by virtue of affirming their faith in the principles their parents reject.

Strictly speaking, it is unreasonable for an evangelical catholic of the Lutheran tradition not to aspire to full communion with the Roman Catholic Church in some form, this side of heaven.

When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that, less than a month before and still a few weeks shy of his 41st birthday, Shevchuk had been elected Major - Archbishop of Kyiv - Halych and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — the largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine in liturgy and governance while in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.

Now that we are safely within Peter's fold and the full communion of the Catholic Church, people seem to want a piece of us: they come with eagerness — campaigners for the Extraordinary Form, enthusiasts for a New Movement or some other group.

Now we hear of hopes for mutual acknowledgment, eucharistic intercommunion and full communion in ministry.

Here the implication is that such an interpenetration of flesh and spirit takes place that the marriage relationship constitutes what Karl Barth called «a full communion of life.»

The Council teaching readily recognizes the evidence of Christian faith and holiness outside the boundaries of the Catholic Church; evidence, one might add, that is sometimes more conspicuous than the evidence found among some who are in full communion with the Church.

Had it not been for the unpleasantness of the sixteenth century, Lutheranism might have become a distinct tradition of spirituality — somewhat like the Franciscans or Dominicans — in full communion with the one Church that Luther wanted to reform.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal John O'Connor, whom Richard John Neuhaus called «my dear friend» and who received him into full communion with the Catholic Church in September 1990 at the chapel in his residence.

They are righteous, holy, glorious, immortal, according to the prophecies, with the righteousness, holiness, glory, and immortality which are His in full reality, and are theirs in the communion of His Body --» in Christ.»

After all, the great Eastern Fathers of the Church (for instance, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, and Maximos the Confessor) are Catholic saints who were in full communion with the successor of Peter and the Catholic Church.

He does quote, evidently with approval, Avery Cardinal Dulles» explanation: «Full communion, as I understand it, will require the acceptance by both Catholics and Orthodox of all the dogmas that are held by the other community to be matters of faith.»

Perhaps they believed that full and perfect communion with the vicar of Christ overrode notions of national pride.

I think a far more accurate way of expressing this point would be to say that the return of the separated Eastern Churches to full Catholic communion would intensify the Catholic Church's appreciation of the spiritual gifts of the East.

Over the last twenty - five years, the Russian Orthodox leadership persistently rejected Rome's proposals for a meeting of pope and patriarch, and based those rejections on its distress at the revival and vitality of the Eastern Catholic Churches (and especially the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), which are Byzantine in liturgy and polity but in full communion with Rome.

Furthermore, we have said that it is the Christian claim that in Christ and through His power, there is effected that which men have otherwise found to be impossible, no matter how much they may have sought it — the possibility of a full and selfless offering of human life to God, in consequence of which a free communion is established between God and man in Christ.

I am a Catholic that is from one of the NINE Byzantine Rite Churches in full communion with Rome.

This formidable move in response to requests over the course of twenty years from Anglican bishops, priests, and laity offers a way for Anglicans and other Protestants as well as unconfirmed Catholics to be received into the full communion of the unified Catholic Church while retaining and developing the Anglican patrimony of liturgy, music, patristic theology, and pastoral care.

All this is good — yet the divide remains primarily because of Catholic reluctance to admit Protestants to full communion.

In this sense, Paul, following in the Lord's footsteps, carries the sins of all men and feels himself in full communion with them.

In the late 1980s, shortly before I entered into full communion with the Catholic Church, Professor Cullman and I had an exchange on his views regarding the future of ecumenism as «communion in diversity.»

How full and deep is this volume of accumulated resources transmitted from generation to generation, and whether the volume is made deeper with values more profound, or made shallow with values more superficial, depends on how full and deep is the communion between parent and child, between man and man, between diverse divisions of society and of humanity.

I am an Eastern Catholic (one of the 21 independent Churches in full communion with the Roman Church).

Each year the number of adults entering into full communion with the Church through this program has grown, and will, please God, continue to grow in the future.

Just for your information, the Episcopal Church is a member in full communion with the 80 million member Anglican Communion, which regardless of differences over social issues among its churches is still the THIRD largest body of Christians in the WORLD after Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity.

The committee quotes the official ecumenical directory which says, «The work of preparing the reception of an individual who wishes to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church is of its nature distinct from ecumenical activity.»

These churches lack full communion with the Catholic Church because they do not accept the doctrine of the papal primacy, which, according to the Catholic reading of the scriptures, the successor of Peter objectively has and exercises over the whole church.

The number of adults moving into full communion with the Catholic Church is one of the important untold stories in contemporary America.

He defines the Gospel as «a great movement from lower to higher, going through estrangement and crises, but also through atonement and salvation, and so directed towards its ultimate goal, a Glorified Humanity in full communion with God, of which goal the Risen Christ is the guarantee and first fruits».

On this scenario, the Lefebvrists would be given a pass on the Council's affirmation of religious freedom, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue, and would return to full communion through the mechanism of a «personal prelature,» the same structure that governs Opus Dei.

Catholics must want all people to be in full communion with the Catholic Church, since we believe it is the Church of Jesus Christ most fully and rightly ordered through time.

In those bodies, once describing themselves as the ecumenical churches, it seems that nobody of influence is pressing for or is even seriously thinking about the visible unity in full communion under discussion here.

It would be tremendous if they would be faithful to the Gospel, live in full communion with the Church, and fully commit themselves to teaching and sharing ALL of the teaching of Christ instead of using a portion of His teaching to justify other activities.

I have mentioned Anglicans and Lutherans, but that of course does not address the great majority of Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church.

When full communion among all Christians is realized, nobody will feel a need to speak of the Roman Catholic Church, and there will certainly be no talk of «returning» to Rome, for then there will be, quite simply and comprehensively, the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

Such, much too briefly and too generally, is the state of the quest for full communion with the Orthodox, with the Anglicans, with the Lutherans, with the mainline - oldline - sideline, with evangelical and Pentecostal Protestantism, and with the burgeoning Christianity of the South.

The pope also asks the provocative question: «Is not this same attachment at the heart of what I have called a «dialogue of conversions Is it not precisely this dialogue which clearly shows the need for an ever more profound experience of the truth if full communion is to be attained?»

Reception is an integral part of the movement toward... full communion.