In some cases their past life
of holy orders was too constricting, so these folks may not belong to any one particular faith in this lifetime, instead activating their seeker archetype and exploring many faiths.
Only the priest in virtue
of Holy Orders can speak the very «I» of Jesus and sacramentally absolve sins in persona Christi capitis.
You're still hung up on a simple explanation
of Holy Orders that was given you as a child?
Since the diaconate is a grade or degree
of Holy Orders (The Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], § 1554), the unity of the sacrament seems to require that its subject, who is the sacramental sign, be a baptized male.
And the Church has always taught that the sacrament
of Holy Orders is reserved to men (CCC § 1577).
Coll herself says that the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council saw the diaconate as part of the sacrament
of Holy Orders but made no clear pronouncement on the character conferred by the sacrament (p237).
That, the Pope said, «touched on the very nature of the sacrament
of holy orders.»
You suggest that Warfield might intend to highlight a difference between Protestant and Catholic understandings
of holy orders.
The High Priestess
of the Holy Order of the Almighty states that it is no ordinary stone, being made out of the power of prayers and dreams.
Not exact matches
Data on users and their preferences and behavior is the
Holy Grail for most advertisers, and the reality is that Google and Facebook have
orders of magnitude more data than their nearest competitors, and more ways to slice and dice it.
Ross sees the low liturgies
of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical
order or the regeneration brought about by the
Holy Spirit, but not both.
But as that gap has narrowed and disappeared with the commodification
of culture and our loss
of a sense
of the
holy, art must become the void itself in
order to re-establish the very idea
of the sacred.
One opinion that makes any sense to me, out
of hundreds, that's sad both for muslim and christian civilization... why one has to turn to some farytales characters and
holy books in
order to live a normal, productive and moral life?
You however don't see your own hypocrisy in greater depth when you say that the bible was deliberately written to be sacred and
holy, without ANY sourcing and you take the word
of people who lived a really long time ago who also can not provide you with anything more than «eye - witness accounts» which have undoubtedly been changed, tweaked or even just falsly made up in
order to cement their point.
Like Luther, Lumen Gentium affirms the common priesthood
of the faithful and grounds it in a shared participation
of all believers in the one priesthood
of Christ: «The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing
of the
Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 -
Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a
holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 -
holy priesthood, in
order that through all those works which are those
of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power
of Him who has called them out
of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 - 10).
we, not Jesus the LORD, are made vessels in the
order of the
Holy Temple but in the appearance
of God (tat is, the Lord, Yeshua the Messiah in the flesh) and the lowly one (s) at Jerusalem were mere interpretations
of the Heavenly and perfect one!
I went to a college and a (major) university run by the
Holy Cross
order of priests.
The treatment
of analogies between the triune
order of democratic capitalism and the life
of the
Holy Trinity proposed in The Spirit
of Democratic Capitalism seems to many to be, well, reaching.
Mathematics and reason and logic are all inherent and manifest structures
of the cosmos; they are an indelible, «
holy, true, and good» aspect
of the created
order.
According to their own
holy book, God has killed, and
ordered the killing
of, hundreds
of thousands
of innocent children.
He has been telling me for years how he doesn't like «the
order of service» as it
orders Holy Spirit right out
of church.
(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath
of water by means
of The Word; (27) IN
ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE
HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»
Sacraments: Catholic are the only ones to have the concept
of the seven sacraments (baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, anointing
of the sick,
holy orders, and matrimony).
Searching for Sunday has provided ample opportunity for creative collaboration because the sacraments at the heart
of the book — baptism, confession,
holy orders, communion, confirmation, anointing the sick, and marriage — are rich and complex and endlessly inspiring.
Marriage and
Holy Order appoint to office and function in the Church by giving recipients a particular share in the personal work and dignity
of Christ.
During Lent, radical Muslims handed out large numbers
of Qur «ans on street corners and announced plans to distribute 25 million German - language copies
of their
holy book in
order to win Germans to their faith.
To begin again is a
holy call to all
of us — to lay our trying and striving at the altar - table in
order to receive trust, surrender, and a fresh start every moment
of every day.
The book is arranged around seven sacraments — baptism, confession, communion,
holy orders, confirmation, anointing
of the sick, and marriage.
Holy Orders is the commissioning, the sending out
of one
of our own.
This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in
Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children
of Men, 1992).
In Acts 2.38 we read that in
order to receive the
Holy Spirit we need to be baptized for the remission (aphesis)
of our sins.
The book is arranged around seven sacraments — baptism, confession, communion,
holy orders, confirmation, anointing
of the sick, and marriage — and today's excerpt comes from the communion section and a chapter entitled «Open Table.»
We are also reminded
of Johan Huizinga's belief that in play «man's consciousness that he is embedded in a sacred
order of things finds its first, highest and
holiest expression.
Among other controversial teachings
of the Church, he developed a much needed line
of thought about the sacramentality
of the sexes in the plan
of God (more fully outlined in Sexual
Order and
Holy Order, Faith Pamphlets).
Lem me see here, according to your
holy book your God personally
ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined,
ordered the annihilation
of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3
of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most
of them into a torturous hell for all
of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.
As we settle upon a state in life, some
of us will receive
holy orders or embark upon the sacrament
of marriage.
In total, there are seven sacraments: baptism, confirmation, eucharist, penance,
holy orders, marriage, and the sacrament
of the sick.
In Jesus
of Nazareth:
Holy Week Pope Benedict XVI builds upon insights gained from historical - critical studies in
order to probe the theological depths
of the revealed Word
of God.
20 - 21): at the end
of the present world
order, «God will refine in his truth all the deeds
of a man, cleansing him with a
holy spirit from all wicked deeds.
Even if the child is born
of a mixed marriage between a Catholic man and a Jewish woman, and the child is baptized, and receives the sacraments, even
Holy Orders.
It would seem to me that before the news
of «that day and hour» can be received that those who claim to represent the
holy spirit and yet keep the chaos and division thriving would first have to be gathered into one place where war could be waged against them in
order that they should be overcome by the very spirit they have claimed to represent.
At the behest
of the
Holy Father, Williams was inducted as a Knight
of the
Order of St. Gregory I in a special mass for Christian unity.
There is both a state church and an outlawed underground church, and there are many people who belong to both, moving back and forth between them «beneath the radar,» including an unknown number
of bishops and priests, who receive their
holy orders publicly for the state church and privately for the Church
of Rome.
On the other hand, however, it also becomes evident that the official
order of prayer
of the Church as a society must also be the prayer
of the Church as the people
of God in the
Holy Spirit.
Hamann's humor consists so much in ludicrous involutions
of thought and language, and in the cumulative effect
of one absurdity heaped atop another, and in the almost sweetly earnest obliviousness
of a voice like that
of a
holy fool that one must almost entirely immerse oneself in his imaginative world in
order to enjoy the fruits
of his comic genius.
The clown performs the unusual religious function
of profaning
holy things in
order that the holiness
of profane things may be revealed.
1 Timothy 3:5 means: «
Of one wife»... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than onc
Of one wife»... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the
holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than onc
of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than once.
We discussed the whys and whens
of my loss
of faith in the first place (I was raised a devout Catholic, at one point considered
holy orders as my life's work).
In a pair
of articles written some years ago («The
Holy Trinity as a Community
of Divine Persons,» Heythrop Journal 15 [1974], 166 -82,257-70), I endorsed the argument
of the medieval theologian, Richard
of Saint Victor, to the effect that two persons in love with one another need a third person whom they mutually love, precisely in
order to achieve the fullness
of love for one another.
At that time I said rather just what I had always tried to say, namely, that beside God we can have no other gods, that the
Holy Spirit
of the Scriptures is enough to guide the church in all truth, and that the grace
of Jesus Christ is all - sufficient for the forgiveness
of our sins and the
ordering of our lives.