Sentences with phrase «of saints»

The bible never mentions one man over any particular group of saints, but it is always mention as a group of elders (5 fold ministry).

I parted ways with the Catholic Church in the 1960's over things like Purgatory (the best fund raising scheme ever invented), intercession with God by Mary and a pantheon of saints, Vatican supremacy, original sin, overly ritualized worship, confession, communion.

I believe that the church is simply, theologically, the body of Christ, the communion of saints, the fellowship invisible manifested in local congregations.

Just as all Christians request the intercession of brothers and sisters on earth, so Catholics rely also on the intercession of the saints in heaven, of whom the Blessed Virgin Mary is foremost, and invoke their aid in prayers, recognizing that prayers to the saints are also prayers with the saints, directed to Christ and to the Father, and that all blessings are received from God.

So if Royce failed to construct a genuine «community of the saints,» his Beloved Community was certainly a vast improvement on the pragmatic, Darwinian worlds which James and Dewey helped build.

Now, if you get into the lives of the saints and and reflect on the life of Christ, then you will know whether or not you are «supposed» to be Catholic.

Figures of saints may even come to adorn the mantles of some homes, but the gospel of Christ will occupy little importance.

In Christian history this has been generally referred to as the communion of saints, and a far - reaching piety has been cultivated on the basis of a real linkage between those on earth (the church militant), those in the interim state (the church suffering), and those in heaven (the church triumphant).

This belief in the ability of the human body to be filled with the divine is one reason that we revere the mortal remains of saints, and find them to be miracle - working (as with Elisha's bones, 2 Kings 13:21).

«In the blessedness of your saints you have given us a glorious pledge of the hope of our calling that, moved by their witness and supported by their fellowship, we may run with perseverance the race that is set before us and with them receive the unfading crown of glory.

This book is worth buying just for an appendix that gives various prayers: the dedication of England to the Mother of God and St Peter; the litany of intercession for England; prayer from the Mass of English martyrs; an old prayer for the Conversion of England; and a prayer to beg the prayers of the saints.

Lives of saints consist of small storylines strung one after another along a time - based axis.

11 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

This campaign led to encounters between the Inquisition and a number of saints and mystics, including the chief pillars of the Spanish Counter-Reformation.

Contemporary authors create their texts from literary quotations, in the same way that the medieval hagiographer Epiphanius the Wise weaves biblical quotations into lives of saints.

These fragments were most often borrowed from the lives of saints with the same name.

The shortness of the chapters makes them an easy way in to the lives of the saints for those who are short on time or unused to reading religious material.

Secondly, we have come to significant agreement (although surely with differences remaining) on profound theological issues: on our justification by faith through grace in Jesus Christ; on the proper relationship between Scripture and tradition; on the communion of saints and the universal call to holiness; and on the role of Mary in the life of the Christian and of the church.

The causes for their Beatification are open, and one day they may join the majority of the 44 martyrs of the seminary as Beati or even in the communion of saints.

Evangelicals do not generally affirm the intercession of the saints in heaven, and do not ask for their intercession, since they do not find any explicit biblical warrant for such practice.

The communion of saints signifies, first of all, communion, through Christ and in the power of the Spirit, with God the all «holy.

I will probably discuss this when I get to the discussion of perseverance of the saints.

For by its very nature every genuine testimony of love which we show to those in heaven tends toward and terminates in Christ, who is the «crown of all saints.»

Through indulgences the Church makes a close link between «the merits» of the saints and the needs of a particular repentant sinner.

God's presence and indwelling in Jesus is said to differ not only in degree but in kind from his indwelling in the greatest of his saints, or in us.

He says, «Now the Lord is the Spirit» (N. T. Wright argues that the Spirit of the Lord is active in the fellowship of the saints, and this is where and how the veil is removed.

The great Christian creeds conclude by putting these major affirmations together: «I believe in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.»

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting.

Tradition is alive because it is the permanent presence of the living Christ in the communion of the saints who have been united to Christ through the Spirit.

Thus, the redemption of those with Down syndrome, for example, would consist not in some magical fix of the twenty - first chromosome but in the recognition of their central roles in the communion of saints and in the divine scheme of things.»

We have come, then, to the communion of saints as the ultimate personal context of pastoral care.

Hence Meyendorff's definition that «Tradition is the sacramental continuity in history of the communion of the saints.»

The beasts stand for the brutal pagan empires by which Israel had been successively oppressed, and the human figure stands for «the people of the saints of the Most High.»

From persecutor to preacher, from murderer of the saints, to the merciful lover of all souls.

The Puritan answer was at once simple and profound — the rule of the saints.

The careful study of the Apostles» writings, using all the help available from the communion of saints, past and present, with the intention of learning the truth and putting it into practice, is what I thought was meant by inductive Bible study.Frederick Kuhl Oak Hill, VirginiaR.R.

Christians are better equipped to face the challenges of any society when they do so from within the communion of the saints and the cultural life this communion embodies.

But it most certainly will link me with that memory of them, thus establishing a genuine «communion of saints» in which in the here - and - now we too may share.

The canonization of saints was also influenced by the dominant social policy of the Church.

Our communion of saints is a more familiar crowd — those who died in our congregations in the past year our own parents and grandparents.

The more profound issue signaled by the crisis in authority has to do with a decay in the communion of saints and a decline in the powers of soul enjoyed by those within that communion to whom authority is entrusted.

Something much more like the «communion of saints» must be accepted.

Daniel's «people of the saints of the Most High».

In ecclesiastical terms, the very notion of authority, as opposed to domination, requires also the notion of a communion of saints who enjoy a sensus fidelium in respect both to belief and ways of living.

As we remember the strong shoulders of the saints on which we stand, we are challenged to strengthen our own shoulders.

What type of ancestor do we, who by baptism are part of the communion of saints, hope to be?

I stay in the system, so far, because I believe in the communion of saints and somehow believe that transformation is both necessary and possible.

Renewal is embodied in the sacramental life of the church in the sacrament of baptism, a kind of rebirth which brings the individual into the church, the communion of saints, who, because they are in Christ, share a provisional form of paradise.

This title recalls the «one like a son of man» who in Daniel's vision stood for «the people of the saints of the Most High», implying once again the «solidarity» of the Church in and with Christ, and His «representative» action on its behalf.

Members of a community of strangers are not very likely to experience themselves as part of the communion of saints.