Sentences with phrase «ordinary bread and wine»

He uses ordinary bread and wine and water.

As for the Lord's Supper, it began so simply that at first every meal where disciples ate together was a sacred communion, and their ordinary bread and wine were memorials of their Lord's sacrifice.

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So He comes to us in bread and wine, ordinary elements that He has deemed to be His Body and Blood.

The central paradox of Christian liturgy is that it uses ordinary things (bread, wine, books, cloth, fire, and water) to speak of the Holy.

It uses «ordinary» materials such as fire, bread, wine, clothing, and books and proscribed words and gestures as its elements.

Presiding at the altar of Immaculate Conception on Fourteenth St. and First Ave., with hundreds and hundreds of ordinary Americans, I am consistently impressed by the intensity of the response to the particularity of Bible story, of bread and wine, of body and blood, of confession and absolution, of lively interaction with Mary and all the saints, and, yes, of miracles» and all this concentrated as concentrated can be on Jesus Christ incarnate, present, helping, judging, forgiving, and coming again.