Sentences with phrase «over sacraments»

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

Over this sacrament some have found war and...

Not exact matches

But when you realize that, you can forgive each other and get back on track (hand over the gospel and the sacraments and stay focused on Him).

Over time I came to see that although the Church was bound to the sacraments — and that is what must be defended here!

I cling to the sacraments like a drowning man clinging to a life preserver, headed over the falls.

Furthermore, once it was no longer a sacrament, control over it passed from ecclesiastical to secular authority, which allowed the introduction of such measures as divorce, and ultimately presaged the complete secularization of marriage.

So my independent critical thinking is this: Jesus Christ founded His Church for His people so when we fall into sin we have His inst!tuted Sacraments to bring us back to the relationship we had with Him at our Baptism; to leave the Church in search of something «man made» because of someone's sin would just mean that I would go somewhere else where there are people and people the world over sin!

At Synods 2014 and (especially) 2015, however, we gathered that the prelates were having the nearest thing prelates ever have to a knock - down, drag - out fight over whether the divorced and remarried should be admitted to the sacraments, even when they had been practicing Catholics all their lives and married in the Church to boot.

We still scratch our heads today, however, over his failure to alert us to church teaching on divorce, remarriage, and the sacraments, when so much else in his pastoral character was fine and admirable.

While Gregory consolidated the power of the Church over a more limited geographic area, John Paul took the Gospel and the Sacraments to the ends of the earth.

i do nt know if people here still view the bible as literal, but its interesting to me that many who say they trust the bible or sacraments over direct experience of God seems ironic considering the bible details from beginning to end story after story of Gods supernatural intervention time and time again.

Now it says «For medieval Christians, the Eucharist (the sacrament of Communion) was not only at the heart of the Mass — but its presence and symbolism also wielded enormous influence over cultural and civic life.»

Since the days described in the New Testament Christian ministers have preached and taught; they have led worship and administered sacraments; they have presided over the church and exercised oversight over its work; they have given pastoral care to individuals in need.

In his work the pastoral director carries on all the traditional functions of the ministry — preaching, leading the worshipping community, administering the sacraments, caring for souls, presiding over the church.

In those periods when clear - cut ideas of the ministry prevailed pastors and people were relatively agreed on the acceptable answer to the question: By what authority do you do these things, i.e., preach, care for souls, preside over the church and administer the sacraments?

The priest also teaches and preaches; he governs and cures souls; he presides over the church; but above all he offers the, sacrifice of Christ in the Eucharist and is the minister of those sacraments «through which the grace of the Savior flows for the good of mankind.»

There appear to be a lot of strings involved in the handing over of Christ and His Sacraments in many churches.

Steve Martin: The job of the church (and the pastor) is to take a hard line on sin (not gays) any sin, all sin... and then hand over Christ and His Sacraments... freely... with no strings.

The job of the church (and the pastor) is to take a hard line on sin (not gays) any sin, all sin... and then hand over Christ and His Sacraments... freely... with no strings.

In preaching, the kerygmatic element prevails; in the sacrament, visual symbolism takes over.

It is proclaimed in word and deed, in Scripture and in sacrament, the world over.

But this space, this sacrament, has changed me profoundly over the years.

There is no way to prove, historically, that where the church has been equally vigorous in preaching the word and celebrating the sacraments, there Christ has been powerfully present, demonstrating his victory over death, disease, and evil.

The argument of this chapter is that the extraordinary labors to which Christ calls his church today may well be the celebration of the sacraments of Baptism and the Supper, joined to the bold proclamation of his sovereignty over all the powers that threaten the welfare of humankind.

That is why the sacraments put God's action in primacy over ours.

Over against what he perceives to be Weigel's giving too much away to Protestant ideas of communion as personal friendship and encounter, Cavadini reasserts the sacramental priority of grace as grounded in the connection between Christ as primordial sacrament and the church as sacrament (the Totus Christus).

Even if the priests can preside over some of the revered symbols [sacraments], a priest could not perform the sacred divine birth [baptism] without the divine ointment [the oils consecrated by the bishop], nor could he perform the mystery of Holy Communion without having first placed on the altar the symbols of that Communion.

Only in that regular and candid encounter between ourselves and Christ in the Sacrament of Reconciliation will we grasp two essential truths of the spiritual life: the depth to which sin has a hold over our fallen nature, and the far greater power of the grace of Christ ministered to us through his Church.

Sin and death have no power over us whatsoever, so long as we stay close to Jesus through His Sacraments and let his life be our life.

Over the next eight months, he took us through the Ten Commandments, the sacraments, the virtues, the doctrines of original sin, atonement, infallibility, the role of Mary, and on and on through the entirety of Catholic history, life, and thought.

Still trying to agree on a definition of the Eucharist, theologians over a wide range of background had finally agreed in the Wittenberg Concord that «with the consecrated bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ are truly and substantially present, shown forth and received», also that the sacrament has its authentic value in the Church and does not depend on the status of either the minister or the recipient.

Priests decide on disagreements over dogma, administer God's forgiveness of sins through the sacrament of confession, and institute the Eucharist at Mass — some of the most important Church activities.

Positively, he concerned himself with the education of priests in Italy, exhorted clergy the world over to aspire to what he set forth as the standard for the perfect parish priest, encouraged frequent, even daily Communion by the laity, urged that children be admitted to that sacrament as soon as they understood the simple doctrines of the Church, stressed Christian marriage and family life, had the breviary reworked to make it more useful and to ensure the recitation of the whole Psalter each week, and enjoined devotion to Mary.

His mind was still agonising over the matter of the exercise of authority, and in particular the matter of the «Ban» on the sacraments so often exercised by Church authorities when they wanted an overdue debt paying — bans «flying about like bats», as he had said in March — and in general the whole business of excommunication.

Some of the crucial points were those which are once again being anxiously turned over by the twentieth - century Catholic Church — the nature of the Christian priesthood the proper understanding of the eucharist, as an act of the Christian Church, the nature of sacraments and the proper place of «the Word of God».

Luther's primary concern was that the palaver accompanying the offer of indulgences, their mechanical side, and the emphasis laid on them had radically covered over that first essential — sorrow for sin, turning to God, use of the sacrament of confession.

The superiority of the Mass over the Old Testament sacrifices is fullyestablished by the Real Presence of Jesus under the sacramental species (in contrast to his Old Testament presence merely as a sign) even without the supposition that the Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament has, in whatever sense, a quality of woundedness.

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During her 40 years of teaching In Catholic schools, including her 9 years at St. Veronica, she has prepared over 1,000 students for sacraments; students who have gone on to share that faith with their families and communities.

Clare Vanderpool explains how her schooling at Blessed Sacrament Elementary School in Wichita influenced her 2010 Newberry Award - winning novel, Moon Over Manifest

In two separate interviews Clare Vanderpool explains how her schooling at Blessed Sacrament Elementary School in Wichita influenced her 2010 Newberry Award - winning novel, Moon Over Manifest and the challenges of writing her second novel, Navigating Early

Montreal, Canada About Blog Christ Church Cathedral building, our music, our liturgies — the sacraments, the sermons — are all here to help everyone who comes through the doors to see and feel and know the One God who is — of course — everywhere and at all times God - With - Us: Emmanuel, God who is over all, and through all, and in all.