Sentences with phrase «own sacraments»

While specific churches (notably the Santo Daime) have been granted legal permission to use ayahuasca as a holy sacrament in the U.S.A., many people prefer to experience the medicine in Peru or Brazil instead.

All the sacraments with their peculiar garments and oils.

It is to say that by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Church, in her preaching and her pastoral care, witnesses to the truth of God, communicating divine life to us in the sacraments.

I remember learning from them some years ago that a sacrament was a visible sign of God's invisible grace.

However, it was Christ's intention to make the visible part of the sacrament as simple as possible.

I was thinking more along the lines of partaking of the sacraments.

Little children, Jesus never came to bring religion, he never professed saying «i come to bring the catholics or the christians, Jehovah witness, mormons or the pentacostals, babtists, sacraments or holy water» etc..

«The picture is as clear as if it took place yesterday: the padre with his chaplain's scarf, the ragged and emaciated men kneeling, if they could, to receive the sacrament of God's love.

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).

Sacraments are supernatural processes.

But it is equally offensive to Buddhists, Muslims, and to all other people of faith, including Christians who have already been baptized and don't believe they need that sacrament / ordinance again, especially after death.

You can't teach understanding and compassion and love for thy neighbor and then not allow LGBT individuals into your fold, or in the case of the Catholic church, not allow divorcees (or those that marry a divorcee) to participate in all your sacraments.

Both sacraments are supernatural by their divine insti - tution.

The position became vacant after archbishop Arthur Roche took up the position of secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome.

I did give sacrament.

One can have honor, one can have sacraments, one can sing alleluia, one can answer amen, one can have faith in the Name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and preach it too, but never can one find salvation except in the Catholic Church.»

From a former Catholic: (Bred, Born and Brainwashed in the RCC for 65 years - altar boy, choir, sacraments, atonement theology, original sin, nun / priest / brother teachers et.

This is one more demonstration that Mormons are not just one more Christian denomination: they are a different religion which rejects Christian baptism and believes only their sacraments are salvific.

@Rainer Braendlein: «The only one, who is allowed to insti - tute sacraments, is the Lord Jesus Christ himself.

By developing the theme of the Holy Spirit's work in the church through both word and sacrament, Ross is able to lay a foundation that explains much of what is done in the evangelical liturgy.

I'm Lutheran and our understanding of the two sacraments we recognize is that both were instituted for the forgiveness of sins.

To continue, when one receives the sacraments of comunion and marriage one receives grace, if the soul is dead due to sin he can not receive anything.

I took sacrament at my grandmother's funeral out of respect for her.

The supernatural power of the sacraments is attached by God himself.

The Sacraments, Catholics believe, tether nature to grace, visible to invisible; they are the lifeline of the Church.

In this regard, we must consider that the indelible character of baptism, confirmation, or priestly ordination does not disappear, either, when the Catholic who has received the sacrament distances himself from the Church or from his priestly commitments.

Marriage, on this view, is a sacrament, and can be neither made nor unmade by the State.

In the chapter «A Literary Sacrament,» he illustrates Dubus's talent for peeling back the fabric of ordinary life to reveal the workings of grace and mercy.

The kind of marriage desired by Christ is a sacrament; it is a visible representation of the transforming grace that has created a new reality that did not exist before.

If a priest is not sure, he will administer the sacrament.

This is a sacrament and should be observed with the highest regard to its ultimate purpose as taught by Jesus himself.

In our churches and temples we practice all of the same ordinances that Jesus Christ practiced on the earth including baptism, sacrament, and others.

My family made the choice to fully follow the direction of Christ's church and practice what we preach and rejoice in all of the sacraments.

The most important thing that happened to Luther in 1518 was that he rethought his theology of grace in the context of the theology of the sacraments.

To be a TRUE Catholic in good standing and able to receive the sacraments, you must adhere to ALL of their rules, like them or not.

IMO this is what happens when the sacraments take a back stage to the celebrity minded, opinion based approach to the bible that is endemic in evangelicalism, especially Calvinists.

But, as Cardinal Dulles argued, to bar a priest from publicly celebrating the Mass and administering the sacraments is to rob him of his sacred calling, his lifelong identity, his good reputation, and his sole means of support — effectively a death penalty.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»

This friendship with the Lord Jesus is found in the Word of God recognized as such by the Church in the Bible; in the sacraments; in works of charity and service; and in the fellowship of those who have recognized and embraced the risen one.

The book includes sections on liturgy and time, on the significance of the church building, on direction in liturgical prayer, reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, music, and more.

The real question with which I am confronted when I approach the sacrament of penance is whether I believe that Christ speaks the truth when he says that whatever the Church shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

But traditions (e.g., sacraments not found in the Bible) gained force only as explications of what was implicit in Scripture.

Gentiles were those who did keep the sacraments of the old testament; so peter may have wanted to mention if he only meant «straight» gentiles... just sayin».

They threaten you with excommunication and refusal of their sacraments and much ostracizing but SO WHAT?

So marriage is, for Christians, the primordial sacrament, the sacrament that's most deeply the visible sign of the presence of God or personal logos in the world.

God knows what He is doing in this strange time between «worlds,» but hopefully He is inviting us again to engage the enemy through the godly weapons of preaching and sacrament.

It's like the Black Mass, the man who steals the sacrament to desecrate it.

It is the sacrament in which the Church is most truly what she is, the people of God being daily formed into the body of Christ through the gift of the Lord's body and blood.

The problem in sacramental theology that proved crucial for Luther was that of the relation among the outward sacramental action, the grace of God, and the faith required of the participant in the sacrament.

The new focus on the sacraments is what gives Luther's theology after 1518 a very different shape from his early thought, even though he continued to be concerned with many of the same issues.