Sentences with phrase «performing sacraments»

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., has barred priests from performing sacraments for people in same - sex marriages.

What is missing, however, is the priest who stands in the place of Christ and performs the sacraments.

Because it's convenient to pretend that they've served God by performing the sacrament, instead of helping people?

In place of the doctrine that only an ordained priest could perform a sacrament and in particular effect the «miracle» of transubstantiation, Luther said that every baptised Christian was a true priest.

Ideally, such themes and liturgies should arise out of the needs and concerns of those gathered to perform the sacraments, since intensity can have its effect only to the extent that it touches them.

Not exact matches

If we believe marriage is a sacrament, then all marriages performed outside the church are civil marriages, and however the state defines marriage can have absolutely no bearing on its sanctity as far as the church is concerned

He proved an excellent leader, but the group were hampered by his inability to administer the sacraments and to perform marriages.

The ruling elder performed many functions of an assistant pastor, though he could not administer the sacraments.

Just like the other sacraments join us in Christ when we perform them.

That sacrament should be performed when the individual is ready to profess his or her faith in Jesus - just like the Baptists do.

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.

It was this «juggling», this seemingly magical element that still offended Luther so deeply, and he criticised theological theories, enshrined in such a phrase as ex opere operato, referring in various ways to the automatic realisation of a sacrament when performed correctly by a properly ordained priest, with little or nothing said about the recipient and the faith he should have.

Since sacraments are the way in which the presence of Jesus is maintained in the Church as a whole, the Church's future is dependent upon the way they are performed.

As creative of the community, the sacrament leaves its influence on the faith of the believers and the process of the Church, whether it is performed well or poorly.

What they cause is grace, and this takes place both because the sacrament is properly performed (ex opere operato) and because the recipient is of good disposition (ex opere operands).1 A sacrament is properly performed when one uses the correct matter (material symbols) and the correct form (formal symbols, i.e., language).

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.