Sentences with phrase «receive sacraments»

I raised my children to receive the sacraments, but as I grew older I still believed in God, saints and Angels, but could no longer believe in the Church.

The baptised have duties in the Church and also rights: «To receive the sacraments, to be nourished by the Word of God, and to be sustained by the other spiritual helps of the Church.»

We are never so close to God as when we receive the sacraments — they're more than an encounter: it's the infusion of one life into another.

Church teaching holds that unless these Catholics obtain an annulment - a decree declaring their first marriage invalid - they can not receive the sacraments since they are seen as committing adultery.

Such twice - married couples have pews in our churches, receive the sacraments, and are warmly included in any church activities.

And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.

But there are surely many possibilities to make it clear also by legislation that laymen have not only the right to receive the sacraments from the clergy, as the present Code of Canon Law states.

How would people know where to go to receive Sacraments, [Jesus Christ's instituted means of graces to help sustain us along our journey to our final goal]?

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Truth be told, it is a death and resurrection project that we really don't have muct to do with other than placing ourselves in the path of the Living Word and receiving the sacraments.

They have no knowledge of life yet, so how can they possibly receive the sacrament of baptism?

The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion about the Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.

On April 10, 1947, he received the sacrament of penance from Fr.

It is those who give time and attention to getting to know Him in the personal relationship of prayer, reading the scriptures and receiving the Sacraments.

The oneness of the church — one Lord, one faith, one baptism — is as integral to being a part of Christ's body as receiving the sacrament of bread and wine.

Anyway, it never made much sense to me since there is a general liturgical acknowledgement [Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but say the word and I shall be healed] that none of us is * worthy * to receive the sacrament.

She condemns the ideology of what she calls «the nuclear family» (that is a wife and husband who have received the sacrament of matrimony and have children) claiming that it is, in some way, «a defence of capitalism».

Undoubtedly, in the popular imagination at least, the reception of this sacrament was previously associated with the moment of death - and many may have failed to receive the sacrament in consequence.

Rather, it is usually the result of faulty catechesis or the experience of abuses, eganointing services or Masses where family and carers are indiscriminately invited to receive the sacrament.

``... as soon as one of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the fitting time has come for him or her to receive this sacrament has certainly already arrived.»

Even if the child is born of a mixed marriage between a Catholic man and a Jewish woman, and the child is baptized, and receives the sacraments, even Holy Orders.

When Dunstan told him he had received the Sacrament of Confession, and reconciled with the Church, Philip knew what that entailed: an end to their intimate relationship.

Following further prayer and meditation, the retreatants are given the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Penance, and then to spend time with the healing love of Jesus in Eucharisticadoration.

This meant that parishioners had no way of receiving the sacraments, including the Eucharist.

(CNN)- Pope Francis called an Argentine woman married to a divorced man and reportedly told her that she could receive the sacrament of Communion, according to the woman's husband, in an apparent contradiction of Catholic law.

On Easter 2010, Adrian, with his wife and children, received the sacraments and became full members of Christ's one, holy, Catholic Church in their home state of Colorado.

I received the sacraments.

It is associated in an intimate and direct way with the eucharistic elements of bread and wine and their reception, but primarily it is in the action itself that the presentness is discovered to those who attend and receive the sacrament by faith and with thanksgiving.

OK TJP, I understand this but you can have a legal union and get all of the legal benefits of marriage without receiving the sacraments.

Preaching lies very near the sacrament and is to be understood as opening mind and heart in faith to receive the sacrament.

Jesus and the Apostles absolutely DO put restrictions on receiving the sacraments.

Who receives this sacrament worthily?

From these sonorous, antiphonal cadences Jane Austen, on her deathbed, receiving the sacrament from her brother's hands, had taken comfort.

Many priests and some lay people will receive the sacrament daily.

In order to present this most valuable Sacrament in a positive light to children we need to regularly receive the Sacrament ourselves.

Having converted and received the sacraments after so many years of searching and waiting, Kateri was filled with an exaltation that altered her vision of everything around her....

All Catholics, priest and bishops included, need to examine themselves before receiving Holy Communion and, if aware of unconfessed grave sin, should refrain from receiving the sacrament before receiving sacramental absolution.

Furthermore (and this bears repeating) you will hear no support for the likes of Francis Phillips, or any other lay Catholic swimming against that particular tide, from the English bishops, if for no other reason that it might cause the faithful to call to mind an (at the moment) dormant issue: their continuing support for the Soho Masses, at which homoerotically active homosexuals (self - proclaimed as such) regularly, and some say blasphemously, receive the Sacrament of the Altar.

«The angry papists write... that people have received the sacrament with «lay hands».

I understand (and least I think I do) that once a person receives the sacrament of baptism they are considered Catholics in communion with the church.

The Church then said that a Christian who had received the sacrament of penance, could by various good works, the saying of particular prayers or doing such pious works as assisting in the building of churches (by a cash payment) achieve release from some part of, sometimes all of, whatever «temporal punishment» he might still be due to undergo after death.

... Now if I were to ask them with what kinds of mouths they themselves receive the sacrament at Easter, whether they receive it with a lay mouth or with a priestly mouth, perhaps they would say their mouths just then were the mouths of angels or bishops.»

Luther was exasperated with the absurdity of the situation: `... Even a sow could be a Christian, for she has a big enough snout to receive the sacrament outwardly», if that was the only criterion for being a Christian.

Baptized as a Catholic, he went to Mass and received the sacraments as he grew up in Pennsylvania.

You must also show proof that you have received the sacrament of baptism.

Not exact matches

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

Cajetan had challenged Luther's insistence that those who come to the sacrament of penance are to believe confidently that they receive God's grace and forgiveness thereby; Luther's main defense appeals to Christ's words in Matthew 16:19: