Marriage has come to mean so many things for so many different people: for some it is
a religious sacrament; for others bureaucratically convenient; for yet others a sign of commitment, or boredom.
They also used the phrase «civil marriage» to distinguish state recognition from
a religious sacrament.
Smith and Black claimed that the denial of benefits was an unconstitutional burden on their free exercise of religion, because it penalized them for taking part in what to them was
a religious sacrament.
My personal definition of marriage goes beyond the government's definition of marriage, to that of
a religious sacrament undertaken within the context of an affirming community of believers, serving as a foreshadowing or a demonstration of Christ's love for the church.
These vineyards were mostly started by Spaniards who planted as they established missions; most wines were used for
religious sacraments but were also used during daily life.
Not exact matches
If you truly believe that marriage is god's intention as a
sacrament or
religious rite, that's fine.
It is possible to extend the idea of
sacrament beyond the traditional limits in church practice to include any object or act which evokes deep
religious feeling.
This would involve many of the usual
religious activities that a pastor provides:
religious worship services, administration of the
sacraments, individual pastoral calls,
religious study, and discussion groups.
A final
religious interpretation of value - experience is the idea of
sacrament.
He declares, in effect, the independence of the Church not only in matters of ordinary governance (
sacraments and the episcopacy) but also with regard to schools,
religious orders, marriages, families, and sodalities.
The need for an opportunity to periodically renew basic trust is satisfied by
religious groups through corporate worship, symbolic practices,
sacraments, and festivals.
The most revolutionary alteration in
religious art came with the sweeping changes in
sacrament and liturgy brought about by the 16th - century Reformers, especially Calvin and Zwingli.
In The Analogical Imagination I tried to rethink the traditional Christian theological dialectic of
sacrament and word as the more primordial
religious dialectic of «manifestation» and «proclamation.»
All symbols are ever in danger of becoming spiritual, and not binding images, instead of remaining real signs sent into life; all
sacraments are ever in danger of becoming plain experiences, leveled down to the «
religious» plane, instead of remaining the incarnate connection between what is above and what is below.
In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original
religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the
sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.
Then, if one is
religious, you go to your faith community and participate in a marriage ceremony as your tradition dictates and understands that
sacrament.
Hence our partaking of the
sacrament is not just a
religious practice, but it means our participation in the suffering of God in the world.
In contrast, the Quakers have no
religious dogma, no creeds, no priests, no pastors, no liturgy, no
religious imagery, no outward
sacraments (no physical Baptism or Communion), no ritual, no set worship service.
And in an Indian situation where baptism is the legal mark of change of one
religious community to another, each with its own civil codes recognized by the Courts, communalisation of church life is imposed by Law and perverts the meaning of baptism as
sacrament of faith.
If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with
religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the
Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.
«The president made clear that his support is for civil marriage for same - sex couples, and he is fully committed to protecting the ability of
religious institutions to make their own decisions about their own
sacraments,» the letter said.
Becoming a
religious sister or brother, a monk or friar does not involve a
sacrament.
In view of the ambiguity of the meaning of baptism in the Indian inter-
religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other
religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the
sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploration.
Lloyd, it is because too many priests conflate social work with their
religious calling: «We are not social workers, but, first and foremost, vessels of Almighty God, and so must strive to keep the spiritual above the temporal — and keep our focus on Jesus Christ, the Mass, and the
sacraments.
Boff certainly does not mince words, and in one place even offers a kind of Marxist analysis of institutional church life, citing «the expropriation of the
religious means of production» (forgiveness,
sacraments and so forth) as means by which the clergy deny power to the people.
As well as polemics Luther was writing his pastoral theology, his Fourteen Consolations for the very ill Elector, and a text on The Blessed
Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, compared in its nature as a fellowship event with the degenerate «
religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoods.
Certain
religious groups want to deny gays the sacredeness of what they take to be a
sacrament.
Does not this statement, he asks, mean today «that human life in society, liberated as far as possible from alienations, constitutes the absolute value, and that all
religious institutions, all dogmas, all the
sacraments and all ecclesiastical authorities have only a relative, that is, a functional value?»
While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their
sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own
religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).
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Some such of these is the observance of
religious feast days and regulations such as the Lenten Season, an important aspect of Catholicism; regular attendance at Church especially at Easter and Christmas and the celebration of
Sacraments.
Absolution refers to forgiveness of one's own misdeeds, traditionally received through
religious confession and
sacrament, but forgiveness can go both ways: for one's own malfeasance as well as one's forgiveness of the same in others.
For example, restricting the disclosure of an individual's
religious affiliation, room number, and health status to a priest could cause significant delay that would inhibit the ability of a Catholic patient to obtain
sacraments provided during the last rites.
About Blog Saint Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church was established in 1965 and has enriched the lives of many Eastern Orthodox Christians through countless Divine Liturgies,
Sacraments and
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