The word
"sacramental" refers to something that is connected to a religious ceremony or ritual, often symbolizing a spiritual or sacred experience.
Full definition
To a great extent, the dimension of hope or futurity has been lost sight of
in sacramental theology, just as it has disappeared from our inherited notions of revelation.
It is not as if matter has been invested with some divine quality in its own right — that would indeed be a magical understanding — rather it is the dynamic, Spirit filled presence of the Christ in an enfleshed relationship with his People that constitutes the principle of
sacramental life - giving empowerment.
The doctrine of
sacramental baptism of the Christian Church by St. Paul according to the Epistle to the Romans, Chapter 6:
Father Timothy Finigan is the parish priest of Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen, and a visiting tutor in
Sacramental Theology at St John's Seminary Wonersh.
It is this essentially
sacramental character of the Scriptures — the special forms of the words and sentences which give them unique power to point beyond themselves to the sources of being from which untold possibilities spring — that explains what is meant by the statement that for the believer the Bible is the Word of God.
To the question of the sacraments Luther finally responds that the concrete, external, public
sacramental act in the Church is the act of Jesus Christ.
The ethos of the early Church is a mentality of direct and living union with God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, who operates with a transforming power through ministers and through matter, through
sacramental signs which are causative outwardly of the gift they effect inwardly, and especially through the Eucharist [18].
In the sacred liturgy — that part of the Church's life that seems to be a step back from the world or, better, a step into the real world that is the Kingdom of God in the wedding feast of the lamb — the Church is in fact being equipped by
sacramental grace for mission.
According to Romans 6, 7, 8 the body of the Christian gets not redeemed, not even
by sacramental baptism.
It is essential to bear this perspective in mind because this ultimate end of man is what the whole
sacramental economy is designed to bring about.
Furthermore, this plain truth that we are organic psychosomatic «becomings» provides a natural reason for the use of
sacramental means of worship and Christian nurture, as well as a vindication of the traditional emphasis on the eucharist or Holy Communion as central in our relationship, as Christian people, with the divine reality in whom alone we can find genuine fulfillment of our creaturely potentiality.
The Catholic
sacramental vision in which God offers Himself in finite, intelligible signs, calling for a response of love, unites all the mysteries of faith.
There was a mixed reception from Karlstadt whose writings, not as numerous as Luther's but numerous enough, were now openly opposing both Luther and the traditional Church
on sacramental theology; and a mixed reception from some of his congregation.
It is also the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide and home to a dynamic and inclusive
sacramental community, which cherishes excellent liturgy, music and preaching.
When Cairns moved with his family to Virginia to teach at Old Dominion, they began to worship at an Episcopal church, which fed his increasing sense of
sacramental reality.
Many of his novels are profoundly Catholic without being pious, cloying, or sentimental — literary gems shaped by a Catholic
sacramental imagination that is both unyielding and redemptive.
Character formation and personal spirituality are rooted in the study of Catholic teachings and tradition, as well as
sacramental preparation.
At sacramental baptism the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is made present, so that our faith is strenghened in an incredible way.
He concludes that, since «sexual union is not part of the essence of marriage, as the Catechism of the Council of Trent and Vatican II teach, consequently, the exercise of the sexual act between divorced and [civilly] remarried couples does not harm the existing
sacramental bond.»
Jesus and the Vision 113) But if the mystical component of hope (its experience of union with this absolute future) becomes disengaged from a specific
sacramental context, or if it ignores the requirement of present praxis and the necessity of silent, patient waiting for God's future, it shrivels into sheer reverie.
Members of the church congregation were expected to tithe a certain amount of the wine they made for use as
sacramental wine, and it was the most valuable asset that many of the churches possessed.
Moreover, the priest's sins - no matter how grave - never impede the Church's holiness, for
sacramental efficacy does not depend upon the cleric's uncompromised moral status within the ecclesial community.
She notes the buzzwords («
sacramental presence,» «vulnerability») and the push for «Oprah» - style emotional displays.
Your characterisation of «to preach Christ crucified for sinners and administer the Sacraments» sounds to me like you may be from a more
sacramental tradition and might be describing a priestly position?
However odd this sounds, that by movie's end it seems both plausible and fitting bespeaks the artistic triumph of In Bruges: its ability to convey the Christian
sacramental sense of divine presence within the created order, and most especially in self - sacrificing acts of love by imperfect beings themselves being perfected by Christ.
(«In Bernard Cooke's learned book, The Distancing of God (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1990), the author laments the way in which God has been gradually distanced
from sacramental modes of mediation.
The rites of preparation in high liturgies suggest that the materials of the liturgy are
n't sacramental enough just by being the materials they are.
What he says, which may be different from what he means, lends the impression that the requirements for
receiving sacramental Communion should be no more demanding than the requirements for receiving spiritual communion.
We wholeheartedly reject the claim that Jesuits, least of all St. Ignatius, are inherently prone to instrumentalize the Church's
sacramental system.
The fact that in many segments of Roman Catholicism this same phenomenon is occurring suggests that perhaps there is something more fundamental and important in these two
sacramental events than in the others.
It can only be awakened in each object and act «through the presence of the whole man who wholly gives himself, through
sacramental existence.»
and as the timbre of my garish gong fades a new source of strength ascends from the spring of silent insight and my living
becomes sacramental — filled with the Reality to which it witnesses
For many television viewers the Mass at Westminster Cathedral was their first experience of
sacramental religion.
This understanding includes
sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.
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