Sentences with phrase «sacramental actions»

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.

For despite the interconnection of all the elements we must distinguish between the one saving act of Christ which is made present in the liturgy (though its efficacy is not restricted to this presence) and the external sacramental action as such.

In the sacramental life of the Church, Baptism is given once for all; but Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, is a continually repeated sacramental action.

It will be proper, therefore, to discuss in this chapter the way in which that sacramental action is indeed, as Luther said, the setting - forth of the Gospel which is presupposed whenever the Eucharist is celebrated.

In the process perspective, each sacramental action is both created by the community and creative of the community.

First, the sacramental action itself, in whatever cultic or liturgical form, is a dramatized proclamation of the life - giving death of Jesus.

The community, in causing the actions of the Mass to become sacramental, is itself transformed by that sacramental action to live at a new intensity and to continue the process of the Church.

In each sacramental action the Church actualises its own identity «as the ongoing presence of eschatologically victorious grace».

The sacramental action of the Church in celebrating the Eucharist is the living enactment of the gospel which is proclaimed by preaching; Luther was insistent on the point that the gospel is enacted in the sacrament, and he was altogether right in this insistence.

Not exact matches

The core of this document is about the renewal of religious education along with wholehearted commitment to ongoing conversion through the sacramental life, personal prayer and Christian action.

They were «sacramentals» in the wider sense, but they were not guaranteed as saving actions.

But the priestly sacramental tradition knows that even deep dislocation can not empty life of the mystery of God, a mystery that requires us to engage in concrete action and sustained thought.

However, unless that vision is rooted in the sacramental and liturgical realities it proclaims, and in a personal life of the spirit, and unless that formation is translated into action in the moral and social life of the individuals and group, there will be little or no harvest.

Such occurrences empty the action of its sacramental character as a meeting with Christ.

Yet our lives and our actions are given real merit in God's eyes if we are joined to His Son through the sacramental bonds of the Church, which is, through these same bonds which we traditionally call «mystical», the fuller Body of His Incarnation.

I see two indications: recent developments in sacramental theology have helped us to understand the sacraments more clearly as divine actions, and the new sacramental services of the major denominations have made this understanding much more explicit for all to grasp.

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

It is entirely appropriate, therefore, that both the Christian rite of initiation into the community of faith and the chief Christian action of worship should have this sacramental nature.

As Luther saw, and as Gustav Aulen has recently argued in a study of the eucharistic doctrine of Luther, the fact that by a memorial action Christ becomes present in the sacramental rite means that his sacrifice itself becomes present also, for we have to do with the «whole Christ» and the «whole Christ» includes all that he experienced in the days of his flesh.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

She says that her sacramental marriage to Al was made null by Al's actions and his continued refusal to repent.

The sacramental character of the word is prefigured in type in the Old Testament understanding of the Dabar as an event, an action of God.

All are grafted onto the vine through action of the Holy Spirit in baptism and the sacramental life of the Church.