Sentences with phrase «sacramental bond»

People are «incorporated into the Church by baptism,» baptism, therefore, constitutes the sacramental bond of unity existing among all who through it are «reborn `.

Baptism, therefore, constitutes the sacramental bond of unity existing among all who through it are reborn.

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.»

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.

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In reality, only the death of a spouse dissolves the bond of a sacramental marriage.

It does not share the fundamental Catholic convictions about sacramental marriage: an exclusive, lifelong union of man and woman that is open to new life, a faithful and unbreakable bond mirroring God's love for humanity and, specifically, Christ's love for the Church.

-LSB-...] Marriage, the sacramental sign of marriage, brings about immediately between the spouses a bond that no longer depends upon their wills because now it is a gift God has given to them.»

To imply that as a Catholic, I can have greater communion with a separated Christian on the grounds of fuller doctrinal agreement on the few (or many) remaining doctrinal truths that unite us, relativizes the visible bonds of sacramental communion into mere «juridical» boundaries.