Sentences with phrase «sacramental bread and wine»

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We must create what has traditionally been called a «eucharistic community» — a Christian community that meets together around the supper, around bread and wine, around Christ's very presence in the community and that becomes a sacramental presence of God's love and grace within the larger community.

While in its original use this was probably a reference to sacramental participation in the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist, there is a possible further extension of its meaning so that it will include a relationship with the whole natural order, seen as a sphere of the divine activity and hence as a way of contact with the God who is operative within it.

In a similar way, the Eucharist is sacramental only because the worshipper does not rest content with the mere eating of bread and the drinking of wine.

In their simplest sacramental significance, the bread and the wine are present signs of his dying on the cross.