Sentences with phrase «sacramental character»

Marriage as a Sacrament The sacramental character of marriage is expressed most clearly in St Paul's letter to the Ephesians:

Hope, as we have just noted, has a sacramental character in that it is always embodied in images of the future.

«Here it may help to recall that Pope John Paul II had made reference to the «sacramental character of revelation» and in particular to «the sign of the Eucharist in which the indissoluble unity between the signifier and the signified makes it possible to grasp the depths of the mystery».

[21] We come to see that at the heart of the sacramentality of the word of God is the mystery of the incarnation itself: «the Word became flesh» (Jn 1:14), the reality of the revealed mystery is offered to us in the «flesh» of the Son... The sacramental character of revelation points in turn to the history of salvation, to the way that the word of God enters time and space, and speaks to men and women, who are called to accept his gift in faith.»

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.

When it comes down to it, the source of this existential loneliness is a lack of the sacramental character within churches.

Fox sets forth the ingredients of a spirituality that would make us more sensitive to the sacramental character of nature.

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.

The revelations of all the religions have a sacramental character, in that they come to expression in terms of correlative views of the cosmos.

In primal religion, revelation has a fundamentally sacramental character.

To understand the Christianity of this period [Victorian] we must look not only at public symbols of civil religion... but at the sacramental character of the home.

Both of these soon lost their sacramental character.

As we discuss the sacraments let us recognize that the language of the Church has sacramental character.

We have to start by understanding that liberalism has a sacramental character.

Such an object has a sacramental character in the broad sense.

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

Not exact matches

Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that human salvation concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.

All sacramental systems lend themselves to two uses — they can be either supports to a genuinely spiritual faith or substitutes for moral character and conduct in seeking the divine favor.

All music in some way is sacramental and all public performance has some religious character, but Jackson cultivated his image as a lay practitioner of pop spirituality more than any performer in his market segment, through the soppy universalism of «We are the World» as well as through his identification with the Jehovah's Witnesses and, according to recent rumor, with Islam.

In Protestant Christianity, although there are generally only two recognized sacraments, «the Word of God» as recorded in the Bible is often regarded as having a sacred character and the reading of the Bible as in effect a sacramental act.

Because of their diverse sacramental features, religions differ considerably from one another in the ways by which they formulate for their followers the fundamental character of this mystery.

And being united by affinities of character, they move with less impediment and more vigor than any other bodies can move, and constitute, no doubt, that form of the sacramental host by which Jesus Christ intends to give freedom to the world.49

Character formation and personal spirituality are rooted in the study of Catholic teachings and tradition, as well as sacramental preparation.