Sentences with phrase «sacramental events»

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.

This does not present us with facts of the past in their bare actuality, nor does it lead to encounter with human existence and its interpretation, but, as a sacramental event, it re-presents the events of the past in such a way that it renews them, and thus becomes a personal encounter for me.

Jesus is made present again, or re-presented, by a sacramental event that corresponds to the Jesus - event.

The preaching of the Gospel as a sacramental event is at the heart of Reformation theology.

Not exact matches

A Harvard Divinity School professor who is also a Catholic priest said none of cultural club's other events include the «blaspheming of Catholic sacramental practice.»

For example, parallels to the Catholic sacramental model, in which a sacred event is re-enacted within carefully measured boundaries of time and space, can be found in the formal dynamics of sports events and civil ceremonies, such as the Super Bowl or the presidential inauguration.

St. John Paul II created both to be international events defined by their combination of sacramental celebration, high - profile Catholic speakers, and faith - filled festivities, all crowned by a papal visit and vast Mass celebrated by the pope alongside dozens of cardinals, bishops, and priests.

Most of the differences among the religions have to do with their understandably one - sided attachment to the particular sacramental images, events, experiences, or persons that they choose as representative of mystery.

The fact that sacramental religion employs a multitude of symbols, rather than just one, already implies a wholesome conviction that no single concrete object, personality, or event can all by itself correspond completely to the unknown and unnamable mystery.

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.

Any occasion that gathers two or more together to re-present and re-create the Jesus event and to renew the faith of those gathered is, in the wide sense, sacramental.

The sacramental effect of the baptism event is therefore important both to the person and to the community.

Roman Catholics point to the same event as the sacramental center of Christian life, with the words from the Gospel of John, «the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.»