Sentences with phrase «sacramental grace»

They were the Church, a living tradition, with its vast law book, its obedient priests, and its machinery for dispensing sacramental grace.

Our new Pope discloses that faith arises from a personal encounter with God's Word that infuses a person's existence with new meaning — but that this encounter is possible only within the faith community, in which are rendered accessible the sacred Scriptures, sacramental grace, fraternity and service to the Lord in others.

If that question seems easy to answer today, how do we perceive sacramental grace penetrating the walls of sincerely held doctrine and belief?

Once again he showed clear reserve regarding the concept of marriage as a remedy for concupiscence, and insisted rather that the sacramental grace of marriage enables the spouses to dominate concupiscence and purify it of its dominant self - seeking.

And the community of the faithful in the Church is in contact with God, with his Word and with sacramental grace... and this is a personal God, who became one of us, born as a baby, a participation in our destiny up to his death on the Cross for our sins.

Just as God does not mean to Jesus a higher nature to be enjoyed in the sacrament, God's forgiveness also is no sacramental grace but a personal act of God.

«Sacramental Signs and the Celebration of Rest,» the last chapter of Laudato Si, concludes that sacramental grace is vital in maintaining not only the interior harmony within each person but also the exterior harmony present in the cosmos.

What one finds is that charismatic grace and sacramental grace are two modes of divine power that transforms and makes holy.

By the virtues of self - mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.»

The cardinal also issued a «gentle reminder» that some have made an «idol» of the pro-life cause, letting it displace the indispensable life and sacramental grace of the Church.

Meanwhile, Eucharistic adoration throughout the night is always filled with young people offering up an unceasing litany ofRosaries, Chaplets of Divine Mercy, songs, and silent prayer, while any priest who sits down and puts on a stole to offer the Sacrament of Penance will quickly find a line of young people forming for confession and could easily spend several hours dispensing the healing power of Christ's sacramental grace to his children.

Within this mystery of redemption, as the Pope sees it, the sacramental graces of marriage, sustaining conjugal chastity, have a special effect in achieving the redemption of the body through the overcoming of concupiscence.

But his message for married people is that it should be attempted; their mutual love should see its need: and the sacramental graces of their marriage along with their personal prayer are the powerful means they have to achieve it.

Not exact matches

Rhythm helps us experience the grace of God, writes Pete Broadbent, who calls us to seek out «sacramental moments».

Catholics hold that the Church is the body of Christ, a sacramental and mystical communion in which Christ is truly and effectually present and through which his justifying and sanctifying grace is mediated.

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.

Luther's impatient arguments for the reform of sacramental practice and theology, and his frequent vilification of received usages and opinions, should not therefore be allowed to obscure what might be called his «deep catholic» commitment to the sacramentality of grace, with its unmistakable Patristic resonances.

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

After 1518, Luther is quite clear that it is in and through the public performance of the sacramental signs in the visible Church that grace is bestowed on those who believe.

Indeed, it becomes an explicit theological axiom for Luther that inward and spiritual grace is given only in and through the public, bodily, sacramental practice of the Church.

The sacramental baptism confirms the doctrine of salvation by faith and grace alone.

This sacramental, salvific grace gives the human being the Gift of Faith, supernatural Hope in God's further gifts and divine Charity towards others.

A sacramental sign that grace still gets through?

These graces must be sacramental, and administered through the familial structures of the Church.

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.

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.

They practice a sacramental piety, recognizing baptism, communion, and absolution as means by which God bestows unearned grace and forgiveness on sinful humanity.

Over against what he perceives to be Weigel's giving too much away to Protestant ideas of communion as personal friendship and encounter, Cavadini reasserts the sacramental priority of grace as grounded in the connection between Christ as primordial sacrament and the church as sacrament (the Totus Christus).

«Does Tony's admittance on the Internet that he is diagnosed / certified with NPD (formerly called megalomania) give Tony more need for accountability and / or should we then extend Tony more grace for creating the non-biblical doctrine of «Sacramental Marriage» (also called «church sanctioned pre-marital sex» by those that disagree....)?»

Concerning Rahner, Vass quotes a commentator thus: «He denies that these sacraments are in any way unique in causing grace, or that they are always more effective than other «merely sacramental activities»; something which is not strictly speaking a sacrament might in particular case «work» better in actuallybringing grace to the individual than a sacrament does.»

When marriage is said to give graces to fight against lust it emerges in its sacramental nobility, for lust is always an enemy of love.

That perfect response is one which she, free from original sin, is able to make perfectly, but which we can only make by the redeeming grace of God, through our incorporation into the Body of Christ in its sacramental life.

The sacramental principle is the direct expression of the doctrine of the Incarnation, as is the principle of grace.

The true actor in every hierarchy — celestial (the angels), ecclesiastical (the clergy), sacramental, and lay [5]-- is Jesus Christ, who reveals his presence and bestows the overflowing gifts of his grace through the established ranks.

And while making the point about God's gifts to us, she sees the sacramental message that is written into creation itself: «Food is and always will be a sign built into the order of creation, physical nourishment that illuminates and spiritual nourishment we receive in Holy Communion... the more we see food in that light — the more we see it as a perpetual sign of God's goodness and love — the more fully we can understand the Eucharist as a holy and tremendous sacrifice in which love and gift, grace and life are bound up together.»

Given this sacramental incorporation, their prayer for sinners is a graced participation in Christ's unique reconciliatory mediation.

Shouldn't an analysis of congregations and social change take seriously a congregation's own theological identity and self - understanding as «the people of God,» the «body of Christ,» or as a «sacramental community of God's grace to the world»?

Even though they do not receive the sacramental rites, God gives them the grace of the sacraments because of their inner spiritual state.

This is why marriage needs to be lived within the community of grace as a sacramental order of the Church.

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

It completes this proposed inculturation through a sacramental vision of creation inspired by Karl Rahner's theology of nature and grace.

As Greenberg says: «Many Jews assume that only Christianity focuses on grace and on the merits of another's sacrifice for their behavior, but in biblical times, temple worship had strong sacramental overtones....

To give one example, we may on occasion proclaim the Word of God with the specific purpose of securing that Christ's people shall be more faithful, penitent, and regular in their use of the sacramental opportunities which Christ provides in his Church for their growth in grace.