Sentences with phrase «sacramental life of»

All are grafted onto the vine through action of the Holy Spirit in baptism and the sacramental life of the Church.

The sacramental life of religious people to this day carries with it metaphors (such as the dying and rising of a god) that owe their original meaning to the religious imaginations of our forbears of the early agricultural period.

Meszaros says that future development «must be extracted by the mediation of the Christian believer who is in touch with the divine realities transmitted by the doctrinal tradition and sacramental life of the Church... with ambiguity and struggle.»

And from that reality flows the entire sacramental life of the Church.

We know of more than one case where confessions have actually been killed off completely in some parishes because priests have openly discouraged it, to the point of tacitly eliminating it altogether from the sacramental life of a parish.

In obedience to the truth borne by the sacramental life of the Church, Bernanos knew himself to be free.

There are many Christians for whom the sacramental life of the Church and the Holy Communion would have power beyond anything they can at present imagine if a genuine connection should be established in their understanding between the Sacrament and the mutual ministry which is going on all the time in the life of the Church.

Renewal is embodied in the sacramental life of the church in the sacrament of baptism, a kind of rebirth which brings the individual into the church, the communion of saints, who, because they are in Christ, share a provisional form of paradise.

In the sacramental life of the Church, Baptism is given once for all; but Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, is a continually repeated sacramental action.

«A clear and convincing testimony to the salvation wrought for us in Christ Jesus has to be based upon normative apostolic teaching: a teaching which underlies the inspired word of God and sustains the sacramental life of Christians today.»

It presupposes a sound formation in the fullness of the Catholic faith, nourished by the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church.

For Schickel, that conservative language is found in the ordinary, everyday realities, a reflection of his belief that «the sacramental life of the Church is a recapitulation of the daily rituals of eating and drinking, working and resting, gathering and dispersing.»

The public sacramental life of the Church is now seen as the locus of assurance, of certitude, the place where an entirely undialectical salvific communication takes place.

Not exact matches

Within both of these churches one can find large numbers of local congregations in which orthodox faith, sacramental integrity, sound preaching, and missions of charity live and flourish.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism, knowing that its being a Church of sinners is another impediment to mission, emphasizes that friendship with the Lord Jesus is a matter of constant conversion of life; that this conversion involves the rejection of evil and sacramental reconciliation with Christ and the Church when we fail; and that there are degrees of communion with the Church that are not identical with the canonical boundaries of the Church.

This emphasis on beauty in the liturgical life of the Church is another reason Evangelical Catholicism takes sacramental preparation and adult catechesis so seriously.

The shift in our understanding of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all of our relationships shallower and made each of us less capable of the profound gift of self on which marriage is founded.

The core of this document is about the renewal of religious education along with wholehearted commitment to ongoing conversion through the sacramental life, personal prayer and Christian action.

It is not as if matter has been invested with some divine quality in its own right — that would indeed be a magical understanding — rather it is the dynamic, Spirit filled presence of the Christ in an enfleshed relationship with his People that constitutes the principle of sacramental life - giving empowerment.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

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.

But the priestly sacramental tradition knows that even deep dislocation can not empty life of the mystery of God, a mystery that requires us to engage in concrete action and sustained thought.

St. Francis championed the Church's sacramental life, but the drama of his imitation of Christ took place in the world, not within the Church's sanctuary.

However, unless that vision is rooted in the sacramental and liturgical realities it proclaims, and in a personal life of the spirit, and unless that formation is translated into action in the moral and social life of the individuals and group, there will be little or no harvest.

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.

I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing, social justice, and many other topics.

First, the Church as the Bride of Christ receives her being and life from the Incarnate God in the form of vivifying substance (the Eucharist) and the words of pardon (sacramental absolution).

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.

It is given its raison d'etre by living the Prayer of the Church both in the Sacramental life and in the obligation to pray the Divine Office.

As well as the dangers already mentioned, this also meant, especially in the early days, that it had no clear connection to the sacramental and liturgical life, above all devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and all too often doctrinal and catechetical formation were dismissed as mere «academics» or intellectualism; doctrinal formation and apologetics being seen as something purely for those of a «theological bent».

Dr Dudley Plunkett FAITH Magazine March - April 2008 The Heythrop Institute Study On the Way to Life [1] argues for a «Catholic sacramental imagination» as a response to the «turn to the subject» that is characteristic of contemporary culture.

Sustained by prayer, especially before the Blessed Sacrament and in the Divine Office of the Church, and by the sacramental life, she was immersed in theology, particularly spiritual and mystical theology; she also retained her love of literature.

(I Corinthians 10:16 - 21) Was this the meaning of the Fourth Gospel also when it put on the lips of Jesus words of high sacramental import — «Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.

For it can surely not be seriously denied that, according to Mt 25, a man may encounter Christ in his neighbour more truly and decisively as his Saviour than in a eucharistic communion which, despite the Real Presence and its sacramental efficacy ex opere operate is but the sign and the means of that union with Christ in the Holy Spirit which happens in the difficulties of our daily life even unto our «dying in the Lord».

To give an example: The Church may change and adapt to modern life certain principles of her human law according to which a Catholic must marry; but only a person of little theological knowledge would draw the conclusion that the Church could ever abolish the indissolubility of the sacramental consummated marriage if only there were enough protests.

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.

It is a relational, a sacramental vision of the Christian life.

The Christian message of Salvation in Christ in its total eschatological framework (with which Col. 3 begins) should be kept in intimate relation to the historical mission of promoting koinonia in both the churchly sacramental and pluralistically secular dimensions of community life in the modern world.

The newer way is a relational understanding of the Christian life, and a sacramental understanding of the Christian tradition itself.

From soap operas to news to sports, commercial telecasting performs a fundamentally sacramental function: it mediates and legitimates a belief in the American way of life.

«Christianity,» says Sanneh, «came into Africa equally as fulfillment and challenge, but in either case as reinforcement of the religious worldview of Africans concerning spiritual and divine agency, the sacramental sense of community, the ties between the living and the dead, the potency of dreams, prayers and invocations.»

Unlike Holy Communion, where mysticism tends toward the sacramental and transcendent, Calvin Presbyterian practices a more earthy, pragmatic mysticism, finding God's presence in the stuff of everyday life.

This separated religion is man's greatest danger whether it manifests itself in the form of a cult in which sacramental forms are independent of everyday life or of a soul detached from life in devotional rapture and solitary relation with God.

Viewed in this light, we may see the birth and deaths of stars, the emergence of life, its moments of complexification, and the eventual rise of consciousness as sacramental evidence of revelation's promise no less significant than God's calling of Abraham and the prophets.

Yet a classical architectural vocabulary of sacramental origin allows it to evoke a spiritual or ideal realm that informs and sustains civilized life.

Josiah Royce's definition of the Church as «a community of memory and of hope» is a valid pillar of all sacramental life.3

In the Church all the experiences of life are surrounded with sacramental expressions of forgiveness and eternal life.

Here also we find the true meaning of the Church as the predestined continuation of the Incarnation — the eco-system of God's life and love for man lived out in her sacramental worship.

«Fit for Mission — Schools» is a document arising out of the Diocese of Lancaster's review of its sacramental and missionary life.

With the Enlightenment, the sacramental vision of the continuity between the afterlife and everyday life became more deeply ruptured, as William Blake subjectivized heaven and hell, and Tennyson struggled to believe in the soul in a scientific age.