Sentences with phrase «sacramental ministry»
The phrase "sacramental ministry" refers to the duties and responsibilities of religious leaders to administer and oversee sacred rituals or sacraments. These rituals, such as baptism, communion, or marriage, are seen as significant events that hold spiritual importance within a specific faith or religion. The sacramental ministry involves guiding, serving, and leading individuals or communities in participating in these rituals, often with the aim of fostering a connection with the divine. Full definition
His birth, life, death, resurrection and continuing sacramental ministry among us in the Church are the crowning glory of all of God's works.
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Just as the Church fills up in the bodies of her members the sufferings of Christ, so also the consolations of the Lord overflow to others through her as she fills out the full measure of the healing love of Christ by her sacramental ministry (cf. Col 1,24).
«Traditional Anglo - Catholics», wrote Bishop Burnham, «must now decide whether to stay in the Church of England in what, for a while, will be a protected colony — where the sacramental ministry of women bishops and priests is neither acknowledged nor received — or to leave.»
«I have always taken the view that the sacramental ministry of women is not something possible for the Church of England [but] we have come to the conclusion in the Church that this is something we can hold together on.»
But the Church herself wants a fraternal dialogue between laymen and the authorities, because she knows that, though not everyone in the Church is called to the sacramental ministry, all Christians are members of the royal priesthood and this is ultimately the higher order.
Those who in conscience can not receive the sacramental ministry of women should not be excluded from being considered for ordination
(Permanent deacons are men ordained into the sacramental ministry of the Church and are to be distinguished from «transitional» deacons who are seminarians on their way to priesthood.)
Pointing to the example of St. Jean Vianney and his tireless, indeed heroic, commitment to the confessional, he urged priests to make this sacramental ministry a priority in their lives, even linking it to the gaining of a plenary indulgence for the priest himself during that year.
Catholic and Orthodox priests who for whatever reason are not required to be celibate nevertheless have fruitful, sacramental ministries.