Sentences with phrase «sacramental presence»

Louise understood something of the power and love of God, and Louise became the sacramental presence of God that evening among us.

Others have felt him as a mystical or sacramental presence.

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.

She notes the buzzwords («sacramental presence,» «vulnerability») and the push for «Oprah» - style emotional displays.

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Their presence was sacramental, a visible sign of God's call to all of us.

From 1518 on, it is the particularity and concreteness of God's presence that now foreclose idolatry; the true God, who by definition can not be used, is the God who makes Himself available as He chooses, in the flesh born of Mary and the Church's sacramental practice, not in our religious speculation and self - interest.

If Pentecostals are sacramental, then it is highly ironic that they tend not to believe that there is any real spiritual power invested in the rites of baptism and Holy Communion, holding instead that they are only symbols and marginalizing their presence in their services.

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.

For despite the interconnection of all the elements we must distinguish between the one saving act of Christ which is made present in the liturgy (though its efficacy is not restricted to this presence) and the external sacramental action as such.

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.

Perhaps both Jews and Muslims might have learned from Christians to understand more fully God's sacramental or incarnational presence in the world.

«The interpreter's presence — as the embodiment of the poem — constitute a kind of image - meaning, or a sacramental meaningfulness» (103).

However odd this sounds, that by movie's end it seems both plausible and fitting bespeaks the artistic triumph of In Bruges: its ability to convey the Christian sacramental sense of divine presence within the created order, and most especially in self - sacrificing acts of love by imperfect beings themselves being perfected by Christ.

Mysticism, as we are using the term here, perceives more explicitly than sacramentalism the presence of an ultimate unity of mystery beyond finite realities and seeks to enter into this unity immediately and intensely, at times with little apparent need for sacramental mediation.

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.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

Because of the virtually sacramental «real presence» of its meaning, music has «celebrated the mystery of intuitions of transcendence.»

The Holy must transcend any form that embodies it, call into question any self - satisfaction with our own experiential awareness of it; most important, we must not see too much of our own face in the mirror of the sacramental forms that mediate its presence.

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

The superiority of the Mass over the Old Testament sacrifices is fullyestablished by the Real Presence of Jesus under the sacramental species (in contrast to his Old Testament presence merely as a sign) even without the supposition that the Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament has, in whatever sense, a quality of woundedness.

[10] The former would be a profession relying on technical rationality to rationalize the holy that is a-rational, which sounds like a fruitless undertaking; the latter would be a «sacramental person» mediating God's presence.