Sentences with phrase «sacramental rites»

This is a gift which the symbolism of the sacramental rites are designed to signify.

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

The recent sacramental rites published by Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, the United Church of Christ, Presbyterians and United Methodists have a much richer and deeper theology of God acting in and through the sacraments to give himself to us.

Finally there is the mission, or the sending», which is integral to the sacramental rite.

As Luther saw, and as Gustav Aulen has recently argued in a study of the eucharistic doctrine of Luther, the fact that by a memorial action Christ becomes present in the sacramental rite means that his sacrifice itself becomes present also, for we have to do with the «whole Christ» and the «whole Christ» includes all that he experienced in the days of his flesh.

Implied in the Thomistic approach is that a distinct divine intervention takes place every time the sacramental rite is performed.

Liturgy, the entire sacramental rite, is a profound metaphysical reality.

The liturgical changes of the 1960s were intended primarily to restore the sacramental rite to its true and full meaning for the whole church: participation as a community not in the performance of rituals or in the fulfillment of requirements but in the mystery of God's love.

Not exact matches

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.

The linchpin of Pannenberg's proposal for an ecumenical sacramental spirituality lies in baptism, for in this rite the believer's identity and existence extra se in Christ are signified and grounded.

He wishes us to see in the meal of the five thousand a prototype of the sacramental meal in which Jesus gave himself to his disciples, and which was perpetuated in the early church's rite of the breaking of bread.

It is entirely appropriate, therefore, that both the Christian rite of initiation into the community of faith and the chief Christian action of worship should have this sacramental nature.

But this does not mean that we need not recognize a sacramental quality in other rites and ceremonies of the Christian tradition — and value them as such.

The rites of preparation in high liturgies suggest that the materials of the liturgy aren't sacramental enough just by being the materials they are.

The old Roman Rite, which emerged from a long tradition, was understood as the sacramental offering by the priest, acting in the Person of Christ, which He offered on the Cross to his Father in expiation for the sins of the world.

They have missed the emphasis upon this sacramental mystery within the new rite.

J.A.Jungman was apparently so incensed by St Thomas» teaching on sacramental signification in relation to the sacrifice that he denied his authorship of the relevant section of the Summa (III, q. 83): The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development, New York, 1951, vol.i, p. 114, n. 61.

We shall presently discuss the rites of baptism and the Lord's Supper; but not every Christian service of worship was «sacramental».