Sentences with phrase «sacramental sense»

The point is that we consider you sisters and brothers, and not in some vague sentimental sense, but in a real, ontologically true, metaphysical, sacramental sense.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

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.

«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.»

Not exact matches

They were «sacramentals» in the wider sense, but they were not guaranteed as saving actions.

To be a naturalist, in the Whiteheadian sense, is to affirm a sacramental universe.

To make sense of Kasper's statement, we may have to assume that he used the term «spiritual communion with Christ» to mean the state of being already properly disposed to receive Christ in sacramental Communion.

Such an object has a sacramental character in the broad sense.

In a word: By sacramental baptism you become a Christian in that sense, that you must and can follow Jesus after baptism.

This is the insight (perhaps often unconsciously known) that is behind the common Christian understanding of marriage as in some real sense sacramental.

Against such an ancient and affirming tradition, Francis's assertion that «the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null» shocked both common sense and Catholic sensibility.

If the theological perspective has any depth at all, then erotic love will always have its sacramental overtone: this love is born of God's love, is a reflection of that love, and may be in a real sense participation in that love.

There seems to be at present a tendency to speak of preaching as sacramental in the sense that Christ is present speaking his Word, but not a sacrament in the sense of ex opere operato.

It is sacramental in the sense that it is not abstract but seeks concrete ways in which the future can become present and tangible.

First of all, Mr. Neuhaus can rest assured that as far as I am concerned, Catholics who wish to do so have every right to believe that the Church is sinless in a sacramental, transcendent sense.

In that sense their common reversion to silence renders sacramental differences somewhat less significant than they might otherwise appear to be.

It is not the case, however, that in his remarks in Commentary Professor Wistrich affirmed his respect for the Catholic belief that the Church is, in a sacramental and transcendent sense, sinless.

When Cairns moved with his family to Virginia to teach at Old Dominion, they began to worship at an Episcopal church, which fed his increasing sense of sacramental reality.

In a narrower sense we can only believe in Christ in connection with the sacramental baptism.

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

Any occasion that gathers two or more together to re-present and re-create the Jesus event and to renew the faith of those gathered is, in the wide sense, sacramental.

A sermon, some moments of common prayer, or even a simple conversation that inspires can be sacramental in this sense.

Hindu, Secular and Christian who have contributed to the Christianization / Humanization of Indian religion, ideology and philosophy in the light of the Crucified Christ, but also the local Christian congregations which in their worship and sacramental life, demonstrated a pattern of corporate life of fellowship, transcending traditional caste division impelled by their new sense of being made brethren through the death of Christ on the Cross.

Theologically, such television organizations, in their relationship with their audiences, are deficient in two characteristics that have traditionally been seen as essential to identifying a body as a church: they have no sacramental dimension to their worship and there is no meaningful sense of their audiences being a particular community in Christ.

Such acts are also sacramental in the sense that they become places of encounter with the purifying fire of the Spirit of God.

The ability to employ this sort of metaphor, however, seems to rest on a confidence that things really are associated, that the center holds, that the web is not broken — that, in other words, the universe is in some sense sacramental, that God is somehow the true and original father, that all things are connected among themselves because they are connected in God.

Moreover, the human body in itself is in some sense sacramental and it is from this perspective that John Paul wants to study the human body as a theology, as a sign of the spiritual and divine mystery.

There is a sense in which the mystical, sacramental tradition enables the connections to be made too easily, too intellectually, too «religiously.»

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.