Sentences with phrase «sacraments according»

We perceive the Sacraments according to the phase we are in when we celebrate.

I am not a Catholic but a Protestant; yet I regard Baptism and the Lord's Supper as sacraments according to the German reformers Luther and Bonhoeffer.

Not exact matches

Let the churches handle to sacraments however they wish, and deny them to members according to their own criteria, but it just is not feasible to rewrite all the pertinent civil code merely to remove the loaded term.

In summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).

Some miracles are regular in occurrence (e.g., the change of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ in the sacrament, according to the Roman Catholic view), while some are unique (as in Christ's resurrection).

(According to the Rev. James Pike, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Episcopal Church is now engaged in the development of a programme of education from the cradle to the grave, as a part of which its clergy is being systematically trained, at the College of Preachers in Washington, in «relational theology,» an application of the l - Thou relation to sacrament, grace, and redemption, conceived in relational terms, primarily in the family.

(CNN)- Pope Francis called an Argentine woman married to a divorced man and reportedly told her that she could receive the sacrament of Communion, according to the woman's husband, in an apparent contradiction of Catholic law.

The character of the priest is deemed indifferent to the validity of the sacraments as long as they are administered «according to Christ's ordinance.»

The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.

The sacraments are to be «duly administered according to Christ's ordinance.»

This is the assembly of all believers among whom the Gospel is preached in its purity and the holy sacraments are administered according to the Gospel.

As much as concupiscence darkens the horizon of the inward vision and deprives the heart of the clarity of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace of the sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty of the gift, united to the awareness of the spousal meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349).

According to the Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer a sacrament is «an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ himself; as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof».

On the basis of such a hope the concupiscence of the flesh as thesource of the tendency toward an egoistic gratification is dominated»... [Spouses] «are also in their turn called, through the sacrament, to a life according to the Spirit.

Dionysius defines a hierarchy as «a sacred order, a state of understanding and an activity approximating as closely as possible to the divine... It reaches out to grant every being, according to merit, a share of light and then through a divine sacrament, in harmony and in peace, it bestows on each of those being perfected its own form.»

According to Ratzinger, to understand the Church merely as sacrament and as the people of God is to see her in a predominantly masculine sense.4 He believes that the feminine dimension is essential in that it clarifies and deepens the concept of the Church.

That conception still survives in the Christian theology of the sacraments, according to which ordinary actions become extraordinary in signifying a new conveyance of divine grace.

The churches have constituted themselves the official guardians of the need, with the result that some of them actually pretend to accord or to withhold it from the individual by their conventional sacraments, — withhold it at least in the only shape in which it can be an object of desire.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church notes that «in the first centuries confirmation generally comprised one single celebration with baptism, forming with it a «double sacrament» according to the expression of St Cyprian» (CCC 1290).

Nobody wants to see frequent Holy Communion disappear from the lives of Catholics, but it is equally necessary that Holy Communion should once again be understood as a sacrament to be received with due preparation, in a state of grace, and in a state of life that accords with the teaching of Christ and the Church.

When the words of consecration are repeated, this combination of baked elements is re-moved from the level of ordinary bread and assigned a new meaning in faith, according to the promise made by Jesus at the institution of the sacrament.

Baptism opens up the way of Christian life: it is completed by the sacrament of confirmation, and then throughout the Christian's life he can receive God's forgiveness through the sacrament of reconciliation, and be fed by the Eucharist: «Priests are stewards of the means of salvation, of the sacraments... not to dispense them according to their own will, but as humble servants for the good of the People of God» (Benedict XVI).14

In the last few paragraphs of this chapter we shall attempt to explain the Eucharist, and the sacrament of baptism by which it is preceded, according to the spirit of process theology.

The validity of a sacrament was judged only according to its fidelity to the prescribed rubrics and in no way according to the intensity it inspired in its recipients.

And, of course, Catholics do things — notably all the sacraments, which we believe to be «according to Scripture» — that evangelical Protestants do not do.

Resource to cover the basics of all 7 sacraments and baptism and the Eucharist in greater depth, according to the new specification for WJEC / Eduqas.