Sentences with phrase «sacraments before»

In addressing the doctrine of the Church, Jenson takes up ministry and sacraments before turning to the authority and proclamation of the word.

You can find him on Sunday at St. Jude the Apostle Church in Westlake Village, California, being fed by word and sacrament before he brings a lifetime of learning and that melodious voice into the homes, cars, and ear - buds of millions later in the afternoon, from his post behind the microphone at Chavez Ravine.

Yet, it is also said that a person should understand the meaning of the sacrament before partaking of it.

All Catholics, priest and bishops included, need to examine themselves before receiving Holy Communion and, if aware of unconfessed grave sin, should refrain from receiving the sacrament before receiving sacramental absolution.

Not exact matches

The kind of marriage desired by Christ is a sacrament; it is a visible representation of the transforming grace that has created a new reality that did not exist before.

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

My son Stephen and I spent an unusual, albeit unusually moving, Independence Day: We attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration of my friends Piotr and Teresa Malecki, which began with a Mass of thanksgiving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Cracow's Wawel Cathedral — the place where Piotr and Teresa had exchanged vows on July 4, 1964, kneeling before their old kayaking and hiking friend, the archbishop of Cracow (who, as Pope St. John Paul II, was canonized some two months before the Maleckis» jubilee.)

Each day saw a programme of talks, discussion groups, prayer, music, sport, social activities, and candlelit prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

The most impressive example is her account of the murder of her father - in - law, and the long hours of prayer she spent before the Blessed Sacrament which brought her to forgiveness.

Catholics were probably more inclined to make spiritual communion before the cultural shift initiated a century ago by Pius X, who encouraged a more frequent reception of the Blessed Sacrament.

Sustained by prayer, especially before the Blessed Sacrament and in the Divine Office of the Church, and by the sacramental life, she was immersed in theology, particularly spiritual and mystical theology; she also retained her love of literature.

Paul's indignant declaration (v 34) that those who were hungry should eat at home before coming to the Lord's table probably influenced the separation of the sacrament from a common meal.

The Church ought, for example, long ago to have abolished genuflection before the Blessed Sacrament in Japan in favour of a deep bow, in deference to Japanese feelings, or to have ceased using spittle at baptism, as has now been done.

For it is the Church of a world which has increased the tempo of its history to a gigantic extent; it is the Church which is to bear credible testimony, before that world, to God's truth, mediate the grace of God to that world, be the sacrament of salvation for that world.

He was not prepared for the ministry and was not called, so the Plymouth Colony got along without the sacraments for four years before an ordained clergyman arrived.

And here is a man who has the luxury of knowing he has the sacraments and all his good work «just in case» he stands before God.

I sit before the Blessed Sacrament in contemplation.

Indeed I often pray the Offertory prayer in my own private devotions before the Blessed Sacrament: (Suscipe Sancte Pater...) «Accept O Holy Father Almighty and Eternal God, this holy and unblemished victim which I thy unworthy servant offered unto Thee, my living and true God for my own innumerable sins, offences and negligence and for all here present and for all the faithful living and dead that it may profit me and them for salvation to eternal life».

Catechumens who die before baptism are said to receive the grace of the sacrament because of «their desire to receive it, together with repentance of their sins and charity» (Catechism of the Catholic Church in 1259).

The soul that will go to confession within 8 days and receive communion and spend some time in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament on this day shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment».

However Bonhoeffer insists that there must be a «firm faith present» (which «can only happen in a living Christian community») before the sacrament be administered.

Probably the baptism of John was an eschatological sacrament, and may have had in the circle of the Baptizer some peculiar sacramental meaning, but Jesus can scarcely have seen more in it than the acknowledgment of penitence before the coming of the Kingdom.

This «outfront» role, enacted «before the congregation,» is of course very public: administering the sacraments, preaching the word, and being of service to other human beings within and without the congregation.

With respect, it does seem to be getting the cart before the horse, to restore this minor sign of penitential living yet still to neglect the crying need for major re-catechesis on the sacrament of Penance and the penitential life.

The sacraments embody and activate in particular times and places the «mystery of God's purpose set forth in Christ before the foundation of the world» (Eph 1.1).

You need to know the power of His forgiveness and mercy in your own life before you can forgive others — but if you do forgive, then you are truly a sign and expression of Christ's love for His Church and you are truly Christ to your spouse, which is what He intended when He called you to the great Sacrament and mission of marriage.

There was no chewing in church, no mobile phones, of course, no running, no talking before the Blessed Sacrament.

Vast processions of the Blessed Sacrament with an altar server giving out incense and girls strewing rose petals before the monstrance carried by a priest under a canopy held by four reverent men, weekly benediction with our heads bent low; «Truly this is the Son of God» we could say since we all lived this belief.

Just as the state is called by God to an irrevocable task of doing public justice, so also is the institutional church called by God to proclaim the Gospel in its fullness, administer the sacraments and to ensure that its members are living up to their calling before the face of God, who has redeemed them in Jesus Christ.

As any convert can attest, there are many ups - and - downs during the journey: Struggling with doctrine followed by insights from magisterial passages coupled with Scripture, feeling still and alone followed by being overwhelmed by the presence of the saints before us, crying out to God for His presence and having Him answer in the Blessed Sacrament.

On learning that, although Jesus Christ is the Word who was from the beginning, the power of Christ that was working for salvation before the time of Jesus, in virtue of his coming, is still working in people of sincere faith, devotional Hindus will want to know why they must abandon their own sacraments.

We are communing with the saints who have gone before every time we gather together in Jesus» name, taking the sacraments together, saying the creeds.

Rather than take the difficult pastoral road of reminding people that there are circumstances in which some change needs to be made before receiving Holy Communion, we seem to have accepted that everyone should routinely present themselves for the sacrament every time they attend Mass..

At the heart of «You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church» is the central fact of the Incarnation itself: source not only of the Sacraments but of the hierarchy (which came before any of the bureaucracy).

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states: 1 «Christ announced the necessity of a spiritual regeneration «of water and the spirit» in his conversation with Nicodemus, and it has been commonly held that he instituted the Sacrament either at an unspecified date before His passion or after his resurrection, when he gave the disciples the command to baptise in the Threefold Name.»

If you want to show that you are good Christians by handling the sacrament and boast of it before the world, then Herod and Pilate are the chief and best Christians, since it seems to me that they really handled the body of Christ when they had him nailed to the cross and put to death... No, my dear friends, the kingdom of God does not consist in outward things, which can be touched or perceived, but in faith.

Cajetan had roughed out a proposal even more liberal than before, agreeing to married clergy, communion under both kinds, no doctrinal recantation and a liberal policy on the sacraments which were no longer to be operated under the same kind of canonical system.

It helps users do an examination of conscience before the Sacrament and to pray afterwards.

The devotion concludes with a shorter visit before an image of Our Lady which, in structure, mirrors the visit to the Blessed Sacrament.

Get the state out of the marriage business, and let the wealthiest among us collect a harem of concubines like the days before the church declared marriage a sacrament.

Monsignor William J. Bradley of Blessed Sacrament Church in New Rochelle broke down in tears at each mass yesterday as he shared with parishioners the tragic news that just hours before his grand - nephew Paul Bradley, 18, had been killed in an automobile collision in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

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