Sentences with phrase «sacraments like»

What about the historic Christian sacraments like baptism and the Eucharist, and what about the liturgies of the churches?

Many Christian traditions believe that a real, literal change takes place when we participate in sacraments like communion or baptism, though we disagree on how that change works.

One of the things I love about Christianity is the physicality of sacraments like communion and baptism, the way we can taste, smell, hear, see, and feel the presence of God through these beautiful acts of remembrance and faith.

I cling to the sacraments like a drowning man clinging to a life preserver, headed over the falls.

Not exact matches

To be a TRUE Catholic in good standing and able to receive the sacraments, you must adhere to ALL of their rules, like them or not.

It's like the Black Mass, the man who steals the sacrament to desecrate it.

As I recall, the sacrament of baptism was for those repenting — not for anyone who just felt like having it.

The third good of marriage that Augustine outlines is sacramentum — marriage is a sacrament, like baptism, and is therefore a sign of spiritual things.

Although they are urged to attend Mass and make a «spiritual communion,» being barred from full participation in the sacraments no doubt feels like excommunication to many.

What Christianity would have been like without its great hymns and oratorios, the poetry of the Bible, the time - transcending liturgies of the sacraments, and the distinctive beauty of Christian houses of worship is hard to contemplate.

In chapters like «The Meaning of Sex,» «Becoming a Singular Sensation,» «The Gift of the Present Moment,» «Winning the Spiritual Battle,» and «Craving Heaven,» Eden describes God's design for human sexuality, why sex is reserved for marriage, the importance of modesty, how singles struggling with loneliness and unrequited love can empower themselves through prayer and the sacraments, and why shared values with one's spouse are so vital for a successful marriage.

Like John the Baptist, in the sacraments we point away from ourselves and toward Jesus: «Behold, the Lamb of God.»

Like untrained gardeners going into an overgrown garden, successors to the Reformers hacked about with machetes, slashing unknowingly through material that had been affirmed for the first thousand years: the sacraments, the honoring of Mary, the eucharistic Real Presence.

Just like the other sacraments join us in Christ when we perform them.

In this sense, these positions come full circle and begin to look like that great ritual enemy of Protestantism; namely, the mechanical view of the sacraments attributed to the medieval tradition.

Like the poet Heinrich Heine, he considered the sacrament of baptism only as «an entrance card into the community of European culture».

That sacrament should be performed when the individual is ready to profess his or her faith in Jesus - just like the Baptists do.

The Bible is like the elements of the sacraments, products that man uses and products that God uses (for His purposes).

In former Communists countries, like Poland in some Churches women are not even allowed to read during mass, forget about altar girls I've only seen 1 church that allowed it, and couples who practice contraception, who are divorced, who have children out of wedlock, priests often deny them the Sacraments especially in small towns.

I have a problem with churches owning so much money, property and buildings; I question liturgy and orders of worship; I struggle with the one - man monologue sermon model; I have always wrestled with «full - time paid ministry» pastor positions; I disregard Sunday dress; I don't like the control of worship music by a select and talented few; I don't believe in tithing; I question the sacraments, formal Christian education, and our whole approach to the New Testament.

The sacrament of confirmation is supposed to be the acceptance of Christ as our Lord and Savior, but it's treated in the Catholic Church like «okay, you're going to go through this sacrament even though you may not have spiritually accepted Christ into your heart.»

And finally, «I was reminded of how often I saw scenes like this at the market, and it occurred to me that this had become, in fact, a kind of sacrament,»

I would like to take the opportunity of reminding you about the wonderful sacrament of God's mercy: Reconciliation or Confession.

Throughgrace and through nature (for God has made them one economy and one identity in the humanity of Christ) Christ (whether passible on earth or impassible but living in His Church, His Sacraments, and His People) is an «ecological» influence if you like, which reaches, especially through us men, into every aspect of creation.

Nevertheless, like the sacraments (which would otherwise become bare symbols), the kerygma necessarily assumes the form of tradition, for it is more than a summary of general truths, and is itself part of the eschatological event.

I like to think that everything from the gathering of the berries to the raising of my tinies to the feeding of the hungry to the advocating for my local community's needs is a sacrament, and a foretaste, that we embody the Gospel by our roots, too, by our transforming love, by our unhurried community development, by our friendships, by our casseroles, and our wanderings.

Like worship, the sacraments may seem like dead rituals in the life of the church toLike worship, the sacraments may seem like dead rituals in the life of the church tolike dead rituals in the life of the church today.

Does this Confession app seem like a wise application of a sacrament?

In the first place, Christianity, like most religions, is tied up with specific symbols or sacraments.

See for instance Raimon Panikkar, La plenitud del hombre (Madrid 1999), p. 26: «The existential situation at the end of this century is so serious that we must not let ourselves be consumed by internal political fights and rather private problems (the ordination of women, protestant sacraments, ecumenism, sexual morals, modern rites and the like)».

It concerned the use of excommunication by the new Christian authorities, and other difficult matters like the celebration of Mass when there was no congregation (not approved) and the reservation of the Sacrament — also not approved because Communion should not be separated from the Word.

Much older Catholics recall things like the ban on music at a «mixed marriage» — and in some dioceses even the consignment of such a wedding to the sacristy and consequent lack of any sense of celebration — or refusal of the Sacraments because of a failure to send children to a Catholic school.

The spoken word - like Baptism and Eucharist - is said to have a sacramental quality; the church itself is called a sacrament of the kingdom.

Furthermore (and this bears repeating) you will hear no support for the likes of Francis Phillips, or any other lay Catholic swimming against that particular tide, from the English bishops, if for no other reason that it might cause the faithful to call to mind an (at the moment) dormant issue: their continuing support for the Soho Masses, at which homoerotically active homosexuals (self - proclaimed as such) regularly, and some say blasphemously, receive the Sacrament of the Altar.

Oddly enough, here in America, we get to choose and aren't you going to be crying in Sacrament meeting when your silly Romney with the Ape - like arms (I mean look at the picture!

If a minister is ordained to a ministry of word and sacrament, why does he need to go through what looks like re-ordination every time he leads the Eucharist?

His mind was still agonising over the matter of the exercise of authority, and in particular the matter of the «Ban» on the sacraments so often exercised by Church authorities when they wanted an overdue debt paying — bans «flying about like bats», as he had said in March — and in general the whole business of excommunication.

It is strictly a product of man and of God... like the sacraments... like Jesus Himself.

I fear the same as happened with the lay movements, which, like Neocatechumenate, spurned the Blessed Sacrament and kneeling during Eucharistic Consecration of Bread and Wine, in spite of being approved by three Popes!

Like the Rastafarians in Jamaica, who worship the Sacred Herb, and the Native American Churchians, who experience the Holy Cactus as a sacrament, here at the Natural Chilehead Cult we prove our faith by the ritual consumption of all - powerful pungent pod eight times a day.

While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).

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.

I tried to keep this list to things that folks had an opportunity to see so you'll see a lack of other festival goodies like The Sacrament, A Field in England or Afflicted.

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And, since the sacrament of baptism is said to be the remedy for the «original sin», but renders the baptized subject to heaven or Hell, rather than the «limbo» of the unbaptized, recommit the «original sin» to give up heaven to avoid Hell, and go to «limbo», nonexistence, like, supposedly, the animals do.

Like previous assassin quests in their other games, it has typical contract and black sacrament kills.

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We have priests refusing to dispense the sacraments to people they don't like.