Sentences with phrase «sacraments more»

I see two indications: recent developments in sacramental theology have helped us to understand the sacraments more clearly as divine actions, and the new sacramental services of the major denominations have made this understanding much more explicit for all to grasp.

Not exact matches

I was thinking more along the lines of partaking of the sacraments.

This is one more demonstration that Mormons are not just one more Christian denomination: they are a different religion which rejects Christian baptism and believes only their sacraments are salvific.

The book includes sections on liturgy and time, on the significance of the church building, on direction in liturgical prayer, reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, music, and more.

If that be the mark of a sacrament, a non-Catholic might gladly assert that there are not seven but seventy times seven, or more if you wish.

Clearly, he saw more here than «grace» or the sacrament of baptism.

Frequently the sacraments are more prophetic than preaching is.

Growing numbers of church people, too, are thoroughly secularized and find their meanings in a technological pragmatic society, and, while continuing to observe the traditional expressions of worship, teaching, and sacraments, these people find their search for meaning more and more unmet by the church's teaching.

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.

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.

On the issue of sacraments, which dominated much of the discussion (partly due to Leithart's firm insistence on the absolute necessity of weekly communion), Sanders said little, given his low - church Zwinglianism on the issue, Trueman admitted their importance but stressed the centrality of the Word, and Leithart camped out on his own more sociological De Lubacian sacramentology.

Sacraments recall God's promises and presence to the worshiping community, binding it together ever more tightly and to clearer purpose.

Despite my earnest efforts to make sessions on the sacraments, church history, the Bible, ethics and beliefs interesting, the last thing on earth these youth wanted was to be put through two more hours of school every Thursday during Lent.

We all need to reflect more on the sacraments — the commitment they demand of us as well as the graces they dispense.

While Gregory consolidated the power of the Church over a more limited geographic area, John Paul took the Gospel and the Sacraments to the ends of the earth.

The Church can no more neglect the service of charity than she can neglect the sacraments and the word.»

The mystery of love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed than in this: the sexual attraction which man shares with the animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it leads to the possibility of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments of the spirit.

But even though we may have to endure a spiritual odyssey and may meet many unexpected obstacles, we ought to make a little more progress than those who have merely been indoctrinated with a little external Christianity which expressed itself merely in a bored attendance at Sunday Mass, perhaps an Easter confession and the receiving of the last sacraments.

I get concerned by your posts, Steve... You seem extremely reliant on the system and its sacraments to keep your faith afloat... Hope if that ever crumbles for you, you'll figure out there is a more solid place to stand.

And none is more real than that which comes to light in Cary's explanation of what Luther actually means by «faith alone,» namely, a simple, firm belief that our sins are absolved when we hear the divine words to that effect pronounced in the sacraments of Baptism and Penance.

From the gospel accounts of his spoken words at the Last Supper, the unity of Catholic tradition holds that the Real Presence is divinely given in the sacrament of the Eucharist — substantively more than any lesser parallelism on our part of either seeing or hearing.

Whatever is unique in the Episcopal Church would be even more difficult to define in the inner city; not many residents here are worried about apostolic succession, valid sacraments or Henry VIII's sex life.

We have no more knowledge about the so - called rebirth, the new birth out of Water and Spirit which is the sacramental baptism (please consider that also Protestants believe in sacraments; I am a Lutheran).

Why is our American culture less likely to accept extra ecclesiam nulla salus and more likely to accept that marriage is a sacrament or that abortion is an infernal sacrament?

In The Analogical Imagination I tried to rethink the traditional Christian theological dialectic of sacrament and word as the more primordial religious dialectic of «manifestation» and «proclamation.»

Western Christianity has become more deistic than theistic and Scriptures that reveal a metaphysics of Divine Transcendence and a deterministic legal agenda rather than a love story of God's relationship with the people S / He has chosen to prepare to become sacraments of Divine Love in the world.

St. Augustine defines a sacrament as the outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace; but he does not lose sight of the community of believers as the mediator of grace, nor should we, even though our doctrine of the relation of grace to the visible Church may declare considerably more freedom for the Holy Spirit than is the case in some traditions.

Michael, you are touching upon two of the four sacraments Catholics recognize that may be received more than once - the anointing sick and confession, both of which are administered by a priest.

Jack Marcum, head of research services for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sees «little evidence of a literal shortage of ministers... We are training more than sufficient numbers of ministers of word and sacrament in the PCUSA to pastor mid-sized and larger congregations and fill other traditional ministries.»

Since the book draws from the imagery of the seven sacraments — baptism, confession, communion, holy orders, marriage, healing, and confirmation — stories that center around those experiences are much more likely to strike a chord with where I'm at creatively with this project.

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.

We become more human the more deeply we are committed to Jesus in the Church, the sacraments and in prayer.

But what has happened to the ministry is all that term suggests and reports, but more painful and accusatory because of the gravity of that public bestowing and receiving of the Lord's Ministry of Word and Sacrament.

Traditionally, the priest has been more important than Protestant clergy as mediator of grace through the sacraments.

Jesus no more teaches a mystic relation to God than he conceives of access to God as mediated through cult and sacrament.

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.

More sacrament, less talk.

We are never so close to God as when we receive the sacraments — they're more than an encounter: it's the infusion of one life into another.

Concerning Rahner, Vass quotes a commentator thus: «He denies that these sacraments are in any way unique in causing grace, or that they are always more effective than other «merely sacramental activities»; something which is not strictly speaking a sacrament might in particular case «work» better in actuallybringing grace to the individual than a sacrament does.»

While Rahner himself would surely be a little more nuanced, the conclusion is that for Rahner the sacraments are just a manifestation of what is present in an already «engraced» world.

A brief look at the Sacrament's different names, will lead to a more detailed consideration of «forgiveness» and some ways in which children can come to experience being forgiven and learn to forgive.

More than 30 years ago, Cardinal Cooke of New York saw the need to provide a setting where Catholics, their families and friends, plus any interested others, could gather in confidence and safely address questions on human sexuality in a setting of prayer and celebration of the Sacraments while remaining wholly rooted in the mainstream Church.

The benefits are: God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul; Grace is given; Confession reminds us of the price of sin; The profits of penance; Remission of eternal punishment; Temporal punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaimore efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaiMore fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaimore serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.

Second, he talks about baptism (a more passive sacrament), but in the Lord's Supper we are encouraged to examine ourselves (1 Cor.

I would argue for a stronger doctrine of the church than I find in Niebuhr, perhaps a more catholic one, one that emphasizes the church as the body of Christ - the church as the one sacrament from which all the particular sacraments are derived, as Karl Rahner put it.

Maintaining Trent's fundamental teaching on justification, the sacraments, and the relation between Scripture and tradition is consistent with affirming a more comprehensive and balanced formulation of that teaching as a fruit of serious theological dialogue.

(Ibid., p. 27) The reading and preaching of the word of God are therefore more important than any sacrament.

The man in control of how Catholic mass and other sacraments are celebrated has been let go from Rom... More

While I know God can touch us any and everyplace, He does so in a much more special way in these and other sacraments.

Laura says that she wonders if Chaput is not speaking more as a «cold warrior» who thinks that admitting her to the sacrament would be a «compromise» («While We're At It») than as a member of the Church that both teaches and lives the truth.