Sentences with phrase «sacrifice of the cross»

About the sacrifice of the cross for my sins, I'm in trouble.

Only thru Jesus and the sacrifice of the cross, where his blood divinely washes away all our sins and makes us worthy and Holy in God's eyes.

Marissen also argues that Bach's Musical Offering, which seems like abstract chamber music, is a defense — against Enlightenment pride — of the Lutheran understanding of true glory revealed in the sacrifice of the cross.

What Mary and Joseph, the angels and archangels, the shepherds and now, brothers and sisters in Christ, all of us» what they and we behold with nearly breathless wonder is the birth of the one who, taking on our humanity, will lay down his life for us in the sacrifice of the cross so that we can become sharers in his divinity.

[24] See also Paul VI, Mysterium Fidei (1965), para. 27: «by means of the eucharistic mystery, the sacrifice of the cross, achieved once on Calvary, is marvellously symbolised, continually recalled to the memory, and its saving virtue is applied to the remission of sins...» (translated by Byron, op.cit., p. 70).

Moltmann's work makes the striking argument that the sacrifice of the cross is not a punishment to appease God's justice, but God's act of identification with humanity and the source of a new hope for the human future.

For first we offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; then next we plead and represent before the Father the sacrifice of the cross, and by it we confidently entreat remission of sins and all other benefits of the Lord's Passion for the whole Church; and lastly we offer the sacrifice of ourselves to the Creator of all things which we have already signified by the oblations of his creatures.