Sentences with phrase «sacrificial action»

If this is not the case the sacrificial action is an empty expression and impotent.

As one moves into the second session the connection between the Old Testament language of sacrifice and the words of the institution narrative of the Last Supper are opened up to give greater clarity to the sacrificial action of the Mass..

The presence of Christ in the memorial of His sacrificial action is an integral part of Christian worship.

Not exact matches

Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

Smith posits an inspired rebirth of faith, Morressy the providential arrangements of human desire and action, and Lafferty the power of sacrificial miracle.

He must be harmless as the dove (the sacrificial victim, ready to sacrifice himself in his action — for the dove is the sacrificial victim) and wise as the serpent (that is, fully aware of just what he thinks and does).

Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is sacrificial in quality, since it has to do with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.

Unless a gift is in this fashion sacrificial — the giving up of something — it is argued, a gift reduces to a hidden contractual agreement, governed by a principle of self - interest; and actions out of self - interest, as Kant pointed out, are not pure gifts.

We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»

He needed his self - sacrificial love of his virgin wife, he needed his tender care for the infant Jesus, and, most of all, he needed his decisiveness and holy fear of God for prompt and courageous action.

11, pp. 401 - 403) and even valiant heroes were reduced in Hades to ghosts so feeble that a draught of the fresh blood of sacrificial victims was necessary to rouse them to action.

But our use of the words «sacrificial death» brings before us a further aspect of the action.

There are a number of places where Christ or His actions are described in sacrificial terms, [4] but the title «Priest» is never given, and generally these passages emphasise Christ's role as victim more than priest.

[18] This text means just what it says, as Michael McGuckian has recently emphasized: «A correct interpretation of the doctrine of the Council of Trent... must maintain that the sacrificial character of the Mass is to be sought on the plane of the visible liturgical action».

My aim will be to show that, on the contrary, according to the Summa, the specifically sacrificial aspect depends on the ritual actions, the things done, and not on the Real Presence, the thing offered.

Although the bone - crunching action is thrillingly, sometimes terrifyingly rendered, one moment in particular positively glories in the self - sacrificial heroics, over-employing slow - mo and rendering a poignant moment utterly ridiculous.

McCarthy's provocative early performances in the late 1960s and 70s used his own body as the raw material to explore masculinity, where, drawing on performance art and action painting, he substituted the Viennese Actionists» sacrificial use of blood with ketchup and the Abstract Expressionists» paintbrush with phallic false limbs.

This week we'll propose actions you can take in order to eat a «low energy diet» (and don't worry we're not talking about a «diet» in the traditional sacrificial sense of the word).