Sentences with phrase «special grace given»

We should celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception with fanfare because Mariology is ecclesiology — every special grace given to Mary is an eschatological promise to the Church.

That is to say, every special grace given to Mary is an eschatological promise to the Church.

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It seems at first glance that understanding God as love was simply a given, not requiring any special defense, because that love was so clearly manifest in the person of Jesus Christ as well as in the grace of redemption.

There will be moments when we are so surrendered to God that God can be incarnationally present in and through us; but these are special moments of infused Grace and are not sustainable, given the present evolutionary unfolding of the Mystery of Redemption.

The tradition of using a tiny bit of bread and wine (or juice) has continued to be practiced, even though it does not even come close to what was practiced by Jesus and His apostles on the night He was betrayed, and reflects instead some sort of magical ceremony where some people believe that God is giving them special grace and power through the ritual elements of bread and wine.

Their experience of adoption has given the Robertses a special understanding or what it is like to receive God's gift of grace in Jesus Christ.

Being surrounded by people who give us life and show us grace is one of the most sacred, special gifts in the world.

However, as we have already observed, St. Paul teaches explicitly that marriage has a corresponding special «gift», and that in the mystery of redemption marriage is given to a man and a woman as a grace» (TB 348).

They argue that, given the nature of things, there are only certain pathways to God and that the forms approved by their special group are the appropriate symbols for representing him and for providing the «means of grace» by which the divine life is mediated to man.

cit., p. 83) And we read in I Corinthians 13 that all the magnificent gifts of special grace are worthless and useless in comparison to the freely given, sacrificial, forgiving, and patient agape.

She was admitted in good condition to the hospital's special care unit, where nurses fed her and gave her the name Mary Grace, according to Palmer.