Sentences with phrase «took sacrament»

I took sacrament at my grandmother's funeral out of respect for her.

Catholics believe that you have to belong to their church and take their sacraments and maybe be good enough to make purgatory.

Truth was, Hitler never took the sacraments after his childhood, and killed many priests along the way.

I watched him kneel and take the Sacrament on his tongue, and could not doubt the fullness and totality of Communion, the perfect alignment of his spirit with the spirit of the Mass..

She can not take the sacrament (known in many Christian churches as Communion), receive a calling to serve the church or give talks in the church.

I have taken the sacraments at least once a week since, and have confessed when I feel sinful.

It feels rude to eat anything in a church, other than taking the Sacrament.

When she's here, she's here for spiritual sustenance — to pray, take the sacrament, and connect with and serve her community.

He doesn't take the sacrament when it's offered and admits he sometimes passes on saying «amen» to church prayers.

Someone who thought he did not need to take the sacrament had to be a saint already: «Bells should be rung wherever you go on the street to tell of the saint coming.»

We are communing with the saints who have gone before every time we gather together in Jesus» name, taking the sacraments together, saying the creeds.

He never took the sacraments, he never married his wife in church.

As they heard this, many in the congregation remembered Karlstadt's admonition on Christmas Day in the castle church that everyone should go and take the Sacrament both the bread and the wine with their own hands.

It will help folks take the Sacrament of Confession more seriously and realize that the 10 Commandments encompass a lot more than «TEN ITEMS» to consider.

By etching these letters and numbers which have accounted for so much of my life, I am in a sense, taking sacrament at the altar.

Not exact matches

«The picture is as clear as if it took place yesterday: the padre with his chaplain's scarf, the ragged and emaciated men kneeling, if they could, to receive the sacrament of God's love.

The position became vacant after archbishop Arthur Roche took up the position of secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome.

IMO this is what happens when the sacraments take a back stage to the celebrity minded, opinion based approach to the bible that is endemic in evangelicalism, especially Calvinists.

There are some of us who work hard to take care of our families while also accepting the responsibility of serving God's people through the ministry of the Word and in the Sacraments — don't discount the number of faithful men and women who make this sacrifice — willingly and without thanks.

The drama of sacraments as occasions in which the power of God comes to dwell in the believer can become obscured when a church takes its rites for granted or forgets the radical nature of Christian identity.

The grace conveyed to the believer in sacraments is the presence of God symbolized by water, oil or food, from which the believer takes strength and comfort.

Lame tech jokes aside, the makers of «Confession: A Roman Catholic App» say their software is seriously designed to help believers with the sacrament, and to help those who have left the church take a digital step back home.

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.

But taken in an exclusive sense the statement would be false; for this self - communication does not take place only in the sacraments and the liturgy.

While the family still lived in Las Vegas, Rubio received First Communion, a sacrament in the Catholic church when adherents take communion for the first time.

I do not see how preaching, worship, prayer, ordination, the sacraments can be taken seriously by the radical theologian.

In addressing the doctrine of the Church, Jenson takes up ministry and sacraments before turning to the authority and proclamation of the word.

While a priest taking his vows is a sacrament, it is not a sacrament when the nun takes her vows.

Both St. Thomas Aquinas and the Council of Trent indicate that there are those who take sacramentally but who do not do so spiritually, therefore the fruits of the sacrament are not exhibited in their lives.

Steve Martin: The job of the church (and the pastor) is to take a hard line on sin (not gays) any sin, all sin... and then hand over Christ and His Sacraments... freely... with no strings.

The job of the church (and the pastor) is to take a hard line on sin (not gays) any sin, all sin... and then hand over Christ and His Sacraments... freely... with no strings.

For as the Church prays, the sufferings we endure, if taken to Christ in the Sacrament designed for forgiveness, can bring us «increase of grace and the reward of eternal life», or, quoting from St Vincent de Paul, «the throne of God's mercy isset on my wretchedness».

In preaching, the kerygmatic element prevails; in the sacrament, visual symbolism takes over.

In light of this, can it be agreed that a study of theology that takes place, as at Steubenville, alongside a firm spiritual practice (Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, traditional Marian and other devotions) and a clear moral stance (students living celibate lives supported by households and communities) is a necessary part of a strategy for Catholic theology?

Some say that an ecumenical council can take place only if unity in faith, ministry and sacraments already exists.

The word sacrament is taken from the Roman army.

In a sacrament, a material and visible — in brief, a «sensible» — thing or action is taken and used by God, in accordance with the will of Christ (whether that is by direct institution, as with the eucharist, or through what Christians believe to be by the Spirit in the life of the fellowship, as with baptism), to convey and to effect a spiritual, invisible result.

Therefore, Pope Francis teaches that the «Sacraments are a privileged way in which nature is taken up by God to become a means of mediating supernatural life» (235).

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.

How could Romney sit under and practice the teachings of a religion that until the late 1970's decree and believe that African - Americans were decendents of Cain and therefore cursed, that they were not allowed to become priests and take part in the churchs» sacraments?

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

The priest is merely the Church's witness to the sacrament taking place.

Selman additionally makes use of Edward Schillebeeckx's book Christ the Sacrament, though he adroitly points out that this fact should not be taken to signify a blanket approval of the Belgian theologian's other works.

However, the Church still encourages us in this state to pray and to take part in the life of the Church and the other sacraments as far as possible.

Thus, if a couple have nointention of having children, or despise the Faith, or hold the notion of a sacrament in contempt, then no marriage can possibly take place, no matter how grand and meaningful the wedding.

Unlike the sacrament, the contingencies related to the speaker and the hearer assume greater significance in defining what takes place.

They took the 13th century conviction that sacraments were instituted by Jesus Christ himself to its logical conclusion that the authority for them must be found in the spoken words of Christ.

Along with everything else on the very busy schedule, we have confessions, a beautiful Blessed Sacrament Procession, Benediction taking place on the last day and Night Prayers.

From these sonorous, antiphonal cadences Jane Austen, on her deathbed, receiving the sacrament from her brother's hands, had taken comfort.

This is a long period across which preparation for and reception of those three sacraments takes place.