Sentences with phrase «with bread and wine»

And that reality is indelibly associated with the bread and wine which are used according to Christ's own action at the Last Supper, so that in receiving them we may say, as the Church has always said, that we receive «the spiritual food of the body and blood of Christ,» and that we receive this «to our great and endless comfort,» or strengthening.

I don't need a seat at their table — in Christ, really, there is only one table, laid out with the bread and the wine, there is room for me there.

Greater Love Has No Man The washing of the disciples» feet, then, is closely associated in meaning with Jesus» symbolic action with the bread and the wine in the synoptic accounts of the last supper.

Indeed it may be called the Christian sacrifice, for it is the offering of thanks, praise, and prayers, along with bread and wine, to God known through Christ.

Theologians are still almost exclusively concerned with the presence of Christ in or with bread and wine; that is, with a realized eschatology in the Lord's Supper.

The offense of the gospel is not merely an offense to reason over the «mystery» of the presence of flesh and blood in or with bread and wine; no, it is the scandal of the cross.

We discussed communion and why Catholics are so careful with the bread and wine.

Not exact matches

The restaurants feature a full bar with craft beer, wine, and liquor, and menu items such as the O.F.D — a half - pound beef burger with house - made tomato jam, bacon, Swiss cheese, and sautéed mushrooms — and sandwiches like the crispy haddock, which features seasoned panko - breaded haddock fillets topped with lettuce, tomato, and balsamic tartar sauce.

Eat freely all Life's Fruited Breads and drink much with the zealots their various fruited wines from the sheltered wineries!

He also suggests that the eschatological prospect entertained by Jesus is a later addition, and notes that it has nothing to do with the gift of bread and wine.

The Fosters had us over for book study, and Pastor Kathryn served communion with the Fosters homemade wine (made using elder berries Julia grew in the front yard) and beer bread.

Only when what we offer — bread and wine — is connected with what the priest offers to the Father after the consecration, namely the Body and Blood of Christ, can we truly say that this is our offering to God.3

In the final frame the menorah becomes a smoldering cross, and in a nearby cave (an empty tomb), bread and wine are set at a table with the words «Do this in remembrance of me.»

This would require the courts to come to grips with the significant stupidity of bodily resurrections, changing bread and water / wine into bodies and blood, atonement of sin et al..

Christians should, given their tradition, be inclined to find sense in body language, not only because of the resurrection of the body but also because of the bread and wine of the eucharist as the body and blood of Christ, and the church as the body with Christ as its head.

«Thus says the Lord of hosts: «Now, ask the priests concerning the law, saying, «If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?

Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»

I have encountered the presence of Jesus in fellowship with other Christians, among the poor and disenfranchised, as I eat the bread and drink the wine.

The priest might put his foot down and ban the use of hymns that contain doctrinal errors: the one where Jesus is reported as saying «I am with you in this bread and wine» for example.

For what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillard?

Again, at the beginning, we have that mysterious figure Melchizedek, King of Salem, «priest of God Most High», with his offerings of bread and wine.

That Jesus not only distributed bread and wine to the disciples but also accompanied the acts with words giving them a new, special meaning can not be reasonably questioned.

For example, for Christians the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper may intensify loyalty to Jesus and his cause through the imaginative association of the elements with the body and blood of the crucified Jesus.

There are perhaps parallels with the devotion shown by some Christians to the consecrated bread and wine at the Mass..

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

Give us this day our daily bread, along with prime rib and fancy French wine, And forgive us our debts, because you know we're never paying off $ 14 Trilliand fancy French wine, And forgive us our debts, because you know we're never paying off $ 14 TrilliAnd forgive us our debts, because you know we're never paying off $ 14 Trillion.

While in no way wishing to suggest that anyone should not «celebrate» the Lord's Supper with a bit of bread or cracker and a few drops of juice or wine, as seems to be the common practice in many churches, may I share some of the ways we choose to celebrate and remember our Lord with food and drink?

So just as baptism could be done with a few drops of water, so also the Lord's Supper could be observed with a small bit of bread and a few drops of wine.

The significance of the bread and wine was not in the elements themselves, but in the power of the spiritual presence that came with it.

During the Last Supper on the night before His arrest, trial, and crucifixion, Jesus shared the Passover Meal with His disciples and imbued new symbolism into the bread and wine.

A little bread and wine, along with God's perfect promise.

While in its original use this was probably a reference to sacramental participation in the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist, there is a possible further extension of its meaning so that it will include a relationship with the whole natural order, seen as a sphere of the divine activity and hence as a way of contact with the God who is operative within it.

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.

Both told of a Last Supper linked with the blood sacrifice whose symbolic recreation by eating bread and wine provided salvation for all worshippers.

11:24 - 25), or only that they continued Jesus» practice of a fellowship - meal with his disciples, is much disputed, but the testimony of Paul (I Cor.11: 23) taken in conjunction with the firm tradition that Jesus had given to bread and wine a new significance at the Last Supper, support the view that from the very earliest days Christians repeated the substance of that rite.

It is indeed a difficult task to «switch gears» from a theology based on static, spatial models alone, such as the essence of God, the natures of Christ, and the substance of bread and wine, to a theology that is concerned with spatio - temporal models, such as change in God, Christ becoming divine, and the on - going process of revelation.

It is not necessary for us to make a detailed examination of the various sorts of ritual associated with these meals; it will suffice if we see that the Jew worshiped God not only in the synagogue and in the Temple, but also in his home, where families or groups of friends met regularly for a holy supper, often held in connection with great festivals of the Jewish religious year, in which bread and wine, eaten and drunk, were believed to have a peculiar significance in establishing anew a sense of the covenant which God had made with his chosen people.

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

My principal problem with the flood of «how to create community» books is not that they're trying to create community, but the terminally silly means they're using to do it — Super Bowls and tailgate parties, nachos and beer instead of the means God gave us: prayer and praise, bread and wine.

It is a claim that God's grace is mediated through the material: in the incarnation, God became human flesh and dwelt among us; in the Passion, it was Christ's body that was crucified; in the Eucharist, Christ is truly present in the elements of bread and wine; as we partake of these elements, approaching the altar with our bodies, eating and drinking, we become the very body of Christ; and in the eschaton, it is this very materiality of creation that God will transform and glorify.

I feel a need to rub elbows with fellow Christians, kneel at a communion rail, taste the bread and wine.

It is associated in an intimate and direct way with the eucharistic elements of bread and wine and their reception, but primarily it is in the action itself that the presentness is discovered to those who attend and receive the sacrament by faith and with thanksgiving.

Advent bears good tidings that this is the One who comes as body and blood, bread and wine, to hungry mouths at the Eucharist feast, and who comes back to us through compassionate acts of filling the hungry with good things.

It evolved from a supper with Jesus to a little bit of bread and wine today.

Furthermore, since the death and resurrection of Jesus was central to Christian belief and practice, and since teaching was often done with the help of symbols, it probably became customary as a part of nearly every meal where Christians were gathered, to remind people that the bread they were eating represented the body of Jesus which was broken for them, and the wine they were drinking represented His blood.

31 Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: «Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern; 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die.

They were not dying because of the way they ate in their houses, but because of the way they abused a corporate ritual with a particular loaf of bread and a particular cup of wine.

And you gather it, break the bread, bless it, eat it, and pass it around, all over again, washed down with new wiAnd you gather it, break the bread, bless it, eat it, and pass it around, all over again, washed down with new wiand pass it around, all over again, washed down with new wine.

In a similar way, the Eucharist is sacramental only because the worshipper does not rest content with the mere eating of bread and the drinking of wine.

In the Eucharist the worshipper does not unite himself with Christ, but he receives the gifts of bread and wine by which he expects inner nourishment from the sources of spiritual life upon which he depends.