An inclusive God, it would seem, requires an inclusive sacramental system as well. |
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When sacramental participation had ceased to be the norm, people needed a reason for attending the liturgy. |
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The sacramental ritual performed by the Corpus Domini priest differs subtly from that delivered by Christ in the Corpus Domini Altarpiece. |
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This way of understanding the sacramentality of sacramental rites is not idiosyncratic, least of all in the Episcopal Church. |
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Do we make the sacramental preparation for people with learning difficulties relevant and easily accessible? |
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In short, the presbyteral priesthood was at the center of the sacramental understanding of ministerial order. |
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Not all congregations will support this ministry, depending upon their sacramental theology and denominational affiliation. |
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These two men struggled with the validity of Anglican orders and sacramental theology. |
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He stayed close to the church through sacramental practice and networks of friendly priests. |
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Our participation in the sacramental life of the church is to be participation in the process of our salvation. |
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This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests. |
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But if you're a sacramental church, you need priests to administer the sacraments. |
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In many dioceses, including my own, the bishop also appoints a priest to provide the sacramental ministry critical to parish life. |
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God's mandate, God's empowerment in us and through us is a sacramental act that brings blessing upon the one who acts and the one acted upon. |
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His still-life objects, of course, remain secular, but he endows them with an almost sacramental aura, into which he draws the scullery maid. |
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Its distinctive characteristic is the sacramental use of peyote, a cactus found in the Chihuahuan Desert that contains the psychedelic mescaline. |
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The rest of the young cast follows suit, miming up a storm, sipping imaginary sacramental wine from invisible chalices. |
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To partake of the Eucharist is to partake of Christ himself, and to enter into sacramental communion with our Lord we must all be properly disposed. |
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Dear young people, have the courage of contrition, and also the courage to seek God's grace in sacramental confession. |
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If ordinations are classed as invalid because of such considerations, then the sacramental character of the ecclesial community is called into question. |
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However, this prayer is not a sacramental form for conferring the episcopacy. |
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The devotional significance of sacramental topoi is complemented by what may be characterized, obversely, as a sacramentalization of the devotional sphere. |
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The friendships developed through this ministry extended beyond the intended scope of the sacramental visit to include personal ministries and visitation. |
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In Dante's Purgatorio, the principle of sacramental penance holds sway. |
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Their personal appropriation of grace received as they responded to the gospel demonstrated to them that sacramental rites were not essential. |
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I had pointed out that this was merely an investiture prayer, not a sacramental prayer for consecrating a bishop. |
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Properly understood, sacramental penance is a summons to engage oneself in works of peace and justice in the world. |
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Anyway, he could not blab what Lansmans had said in sacramental confession. |
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Taste sacramental wine made by Jesuit priests at the cellar door in Sevenhill, then explore the restaurants, cafes and pubs of Auburn. |
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They pursue and intensify their research on all aspects of marriage, and in particular on its sacramental character. |
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They once more re-iterated the fundamental role that sacramental marriage play in society. |
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We are living members of this marvelous and fascinating organism, nourished by the sacramental, hierarchical and charismatic gifts which are coessential to it. |
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Today's terrorists increasingly look at their acts of death and destruction as sacramental or transcendental on a spiritual or eschatological level. |
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Exorcism is a sacramental, it requires, to be efficient, the cooperation of the person who is exorcized and thus a conversion. |
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Insofar as it is a grade of holy orders, the diaconate imprints a character and communicates a specific sacramental grace. |
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By sacrament I mean, in addition to the material aspects of sacramental ritual, all outward, public, sacerdotal and ecclesiastically oriented forms of religious expression. |
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As we open ourselves to God through prayer, Scripture, and the sacramental life of the church, God's life is able to penetrate our beings more fully. |
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A glittering display of silver-gilt sacramental objects has come from King John V's chapel at São Roque in Lisbon, the entire chapel made in Rome, blessed by the pope and then shipped to Portugal. |
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Full participation in the sacramental life of each church is available to all communicant Anglicans. |
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A sacramental marriage, once consummated, cannot be dissolved except by death. |
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As a religious person, I would add an overlay to that particular reality and call it a sacramental union in virtue of it being a situation, any bond, that is sanctified by God himself. |
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She tries to be pure and transparent, the powerful arm of God, letting itself be carried along by the impulsion of the Spirit, making sacramental the action of Jesus in the world. |
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They provide a sacramental assistance to the ministry of the bishop and, subordinately, to that of the priests which is intrinsic, fundamental and distinct. |
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Virtual reality is no substitute for the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the sacramental reality of the other sacraments, and shared worship in a flesh-and-blood human community. |
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The absence from communitarian and sacramental practice: It seems that today the parable of the lost sheep is to be read in reverse: not one, but ninety nine sheep are abandoning the fold. |
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In this way, John Baptist de La Salle has become for him also a spiritual guide who helps him to encounter the profound sense of the ministry of the Word, beyond that of simple sacramental service. |
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We can discover that Christ's hiddenness in the sacramental species, which responds to the requirements of the sacramental economy, also fits in with God's express desire not to force human freedom. |
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In his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict XVI recognises that charitable activities play an essential role in this sacramental essence of the Church. |
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Particularly when we are gathered around the Eucharistic table, which sacramental event we protract in adoration, we believe that it is He who calls us together. |
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He wanted it to be rooted in the liturgy and the sacramental life. |
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The sacramental grace of marriage is that which God gives to married people to live chastely and holily in this state, to be strongly united, to support the troubles of marriage, and to carry out the duties it imposes. |
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This sacramental bread is in fact required for black mass rituals. |
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Many couples want to be married in Church but have lost regular contact with the parish community and fail to understand the sacramental nature of marriage. |
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It is on the basis of these principles that the priest is deputed, in dialogue with the penitent, to discern whether he or she is ready for sacramental absolution. |
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Such regulations shall be adopted only after consultation with representatives of traditional Indian religions for which the sacramental use of peyote is integral to their practice. |
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He possesses the fullness of Orders, so that the fullness of Christ's grace can flow through in sacramental form, to the sanctification of the faithful. |
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They expressed both the conviction and the necessity of transmitting the full sacramental force of the Church contained in the episcopacy to resist and fight against modernist errors. |
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Only the major orders are held to be sacramental, but they are regarded as one sacrament within which a tripartite hierarchy of sacramental effects is administered separately. |
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The chemical preparations, the fall of light on drapery, the expressions on the models' faces and the mysteries of photographic plates and darkrooms take on an almost sacramental intensity. |
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The more meaningful participation of the people in the sacramental life of the Church renewed a sense of ownership on the part of the whole community. |
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They kept telling us that we'd get used to it and that our main task was to serve the sacramental needs of the Spaniards, and to force the Indians to accept our beliefs and be baptized. |
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In this sacramental perspective we learn, day by day, that every ecclesial event is a kind of sign by which God makes himself known and challenges us. |
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The community that Jesus gathered around himself is marked by three essential features: it is his initiative and work, it is entirely centred on him and it is sacramental. |
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Except for medicinal and sacramental needs, Canada was officially dry. |
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For some, the Eucharist is a sacramental embodiment of this relationship. |
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The restoration of the epiclesis to the liturgy that invokes the Holy Spirit, identifies the Spirit as the sacramental agent. |
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The Eucharist is an integral part of many other sacramental services, including ordination and Confirmation. |
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Also, eucharistic ministers take the sacramental elements to the sick in hospitals and nursing homes. |
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This belief is called Real Presence or sacramental union and is different from consubstantiation and transubstantiation. |
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The Council upheld the basic structure of the Medieval Church, its sacramental system, religious orders, and doctrine. |
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The altar boys were sacked after they were caught sampling the sacramental wine instead of just passing it to the priest before communion. |
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Many churches have discovered the importance of the catechumenate and preparation for the sacramental event. |
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The Rig Veda speaks of three filters used to purify and prepare Soma for sacramental use. |
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Canon law makes no provision for divorce between baptised individuals, as a valid, consummated sacramental marriage is considered to be a lifelong bond. |
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In Shegog's sermon, verbal witness and sacramental grace coinhere. |
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The Agape feast is mentioned in Jude 12 but The Lord's Supper is now commonly used in reference to a celebration involving no food other than the sacramental bread and wine. |
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Because this interpersonal, biological alliance can be elevated to something sacramental does not exclude the firm and undeniable realities that undergird it. |
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Taking the indexical aspect of the sacramental worldview to its limit, we can speak of God as the original object of all possible experience or knowledge. |
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It is rightly upheld here as an essential component of an adequate approach, and one which properly relativizes the sacramental and ecclesiological. |
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As a kid I occasionally drank Morgan Davis sacramental wine. |
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