The sacraments of baptism, confirmation, marriage, and extreme unction provided rites of passage through crucial moments in an individual's life. |
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A young woman was accepted as being in a stage of preparation for receiving the sacraments of Baptism, Eucharist and Confirmation. |
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Will you continue as faithful stewards of the mysteries of God, preaching the Gospel of Christ, and ministering his holy sacraments? |
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Temple worship, rituals, sacraments as well as personal devotions create a communion with the devas and God. |
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However important the preached word was to the mendicants and the late medieval princes of the pulpit, it was still ancillary to the sacraments. |
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So does being able to receive the sacraments from the several priests and deacons who are allowed to minister on death row. |
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But thirteen years have passed, and Augustine was now responsible for ministering the word and sacraments to his people. |
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The focus is on the Incarnation of Christ as interpreted in the fourth gospel, and the means of salvation is primarily the sacraments. |
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The sacraments can communicate blessings apart from faith, and baptism appears to be a converting ordinance. |
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The care of souls instead was the task of the presbyter who was also responsible for the day-to-day administration of the sacraments. |
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Marriage, like all sacraments, is paschal to the core and consequently it is as much about dying as it is about new life. |
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Even when we celebrate the sacraments in our separate denominational settings, we are doing very ecumenical things. |
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The priests were said to use the sacraments to make the Queen's subjects switch their allegiance to the King of Spain. |
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The Prayer Book contained morning and evening offices, and forms for the administration of the sacraments as well as the psalter. |
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It was altogether fitting that the ministration of the sacraments be given, not to the angels, but to men. |
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Indeed, he commended the Quakers, who rejected the sacraments, for their stress on God as Spirit. |
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But if you're a sacramental church, you need priests to administer the sacraments. |
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The freedom of churches to administer the sacraments is as fundamental a religious liberty as there can be. |
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They had to preach, administer the sacraments and look after the spiritual welfare of the people. |
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When he arrives at the age of discretion, the child has the right in the church to receive both sacraments. |
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On the other hand, through acts of charity, prayer and reception of the sacraments we can increase our share of grace. |
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The Church continues to insist that explicit faith, reception of the sacraments, and obedience to the Church are the ordinary means to salvation. |
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This wall has an aumbry, or secure cupboard, for keeping the sacraments, or possibly relics. |
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The Vatican said the pope suffered heart failure and had received the last rites, sacraments given to those close to death. |
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He actively engages with the Anglican theological position on the sacraments in order to resolve this contradiction. |
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The Council reaffirmed the sanctity of the seven sacraments, transubstantiation, purgatory, and papal authority. |
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So do we simply accept the reduction of seven sacraments to six? |
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Priests, like their counterparts in French towns, said public masses, administered the sacraments, preached, catechized and educated young men in town. |
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Most typically, the pastor begins and closes the service, preaches the sermon or homily, officiates at the sacraments, if offered, and does the anointing. |
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The person wanting to be baptised is called a catechumen and those seeking the other sacraments are called candidates for eucharist and confirmation. |
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We go to Mass, receive the sacraments, and pray dutifully every day. |
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At their ordination, priests receive power to minister the life of God through the sacraments so that all believers might be empowered to give that life to the world. |
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Protestants observe only two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper, for we find that these are the only two that Jesus commanded to be observed. |
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The pope, who personally administers each of the church's seven sacraments during the course of each year, makes a practice of consecrating bishops on Epiphany. |
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They positively palpitate at dramatic accounts of unbelievers crying out for sacraments, or trembling with terror as the demons drag them into the inferno. |
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The only instrumentality to be used is the Word of God, bringing the soul into contact with it by reading, preaching, singing, the sacraments, and the exercise of discipline. |
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Parish directors and lay ministers are asked to prepare candidates for baptism or marriage, then to step aside when a priest arrives to administer the sacraments. |
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The final book describes what he considers to be the true Church and its ministry, authority, and sacraments. |
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The sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist are generally thought necessary to salvation. |
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Of the seven sacraments, all Anglicans recognise Baptism and the Eucharist as being directly instituted by Christ. |
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Among the sacraments, the principal one is the Eucharist, celebrated liturgically in the Mass. |
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Parishes are responsible for the day to day celebration of the sacraments and pastoral care of the laity. |
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The number and nature of the sacraments were defined by several ecumenical councils, most recently the Council of Trent. |
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According to church doctrine, the sacraments of the church require the proper form, matter, and intent to be validly celebrated. |
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The two sacraments of healing are the Sacrament of Penance and Anointing of the Sick. |
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The liturgies of the Eucharist and the other sacraments vary from rite to rite based on differing theological emphasis. |
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God speaks to us, especially through scripture read and proclaimed and through symbols and sacraments. |
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Conservative Friends completely reject all forms of religious symbolism and outward sacraments, such as the Eucharist and water baptism. |
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Like Conservative Friends, Liberal Friends reject religious symbolism and sacraments, such as water baptism and the Eucharist. |
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Further, as Pamela Gradon observes, at no point does Langland echo Wycliff's characteristic teachings on the sacraments. |
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From the Orthodox perspective, marriage is one of the holy mysteries or sacraments. |
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Moreover, the ordained ministry possesses a distinct responsibility for preaching and sacraments. |
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Of its seven sacraments the Eucharist is the principal one, celebrated liturgically in the Mass. |
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Others, including John Calvin, also including the right administration of the sacraments. |
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The Westminster Confession of Faith limits the sacraments to baptism and the Lord's Supper. |
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New Calvinists have been criticized for blending Calvinist soteriology with popular Evangelical positions on the sacraments and continuationism. |
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Important topics addressed in these letters include ecclesiology, the sacraments, the role of bishops, and Biblical Sabbath. |
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When at last the pope was suffering from a very severe sickness, he spontaneously requested, one after another, each of the last sacraments. |
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Did he come so cheerfully to die for me, and do I go so deadheartedly to prayers and sacraments to enjoy fellowship with him? |
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Thus, apostolic succession is necessary for the valid celebration of the sacraments. |
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Saving faith is strengthened and increased by the preaching of the word, the sacraments, and prayer. |
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The civil magistrate has no right to interfere with the preaching of the word of God or administration of the sacraments. |
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Groups would meet for the sacraments in the attics of private homes at the risk of arrest. |
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Since Absolution is a return to the forgiveness given in baptism, strictly speaking there are only two sacraments. |
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They viewed the ministries of the word and sacraments in other evangelical denominations as equally valid. |
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These five lectures, known as the Mystagogical Catecheses, explained the significance of sacraments such as baptism, chrismation and Eucharist. |
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He dreamed of a church ' where the sacraments would be deinstitutionalized and become central to faith and community once again. |
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The donatist heresy claimed that sacraments were impaired if the person performing them was heretical or unorthodox. |
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Most pivotally this occurs through the practices of proclaiming the word and celebrating the sacraments. |
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Reading and discussion are springboards for action, for prayer, for participation in the sacraments, for engaging with others in faith and love. |
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Anglicans celebrate the traditional sacraments, with special emphasis being given to the Eucharist, also called Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper or the Mass. |
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In addition to this, the Church of the East has two additional sacraments in place of the traditional sacraments of Matrimony and the Anointing of the Sick. |
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Nevertheless, some religious traditions see both eating and bathing as sacraments, therefore making them religious activities within those world views. |
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Lutherans are not dogmatic about the number of the sacraments. |
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There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism, the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil. |
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The church traces its apostolic succession directly to the Utrecht Union and thus possesses orders and sacraments which are recognised by the Holy See. |
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The liturgist may read announcements, scriptures, and calls to worship, while the minister preaches the sermon, offers prayers, and blesses sacraments. |
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Youth age 12 to 18 are ordained to the Aaronic priesthood as deacons, teachers, or priests, which authorizes them to perform certain ordinances and sacraments. |
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Scripture was also viewed as a unified whole, which led to a covenantal theology of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper as visible signs of the covenant of grace. |
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They are the primary preachers and teachers, celebrants of sacraments. |
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Its Book of Common Order contains recommendations for public worship, which are usually followed fairly closely in the case of sacraments and ordinances. |
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Methodist churches generally recognise sacraments to be a means of grace. |
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Methodists hold that sacraments are sacred acts of divine institution. |
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Though the Church's practices and approach to the sacraments became strongly influenced by those of continental reformers, it nevertheless retained episcopal church structure. |
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In the liturgy of the New Covenant every liturgical action, especially the celebration of the Eucharist and the sacraments, is an encounter between Christ and the Church. |
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Mills accomplishes his goal, which is to show how vibrant pastoral attention to the sacraments capacitates a community's entrance into the realm of God. |
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Changing beliefs concerning sacraments, the mediatorship of Mary and Christ, and eschatology are examined more extensively than in the first edition. |
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Furthermore, to this, the Seekers denied the effectiveness of external forms of religion such as the sacraments, baptism and the Scriptures as a means of salvation. |
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The liturgies of the sacraments are central to the church's mission. |
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