A lot of what we do are things that only priests used to do. It involves doing many things alongside the pastor and the rest of the team in care of the parish things like some teaching, some sacramental preparation, visiting the sick, training people for roles in the ministry.
Quotes about sacramental (9 Quotes)
Here in the U. S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.
The Catholic imagination is metaphorical or sacramental. It sees God as present in the world. The Protestant imagination, the dialectical imagination, wants to preserve God from the possibility of idolatry by identifying with His creatures. Catholicism has no problem with that.
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election.
Their the Skeptics' way of speaking is 'I settle nothing.... I do not understand it.... Nothing seems true that may not seem false.' Their sacramental word is ..., which is to say, I suspend my judgment.
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
We celebrate together tonight that unity and that harmony as we bless these oils for the sacramental rites of the church. In a certain sense Jesus comes as the Anointed One tonight to anoint all of us and to help us be a part of his special mission.