From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Oh Sacrament of summer days,
Oh Last Communion in the Haze --
Permit a child to join.
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voting is a civic sacrament.
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.
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