As to points concerning the Sacraments where Catherine is influenced by John, we find that here again Baptismal conceptions are passed over by her.
But, as to this the greatest of the Sacraments and the all-absorbing devotion of her life, her symbols and concepts are all suggested by the Fourth Gospel, in contrast to the Synoptists and St. Paul.
Nor do we get in her anything about thrice three choirs of Angels, or three orders of Christian Ministrants, or three classes of Christian people, or thrice three groups of Sacraments and Sacramental acts.
Secondly, I was confident that there was a visible Church, with sacraments and rites which are the channels of invisible grace.
They all frequent the most holy sacramentswith great fervor at Christmas, Epiphany, and other leading feasts.
Many who received the holy sacramentswere cured of their maladies, and, consequently, the earnestness and devotion with which they sought and received them were intense.
He died on the first Sunday of Advent at the college of Manila (whither I had taken him for medical treatment), after having received the most blessed sacraments with great devotion.
They possess great confidence and faith, and through the most holy sacraments and the sacramental offices they are sure to receive (and his Majesty does bestow upon them even in temporal affairs) most signal favors.
Having had these sacraments I have also received the extreme unction, which is the last sacrament for the redeeming of my soul.
Church, with sacraments and rites which are the channels of invisible grace.
As to the Sacraments and Sacramental rites, I stood on the Prayer Book.
Presence of Christ with us in theSacraments now that the outward notes of it are being removed.
The visible world still remains without its divine interpretation; Holy Church in her sacraments and her hierarchical appointments, will remain, even to the end of the world, after all but a symbol of those heavenly facts which fill eternity.
The fact of a parishioner dying without the Sacraments through his fault is terrible to him; why terrible, if he has not a deep absolute faith, which he acts upon with a free service?
Their rejection of infant baptism he regarded as one of those blasphemies which ought to be punished by death; the denial of original sin and the theory that the Sacraments were merely signs he looked upon as similar blasphemies.
Hence there is no better preparation on our part for all the sacraments than to suffer God to work in us.
The whole passage is only another instance of Luther’s desire to magnify the consequences of original sin without making due allowance for the remedies provided by Christianity, the sacramentsin particular.
All the Sacramentsshould be left optional to everyone.
What is the Romish and the very High Church doctrine of the sacraments but an ascription to them, when rightly used, of the power of a charm?
The first of these shows the ladder of Prayer and the Sacraments up which, by the virtues which form its successive rungs, a cassocked youth is preparing to climb to heaven, where Christ stands in a mandorla supported by angels.
Father Greenway, after telling Catesby in confession about the nature of the enormity he was meditating, must have refused him absolution and the sacraments if he persevered.
The position in which Catesby was placed with regard to the sacraments of confession and communion is delicate ground for a layman to approach; especially as nobody knows exactly what took place with regard to either.
And if he became in a state of mala fides, as he was in the habit of going to the sacraments every week, he must have done one or other of two things.
It is not pretended that the sacraments are mere commemorative rites.
Nor is the perpetual authority of the "Christian rites" so much in debate among our ministers, as the efficacy of the sacraments among the clergy.
The number of the Sacraments is a matter of faith, and the Church cannot be mistaken in matters of faith.
By the Sacraments of the living we mean thoseSacraments that can be lawfully received only while the soul is in a state of grace--i.
The Sacraments can be given conditionally as often as we doubt whether they were properly given before, or whether they can be validly given now.
What do we mean bySacraments of the dead and Sacraments of the living?
Whence have the Sacraments the power of giving grace?
Which of the Sacraments are most frequently given conditionally?
The difference between the powers of a bishop and of a priest with regard to the administration of the Sacraments is that a bishop can give all the Sacraments, while a priest cannot give Confirmation or Holy Orders.
Living and dead do not refer here to the persons, but to the condition of the souls; for none of the Sacraments can be given to a dead person.
I know the Apostles were bishops because they could administer the Sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Orders and make laws for the Church, as we learn from Holy Scripture, and these powers belong to bishops alone.
We can receive the Sacraments more than once, except Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders.
Why are Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony calledSacraments of the living?
The sacramental grace in each of the other Sacramentsis given in the same manner, and aids us in attaining the end for which each Sacrament was instituted and for which we receive it.
All theSacraments were instituted by Our Lord, for God alone has power to attach the gift of grace to the use of an outward or visible sign.
By the Sacraments of the dead we mean those Sacraments that may be lawfully received while the soul is in a state of mortal sin.
Why are Baptism and Penance called Sacraments of the dead?
Christ for Christ himself; whichsacraments or figures are lawful as God taught them and left them unto us, as the sacrifices or minds of the old law were full good.
And yet the true Church is to be recognized by the use of the sacraments according to their institution.
She not only learned to know him and to love him, but we were enabled by degrees to place her in still closer communication with him, by means of those sacraments which he has appointed to convey grace to the soul.
We might be disposed to regard the sacraments as this medium, because they are the instruments by which grace is conferred, in a manner apprehensible through the senses.
At the very moment it occurred, Hedwige herself announced it to her astonished attendants, and then humbly asked for the last sacraments of the Church, which she received with the greatest fervor.
The sacramental offering of Christ, as indeed the whole of his perennial saving efficacy in the sacraments of the Church, wherewith we are saved, is only the means by which it is applied to our salvation.
It is well known that Protestantism has set forth the legitimate administration of the sacramentsas a mark of the true Church.
Nevertheless, we cannot find the constitutive principle of the Church in the sacraments alone.
The principle of a new life which has to be infused into individual souls through the sacraments is sanctifying grace.
Protestantism is untrue to its own principle in representing the administration of the sacraments according to their institution as an index of the true Church.
Fletcher Fleming, that the old order of sacraments four times in the year was changed to a monthly celebration.
The gathering of the dalesfolk for worship must have been a striking sight, especially on the great feast days when--four times in the year--the sacraments were administered.
This means that the miracle of this holiest of Sacraments is the work of the eternal wisdom, that cannot be attained by any wisdom of us humans.
Indulgences were to some extent an extraordinary branch of the commerce of Rome, whereas the sacraments were of the nature of an ordinary branch.
It must manifest itself outwardly, and it was with a view to this manifestation that the Lord instituted the Sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist.
I render thee anew a partaker in the sacraments of the church.
The Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper ministered with the unfailing use of the Words of Institution.
The Ministry is an office within the Church--not a sacerdotal order--instituted for the preaching of the Word, the ministration of the Sacraments and the care of souls.
V We receive, as given by the Lord to His Church on earth, the Holy Scriptures, the Sacraments of the Gospel, and the Christian Ministry.
It is not scruples to walk in the fear of God, and avoid sin and the occasions thereof: that is wisdom; nor to frequent the sacraments and be assiduous in prayer through a deep concern for the welfare of one's soul: that is piety.
Then there are the sacraments to repair every breach and to heal every wound.
But she allows none of her children to approach the sacraments who has not already repaired, or who does not promise in all sincerity to repair, whatever wrong he may have done to the neighbor.
Just as prayer and the grace of the sacramentsfortify the soul, so do food and drink nourish the animal; and if the latter is cared for to the detriment of the soul, it waxes strong and formidable and becomes a menace.
Then the fear of the good nun dying without the sacraments through her faint-heartedness stirred her, but in vain she tried to pluck up courage.
Consoled with the Viaticum of the Sacraments he gave up his soul to God, weary with the prolonged struggle he had sustained for the rights of the Church, .
Sudden death can be anticipated in many diseases that are acute, while in chronic forms of disease the sufferer can be prepared for its possibility by the administration of the sacraments at regular intervals.
Conditions sometimes develop rather unexpectedly in which the administration of the Sacramentsbecomes unsatisfactory, because of the collapsed state of the patient.
In giving the last Sacraments to a typhus patient exactly the same method should be followed as that observed for a smallpox patient.
All typhoid fever patients should receive at least the Sacraments necessary to give a sense of security to the priest and their friends during the course of the second week, even though they may seemingly be in excellent condition.
Where symptoms of appendicitis are present, it is the part of safety to have the patient receive at least the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.
As soon as a patient exhibits the characteristic symptoms, the lockjaw, the stiff neck, and the rigid muscles, all the Sacraments should be administered.
Sometimes states of intense persistent pain, or of mental disturbance, develop in these cases and make the administration of the Sacraments unsatisfactory.
Such cases should be given the Sacraments early, while in the full possession of their senses.
After you touch him in anointing or in giving other Sacraments step away from him to say the necessary words.
The impression is very prevalent now that at least the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist should be administered to the sick whenever there is even the possibility of a fatal termination of the illness.
The perforation of a gastric ulcer may cause symptoms which rapidly place the patient in a condition in which the administration of the Sacraments is very unsatisfactory.
They held firmly to the conception of historic Christianity; the episcopal succession extending back to the early ages of the Church was not broken, the administration of the sacraments never ceased.
They constantly emphasize the principle that salvation comes not through works or sacraments or any human mediation, but only through the merits of Christ and faith in his atoning blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacraments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
