Sacramentals

Catholic Models of Marriage I like that Lawler kept his model list small. Sometimes, in an effort to capture all the elements of a particular construct, one devises too many models that can get confusing and somewhat verbose. I get why marriage as a procreation institution was the prominent model for the Church. Understand that marriage, especially prior to the Church and even in the early Church, was seen as a contract and economic necessity that had very little to do with the emotion of love…

dish during our everyday meals. Just about every sit down restaurant serves you bread before your meal. In our faith bread is not just a staple food that is eaten as a side to your dish. The Greek Orthodox Church uses bread for the Eucharist. The sacramental bread symbolizes Christ. Orthodox Christians receive bread during two occasions, after they receive communion, and after the dismissal. When we have accepted the offering of bread this indicates that you have offered your life to God.…

worship and come closer to God on a greater level. Archbishop George Niederauer’s “Flannery O’Connor’s Religious Vision,” St. Bonaventure’s “Breviloquium,” and Flannery O’Connor’s short story “The Temple of the Holy Ghost,” all express the common sacramental themes of God’s grace, the spiritual journey, and God as the ultimate healer. One of the parallels between the three above works is the importance of grace as a component to the sacraments. In O’Connor’s short story “Temple of the Holy…

This controversy is active in some ways. The one I see the most active is within the Catholic and Protestant view of communion. I have a lot of Catholic friends and the view of the Lord’s Supper is a stark difference. I have attended mass with friends in the past, and the reverence that is paid for the Eucharist is much different than what Protestants do for Lord’s supper. One big difference is it is not open communion and only Roman Catholics can take the elements is different. I was raised…

external aid because it offers sure theological guidance, provides sacramental vivification, offers models of holiness, and it allows us to participate in Christ’s mission, which is the purpose of Catholic Moral Reasoning. The Church offers sure theological guidance by providing us with Scripture and Tradition, which are the respectively the primary and secondary sources and norms of Catholic moral reasoning. The Church provides sacramental vivification or the more one participates in the…

sacraments merely being signs and representations reinforces the indication that the rituals allow the church to “put a visible difference between those that belong unto the Church and the rest of the world.” Venema claims, “The ‘substance’ to which the sacramental sign points can only be Jesus Christ himself in all of his saving presence and power.” The sacraments should not point to itself, it should lead one, through faith, into communion with…

establish the sacraments for us in this world now to carry on the Catholicity of the church. A sacrament is an outward sign of our Christianity to the world, and our avenue in life towards grace. Overall, this article does a good job of explaining Sacramental Theology and the grace that we are given by God. The article goes into some main points of the sacraments concerning grace, definitions of the sacraments, and how they have changed overtime. The main points that are presented to us in…

Spanish theater From 1570 till 1681, the Spanish theater knows a very big success. It is a century of glory and creativity, complete revival of the theater. That's why this period is called the golden age of theater.Furthermore, contrary to France, the Spanish Church encourages and protects the theater. The theater is very appreciated by the population. The authors are constantly submitted to the production of new plays to please the audience. A play does not take place more than eight days.…

Introduction The Ten Commandments or Decalogue refers to an arrangement of rules where the Jewish Bible depicts that they were offered to the people of Israel by the Lord at scriptural Mt. Sinai (Bendis & Maleev, 2010). The Decalogue are recorded in three versions, first is Exodus 20 version, second is Exodus 34 version and third is Deuteronomy 5 version (Bendis & Maleev, 2010). How the commandments shaped the community? The Decalogue turned into the real instrumental thing through which the…

sanctimonious spiritual assertiveness, faithful legalism, or abandonment from engrossment in civilization. The purpose of pietism was to recuperate Christian heart felt devoutness, affectionate generosity and ethical transparency in everyday organic over sacramental and authoritarian strictness. The authors of this article argue that orthodox, historical Pietism is an instrumental stream in evangelical Christianity and that it must be recuperated as a resource for evangelical replenishment.…