Quotes About Sacrament

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

Marriage is sacred and I did not want to make an event out of it.

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.

At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there's gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

we are united to those immortal images of initiatory might, through the sacramental operation of which, man, since the beginning of his day on earth, has dispelled the terrors of his phenomenality and won through to the all-transfiguring vision of immortal being.

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and the primitive church had not considered marriage a sacrament before AD 537.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Por eso, cuando participamos del pan y bebemos de la copa con otro ser humano, todo lo que nos divide queda superado por el amor que Dios tiene dentro de sí. Un hombre que deshonra a su esposa ha roto la comunión con Dios. Un hombre que deshonra a su prójimo ha roto la comunión con Dios. En suma, la comunión es tanto vertical como horizontal.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

Susanna's music touched the bawdy stringsOf those white elders; but, escaping,Left only Death's ironic scraping.Now, in its immortality, it playsOn the clear viol of her memory,And makes a constant sacrament of praise.

It has become routine for Catholics today to denounce clericalism — the supernatural status claimed for priests. Clerics themselves denounce it. But what is suspect, finally, is the priesthood as such. It's an illusion to pretend that "clericalism" exists apart from the entire culture defined by the sacrament of holy orders, which is the formal name of the priestly ordination rite.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

I was always religious. I was baptized as a Catholic. I got my daughter baptized as a Catholic.

a priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional.

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.

Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace.

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

Since it is so difficult in the concrete to judge what is and is not "mortal sin," and who is and is not subjectively guilty of it, we should choose pastorally not to make that judgment except in extreme and obvious cases. Then Eucharist would be recognized again as what it really is: not just the "bread of angels," but on this earth the strengthening food and sacrament of sinners.