Quotes About Sacrament

Christianity is the best way to cure gayness—just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.

Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing.

The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.

The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love. Then the soul appreciates these words, 'Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health.'

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

Thank you, Lord, for the gift of this day. Thank you for making Mommy to be a woman and Daddy to be a man. Thank you for calling us to the sacrament of marriage. And thank you for bringing [insert the names of your children here] into the world through Mommy and Daddy's love. Please help them to grow into strong men and women, and teach them how to love as you love.

In their pursuit of "making disciples of every nation" and baptizing all those within the empire, they stumbled into baptizing the empire itself, thus turning sacrament into sacrilege[...]

The closest communion with God comes, I believe, through the sacrament of tears. Just as grapes are crushed to make wine and grain to make bread, so the elements of this sacrament come from the crushing experiences of life. —Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ.

Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete

If the pirate articles were clear about anything, it was that the act of dividing up the booty was as close to a sacrament as anything else in the code.

as Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson later noted,1 "in all probability . . . hocus pocus is nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus ("this is the body"), [a] ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church.

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

All the other covenants show God's love and transmit God's love, but it is only in the marital covenant that the love is so real and powerful that it communicates life.

Every time we make love to a human being, fully, we are making love to everything that lives and breathes. In that sense it becomes communion. It is a sacrament.

Take in everything before you and let your eyes be drenched with beauty, and as you love beauty in a reverent way it becomes a sacrament to you.

the whole substance of the bread has been converted into the Body and the whole sub stance of the wine into the Blood of Christ. What, then, remains ? The Council tells us that it is " the species of

Origen says: " The Church hath received it as a tradition from the Apostles that infants, too, ought to be baptized." 21

The matter of a Sacrament remains within the sphere of its determined species as long as it retains, in the popular estimation, its peculiar properties, while the form remains specifically unchanged as long as the logical and theological sense of the formula is preserved intact. Alterations, ad ditions or omissions which do not run counter to this prin ciple are to be regarded as merely accidental changes.

Perfect contrition effects the immediate justification of the sinner without the Sacrament of Penance, as we shall show presently. 12 How can this extra-sacramental