One liturgical year ago on this day, Ash Wednesday, we launched Called to Communion with the vision of engaging Reformed Christians on the fundamental issues that keep us divided. Our ultimate goal has ever been the restoration to full sacramental unity of all of God’s people. The division ...
I quickly engaged the Holy Spirit. I asked Him if the Bible had anything to say about vinegar. A flood gate opened and I saw Jesus suffering on the cross.
Gen. 2:24 – God created man and woman so that they could share communion. This communion is consummated in the marital act (which must be between a man and a woman). This communion is also a reflection of the eternal communion of the Blessed Trinity, who created man in His own image...
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In 1874 Flavel Cook, the evangelical vicar of Christ Church, Clifton, barred one of his parishioners, Henry Jenkins, from receiving holy communion after a dispute over the personality of Satan and the reality of eternal punishment. Jenkins sued Cook through the courts, and eventually ...
As one of the seven sacraments alongside Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Communion, Confession, Holy Orders, and the … [Read more...] Filed Under: Catholic Other Tagged With: Catholic Ceremony, Catholic Wedding, Ceremony, Vow, Wedding Nuptial Mass Wedding Ceremony Having your wedding during Mass ...
10.The holy Scripture says, “A little child shall lead them.” 11.In his judgment, the words of Scripture overrode both papal decrees and the teachings of the Church Fathers, the only true sacraments were baptism and Communion, and salvation depended entirely on the grace of God. ...
Holy Scripture do not constitute the essence of Christianity, since Christianity itself is not a teaching but a new life,established in mankind by the Holy Spirit on the basis of the Incarnation of the Son of God. Thus, it would not be impertinent to say that it is not by Holy Scripture...
Junilius, an African bishop of the 6th century, has preserved a full and interesting account of the teachings of Paulus, a Persian, on Holy Scripture, who was educated at Nisibis, where "the Divine Law was regularly explained by public masters" as a branch of common education (Junil. De...
2. If we go on from our Lord Jesus to His apostles, we find in the Acts two words of Peter's which show how our Lord's teaching had entered into him. In the one, God hath given His Holy Spirit to them that obey Him,' -- he proves how he knew what had been the preparation ...