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Example sentences for "sacramental"

Lexicographically close words:
sacra; sacrae; sacral; sacram; sacrament; sacramentally; sacramentals; sacramentarian; sacramentes; sacramenti
  1. And then, if the translation should be effected, the church has already devised a means for appropriating the power which she has unsettled; for she limits this power to the communicants at the sacramental table.

  2. Would it not be a scandal to a Protestant church if she should say to communicants --We have no sacramental vessels, or even ritual; but you may borrow both from Papal Rome.

  3. It is not easy to select instances that shall make clear to foreign readers the Hindu reverence for the cow and the place that her protection from death holds as a sacramental ordinance.

  4. A horse may drink from a vessel and, after the usual sacramental scrub with earth, it is no worse for family use, but a cow defiles anything it touches with its mouth.

  5. Happy was the union of innocent festivity with a sacramental recognition of God.

  6. The next two moderate popes, Paul III and Julius III, had confirmed this privilege to the Marranos, convinced as they were that baptism, enforced by violence, could have no sacramental significance.

  7. A report was spread that the Jews of the little town of Roettingen (in Franconia) had desecrated a sacramental wafer and pounded it in a mortar, and blood was said to have flowed from it.

  8. In his eyes, also, the commandments of Judaism have a sacramental character, but he does not emphasize salvation so much as Albo.

  9. The mystic number seven was restored, and the nature of sacramental grace explained in the old manner.

  10. The sacramental character of confirmation and extreme unction is implicitly denied.

  11. One quaint, but very beautiful allusion, however, is made by an old Scottish writer to the mazer cup, referring to it metaphorically, as to a sacramental chalice.

  12. Nevertheless, as in Romans, there are sufficient traces of sacramental teaching to make it clear that Christianity in Rome as in Corinth meant the sacramental cult of a saving Lord.

  13. We can, with logical propriety, accept the Graeco-Jewish eschatology or the Graeco-Oriental sacramental regeneration if we reject modern thought.

  14. They and he referred to the moral son-ship of the righteous, not to a supernatural or sacramental relation.

  15. If it be really Roman it shows traces of a further development of sacramental {108} Christianity, but does not throw much light on its details.

  16. Sacramental Christianity with an emphasis on morality was henceforward the true characteristic of the Church.

  17. It was then clearly a sacramental religion offering private salvation.

  18. Sacramental adoptionist Christianity seems to be the nearest approach to a complete transformation to a mystery religion with no philosophy, which is found in the history of Christianity, but even here the basis is Jewish.

  19. It is apparently an attempt to rewrite the story of Jesus in the interests of a "pre-existent" Christology, and of a high form of sacramental teaching.

  20. These Books, indeed, have something of a sacramental character about them, an outer form and an inner life, an outer symbol and an inner truth.

  21. In any case, they are needed to bring about the desired result, and they are an essential portion of the sacramental rite.

  22. The student of the Lesser Mysteries must ever see in it a sacramental rite.

  23. We have now to apply these general principles to concrete examples, and to see how they explain and justify the sacramental rites found in all religions.

  24. The evidence for a sacramental significance of the ablutions in the mysteries, despite confident assertions on the part of some modern writers, is really very slight.

  25. Certainly it would be rash to find in it the notion of new birth or sacramental union with the divine nature.

  26. That its first purpose was to hold the sacramental wafers we may be sure from the Latin inscription, "This is the living bread which came down from heaven.

  27. It is a sculptured cabinet to contain articles used in the altar services, such as the sacramental wafers or the holy oil.

  28. To that Church He has entrusted the work of Gospel preaching and sacramental giving.

  29. She literally saw me being poisoned by food and drink mixed with menstrual fluid that had been reinforced with macerated sacramental wafers and drugs skilfully dosed.

  30. He swept away the sacramental system; if he held to Christianity, it was in name, not in theory, for his doctrine excluded it as a necessary article.

  31. And so they determined on keeping their day of sacramental preparation on the Thursday, as their fathers had done.

  32. We shall have seen that physical expression is the sacramental form of the invisible and super-physical motive, and that immorality is the shifting of emphasis from higher to lower levels.

  33. And it is only right that the Church should be far more particular in refusing to prostitute her sacramental grace on unions which ought not to be consummated.

  34. The part which the physical sex-force should alone play is the sacramental expression of pure love; so employed it is a perfect and divine activity.

  35. And hence she really regards adultery, not as does the Puritan, but as an act which should be sacramental but has been prostituted by the absence of the love-motive, or by becoming promiscuous rather than constant.

  36. Chapter 7: Eugenics and Prostitution The doctrine that love is the only motive for sex--that physical expression is pure only so far as it is the sacramental accidence of love--leads to important conclusions.

  37. That the body and blood of Christ are given to every one who receives the Sacramental Bread and Wine.

  38. We also admitted, that then, as now, the word mass was sometimes used by the Romanists for the sacramental celebration in general, including the mass proper.

  39. Hence, as the Scripture nowhere connects the forgiveness of sins with the duty of sacramental communion, any more than with the performance of any other prominent christian duty, it is not proper that we should do so.

  40. Still, if the Augsburg Confession were strictly binding on us, we should be under the necessity of adopting on sacramental occasions all the public ceremonies then and now usual in the Romish Church in celebrating public mass.

  41. Of these, some are not now recognized; others declare themselves, and do not hesitate to make common cause with our enemies in murmuring against God, whose sacramental badge they wear.

  42. And the strongest and most telling means of keeping alive this truth for ourselves and others is the sacramental system of the Church.

  43. An unusually severe ascetical penitential time, and then the rarest watchfulness and continuous self-renouncement, take thus, for a considerable period, the place of the sacramental forms of Penance.

  44. The first extreme is caused by profaneness and negligence, or by gross ignorance of the nature of the sacramental work.

  45. The sacramental signs of his grace in baptism and the Lord's supper.

  46. Christ whose body and blood, being not precisely discriminated in the sacramental bread and wine, had made some participants sickly and killed others, in addition to the damnation they had eaten and drank.

  47. The synoptical gospels suppose that a unique sacramental act served as basis to the mysterious rite, and declare this to have been "the last supper.

  48. Very early this mystery was embodied in a small sacramental narrative, which we possess under four forms,[1] very similar to one another.

  49. There is also a volume of sermons, sacramental discourses, &c.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacramental" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.