“sacramental rite or not. Hence the necessity of a proper intention.” — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“As the sacramental sign is the inanimate medium of grace, 16 so the minister is its animate instrument in the hands of Christ.” — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“So as we grow in Christ, we grow into new families, formed by a deep common love of God. The bond, it… — Emilie Griffin Copy Share Image
The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation…It is dangerous to forget the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“According to Catholic teaching the remote matter of Baptism is natural water; its proximate matter is the act of external washing; while… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In both her sacramental life and in her proclamation of the Word, the Church constitutes a distinctive subject whose memory preserves the… — Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Congar then makes it clear that he believes that, according to the Christian understanding, time itself is sacramental in character: Thus the… — Hans Boersma Copy Share Image
“It is for those who long to be re-enchanted by the very old, very true, very beautiful story of Christmas. It is… — Lanier Ivester Copy Share Image
The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its… — Hugh S. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The confectio of a Sacrament, i. e. the combina tion of matter and form into the sacramental sign, is not necessarily of… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“A sacramental understanding of the world is simply a shorthand way of describing the psalmist’s claim that "The earth is the Lord’s… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“The sacramental system of the Reformers flowed quite logically from their false idea of justification. If justification really consisted in a merely… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
