#sacrament

The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life. It is not an escape from the world, rather it is the arrival at a vantage point from which we can see more deeply into the reality of the world. ↗

— Alexander Schmemann

#eucharist #kingdom-of-god #reality #sacrament #truth

Voting is a civic sacrament. ↗

— Theodore Hesburgh

#civic #sacrament #voting

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#dream #had #holy #i #implied

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#believe #church #depriving #i #last

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. ↗

— Robert Matsui

#camps #father #i #internment #months

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#always #been #death #had #i

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#based #children #deny #denying #gender

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#due #products #reverence #sacraments #seriousness

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#close #close friends #could #dinner #dinner parties