Word: sacramentalism
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...misery - or even defines it as true misery. Martin, responding to the torch-song image of Teresa, counterproposes her as the heroically constant spouse. "Let's say you're married and you fall in love and you believe with all your heart that marriage is a sacrament. And your wife, God forbid, gets a stroke and she's comatose. And you will never experience her love again. It's like loving and caring for a person for 50 years and once in a while you complain to your spiritual director, but you know on the deepest level that she loves...
...reaction from the people at his inaugural mass in Munich. "The encounter with so many people who were welcoming this unknown person with a heartfelt warmth and joy that could not possibly have had to do with me personally but that once again showed me what a sacrament was," he wrote in Milestones...
...casual exterior they are rigidly orthodox, and worship is an omnipresent feature of their lives. Walk through the facility and watch what happens when an Opus Dei member passes through a chapel. He stops and genuflects in the direction of the tabernacle (which is believed to carry the blessed sacrament) before going on his way. Prayers are frequently conducted in Latin. There seems to be very little slack in days that are filled with meditation, prayer, confession and work. Opus Dei members speak assuredly and with clarity about their lives and their calling, and many have the slightly distant gaze...
...Tragedies” by Panic! At the Disco, without a sense of déjà vu. That is, unless you have never seen My Chemical Romance’s “Helena.” Compare the two and you’ll see: same shit, different sacrament. Instead of “Helena”’s all-singing, all-dancing, heavily-eyelinered funeral, we get an all-singing, all-dancing, heavily-eyelinered wedding. Plus Clowns! At the Altar. I can’t imagine that it bodes well for the future of American culture...
...speaks for unbaptized infants, and the Vatican II language, which speaks for unbaptized adults, remind believers that, as Ratzinger wrote in a paraphrase of his predecessor John Paul II, Christians may hope that "God is powerful enough to draw to himself all those who were unable to receive the sacrament." Limbo was a vestige of an overfastidious exclusivity. Eliminating it affords a better view of God's many mansions, their doors wider than some of his followers have historically admitted...