Word: sacramentalism
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...Nineteen-year-old Quintuplet Marie Dionne, for whom half the world prayed when her life flickered for days after her birth, announced that she would become a nun. She will enter the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Quebec City this fall, a cloistered order devoted to perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament. "From now on," she said, "I will have an opportunity to repay those people who remembered me when I was in need...
...into the night and rising early to ring the bell for Mass. Twice she is said to have saved Assisi from invading armies. In 1234, when the Saracen soldiers of Frederick II scaled the walls of San Damiano by night, Clare confronted them in an open window holding the Sacrament. The soldiers fled. Later a larger force returned and Clare led her sisters in prayer. Suddenly a huge storm arose that scattered the tents of the enemy, who once again fled in panic...
...assurance that "God met His people in His word." Using this comparison, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 76, longtime president of Union Theological Seminary and onetime (1943-44) Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., has written Communion Through Preaching (Scribner; $2.50), a short but striking book about the preaching sacrament of Protestantism -and how poorly a lot of Protestants understand...
...revived Lutheran confession, unlike the Roman Catholic sacrament, is voluntary and not regarded as essential to salvation. Any Christian, the synod declared, whether ordained or not, may hear another's confession and grant absolution; if the penitent believes and is genuinely sorry for his sins, he is truly forgiven...
...part of the function of the Christian minister to be a keeper of the door, to discriminate, to let in or to exclude, provided the criterion be Christ's own . . . The prevailing interpretation of the Christian minister as a gullible, affable sacrament-monger has served the Church ill for three generations...