Word: sacramentally
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...another, and pray for one another, that you may be saved." In the early church, penitents commonly confessed their sins in public, but in 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council made regular private confession the norm for the church. The Reformation rejected Catholic belief that Penance was a Christ-instituted sacrament; some Anglicans and Lutherans practice private confession, but most Protestant churches have a confession made by the entire congregation, generally at the beginning of their services. Although public and general, it is nevertheless quite specific, as in the Book of Common Prayer: "We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins...
...fire as well as of water. Almost immediately, there were angry murmurs of discontent from Episcopal churchmen-not because Luci had left their church,* but because she had been baptized as a baby according to Episcopal rites. And it is firm teaching of both faiths that baptism is a sacrament that once validly given cannot and should not be repeated...
...Commission of Roman Catholic bishops and theologians, at a historic dialogue with Episcopal clergy in Washington, agreed that conditional baptism should be discouraged. If nothing else, the furor over Luci's rebaptism ought to help the word get around. By spotlighting the fact that "baptism is the one sacrament that unites all Christians," said Episcopal Dean Francis B. Sayre of the Washington Cathedral, "Luci innocently made a contribution to the ecumenical movement...
Changed Rhythm. According to Princeton Theologian M. Richard Schaull, worship ought to be "an expression in symbol and sacrament of what God is doing to make human life human." Many clergymen, and laymen too, question whether existing patterns of worship are suited to the church of the future. The long weekend and the five-day week have already changed the rhythm of life that made Sunday morning the natural time to pay homage to God. In the 21st century, liturgies may be celebrated-as they were in the early church-in homes or places of work, and rarely...
...tempts to find an answer to the question of how one human should relate to an other, and how man should understand his own impermanence. [It] ranges from a hedonistic sensuality to a search for the highest philosophic abstractions, from a tool for deriving scientific data to a sacrament taken to achieve loss of self and union with...