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单词 sacramental
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Definition of sacramental in English:

sacramental

adjective sakrəˈmɛnt(ə)lˌsækrəˈmɛn(t)l
  • 1Relating to or constituting a sacrament or the sacraments.

    it fuses the historical Passion story with its sacramental meaning
    a native sacramental tradition
    sacramental confession
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not all congregations will support this ministry, depending upon their sacramental theology and denominational affiliation.
    • Indeed, Catholicism embodies a rich sacramental tradition, graced moments of encounter with another that can never be adequately expressed in propositions.
    • Can sacramental confession accommodate that cultural shift?
    • These two men struggled with the validity of Anglican orders and sacramental theology.
    • While devout Catholics will readily agree that the Church is fundamentally a sacramental communion, it is also true that the Church must operate as an institution.
    • I have found the sacramental life of worship in which my personal life has been shaped by entering into the Christian story and having God transform my life.
    • He stayed close to the church through sacramental practice and networks of friendly priests.
    • Our participation in the sacramental life of the church is to be participation in the process of our salvation.
    • As we open ourselves to God through prayer, Scripture, and the sacramental life of the church, God's life is able to penetrate our beings more fully.
    • When the dramatic decline in the number of candidates for the priesthood is factored in, the threat to the sacramental mission of the church weighs heavily on today's ordained ministers.
    • It is given to us again each day in the Eucharist, in which the paschal mystery is renewed: in a sacramental, mystical way the sacrifice of Christ is made present with its culmination in the mystery of the resurrection.
    • Here is also found the Spirit's role not just in the ecclesial sacraments, but in the sacramental consecration of the entire material cosmos, as consistently envisioned by the Eastern Orthodox tradition.
    • To partake of the Eucharist is to partake of Christ himself, and to enter into sacramental communion with our Lord we must all be properly disposed.
    • So construed, the church's sacramental rites do not change anything or start anything; they register change that has already happened and announce situations that have already begun.
    • In many dioceses, including my own, the bishop also appoints a priest to provide the sacramental ministry critical to parish life.
    • God's mandate, God's empowerment in us and through us is a sacramental act that brings blessing upon the one who acts and the one acted upon.
    Synonyms
    ceremonial, ritualistic, prescribed, set, formal, stately, solemn, dignified, celebratory, liturgical
    1. 1.1 Attaching great importance to sacraments.
      Catholic theology, incarnational and sacramental
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For them the Christian life has been understood as essentially sacramental, incarnate and corporate.
      • It is the task of our teachers in this time of transition to remind us that we are different because we are sacramental, and that we are sacramental because we believe grace is everywhere.
      • Catholics, therefore, are a sacramental people and the Eucharist is the center of Catholic life.
      • For those in the sacramental tradition of the Christian community, the presence of the Spirit is identified with the elements of the mass and icons of the Lord.
noun sakrəˈmɛnt(ə)lˌsækrəˈmɛn(t)l
  • An observance analogous to but not reckoned among the sacraments, such as the use of holy water or the sign of the cross.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Good manners,’ he observes, ‘are like sacramentals - outer signs of inner grace.’
    • Here I will try to examine contemporary Catholic attitudes and responses, especially toward what we have traditionally called the sacramentals.
    • He laments the passing of sacramentals such as a proliferation of statues and praying the rosary.
    • However, a Catholic would say that Torah is a sacramental of the grace which finds its ultimate source and summit in the person of Christ, since he is the God who gave the Torah.
    • What Ker discovers instead is a common concern for the ‘sheer ordinariness’ of Catholic Christianity, the everyday ‘matter-of-factness’ of its sacraments and sacramentals.
    • We are baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, other sacraments and sacramentals are in the same Trinitarian name, and churches, colleges, and institutions beyond number are called ‘Trinity.’
    • For about thirteen years, I've been serving as a Catholic lay volunteer to bring prayer, the Eucharist, and sacramentals inside the walls of Florida's prison.

Derivatives

  • sacramentalism

  • noun
    • Wheeler Robinson did more than anyone else in twentieth-century Britain to help Baptists rediscover the sacramental understanding of baptism, and the key to his sacramentalism is the person and work of the Holy Spirit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the energy of their protest brought its own peril, as they tended to become suspicious of any pronounced sacramental emphasis, even the genuine sacramentalism of the New Testament.
      • So Christian sacramentalism is deeply tied up with the notion that the Divine is still there in His creation, to be revealed.
      • Therefore, Robinson's is an ethical sacramentalism, standing apart from other interpretations of the rite because it is ‘the only baptism which is strictly and primarily an ethical act on the part of the baptized.’
      • Chapters treat such topics as nature, postmodern concepts of God, religious ethics, free will, revivalism and sacramentalism, and the salvation of non-Christians.
  • sacramentalist

  • noun
  • sacramentality

  • noun sakrəmɛnˈtalɪti
    • Instead, they are concerned with ‘the sacramentality of the ordinary.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet if one writes accurately about the importance of sacramentality and community, how can one be denied the label Catholic?
      • His writing is filled with sacramentality: the idea that ordinary physical things mediate the holy.
      • This way of understanding the sacramentality of sacramental rites is not idiosyncratic, least of all in the Episcopal Church.
      • These three were chosen because of ‘their emphasis on the sacramentality of the word and the liturgical implications that accompany their ecclesial understanding of sacraments’.
  • sacramentalize

  • verbˌsakrəˈmɛntəlʌɪzˌsækrəˈmɛn(t)lˌaɪz
    [with object]
    • Give sacred significance to; make sacramental.

      the Church tried to sacramentalize knighthood
      Example sentencesExamples
      • the marriage would be seen as sacramentalized as soon as the couple took communion
      • In our Saviour's darkest moment, when the darkness of the sun sacramentalised the darkness covering his soul, even then he cried, ‘My God, my God…?‘
      • Furthermore, Behr-Sigel urges that the role of priests' spouses in the life of the parish be recognized, dignified, and sacramentalized.
      • The church has always tried to sacramentalize the faith for real people in an everyday physical world.
  • sacramentally

  • adverb
    • In a similar vein, Harold Lewis notes the importance of covenant in framing our lives sacramentally and relationally.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Both past and future are sacramentally present in Orthodox Eucharistic worship, which draws the church now into the worship of the coming Kingdom of God.
      • Christ is sacramentally present in the fruitful reality of his one sacrifice.
      • Against this is a ‘culture and scheme of values’ in which one is born and sacramentally reborn into a community of authoritatively defined tradition.
      • Being present with people sacramentally and personally in times of crisis, loss, and change gives me the credibility to raise questions about their priorities and values.
      • This is not to say, by the by, that those in full communion with the Catholic Church ecclesially and sacramentally are perfect.
 
 

Definition of sacramental in US English:

sacramental

adjectiveˌsækrəˈmɛn(t)lˌsakrəˈmen(t)l
  • 1Relating to or constituting a sacrament or the sacraments.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In many dioceses, including my own, the bishop also appoints a priest to provide the sacramental ministry critical to parish life.
    • Here is also found the Spirit's role not just in the ecclesial sacraments, but in the sacramental consecration of the entire material cosmos, as consistently envisioned by the Eastern Orthodox tradition.
    • As we open ourselves to God through prayer, Scripture, and the sacramental life of the church, God's life is able to penetrate our beings more fully.
    • He stayed close to the church through sacramental practice and networks of friendly priests.
    • While devout Catholics will readily agree that the Church is fundamentally a sacramental communion, it is also true that the Church must operate as an institution.
    • Not all congregations will support this ministry, depending upon their sacramental theology and denominational affiliation.
    • Indeed, Catholicism embodies a rich sacramental tradition, graced moments of encounter with another that can never be adequately expressed in propositions.
    • It is given to us again each day in the Eucharist, in which the paschal mystery is renewed: in a sacramental, mystical way the sacrifice of Christ is made present with its culmination in the mystery of the resurrection.
    • So construed, the church's sacramental rites do not change anything or start anything; they register change that has already happened and announce situations that have already begun.
    • God's mandate, God's empowerment in us and through us is a sacramental act that brings blessing upon the one who acts and the one acted upon.
    • I have found the sacramental life of worship in which my personal life has been shaped by entering into the Christian story and having God transform my life.
    • Our participation in the sacramental life of the church is to be participation in the process of our salvation.
    • When the dramatic decline in the number of candidates for the priesthood is factored in, the threat to the sacramental mission of the church weighs heavily on today's ordained ministers.
    • To partake of the Eucharist is to partake of Christ himself, and to enter into sacramental communion with our Lord we must all be properly disposed.
    • These two men struggled with the validity of Anglican orders and sacramental theology.
    • Can sacramental confession accommodate that cultural shift?
    Synonyms
    ceremonial, ritualistic, prescribed, set, formal, stately, solemn, dignified, celebratory, liturgical
    1. 1.1 Attaching great importance to sacraments.
      Catholic theology, incarnational and sacramental
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is the task of our teachers in this time of transition to remind us that we are different because we are sacramental, and that we are sacramental because we believe grace is everywhere.
      • For those in the sacramental tradition of the Christian community, the presence of the Spirit is identified with the elements of the mass and icons of the Lord.
      • For them the Christian life has been understood as essentially sacramental, incarnate and corporate.
      • Catholics, therefore, are a sacramental people and the Eucharist is the center of Catholic life.
nounˌsækrəˈmɛn(t)lˌsakrəˈmen(t)l
  • An observance analogous to but not reckoned among the sacraments, such as the use of holy water or the sign of the cross.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Here I will try to examine contemporary Catholic attitudes and responses, especially toward what we have traditionally called the sacramentals.
    • For about thirteen years, I've been serving as a Catholic lay volunteer to bring prayer, the Eucharist, and sacramentals inside the walls of Florida's prison.
    • We are baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, other sacraments and sacramentals are in the same Trinitarian name, and churches, colleges, and institutions beyond number are called ‘Trinity.’
    • He laments the passing of sacramentals such as a proliferation of statues and praying the rosary.
    • What Ker discovers instead is a common concern for the ‘sheer ordinariness’ of Catholic Christianity, the everyday ‘matter-of-factness’ of its sacraments and sacramentals.
    • ‘Good manners,’ he observes, ‘are like sacramentals - outer signs of inner grace.’
    • However, a Catholic would say that Torah is a sacramental of the grace which finds its ultimate source and summit in the person of Christ, since he is the God who gave the Torah.
 
 
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