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The Church as a Sacrament in a Time of Pandemic: The Philippine Experience

, 2020
The declaration of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in various provinces and cities in the Philippines did not impede the Catholic Church from celebrating its sacraments and popular devotions.
Rhoderick John Abellanosa
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Church as Sacrament of Yin-yang Harmony: Toward a More Incisive Participation of Laity and Women in the Church

Theological Studies, 2019
The author proposes a development of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference’s theology of church as a sacrament of harmony, drawing in particular from the East Asian concept of yin-yang unity and integration.
A. Brazal
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Of sacraments, sacramentals and anthropology: is anthropological explanation sacramental?

Anthropology & Medicine, 2017
This paper suggests that what is usually called a cultural misunderstanding of biomedical disease categories may be construed as a biomedical and anthropological misunderstanding of cultural categories. This is premised on the fact that anthropology often functions as an intimate double and handmaiden of biomedicine, in so far as it refuses to ...
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Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar

2022
‘Sacrament an Alter’ (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner’s Homilies in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add. MS 46397). No complete critical edition of the Tregear Homilies has been published since the manuscript’s discovery, yet ...
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Psychedelic Sacraments

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2005
The use of psychedelic substances within a context that emphasizes religious experiences and aims to provide spiritual insights is not a new phenomenon. However, the proscription of these substances in most modern societies leads to such use now typically occurring in an underground and idiosyncratic manner that often leaves individuals on their own ...
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Sacramental Meditation

Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling: Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publications, 2013
The group practice called “sacramental meditation” relies on sacred objects and spontaneous imagination to prepare its participants for spiritual experience. The meditation object is likened to an icon. The practice is compared with Loyola's “spiritual exercises” and the therapeutic technique of “active imagination”.
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The Sacraments of the Law and the Law of the Sacraments

2023
'Sacramentality' can serve as a category that helps to understand the performative power of religious and legal rituals. Through the analysis of 'sacraments', we can observe how law uses sacramentality to change reality through performative action, and how religion uses law to organise religious rituals, including sacraments.
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Otto Semmelroth and the Advance of the Church as Sacrament at Vatican II

Theological Studies, 2015
Dennis M Doyle
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Deportation as a sacrament of the state: the religious instruction of contracted chaplains in U.S. detention facilities

Undocumented and Unaccompanied, 2017
In family detention, religious practice does not stand alone as a faith free-zone, but rather unfolds within what Néstor Rodríguez and Cristian Paredes call ‘coercive bureaucracy’ that from its accumulative effect have a bearing on religious practices ...
Gregory L. Cuéllar
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Sacraments

2012
AbstractThe article discusses Aquinas's view on sacraments. Aquinas understood worship and not simply the internal love shown in mind and will of rational creature to its Creator but also the use of material objects, words, and bodily gestures, to be a natural obligation of all human beings.
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