The meetings of the delegates were not a sacramental act.

Thus the sacramental act of marriage is dependent upon certain theological beliefs for its existence.

To take medicine from [them] is a sort of sacramental act.

So it is an event of great significance to the Makah people, who consider the whale hunt to be a sacramental act.

For example, it could be a parish that still has theological doubts about the validity of sacramental acts performed by women.

Rexroth viewed love for another person as a sacramental act that could connect one with a transcendent, universal awareness.

Opponents also contend that sacramental acts an ordained woman might perform are invalid, including ordinations of men as priests.

They also question the validity of sacramental acts performed by ordained women or men ordained by female bishops.

This sacramental act of cleansing admits one as a full member of the natural and supernatural Church and is only conferred once in a person's lifetime.

Some Episcopalians have declared that they will not recognize Ms. Harris if she is consecrated or consider any sacramental acts she performs to be valid.

For the religious terrorist, violence is first and foremost a sacramental act or a divine duty, executed in direct response to some theological demand or imperative and justified by scripture.

Prayer for healing is at the heart of the Guild's work, as are the sacraments of healing - anointing and the sacramental act of the laying on of hands.

It is directed against human conceit but at one period was also used to illustrate the argument in Canon Law that the sacramental act is not diminished by the priest's unworthiness.

As penance is not only a sacramental act, but one of jurisdiction, a tribunal of binding and loosing, these faculties are considered to be required for both for validity and liceity.

Described as "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace", sacramental acts draw us into God's presence and allow us to fully experience the grace of God in our lives.

He insisted in the removal from the diptychs of the name of Acacius, Patriarch of Constantinople, but recognized the validity of his sacramental acts, an attitude that displeased the Romans.

For one thing, the validity of orders is a thorny church law question that would in turn raise pastoral problems -- such as the legitimacy of past sacramental acts carried out by a priest whose ordination was judged invalid.

Heterosexual intercourse is viewed by some in the Catholic community as a sacramental act meant to be experienced only by married couples; it is viewed as a physical representation of the spiritual unity of marriage between a husband and wife.

Confession of sins to a priest is, of course, but one part of the sacramental act of reconciliation in the Church, but this name is understood to stand for the whole in which are also included necessarily sorrow (contrition), penance and absolution.

Methodists use the Apostles' Creed as part of their baptismal rites in the form of an interrogatory addressed to the candidate(s) for baptism and the whole congregation as a way of professing the faith within the context of the Church's sacramental act.

'Episcopal Visitors' Those convinced that Scripture or tradition bars the ordination of women as priests or bishops question the validity of sacramental acts carried out by women, including confirmations and the ordinations of priests, male or female, by bishops who are women.

Other commission recommendations proposed ways to keep confirmations, visits by bishops to other Anglican provinces or their attendance at sacramental acts by ordained women and even symbolic gestures by the Archbishop of Canterbury from becoming sources of friction between Anglican branches.

In vague sacrificial or sacramental acts alone his will seemed drawn to go forth to encounter reality; and it was partly the absence of an appointed rite which had always constrained him to inaction whether he had allowed silence to cover his anger or pride or had suffered only an embrace he longed to give.

The Roman Catholic priest and Protestant Reformer Martin Luther initially proclaimed in his teaching that three sacraments should be preserved in the reformed church, namely baptism, the eucharist and confession; Lutheran Christians today, do not all agree on the number of sacraments, but many include confession as a sacramental act.