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- noun a
sacramental nature ,character orquality
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Examples
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A spirituality of work is based on a heightened sense of sacramentality, of the idea that everything that is, is holy and that our hands consecrate it to the service of God.
Sister Joan Chittister, OSB: Labor Day: A Spirituality of Work 2010
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Most of all, Louisa seemed to grasp the sacramentality of family life, of the rough-hewn personalities who shape each other under the guidance of loving parents.
Eden's Outcasts elena maria vidal 2009
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A beautiful reflection on the inescapable sacramentality of our lives.
Grace in the dust Michelle 2008
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Father Capon's book is a delirious, impassioned tribute to sacramentality -- the principle that spiritual realities are mediated by and expressed through the material world.
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The sacramentality of the Catholic tradition also calls deeply to me, that God is in all things, as St. Ignatius would have it.
Archive 2007-11-01 Michelle 2007
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The sacramentality of the Catholic tradition also calls deeply to me, that God is in all things, as St. Ignatius would have it.
Good Questions Michelle 2007
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Thus the procreative significance of marital sex— even when one or both parties are involuntarily and/or permanently sterile—forms part and parcel of its sacramentality, which consists in love as mutual self-gift.
Development and Negation VI: Contraception Mike L 2006
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Possibly, even, to clear a space in which I can become more evangelical without letting go of all the things which have formed my theological understanding up until now ie the essential sacramentality of faith.
Getting personal with fundamentalism Sam Norton 2006
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Thus the procreative significance of marital sex— even when one or both parties are involuntarily and/or permanently sterile—forms part and parcel of its sacramentality, which consists in love as mutual self-gift.
Archive 2006-01-01 Mike L 2006
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This authority regarding marriages Pius VI bases on their sacramentality; hence it seems that the marriage in question should be included among marriages that are sacraments.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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