In a union with him and that kind of offering, that kind of redemptive act, people can have hope.
'It is the Eucharist above all that expresses the redemptive act of Christ the Bridegroom towards the Church the Bride'.
- Generally thought to be Williams's best novel, Descent deals with various forms of selfishness, and how the cycle of sin brings about the necessity for redemptive acts.
Perhaps it wanted a final resting place, where it could become a memorial to its crime and the redemptive act that had followed.
Then he notes that the priest participates in that one eternal "redemptive act" (ongoing offering) sacramentally.
Lester's final redemptive act is to forgo intercourse with his daughter's teenage friend.
Since the earliest Christian times, it has focused on the redemptive act of God in the death and resurrection of Christ.
Joyful observance of this holy time from evening to evening, sunset to sunset, is a celebration of God's creative and redemptive acts.
The cost to God of his redemptive act is underlined by the fact that it was only achieved through the death of his Son.
Since he is successful in saving the Warehouse, Helena's death, her tragic hero's redemptive act of self-sacrifice, never happened.