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In Christianity, sanctification (or in its verb form, sanctify) literally means "to set apart for special use or purpose", that is, to make holy or sacred (compare Latin: sanctus). Therefore, sanctification refers to the state or process of being set apart, i.e. "made holy", as a vessel, full of the Holy Spirit.
In 1995, Saint John Paul II reiterated the importance of this devotion and instituted the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests on the feast of the Sacred Heart in June so that "the priesthood might be protected in the hands of Jesus, rather in his heart, so it could be open to everyone." [10]
Numerous processions take place on this day. Sacred Heart Fires are lit in the Bozen (Bolzano) area of Italy, among others. Since 2002, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is also a special day of prayer for the sanctification of priests. [9] In 2009, the feast marked the beginning of a "Year for Priests". [10]
First-day Sabbatarianism). [16] [17] Holiness Pentecostals are distinguished from Finished Work Pentecostals, the other branch of Pentecostalism that separated from Holiness Pentecostalism in 1910 under William Howard Durham, who denied the Wesleyan-Holiness doctrine of entire sanctification. [5] [18] [19] [3]
In Methodist theology, entire consecration is an act made by an individual who has experienced the New Birth, but prior to entire sanctification: [6] Consecration necessary for entire sanctification, is the total abandonment of the redeemed soul to the whole will of God (Romans 12:1; 6:11, 13, 22).
Many Holiness preachers emphasized the reception of entire sanctification as an instantaneous experience. In Wesleyan- Arminian theology, the second work of grace is considered to be a cleansing from the tendency to commit sin , an experience called entire sanctification which leads to Christian perfection.
Alonzo Trévier Jones (1850 – May 12, 1923) was a Seventh-day Adventist known for his impact on the theology of the church, along with friend and associate Ellet J. Waggoner. He was a key participant in the 1888 Minneapolis General Conference Session regarded as a landmark event in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
What makes the consecrated life a more exacting way of Christian living is the public religious vows or other sacred bonds whereby the consecrated persons commit themselves, for the love of God, to observe as binding the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience from the Gospel, or, in the case of consecrated virgins a holy resolution (sanctum propositum) of leading a life of ...