Sentences with phrase «after a prayer by»

After a prayer by Thomas and the appearance of Jesus to the bride and bridegroom, they decided to forego marriage and live in celibacy.

Not exact matches

That has been a sharp contrast to other recent mass shootings where public debate quickly moved on after the perfunctory «thoughts and prayers» offered by many Republican politicians and outrage expressed by Democrats.

The extraordinary meeting of world Anglican leaders, organized by the Archbishop of Canterbury, has ended after five days of prayer and deliberation.

It is worth remembering that the practice of inaugural prayer was reinstituted, after a lapse of 144 years, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

As a closing prayer, Mark Kelly offered a prayer given over Giffords» hospital bed just after the shooting by the rabbi who married the couple in 2007 - that the angel Michael watch over the right side, the angel Gabriel over the left, the angel Uriel - God's angel of light - guiding the path and the angel Raphael - the angel of healing - be behind, and overhead the presence of the Divine.

We should not underestimate the capacity for public inscriptions to be unnoticed after their initial construction even by those that lived their lives surrounded by them (it is indicative of this that in the process of destroying Alexandrian Jewish prayer halls (39 CE), a mob of gentiles seeking to promote the worship of Caligula actually destroyed dedications to previous emperors).

The Kingdom is often taking root in small ways — in our kitchens and in our parish halls, in our streets and our subsidized daycares, in youth group mentoring relationships and after - school care, in prayer circles and by - law meetings at city council.

I believe with all my heart, after thousands of hours reading the Bible under prayer so my understanding would be inspired by the Holy Spirit, that the Mormon church is indeed a satanic cult - it's one of the «other gospels» Paul talks about in Galatians 1:8.

Prayer is not overtly rejected but it is by - passed as a naïve, probably harmless but certainly not very important, indulgence on the part of those not able to look after their own concerns.

At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation of the universe by God, the prayer that follows says: «Almighty ever - living God, who are wonderful in the ordering of all your works, may those you have redeemed understand that there exists nothing more marvellous than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end of the ages, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.»

And so I conclude this month of posts with a prayer written by four of the contributors to this series (Anna Broadway, Dominique Gilliard, Corey Widmer, and Natasha Sistrunk Robinson), a prayer modeled after the way Jesus taught us to pray, a prayer for me, for you and perhaps your church community:

A day of prayer and fasting has been organised by London City Mission and the Message Trust after the disaster last Wednesday, which left at least 79 people dead.

It is wise to explore their impact on the person by inquiring after a prayer, for example, «What was going through your mind as I prayed?»

CNN: Lutheran pastor apologizes for praying in Newtown vigil A Lutheran pastor has apologized after being chastised by his denomination's leader for offering a prayer at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

The attacks were inspired by Islamic immams and launched after prayers on May 11, 2007.

The silent prayer can be carried out for a specific time — say 5 or 10 minutes and timed by the chair person for the meeting, after the time slotted the chair person just needs to say «thank you» and the prayers is done.

nah — they believe that grocary store bread and wine becomes the flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus - pocus over it in church of a Sunday morning; that a being reads my mind whenever I pray and intervenes to change what would otherwise be the course of history in small ways to «answer my prayers»; and that I will survive my own physical deathand live happily ever after if I follow some rules laid down by goat herders in Bronze Age Palestine.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

He persisted there, hour after hour, energized by anticipation and by hope in his prayers and his service.

After high school at the Black Heath School, founded in the 1860s by protofeminists «to produce women who could beat men at their own game,» Coakley entered Cambridge, where she studied with Robinson and «chucked out prayer and the ritual dimension» of faith.

He noticed that when people left after the final prayer they were neither depressed nor moved by joy, but had the look on their face, «So that's that!»

Washington (CNN)-- A Lutheran pastor has apologized after being chastised by his denomination's leader for offering a prayer at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

By sacrifice the gods could be at first won over to grant favors sought after; then as time went on, it became magical in its powers, and the gods themselves could not resist the prayer spell; indeed, what power they had they owed to the sacrifice.22 It became a matter of primary importance that the sacrifice be properly performed, for in this its efficacy rested.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

I, for one, feel that the recent court actions upholding a ban on student - conducted, voluntary religious meetings on school property before or after regular class hours serve unnecessarily to arouse animosity and motivate people to tamper with the Constitution by pushing for a prayer amendment.

Major decisions in Persia are made not after prayer and fasting, but on whims, in response to petty personal sleights, by the of casting lots.

Longtime missionaries David and Fiona Fulton were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor last December after pleading guilty — in hopes of a lenient sentence — to sedition charges stemming from a wry comment e-mailed to a prayer list.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

Hartshorne has very little to say about Christology and is genuinely perplexed by such traditionally Christian ideas as individual survival after death and petitionary prayer.

On another occasion he was shot by a rubber bullet aimed at another prisoner (it was after this that he turned to centering prayer as a way to address his mental and physical pain).

Many of the replies pointed out that some players mimic the Muslim prayer after they score by kneeling down.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

Also, the Lord's Prayer probably was not composed by Jesus at all, but was more likely the work of early Christians who wrote it after the crucifixion.

But the film stoops to its lowest level by ending with a disingenuous attack on Benedict XVI: «Months after associating Islam with «things only evil and inhuman,» Benedict XVI reversed reforms of Vatican II to authorize a Good Friday Mass that includes a previous disavowed prayer ¯ for the conversion of Jews.»

«The implication for Jesus» prayer is this: As in this passage (Isaiah 51:19 - 22), where God will remove the cup of his wrath from his people after they have drunk it, so Jesus prays that the cup of God's wrath for sin, which he drinks for all, will in the same way be removed from his hand by the Father after he has drunk it.»

Rather, when confronted by the pastoral reality of people who wanted to remarry after widowhood, or after divorce, the Church, recognized civil marriages and focused entirely on the reintegration of the remarried into the Church through prayer and fasting.

A great deal of harm has been done by the suggestion that everybody is really capable of those ranges of contemplative and mystical prayer, since many people find, after much effort, that they can not engage in them.

«In the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears... He learned obedience through what He suffered; and being made perfect He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.»

I remember in one of Paul's letters he speaks about sexual conduct between a married couple and I totally agree on his position which is basically that sex is in itself not a vile temptation of the flesh as some would have us believe, he actually recommends that «The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband» 1 Corinthians 7:3 adding shortly after «Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church emphasises that «for all the baptised, faith must grow after baptism».17 Faith is nourished by the sacraments, by living in the Church and in love and service of God and neighbour, and by prayer.

Paul VI in his first sermon as Pope spoke to those «who without belonging to the Catholic Church are united to us by the powerful bond of faith and love of Jesus Christ and marked with the unique seal of baptism — one Lord, one faith, one baptism», seeking to «hasten the blessed day which will see, after so many centuries of deadly separation, the realisation of Christ's prayer on the eve of his death — ut unum sint, that they may be one...» 6

The Church then said that a Christian who had received the sacrament of penance, could by various good works, the saying of particular prayers or doing such pious works as assisting in the building of churches (by a cash payment) achieve release from some part of, sometimes all of, whatever «temporal punishment» he might still be due to undergo after death.

So, although he would do certain things by rule - of - thumb experience — plough after sowing, protect the field from birds or wandering animals, etc. — for the most part after sowing he went his daily round with his prayers said, his fingers crossed and a wary eye on the field.

how ye ought to forsake and set aside, as much as ye may, all worldly cares and studies... to give yourselves wholly to this Office, whereunto it hath pleased God to call you... and draw all your cares and studies this way that so, by prayer for the assistance of the Holy Ghost, and by daily reading and weighing the Scriptures, ye may wax riper and stronger in your Ministry; and that ye may so endeavour yourselves... to sanctify the lives of you and yours, and to fashion them after the Rule and Doctrine of Christ, that ye may be wholesome and godly examples and patterns for the people to follow.1

Instead, Paul VI stated: «Therefore, having attentively sifted the documentation laid before Us, after mature reflection and assiduous prayers, We now intend, by virtue of the mandate entrusted to Us by Christ, to give Our reply to these grave questions.»

After game we will all be on here saying the same thing as we do when we get beaten by all the big clubs those who think we can get a result are totally deluded we do not have a prayer they will expose all our weaknesses and win the game comfortably then u can all start the moaning about Wenger the team certain players just face facts we are not good enough!!

After many pleas and prayers, Magistrate Aluko returned the case file to the Chief Magistrate, as against the plea by monarchs in Iwo axis to strike out the suit.

Hillary Clinton said she was devastated and drained after her loss to Trump in 2016, but regained her strength by relying on a mix of prayer, yoga and «my fair share of Chardonnay.»

Buhari said this while addressing journalists in Daura, his hometown in Katsina State, on Monday after attending Eid prayers, according to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu.

«I have realized, after much thought and prayer, that I am still that candidate, despite my shortcomings, and it has been pointed out to me by the hundreds and hundreds of messages I have received.»