Sentences with phrase «christian observance»

A distant whistle signals he's close by, and he tends to show himself during rains and the Christian observance of Lent.

A time of Christian observance, a celebration of new life, an opportunity to eat too much chocolate and buy lots of small plastic eggs for which you will never find a purpose.

The Christian observance of Sunday is, of course, not a seventh - but a first - day observance.

The fellowship was not only symbolized but also effected by the common meal, some kind or kiddush or «sanctification,» not now of the Sabbath but of the first day of the week, (Prof. E. F. Scott has advanced the view, in his recent work on The Nature of the Early Church (1941), that the Christian observance of Sunday resulted from the celebration of the common meal after the Jewish Sabbath observances were over.

Jews should recognize in the Christian observance of Christmas «one of the factors that help maintain the religious character of our society» in which Jews, too, with their own beliefs and practices, and with their very lives, have a considerable stake.»

In 1955, modern soil conservationists from all backgrounds then piggy - backed on the Christian observance, leading to the bulletin that my great grandmother Annie found worth saving two years later.

In his inexorable march toward the center of Christian observance, Santa is intent on pushing baby Jesus off the nativity scene.

Widespread Christian observance within Christendom not only survived the fragmentation of the church at the Reformation but even seemed to show a new burst of vitality.

Or someone who has grown up with a formal kind of Christian observance but would not be able to talk about a personal relationship with Jesus?

The significance behind the Christian observance of Christmas lies in the person it celebrates.

The error that I believe that the ancient church made was to substitute supposedly Christian observance for the pagan ones and hoping that eventually the reason for the pagan holiday would be forgotten.

The only Christian observance I've found recorded in the Bible is the memorial of Jesus death.

Between the Christian observances of Christmas and Ash Wednesday, the world knows only the festivals of Super Bowl, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents» Day and the next retail opportunity, Valentine's Day.

Christian observances were part of our street life and part of the civic life of our communities.

By coopting it and declaring the holdiay as «Christian» then criticizing behavior that does not emphasize the primacy of Christian observances, how is that different from «stealing» the holiday?

Not exact matches

Surely the Christians have Christmas, Easter and many other observances.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

No Catholic leader today doubts that the continued existence of the Jewish people and the observance of the Jewish religion is a blessing for Christians.

The observance of these three days reminds Christians of a common patristic heritage and the way reformation and renewal can both reshape and fracture that heritage.

Faith of our Fathers is a spirited defense of Catholic ritual, discipline, and communal observance» of the ways in which the collective wisdom of Christian tradition is passed on from one generation to another.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

The Christian story and observance had to do with a real person, who had been personally known and was remembered by people still living when the story was being told and put on record.

The early first century apostles and Christians never observed Christmas nor did they modify the focus of any pagan observances to the «glory of Christ».

It castigated the gentile Christian church for teaching that Jewish believers must refrain from observances proclaimed in the Mosaic Law.

It sounds like they're basically putting a sign on the front door that says only Christians allowed in TAPPS if they won't consider another religion's observances.

More important the bylaws at the time forbid playing games on Sunday in observance of Christian sabboth.

even if the contract says the schedule wont be changed they may be violating federal discrimination laws given the fact that they allow for observance of the christian sabbath.

So, observance of the Christian Sabbath only is acceptable?

I do not think that thoughtful Christians demand tax - supported opportunities for their religious observances.

Our schools always got winter and spring break with observances for those holidays in the christian calendar.

White American Protestants might learn from the example of Latin American, Asian and African ways of being Christian how inculturated their own religious observances are — for example, how European are their celebrations of Christmas and Easter.

There are obvious and important historical reasons for this, reasons that stretch from the decision made by Christians in the first century of our history that circumcision and observance of the law were not necessary for entry into the Christian community, to the tragedy of the Holocaust in our own time.

The other is to define being a Christian in terms extraneous to moral qualities, as by right beliefs or church membership or faithful observance of the sacraments or some metaphysical change assumed to be wrought by conversion.

Churches were full; Christian festivals dominated the calendar; there was strict Sabbath observance; and the various patterns of Christian morality were enforced by peer pressure, even more than they were by law or from the pulpit.

I speak not now of your ordinary religious believer, who follows the conventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan.

The American bishops did much better: while also making the matter optional, they offered a powerful and sympathetic discussion of the religious reasons for the old observance and urged American Catholics to continue the practice as a gesture of solidarity with, and gratitude for, the passion of Christ, as an act of fidelity to the Christian past, and to help «preserve a saving and necessary difference from the spirit of the world.»

Using a four - part measurement of religious observance for Christians — weekly church attendance, daily prayer, saying religion is important and believing in God with «absolute certainty» — Pew found that 70 percent of Christian college grads were highly committed to their religion.

Nevertheless, Soil and Water Conservation Week or Stewardship Week continues, now tethered to the original Roman calendar observance on April 25th — known to liturgical Christians still in the know as the Major Rogation — rather than the more variable Minor Rogations, the three days before Ascension Thursday, highlighted in 1957.

But since you Christians can not get a clue on your own, we will have to pummel with acorns until you get a dictionary and discover that «religion» is» (1): the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2): commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance.»

I simply don't believe that the new covenant includes adopting pagan observances, such as Easter (which isn't even a Christian name!)

I didn't mean to sound like I was suggesting that Christians should keep Jewish observances.

He drew from this memory a lesson for contemporary Christians, namely to invest in their Sunday observance some of the spirit of the Jewish Sabbath (in whose observance, by the way, Jesus was so scrupulous during his life on earth).

During the course of this century the observance of Sunday and the annual festivals of Whitsunday and Easter have almost disappeared as public Christian festivals.

I'd like to learn how to motivate church people; how to stop them from substituting meaningless religious observance for vital worship; how to get them to act as Christians in the world.

The next chapter will be devoted to a discussion of that sacramental observance as a focus for Christian public praying.

But when he came to delineate his differences with his opponents — that Gentile Christians need not adopt circumcision, Jewish food law observance, and the keeping of Jewish festivals and holy days — Paul traced those differences back to his own, unusual (by his opponents» standards) version of what God had achieved in sending Christ.

The Christian, he came to believe, is justified not by his deeds — by «work righteousness» including religious observances — but by trusting in the mercy and love of God, which can never be earned but is offered freely in Christ.

The observance of the Christian calendar, with its special days and seasons, furthered community participation.

The fact is that the Christian first - day observance also commemorates Creation in a double sense.

You know that I am descended from the most Christian emperors of the German nation, from the Catholic kings of Spain, the Archdukes of Austria and the dukes of Burgundy... After death they left us by natural right and heritage these holy Catholic observances, to live according to them and to die according to their example... I am determined to support everything that these predecessors and I myself have kept... It is certain that a single friar errs in his opinion which is against all of Christendom and according to which all of Christianity will be and will always have been in error both in the past thousand years and even more in the present... I am absolutely determined to stake on this cause my kingdoms and seignories, my friends, my body and blood, my life and soul.