Sentences with phrase «church consecrated»

The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in 2003, angering some conservative Episcopalians.

The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly lesbian bishop Saturday in the face of objections from some conservative Anglicans.

During this time the ranks of St. Mark's, an Episcopal congregation in Glen Ellyn, had been swelling — until the Episcopal Church consecrated an openly gay bishop in 2003, whereupon many St. Mark's members left to form All Souls, still another AMIA church, in Wheaton.

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For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Women will be able to be consecrated as bishops of the Anglican Church in Wales by September 2014, a...

It is for family in a consecrated state of loving, and makes that loving an office and a ministry in the Church, in time and for eternity.

«The state of matrimony», as the Prayer Book puts it, has been «consecrated to such an excellent mystery that in it is signified and represented the spiritual marriage and unity betwixt Christ and his Church.»

I stood on the banks of the Elbe River at the site of the Frauenkirche» the monumental domed church, consecrated in 1734, graced by one....

Consecrated virginity, the perpetual commitment of a woman who is a virgin to remain in that state, in faithfulness to Jesus Christ and prayerful service of His Church is, to say the least, counter-cultural.

And, believe it or not, the box looks like the Tabernacle in Catholic churches, where they store the consecrated host from the Eucharist.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

She insisted that it would be «disastrous» for a single woman to make a vow of chastity simply because she was unwed and thereby forbidden by the church to engage in sexual relations («Virginity is More Than Singleness,» Catholic World, September, 1960) Like Augustine, Dohen asserted that intentionality is crucial to the vocation of the consecrated virgin.

He constructed the church in the 11th century and died just days after it was consecrated.

The church in general hopes for, and journeys towards, fulfillment in the kingdom or paradise, but for many the hope was precarious unless they undertook consecrated celibacy.

Christians have built churches of great beauty in many places, which are consecrated or set apart for the worship of God.

Thanks to them, the world is lifted up towards God... In this year consecrated to the Eucharist, reviving the figure of Dom Guéranger is an invitation for all the faithful to rediscover the roots of the liturgy and to give a new breath to their journey of prayer, taking care to place themselves always in the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and quality.

As if to redress singlehandedly the real and perceived neglect of women's contributions to the Catholic Church, McNamara gives us an exhaustively researched, comprehensively presented, and splendidly written history, from clandestine Roman days to the present, of the women who were consecrated to the lay apostolate or the contemplative life.

The Catholic church just needs an ordained priest to consecrate the host.

indifference stopped short of the vigorous iconoclasm of Calvin, who claimed in the Institutes of the Christian Religion that the only images that belong in churches are «those living and symbolical ones which the Lord has consecrated by his Word.

We need to consecrate our Christian lives and the Church's mission to the Virgin.

We have a leadership crisis in the Church at the level of bishops and archbishops, most of whom were consecrated under Blessed John Paul II.

A group of fifty volunteers was assembled, trained, and consecrated into this service during a special ceremony at a Sunday morning church service.

Something of its character may be grasped, however, in reflecting that the other dimension to the spousal relationship is that the Church is primarily embodied in a personal way by the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is by immersing oneself in the Marian vocation - what has come to be called in the theology of von Balthasar and Pope Benedict «the Marian Profile» [3]- of the Church that the consecrated virgin will grasp the true spirit of her personal vocation to love and fidelity to Christ.

GAFCON says although the Anglican Church in North America is the consecrating Province, this is an initiative of the wider Anglican Communion.

Still trying to agree on a definition of the Eucharist, theologians over a wide range of background had finally agreed in the Wittenberg Concord that «with the consecrated bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ are truly and substantially present, shown forth and received», also that the sacrament has its authentic value in the Church and does not depend on the status of either the minister or the recipient.

As God's holy and priestly people, we have all been consecrated by that offering of the Body of Jesus Christ... «for our good and the good of all his Church».

According to Church of England practice, only a bishop could consecrate another bishop.

Joining her at the landmark church - which was consecrated in 1420 - will be Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Chancellor Philip Hammond and Brexit Secretary David Davis.

Toward the end of the tenth century agitation began for the Peace of God, which sought to exempt from attack all persons and places consecrated to the Church — churches, monasteries, clergy, monks, and virgins.

The consecrated man felt he could not face his superiors or his God if he had not fulfilled the rules, which seemed to flow so ineluctably from the Church and its Canon Law.

For example, we were invited to send a representative as auditor to the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1994 dealing with «The Consecrated Life and Its Role in the Church and the World.»

In his 10th March letter To The Bishops Of The Catholic Church Concerning The Remission Of The Excommunication Of The Four Bishops Consecrated By Archbishop Lefebvre Pope Benedict says the first duty of a Pope and the top priority of his pontificate is captured by St Peter's phrase:

It is obvious that within this broad context the conception of the minister practically lost its priestly dimension as traditionally conceived, and became that of a consecrated functionary, called of God, who directed the purposive activities of the visible church.

The lower church was consecrated to the Saviours Transfiguration in 1997, and the completed Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was consecrated on the Transfiguration Day, 19 August 2000.

His diaries chronicle the days leading up to a decisive, cataclysmic moment on the day consecrating the church's anniversary.

Many early travellers were British and settled in Cadenabbia, forming a community and founding Italy's very first Anglican Church, consecrated in 1891.

The largest Franciscan church in the world, the beautiful Basilica di Santa Croce was consecrated in the fifteenth century and is notable both for its superb artworks and for housing funerary monuments to Italian luminaries including Dante, Galileo, Rossini, Michelangelo and Machiavelli.

In December of that year the church was solemnly consecrated by Timothy Cardinal Manning.

Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and in 2010 was consecrated and proclaimed a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI.

Before any church is consecrated, the legal title thereto shall be registered in the name of The Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Huron, which holds it in trust for the benefit of the Parish or congregation.