Sentences with phrase «church tradition tells»

Church tradition tells us that that the disciples of Christ had families, but they still were willing to be martyred and die for Christ, leaving their families behind.

Not exact matches

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

Counselling against «inquirpng] too curiously» he concludes: «It is better simply to accept the words of Christ, of Scripture, of the tradition and of the Church's magisterium which tell us what we need to know: Christ is really but invisibly present in this sacrament.»

They were doubtless told again and again in the early church, as today one remembers the illustrations in a sermon, and thus found their way into not only the oral tradition of the church but the earlier written sources of the Gospels.

Did you erase your previous blog in which you might have been critical of the tradition / institutional church, or did you just tell them that your views changed, or how did you go about «reversing course» so to speak?

In Galatians 1:13 - 16 he tells of his former life in Judaism, his progress beyond that of many of his contemporaries, his zeal for his ancestral traditions, and his devastation of the Church of God; this situation was transformed when God revealed his Son «in» him so that he might proclaim the gospel among the gentiles.

Time will tell if the celebrity priest lives up to Church of the Resurrection's lively tradition.

«A lot of these Eastern European countries with very strong Roman Catholic churches and traditions are very concerned about the number of Muslim people [coming here]...» he told LBC.

Universities, founded through citizens» resistance to the church and the feudal lords telling the lower classes what to do, continue to exist in the tradition of critically analysing our existence as we know it.

To find a class I had to do it the 5,000 year old Vedic Tradition way: I found a friend who had a friend, who knew a guy who told me there was a class offered every Tuesday night at 7:30 in the rectory of a church a few towns away.