Sentences with phrase «handmaids of»

After graduation from high school, I joined the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary in Staten Island, New York, a community of teachers dedicated to serving Harlem's poor.

She is not forced to say yes to the Angel Gabriel but was fully free to utter her «I am the handmaid of the Lord».

«The message of my life was: I am the handmaid of God; my life has been a gift of myself to God and my neighbour.

For Clement of Alexandria, writing toward the end of the second century CE, philosophy is «the handmaid of theology,» given to the Greeks as preparation for Christ in a manner similar to the Law being given to the Hebrews (Stromata, 1:5).

When I consider Mary's response, though, «Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word» (v. 38), along with her glorious song to God recorded in verses 46 - 52, I am reminded that a calling may feel like a burden and, indeed, sometimes may actually be a burden, but it is one of God's own choosing, which means that it is one that He works through to give us strength in spite of the circumstances.

Our vision is to help our pupils and staff link together the different branches of knowledge to the Catholic Faith through philosophy, where the latteracts as the handmaid of theology.»

The Rosary begins with the trusting faith of Mary who, like the servants in the Gospel today, obey the Master: «Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.»

We are referring to the step from a working hypothesis as a handmaid of research to an affirmation of faith.

38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.

Either science has become the handmaid of technical progress — that is what it means to most people, even the educated; medicine, law, and history are then merely departments of technology.

«I am the handmaid of the Lord,» Mary pledged.

He looks for guidance to the seventeenth century, specifically to Descartes, whose philosophy was meant as a handmaid of science and whose physics — developed much more fully by Newton — became the foundation of the new cosmology.

Luther would come to echo the modernists that philosophy was indeed in no sense the handmaid of theology, not because of the merely intellectual inappropriateness of this as he saw it, but because the whole world of man, all the world of philosophy was thrown entirely into the deepest of shadows under the sign of sin when a man had become bound by the Word of God.

My dominant idea was: «Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it unto me even as thou wilt,» and a perfect confidence that all would be well, that all was well.

Not exact matches

Untethered viewing is coming to Hulu subscribers, as will a third season of «The Handmaids Tale» and a new series by Mindy Kaling.

Preliminary rituals of Bible - reading (by the Commander to his household) preserve «bits of broken symbolism left over from the time before» (p. 60)-- bits that also appear on police vans (the Winged Eye), in uniforms (Handmaids wear red habits and stiff white blinders), in common speech (their standard farewell is «Under His Eye») and military orders (Guardians of the Faith watch everywhere, outranked by Angel forces).

The prophet Amos also recalls that the Ammonites have «ripped up the women with child, of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border» (1:13) In the Tale, the Handmaids» own children have been ripped from them so that these «twolegged wombs» may become the property of a state mobilized to invade all private spaces (including those «pockets of Baptist guerrillas» engaged in border warfare) In her latter days, Atwood's heroine, like the «handmaids» in Joel 2:29, prophesies against such state - sponsored terrorism, but even more against its inscription in the people's heaHandmaids» own children have been ripped from them so that these «twolegged wombs» may become the property of a state mobilized to invade all private spaces (including those «pockets of Baptist guerrillas» engaged in border warfare) In her latter days, Atwood's heroine, like the «handmaids» in Joel 2:29, prophesies against such state - sponsored terrorism, but even more against its inscription in the people's heahandmaids» in Joel 2:29, prophesies against such state - sponsored terrorism, but even more against its inscription in the people's hearts (Jer.

In this essay, I wish to briefly survey this harmonious relationship as perhaps the supreme example of reason at the service of revelation, or of philosophy as the handmaid to theology.

For those just joining us, Bruce Miller's television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's firebrand 1985 novel centers on the world of Gilead, a dystopian society where a Christian theocracy has forced fertile women into slavery as Handmaids.

The regime divides and conquers, pushing the Handmaids into a gray moral territory in which they must evaluate the lives of the many versus the lives of the few.

Religion and myth should be its handmaids, opening the individual to the mysterious depths of human existence, as well as providing our culture with a shared vision of those things unseen which Davies believes are what largely govern us.

But on the whole the most important function of knowledge was to serve as a handmaid to understanding and contemplation.

Even simple ordinary folk today put reason before faith, unlike before the «enlightenment» when theology was accepted as the «queen of sciences» and science its handmaid.

Even with such a sketchy picture of the methodology of liberation theology, it must be apparent that philosophy's role as handmaid to theology must come into question.

He then posed the following question: «What will it do with the signs of Ishmael, a handmaid's child cast away to make room for Isaac, the heir, the desert kingdom of Esau who had his birthright cheated away by the cunning Jacob, or the mission of Cyrus, the pagan king summoned by God to carry out his word which made it possible for Israel to go free?».

I said that we just needed Rachel's handmaid, and neither of us could remember her name despite having both watched the damn show.

It kind of reminds me of what I imagine «the future» looks like, without the flying cars or robot handmaids.

Handmaids gather outside the Senate Lobby in support of the Reproductive Health Act and Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, (Matthew Hamilton / Times Union)

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At the Golden Globes, a group of Handmaids came to support the blackout; on the back of their bonnets was the phrase #TimesUp.

In March of last year, women dressed as Handmaids protested in Texas.

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The 1990s saw Dunaway perform in several films, including THE HANDMAID»S TALE (1991), ARIZONA DREAMS (1993), THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC (1998), THE YARDS (1998), and THE RULES OF ATTRACTION (2001).

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Sarah has just been given ownership of 10 - year - old slave Hetty («Handful») to be her handmaid.

Admittedly, that's largely due to the widely popular Hulu original series based on the book, and perhaps some clever marketing from the studio; teams of eerie fully - decked out Handmaids have cropped up... [Read more...]

The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order.

Consider a player with a prince and a handmaid working out the risks of playing the latter.

I am concerned that we will soon choose to engage only by electronic means or, heaven forbid, resemble in any way, a puritanical Handmaids Tale society of government regulation between men and women.

The video is garnished with darker shots of group hangings, Handmaids in training, and what appears to be the colonies, the ruined areas of North America where prisoners are sent to do often dangerous menial labor.