Sentences with phrase «pilgrims church»

Alto Vista Chapel is a small Catholic chapel also known as «Pilgrims Church» that stands on the hills above the north shore of the sea and to the northeast of the town of Noord, on the island of Aruba.

Living as we do in communion with those who have gone before us, we strive to realize in the pilgrim Church on earth a life together that more fully anticipates the communion of the Church in glory.

On this account, Augustine insisted that the pilgrim Church rightly remains a mixed society of saints and sinners wherein the saints tolerate sinners in their midst for the sake of the latter's conversion.

At Vatican II in 1965, the «Decree on Missionary Activity» joined the WCC's «Trinity, Mission and Church,» when it said, «the pilgrim Church is missionary by her very nature.

Characteristic of Ratzinger's thought is that the communion of believing must include not solely all those now making up the pilgrim Church on earth (synchronic communion) but all those who have come before us marked with the sign of faith (diachronic communion).

Luther was correct that it is forgiveness, not immediate perfection, that is the heart of the Gospel for the pilgrim Church on earth.

Not exact matches

«I accompany with prayer the positive success of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders of the two parts to carry out a path of sincere dialogue for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

Together we're working to speed up entry to heaven, decentralize the church and improve p2p (pilgrim to pilgrim) transaction time.

Having heard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which houses the tomb of Christ, she joined pilgrims on a ship to the Holy Land.

It's easy to make assumptions about other pilgrims on the journey, especially when they say their broken prayers from the pews of a different church building.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which sits above the tomb, remains a popular destination for Christian pilgrims from the around world.

Senior church leaders in Lancashire, have expressed their sadness over the four British Muslim pilgrims from Lancashire who died in a coach crash in Saudi Arabia.

Senior church leaders in Lancashire, have expressed their sadness over the four British Muslim pilgrims... More

(Matthew 5:18; Luke 16:17; Matthew 8:4; Luke 5:14; 17:14; Matthew 23:23) He was a lover of the temple (Mark 11:15 - 17: Matthew 26:55) and a pilgrim to the sacrificial feasts, (Luke 2:41 - 42; Mark 14:1 - 2 and his first disciples, far from breaking with the ceremonial requirements, continued to be such thoroughgoing Jews that the ultimate surrender of circumcision and of kosher food nearly disrupted the church.

The pilgrims would gather at a church, known as the collecta, where they would be met by the bishop and other clergy of the city.

«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.»

To process with the pilgrims to these ancient churches, as Weigel and his collaborators did, is to enter into the storied history of a place that belongs to all Christians.

Travelling to Israel from a variety of nations across the globe, pilgrims poured into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City last night - many arriving hours in advance to try and secure a good view of the proceedings.

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

The church in Jerusalem got that way after thousands came as pilgrims for the feast, heard Christ preached and didn't want to leave.

Near the end of The Pilgrim's Regress, John, the pilgrim who has finally made his way back to Mother Church, sings a song about «the tether and pang of the particular.»

Perhaps the most persuasive witness of the church to the Jewish people would be for Christians to live as a pilgrim people engaged in the practice of the imperatives of the gospel.

This dramatic vision of the universal church in no way minimizes or mitigates the importance of the local congregation, the covenanted community of God's pilgrim people which regularly gathers to worship, praise, sing, pray, proclaim, discipline, love, serve, and send.

Crusades was just a response to the Islamic invasion of the holy land to protect Christian pilgrims from muslim kidnapping and selling them to slavery and protect christian churches from further looting.

She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.

The Pilgrims escaped England so they could practice their religion without interference from the Church of England, the state - approved way to believe.

Though the church historian, as a person of like faith, must walk on common ground with all the pilgrim people of God, perhaps he or she may see just a bit more clearly as together they strain toward their first glimpse of that eternal «city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God» (Heb.11: 10).»

Catholic pilgrims from around the world traveled to Brazil for the weeklong celebration and a chance to see the pontiff, whose visit was a shot in the arm for a church that has seen its share of scandal and troubles.

Thus the Church remains what she is and always has been, the people that has no abiding city here on earth, the pilgrim seeking the eternal home which is realized through this very pilgrimage because it has still to be built.

Today the Church presents herself as such a pilgrim of hope not only in the silent hearts of her members, but also in her empirical history.

More important and immediate than the embargo question, I was impressed by the way that U.S. pilgrims to Cuba - including cardinals, bishops, and many priests - evinced a sense of urgency about ongoing and very practical work with the Cuban Church.

The pilgrims sang and prayed as they walked between the churches, and recreated themselves half - way along with a picnic lunch accompanied by light music.

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

Although Augustine was want to identify the City of God in its pilgrim state on earth with the Catholic Church of his day, he also acknowledged that «the entire redeemed city» was «the congregation and society of the saints.»

This is the more strange because the more deeply a concern is loaded with history, the past, things accomplished long ago, the more a church understands herself as a «pilgrim people of God» — that is, called, continuous, on the way, starting with a constitutive deed and living out her life in a hope which is both a given and an awaited consummation — the more clearly the church understands that, the more embarrassing her problem with a flat and impoverished language.

It is on this road, and only on this road, that a pilgrim, missionary Church, which subordinates everything in its heritage to the fulfillment of its mission, will discover the structural form and appropriate organ which will best express its oneness in Christ and contribute most of its missionary service for Christ.

«So we've got a thing called «mountain pilgrims» which is sort of beginning to be a fresh expression of church which is encouraging people to make a link between natural beauty and the sense of awe and wonder which they feel at that and then a sense of awe and wonder at the Creator who created this wonderful beauty.»

Now let's do the tally of the religious: The Christian church responsible for the crusades Muhammed slaughtering everything that stood against him Protestant pilgrims descrating the Native Americans etc..

Actually the Pilgrims were «separating Pilgrims», who thought they were better than the rest of the Church of England.

'» The world's assault on the Church is not a thing of the past, but a permanent feature of the Church's pilgrim life in this «foreign land.»

Defying the different ecclesial tastes of the 1970s, George W. Webber also published Today's Church: A Community of Exiles and Pilgrims (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979), which advocates a style of transience more radical than the one proposed in his earlier works.

In listening to the voices of women in the early church and to the reporting of, and interpretation of, these voices by dominant male interpreters, we can glimpse the church as a movement in flux, in which paths yet untrodden were becoming pilgrim routes.

Christians today are the heirs of a long history of those who left their home countries and churches, apostles, monastics, pilgrims, missionaries, emigrants, to work in the name of Jesus Christ, serving and preaching where the Gospel had not yet been heard or received.

Acoemetae Adelophagi Adventist Movement amillennialism Amish Anabaptism Arminian Theology Assemblies of God Augustinians Baptists Benedictines Cahenslyism Calvinism Capuchins Carmelites Christadelphians Christian Identity Church of Christ Church of England Church Universal and Triumphant Congregationalism Coptic Christianity dispensationalism Dominicans Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Church Ethiopian Christianity Evangelicalism Franciscans fundamentalism Gnosticism Huguenots Hutterites IURD Jehovah's Witnesses Liberation Theology Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant Maronites Mendicant Orders Mennonites Methodism Neo-Orthodoxy Old Catholic Movement Pentecostal Church People's Temple Pietism Pilgrims postmillennialism premillennialism Presbyterian Church Primitivism Protestant Puritanism Quakers Quietism Roman Catholicism Sabbatarianism Scholasticism Shakers Spiritual Baptists staret Thomas Christians Thomism Transcendentalism Trinitarianism Unification Church Unitarian Universalist Unitarianism United Church of Christ

In a church which understands itself as God's pilgrim people, called to confront new challenges, church leaders have a double duty.

These developments were confined to questions of church polity until the Puritans landed in Massachusetts Bay, where they fell under the influence of the politically radical «Pilgrims» who had preceded them there.

In my experience, judgmental leaders or members of the Church always ultimately reveal that any persons, who judge other pilgrims or attempt to control grace, have no true experience of grace for themselves.

This is to prevent the national church or state church which the puritans, pilgrims and many other early colonists were fleeing from.

Authentic proclamation will be a spontaneous output of a church which is truly a worshipping community, welcoming outsiders, offering their service in both church and society and being a pilgrim community that makes its proclamation along the way.

The postmodern trickery is not designed, as in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, to cast doubt on the Church's understanding of the world, or even on the very nature of truth itself, but to tease the reader into asking the right questions, into becoming a pilgrim.