Sentences with phrase «acts as a blessing»

The injury suffered by him at the international friendly against Egypt on March 3rd can keep him out, and that can act as a blessing in disguise for Leonardo's men.

Traditionally, the tika marks the dog as both a devotee of the righteous path and as an object of devotion, imbuing the dog with an air of sacredness and acting as a blessing to those who encounter the dog during Kukur Tihar.

The tika imbues the dog with an air of sacredness and acts as a blessing to those who encounter the dog during Kukur Tihar.

At the hour of need, two - wheeler insurance acts as a blessing in disguise.

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I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

Heteros act as if their god has «blessed» their relationships.

This very act is a blessing for us as we are drawn into the life of the Blessed Trinity and our own lives are conformed little by little to God's purposes, shaped by his grace and guided by his providence.

We have to be able to state that the primary purpose of marriage as a sacrament, and of its bodily union as an act, is the blessing of offspring within a ministry of consecrated love.

lie pronounces divine judgement and blessing, and explains God's other mighty acts which he does (such as exorcism), on the basis of the nearness of the kingdom.

As God the Son He acts within the communion of the Blessed Trinity Itself, and the Father loves us unto perfection again for the sake of His beloved Son.

Believe it or not, while most people view death as a curse and a punishment from God, a proper understanding of death allows us to see it as a blessing and an act of kindness from God.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

But Duffy never wanders too far from this one persistent argument» that much of the vitality and resiliency of Catholicism is found in its rituals and worship, in lay devotions and Marian piety, in veneration of the Church's blesseds and saints, in acts of communal discipline and obedience that bind the faithful together as a living organism.

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

One of my goals after completing my year of biblical womanhood was to «take back» Proverbs 31 as a blessing, not a to - do list, by identifying and celebrating women of valor: women who are changing the world through daily acts of faithfulness, both in my life and around the world.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

If I was living on the wrong path leading to death with all the dumb things I was doing like listening to bad music, goofing around in class, cussing, acting like I was a gangster, wanting to try drugs, being suicidal and being around with close friends that are doing the bad then he can change you too because, I tell you that if you think that your life will go for the worst if you accept them then you're wrong because, if you have faith in him and you accept him as your savior and follow his ways then he has your road all planned out, he's going to give you such blessings and a happiness and love that compares to none others.

It has already done so on countless occasions, long before the advent of science, and will keep providing the only means whereby science may act not as a curse but as a blessing.

As the blessed receivers of God's promises, should we not embrace the terrestrial as that which is included in the universal redemptive and re-creative act of God in ChrisAs the blessed receivers of God's promises, should we not embrace the terrestrial as that which is included in the universal redemptive and re-creative act of God in Chrisas that which is included in the universal redemptive and re-creative act of God in Christ?

However, the major problem with this is, as smart as Richard Dawkins may be, he's not some super social scientist (based on my interactions with scientists, and I am one, we're not the most socially blessed people around), and the reaction to such acts from non-atheists are probably hurting the cause more than anything.

As an act of the will I knelt and prayed God's blessing and forgiveness on the person who had done this and I began to feel a lot better.

Between John's prediction of a Coming One and the claim that Jesus, having acted as Isaiah predicted, is that Coming One, lie the inaugural sermon, beginning «Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God,» in which the evangelizing of the poor is documented, and the healing of the centurion's boy at Capharnaum, one healing representative of all in the list of healings collected from Isaiah.

Jewish teachers saw rain as one of God's ultimate acts of blessing.

Treating people with respect and teaching them about Jesus, is not the same as blessing a sinful act.

And if we review the book as a whole, we must judge that this excessive emphasis on the future has the effect of relegating to a secondary place just those elements in the original Gospel which are most distinctive of Christianity — the faith that in the finished work of Christ God has already acted for the salvation of man, and the blessed sense of living in the divine presence here and now.

The Qur» an instituted the fast during the month of Ramadan as training in piety and patience and an opportunity to express thankfulness for divine blessings; the Prophet added the requirement that alms be given at the end of the fast of Ramadan as an act which is an additional means of accomplishing those purposes.

In that conversation, voices have been heard urging a view of conscience that is curious, even dangerous: Under certain circumstances, conscience may permit or even require that a person choose acts that the Church has consistently taught are intrinsically wrong — such as using artificial means of contraception, or receiving Holy Communion while living the married life in a union that's not been blessed by the Church.

Within it there were obligations and responsibilities as well as joys; all were centered in the creative act of God and the blessing of God upon the union formed under his sight and in his name.

Now it's celebrated as a sacred right that demands veneration from the whole culture, including the millions of ordinary people who see this kind of officially blessed homicide as a gravely evil act.

Significantly, the bishop retained his unique baptismal role in the regenerative act of baptism somewhat longer than his eucharistic pre-eminence; and even after finally giving up the baptizing of all catechumens outside his own parish, he preserved, at least in the West, the confirmation thereof as a distinct and essential ceremony, while in the East it was he alone who could bless the oils used by priests in baptism and confirmation.

He can sit at the base of midfield and act as either destroyer or creator; he can play wide and add width and invention despite not being blessed with tremendous pace and he can conduct play and score goals when unleashed further forward.

There is some evidence that herbs, such as fenugreek, blessed thistle or alfalfa can act as a galactogogue (a substance that increases milk supply).

Blessed thistle (Cnicus benedictus) is a herb that is used in herbal formulations which acts as diuretic, cure loss of appetite and indigestion.

Sometimes I think this was a hidden blessing as it was one of the things that forced me to act on the information presented to me.

Perhaps to make up for a perceived dearth of strip - club scenes in the original among audiences who came to see a celebrity Chippendales act but got a character - driven dramedy instead, this installment promises a raucous road - trip movie as Mike and his pectorally blessed friends travel to Myrtle Beach to perform in an all - male revue.

Ostensibly - blessed with a brilliant memory but crippled by a lack of any emotional range, Thomas Horn flatly spits out his every line in staccato fashion, as if he's not making his acting debut but in a race against fellow game show contestants to answer trivia questions.

Devout Catholics, the survivors recount here how they rationalized their acts by blessing their friends» corpses and by thinking of their sanctified flesh as Holy Communion.

Speaking of... Alyson Klein reports that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos «may have approved Every Student Succeeds Act plans» for dozens of states, but «two of the biggest — Florida and California — are still angling for their federal blessing,» even though «DeVos has singled out school - choice - friendly Florida as a model for...

Based on the trailer, Britain's loudest man Brian Blessed is set to act as the game's announcer.

Whether you see this as a blessing, curse, or sideshow farce, fame has become such a meta - subject and an American obsession that just the act of someone famous making a painting is thought to add kicky secret layers to the artist's image.

This is part of a long - running attempt by the Observer to claim that 1) VL was involved with Cambridge Analytica (CA) in a global conspiracy involving a nine - month long fight for the designation as the official campaign, covered intensely by the media, that was «really» the most elaborate cover story since the D - Day deception operation, and 2) VL acted illegally in making donations to BeLeave (BL) and other campaign groups.

Methodology: GOBankingRates surveyed all 50 states, analyzing eight data points that served as determining factors in the ranking: (1) median household income, sourced from the Census Bureau in 2015 dollars; (2) median home listing price as of June 2017, sourced from Zillow; (3) food spending, using the grocery index sourced from Missouri Economic Research and Information Center and multiplying it against the average amount spent on food from the BLS consumer spending survey from July 2015 - July 2016; (4) employee health insurance premium contribution, sourced from the Commonwealth Fund; (5) annual child care costs for an infant and a 4 - year - old, sourced from Child Care Aware of America; (6) whether the state offers paid time - off for family leave; (7) whether the state has expanded the earned - income Tax Credit at the state level; (8) whether the state expanded Medicaid coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act.