Sentences with phrase «as a priest»

Written in his first years as a priest in the late 1940s, it has freshness and urgency, though already authoritative and assured in tone.

Finally, I have written as a priest of the Anglican obedience and much but not all of what I say is naturally a reflection of that particular allegiance.

There is no biological reason why women can't serve as priests, etc..

Celebrating it's 900 - year - old history, the hotel retains an original characteristics such as the priest hole and medieval hand - stained glass.

I now understand better the conservative character and structure of the church, having been working within it (or at its edges) as a priest for about 16 years.

Sorry... they really don't have science teachers as priests..

How much damage can I cause while dressed as a priest?

Their identity as priests and as religious does nothing to advance them in their own institutions.

Nonetheless, because of his status as a priest, he is 50 % wrong in his life.

Maybe he can find a job as a priest, or some other equally worthless occupation.

More groups are being set up across the country as priests request help to deal with the growing pastoral issues they are being presented with.

I told him that I would remember that, and that it was good to see him again in his usual mode as a priest.

In the worship of the community, by the hospital bed, in the home of the neighbor we are confronted by our responsibility as priest - theologians.

This includes accepting gays as our priests and bishops as well as women.

And we like little boys as much as priests, but what we like more are suicide vests.

As a priest accused of child abuse, he walked a fine line in ambiguous intent.

As a priest in a parish, however, this appeal to the mind involves a mental effort on my part too.

As a believer my body IS the temple and As priest of my own temple, I can fellowship with others how and when I choose.

Bishop - elect Stock, 53, was ordained as a priest in 1988 and served as parish priest across the Archdiocese of Birmingham, most recently at the parish of The Sacred Heart and St Teresa in Coleshill.

While the pope appeared to open one door Monday, he dismissed the possibility of ordaining women as priests.

He also occasionally accepted such contemporary minor roles as a priest in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) and a gangster in Accidents Will Happen (1939).

There's a line, again from the Gospel of Luke, that I've revisited many times in my life as a priest because it speaks to the kind of disciples we need to be.

(Flavin — who had trained as a priest before going into the air force and then turning to art — had a well - documented obsession with Russian art and later dedicated a group of fluorescent light «monuments» to the Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin, who had trained as an icon painter.)

A clergyman who was convicted of filming men using a public toilet in a shopping centre has been barred from ministry as a priest in the Church of England for seven years.

He has also been accused of abusing children in later years during his time as a priest for the Clonduff parish in Hilltown, Co Down.

Whatever your military rank or distinction, your defining commission was received on the day of your ordination as a priest of Christ and his Church.

Do not Lansch and Hoatson realize that the «zero tolerance policy» includes bishops who abuse children as well as priests who have abused?

So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

The beginning of the description of ministers as priests seems to occur in the Didache, where we read that Christian prophets are the high priests of the community; offerings of first - fruits are to be given them (13:3; cf. Deut.

Courts have been quite prepared to hold religious institutions, such as Roman Catholic dioceses and other denominations» governing bodies, vicariously liable for the sexual misconduct of their clergy, in the context of these clergy fulfilling their ordinary duties as priests, ministers or clerics.

I've just gone back to work as a priest after the death of my husband (also a priest) 4 1/2 months ago.

Second, one of the primary purposes of the citation of this psalm in the Letter to the Hebrews is to defend Yeshua's priestly role against the charge that he could not function as a priest because he was descended from Judah rather than Levi (Hebrews 7:11 — 17).

I don't think they cared if it was modest or was all ripped up so long as the priest doesn't get a buncha complaints on you!)

It is all one and the same gift: The animals get their food as he gives food to those who can hear his word and can offer him in return the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, functioning as priests on behalf of the whole creation.

I think as the priest in charge, I'm the only Anglican in Baghdad.»

I went to a theological seminary outside Chicago and spent ten years as a priest before I realized many things no longer fit my beliefs and experiences.

Glenmary priest John S. Rausch, an environmental activist, said that his experience as a priest in Appalachia has led him to believe the climate crisis is a crisis in spirituality.

And, to his credit, Hanks just might know this: He was terrific in a supporting turn as a priest with ambiguous motivations on the most recent season of Mad Men, and his role as a serial killer in Lucky allows him to tap the implied aggression that's inappropriately unnerving in nice - guy parts.

As of 2002, Aurelio was no longer functioning as a priest and lived out of state.

Jesus ascends as a priest after the order of Melchizedek, a king who takes a throne higher than Solomon's.

He said that the sons of the High Priest Eli were serving as priests when Eli became very old.

What could have been maudlin or just plain creepy is handled with humor and grace by Lewin and his cast, which includes William H. Macy as the priest O'Brien confides in and Moon Bloodgood as his caretaker.