Sentences with phrase «as a sanctuary of»

It was also the fact that the replica Holy House of Nazareth depicted for them their profound and long - held appreciation for the homestead as the sanctuary of family rights and duties founded on sacramental matrimony.

«The name Temple is the purest expression of our deep - rooted belief that we should live with presence in each moment and honor our bodies as the sanctuaries of health and positive energy that they are.

Known for its rich history grounded in Mayan tradition and full of pirate legends, the island is known to have served as the sanctuary of Ixchel, the Mayan goddess of fertility, reason, medicine, happiness and the moon during the pre-Colombian times.

Nira SPA: it stands out as a sanctuary of peace with its holistic approach to a stress - free life.

Wolfgang Laib has chosen a spot in the Pyrenees, to form there a public place as a sanctuary of solitude, a place covered with «that energetic gold that is wax.»

Not exact matches

But Democratic critics of Senate Bill 4 have spoken out as well in the wake of the smuggling deaths, arguing that the fatalities and injuries were caused not by sanctuary policies, but by a the current broken immigration system.

Using the found - footage style, Ti West evokes the horrors of the Jonestown massacre to create a thrilling story that follows Vice reporters as they go to a religious community and find it isn't the sanctuary its residents have made it out to be.

The surprise acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the shooting death of San Francisco woman Kate Steinle set off a firestorm of outrage Thursday night, as top conservatives and critics of so - called «sanctuary cities» pinned blame for Steinle's death on illegal immigration and insufficiently aggressive deportation policies.

Trump and Sessions have also pledged to crack down on «sanctuary cities» — typically localities that limit how local authorities can work with federal immigration agents — as a way of getting at drug traffickers and gangs.

As an example, Klein points to a 2003 incident in California when a Crystal cruise ship discharged 138,000 litres of waste water 14 km offshore into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

About 43 percent of the city consists of lakes and ponds, including a 50 - acre wooded tract of land that serves as a plant and wildlife sanctuary.

He cited America's history of giving «sanctuary to desperate children for centuries,» the «blight on our national reputation» when we refused to accept Jewish children fleeing the Nazis in 1939, and his Christian faith as reasons for the decision.

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR - 15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.»

This step may not only apply to China itself but also Hong Kong — a Chinese special administrative region and autonomous territory, that has become a sanctuary for dozens of Blockchain - based and crypto - related businesses as it was independent of the legislative decisions on cryptocurrency made in China.

The Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary, where vets care for wounded sea turtles and educators give hourly tours of their 53 patients, including one young turtle named Irma after the storm washed it onshore when it was just a hatchling.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Rather, liturgy breaks the bounds of the sanctuary and affects all that we do and indeed the wider culture as it brings God's people to God.

Nestled in the picturesque Bavarian Alps, Ettal became a sanctuary for Bonhoeffer as he found himself zwischen den Zeiten — still officially a pastor of the Confessing Church charged with training ordinands for ministry, yet drawn inexorably into a conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

The leaders of the Mexican Catholic Church are traitors to this country and as far as I am concerned until the so - called church, which is really a foreign enemy, stops providing sanctuary to lawbreakers, be they pedophile priests or illegal immigrants, you can not call yourself Catholic and be considered a loyal American.

I stood in the small hallway just outside of the sanctuary, nervously jogging from foot to foot as I strained to see through the crack between the doors into the church.

CNN: Church that barred black wedding affirms commitment to equal treatment A Mississippi church that wouldn't allow a black couple to marry in its sanctuary because of the couple's race appears to be trying to right a wrong, as officials with the church's denomination decried the incident.

It presents a wonderful opportunity to rediscover and revive the «concealed heart of the English identity», 17 namely, the home as the seedbed of virtues and the sanctuary of life.

The function of prophetism as institutionalized at sanctuary or court is not in question.

Rather than staying becalmed in the sacristy, the sanctuary, and the presbytery, the clergy of his day, he urged, should lead a demanding, Gospel - centered life of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the sacraments, nourishing their people with the tangible realities God had entrusted to human hands as pathways to the Trinity: the Bible and the Eucharist.

The attack has been condemned by Parish Priest Fr Anthony Nwankwo, who pledged that the incident would not stop the Diocese leaving its churches across the region open as places of prayer and sanctuary.

Here's a few quotes: Making a bold, expensive commitment to downtown, First Baptist Church of Dallas announced plans Sunday for a $ 130 million building program, with a new 3,000 - seat sanctuary as the centerpiece.

As we think of the women and children in these pictures, and all the ways in which this water will nourish and cool and cook and clean in their community, two prayers from Jan Richardson (In the Sanctuary of Women) come to mind.

The Arabs of Palestine are mostly the descendants of pilgrims, visitors, and refugees who sought a haven in the sacred land which is the home of the Mosque of the Rock and the Aqsa Mosque which is venerated by all Muslims as second only to the Ka «ba as a sanctuary.

So he pointed to the well - known ruins of the earlier sanctuary of Shiloh as a sign that the Jerusalem temple too was destined for destruction, for the religious practices in it were leading Israel into a false faith, dishonesty and immorality.

A better measure of the strength of a congregation as a vehicle for maturing would be the number and proportion of the adult membership that meet in groups — disciple schooling, soma, and mission - support — outside the sanctuary at other times of the week.

Dropping the mic would necessitate cultivating the art of classical oratory as well as constructing sanctuaries designed to carry the human voice, just as the use of the microphone (I would suggest) has relegated homiletics to an afterthought for many seminarians and encouraged uninspired ecclesiastical architecture.

In most liturgical churches, the use of video screens occasions serious and sustained discussion, whereas the microphone has made its way into the sanctuary as a matter of course.

As Schama notes, Rembrandt's move from Leiden to Amsterdam took him from a bastion of Reformed conservatism to a polyglot capital in which the Remonstrants dominated politics and mercantile pragmatism made it sensible to tolerate anyone who offered a good deal, whether Mennonite, Jew, millenarian or Calvinist — anyone, that is, except Roman Catholics, who were required to practice their faith in clandestine sanctuaries disguised within private homes.

As in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claiAs in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claias witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claim.

Thus, all of the major sanctuaries of Israel are associated with experiences of the patriarchs, as, for example, Jacob at Bethel (28:10 ff.).

I'm sure Robyn didn't think of herself as a member of the Sanctuary church.

Carmo Rodeia, one of the sanctuary managers at the site, was quoted by AFP as saying 40,000 walkers, 2,000 journalists, 2,000 clergy and 350 patients hoping for healing will attend the pope's visit.

In the churches we have almost palpably shied away from any such venture; indeed, we have offered the church as sanctuary from the cold winds of late 20th Century despair and the loss of purpose that informs nearly every creative work of art and parades itself visibly in the arena of politics.

Certainly fundamental changes would be required of the churches if they were to do this: we would have to put truth before comfort; we would have to listen to the losers, the jobless, the homeless, the unsuccessful, the ostracized; we would have to leave the sanctuary and enter the marketplace, and learn through participation how to contemplate the human condition as Jesus did: with compassion.

With the aid of contributors like Save America's Treasures, the National Park Service renovated the church's sanctuary to resemble the years that King spent there as a pastor.

In the Letter to the Hebrews there is a direct echo of this when the writer speaks of the Temple in Jerusalem as being «a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary», and when he recalls how Moses was instructed to make everything according to the pattern shown to him on the heavenly mount (8:5).

As the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.&raquAs the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.&raquas the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.»

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

The empty sanctuary is as big as we imagine heaven to be: we file down the broad scarlet runway of the central aisle nearly to the chancel rail.

(CNN)- A Mississippi church that wouldn't allow a black couple to marry in its sanctuary because of the couple's race appears to be trying to right a wrong, as officials with the church's denomination decried the incident.

The organist launches full volume into what she plays during the offering and we feel the music as an avalanche in the empty, echoing sanctuary; the vibration inside us penetrates to the depths of our bones and seems to shake the pew.

Upbeat, rhythmic music filled the sanctuary as two 4,000 - member choirs, one clad in fire - engine red robes, the other in silver, swayed in chorus to words flashed on two of five 60 - foot Jumbo - o - Tron screens.

«When he had brought about the purgation of sins, he took his seat at the right hand of Majesty on high, raised as far above the angels, as the title he has inherited is superior to theirs... and he has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens, a ministrant in the real sanctuary, the tent pitched by the Lord and not by man.»

In the late 20th century, as America grew more pluralistic and continually more secular, the majority of the Western church either retreated into their sanctuaries, throwing stones out at those...

It is a portable sanctuary, for they are still a pilgrim people destined to wander for some forty years as nomads in the wilderness, learning, worshiping, preparing for the day when they claim the Land of the Promise and make it their holy land forever.