Sentences with phrase «as ancient prayer»

In it, as an ancient prayer from the age of the church fathers puts it, «the mystery of Christ's dispensation is accomplished so far as in us lies.»

Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»

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With the ancient altars no longer standing, with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.

(As quoted by Mary Wilder Tileston: Prayers Ancient and Modern [new and revised ed.]

Two other ancient prayers, the eleventh of the Eighteen Benedictions, from the period before the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, and the Alenu prayer, probably from the third century AD, both use a form of the verb mlk, «to reign, be king», with God as the subject.

Nevertheless, it's not clear how belief in a personal God — a God who creates and who answers prayers — is to he aligned with the scientific view of the cosmos as an ancient universe governed by impersonal and tightly knit laws.

Surely my prayers are as effective here in this ancient holy place as they would be with our own people.»

As we haveseen with the aid of Saint Augustine's pastoral theology itself refined in the crucible of an ancient ecclesial crisis, that prayer in its original form gave authentic voice to the lay faithful's indispensable role in ecclesial reconciliation.

«4 And Haydon's friend, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, added: «The ancient techniques of prayer and ritual need to be retained only in so far as they are aesthetically appealing.

The use of ancient prayers in public worship unites us with our ancestors in the Christian way; modern prayers bring us into contact with the contemporary world and its needs, as well as with our brethren across the world in our own day.

The prayerful cry, «Not mine, but thy will be done,» has come from the lips of Christian as well as non-Christian men of prayer, ancient philosophers, and the pious men of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim religions.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

It is my prayer that the Diaspora Policy which is currently being formulated will reflect this truism and it is my wish that soon and very soon Ghana will return to the accounts of its glorious past of that amazing ancient Empire of Ghana as first told by the 11th Century Arab geographer, Al - Bakri.

Sixth graders have spent weeks learning to play the tabla drums, along with Indian chants and prayers, as part of their expedition on ancient and modern India.

Although the journey was arduous and required several days and many porters, ancient Hawaiians likely made the journey during eruptions to leave offerings and prayers to honor Pele, much as they did at Halemaʻumaʻu, neighboring Kilauea's more active and more easily accessible caldera.

In Chiang Mai, the ancient capital of the former Lanna Kingdom, Loi Krathong coincides with the Lanna (northern Thai) festival known as «Yi Peng» where a multitude of Lanna - style sky lanterns adorned with good luck wishes and prayer are released into the sky.

Exorcists are known for their typical exorcism tools such as a cross, a Bible, maybe some prayer beads and ancient incantations but these guys are different.