Sentences with phrase «as the bride in»

What if the reality is «religion» — which unfortunately a large part of the church has become — died on the cross, and was re-birthed as the Bride in the resurrection: they just haven't figured it out yet.
As the bride in «American Wedding,» she's set up to be at the center of the film, but there's nothing to be done with Michelle — she's a punch line, not a personality — and so she must be shoved to the side.
St. Nicholas Fitz and Floyd, received as a bride in the eighties, Returns annually to our table for all Christmas gaieties.

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Danish Crown Prince Frederik and his bride Princess Mary kiss as the royal couple appear on the balcony of Christian VII's Palace after their wedding on May 14, 2004, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Local businesses market the Geneva Bride event independently as well as kicking in a membership fee for the website and additional joint marketing efforts.
The bride and groom pick a theme, such as «Vision in White» or «Seaside Serenade,» and the resort takes care of everything from the cake to the bouquet.
«A bride once called having a melt - down because her friend got engaged as well, and was planning to get married in the same year as she was... Apparently it was her special year and not just a day.
As weddings grew more secular over time, and people weren't limited to dress codes of religious buildings, strapless dresses (for brides, bridesmaids, and guests alike) skyrocketed in popularity.
Summary: «In 19th - century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.»
The standard of request is even more bizarre in Australia, where tasks have included flying to Texas to collect an engagement ring, dressing up as a stormtrooper to walk a bride down the aisle on her wedding day, and being paid to find the best fried chicken in Sydney.
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.»
Prosecutors said the Dread Pirate Roberts alias itself was a cover story intended to suggest the name could be passed to others, as happened in «The Princess Bride
For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.
The Bride of the Lamb is not always easy reading, but Orthodox readers will welcome the appearance of a master in a new translation by Boris Jakim that makes him as accessible as possible, and Western Christians should welcome a theological challenge that can enrich their own understanding of the Christian mystery.
They forget the old Protestant conviction that Christ comes to us in the external word of the Gospel, as a Bridegroom promising himself to his Bride.
Wife was a misunderstanding and thus corruption of the «Bride of Christ» gospel that means in parable form, that the Christians who are called up into the «Marriage Supper» of the Lamb» (of God) are referred to as the «Bride of Christ».
Jesus also refers to His body as His bride, using parables and analogies of wedding banquets and feasts between Himself and His people — even a literal «marriage supper of the Lamb» that will occur in heaven.
As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.
What if my authorities kept me from school, raped me, put a veil over my face, sold me as a bride at 12 and kept me in the house?
This time he received it in the form of sour wine, and with it he took to himself his bride — the whole world of us, whose sins he bore by uniting as one flesh with us.
First, chastity as total consecration, in the image of Christ the Bridegroom who is wedded to mankind, and to the Church as His Bride.
The couple is seated with a screen separating them so that they can not see each other while his feet are washed in a bronze thaali with raw milk by the bride's brother and is known as Paon Dhulai.
According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).
First, the Church as the Bride of Christ receives her being and life from the Incarnate God in the form of vivifying substance (the Eucharist) and the words of pardon (sacramental absolution).
The history of our salvation is marked by a feminine presence that responds actively and fruitfully to God's initiatives: first Israel, which is presented throughout the Scriptures in feminine terms (as the daughter of Sion or, in those times when the prophets urge her to repentance, as a faithless wife); then Mary; and now the Church (the bride of Christ).
You can ask the question but if you're looking for an answer in the Bible, there are several references where Jesus is referred to as the bridegroom and his Church as the bride (= wife).
In the Bible he often refers to his bride as being his church when he returns!!
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel (of the great tribulation), when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets (Rev. 10:7), and if you go to Revelation 11:15 - 18 the rapture of the bride as the seventh and last trumpet of the great tribulation begins (Paul's twinkling of an eye 1 Cor.15: 50 - 52) to sound.
Which is better — to go through a rosy life and to end up in hell or to endure such issues and grow closer to God as the result — and entering into heaven as the Bride of Christ?
I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
The Father, in an expression of His love for His Son, determined that He would create a world, and that He would allow that world to fall into sin, and that He would recover from it a redeemed humanity that He would then give to His Son as a bride to Him so that this redeemed humanity could forever and ever, for all eternity glorify His Son.
Drawing from the marriage analogy, when a bride and groom commit their lives to each other, the marriage vows are rooted in the desire to give to the other partner, and the vows have strength as long as they are rooted in a commitment that is outside the influence of circumstances or fluctuating emotion.
In the Book of Revelation we read: «I... saw a new Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of Heaven from God, beautiful as a bride prepared to meet her husband.
As Eve was in Adam before she was taken out and became his bride so we were in Christ and are now His bride.
I agree with you Jeremy in a sense, but I also agree with what Chrissy says, «I believe God is calling His bride out of the Harlot system and these pagan festivals are instigated by the Roman Catholicism, just as the changing of the Sabbath day was too.»
Ambrose was clearly a source for eleventh — and twelfth — century bridal mysticism, and, in his On Virginity, he even encouraged the aristocratic women who wanted to enter convents to use the Song of Songs to think of themselves as brides of Christ.
What he finds an impediment to men is the later development in which «the individual Christian, body and soul, came to be seen as the bride of Christ.»
Perhaps you don't quite understand that the church is the bride of Christ, in other words, we have to make ourselves worthy of Christ (just as any person must make themself worthy of their spouse), and we do it by making ourselves holy, thru the church's sacraments, but the church is not an end in itself; Christ is the end.
The overcomers not only are mature in life but also are built together as one bride.
Directly after the wedding, as the bride walked in a meadow with her bridesmaids, a viper stung her and she died.
Suddenly the bride of Christ is portrayed as the church militant, a people who will withstand evil in the world if they are clothed in «the whole armor of God.»
And in reagards to singing love songs to Jesus, we as the church are his bride and he is the bridegroom.
The ramifications for Christian clergy who try to preach the parable in this fashion are yet to be fully explored and few Christians are theologically prepared to humble themselves by considering themselves as servants to Israel, the bride of God.
Nevertheless, the speculative and non-systematic nature of Balthasar's theology does leave some ambiguities — ambiguities which are presumably rooted in the overlapping and necessarily exhaustible analogies of the Church as both «body of Christ» and «bride of Christ».
Do we primarily participate in the mind or collective consciousness of Christ as members of his body (the masculine / bridegroom dimension) or is our participation more akin to the fundamentaland constitutive feminine dimension in the role of Mary (or bride dimension)?
For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels» (Isaiah 61:10).
It almost certainly means the church is his bride, just as many other bride / bridegroom references in the Bible.
If I am an Athiest and my bride is Hindi we are not going to be married in a Christian church, seen as married before a God neither one of us believe in or should we.
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