Sentences with phrase «at church altars»

In her solo show at Luhring Augustine in New York, Janine Antoni cast body parts and household furniture in wax, forming ethereal, surrealist combinations inspired by milagros, small devotional items left by Latin American worshippers at church altars.

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«Increasingly, Calvert is a broad church that fills its pews with worshipers at both altars,» said Freeman.

We of course abstained from all forms of «impurity» and I was constantly at the altar of my church repenting and often in tears over the lusts of the flesh that I had not yet «brought captive».

But we're too busy feeling cool for making fun of the concept of God while standing at the altar of the church of Science.

The busyness of our schedules) is perhaps the reason there are less altar calls at church... It was not blaming those activities for a decline in church - goers.

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

It did not require each person to proclaim a reading, hold up a banner or do a dance; active participation in the divine work celebrated at the altar meant something deeper for St Paul, as indeed for the Fathers of the first five centuries of the life of the Church.

There is a rough - hewn cross, 12 feet high, at the front of the church and we all flood to the altar, covering it with sunshine coloured daffodils and pink hued tulips until the entire cross is covered in a bower of spring flowers and I can't even look at it without wanting to shout out loud words like «Hallelujah!»

But Duffy is now a distinguished historian of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and the author of an influential study of pre-Reformation English Church life, The Stripping of the Altars.

I am sure they were kind - hearted and loved the Lord deeply, but I wondered if what we were doing, whether we knew it or not, was worshipping at the altar of our American - defined ideal of success, only in the setting of a local church.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

Here, more than in any testimony developed at the trial, was the mute evidence of the anguish caused by the rift in the church: «Green silk altar hangings given by Miss Winifred Walker in memory of her sister, Ruby Walker... Private communion service given by Mrs. Annie Rose Robertson Sprague in memory of her mother and her sisters... A dogwood planted on the front lawn in memory of Marie Gatling Payne...»

During a recent year spent in Italy, as I walked the dusty Roman - charted roads, sat by splashing medieval fountains, and gazed at the altars of Renaissance and Baroque churches, I found myself, much to my surprise, falling in love with a saint named Mary Magdalene.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

Pagan mythology it is, ensconced in our time and embraced in our church, where we have supposed that we can know the glory of immortal God while worshiping also at the altar of our powerful and overwhelmingly impressive national Baal, an image, in the final analysis, simply made by human minds and hands.

Just last year, police in Reykjavik came under fire for dragging two young Iranian asylum seekers away from the altar at a church in Iceland.

I always imagined it would smell like the sacristy at my church when I was an altar boy: all incensey and whatnot.

Dozens of bishops and more than 300 priests from across the church followed, filling the seats at the front of the cathedral, where the late cardinal's coffin rested before the altar.

This question usually triggers among non-converts an uncomfortable silence broken by the phrase, «Well, I was born in a Christian family,» followed by an effort to locate a singular moment of conscious conversion some time during middle school, probably at the altar call of a church youth - group retreat.

For example, one of the churches I love features an altar call at the end of nearly every sermon.

Friends of mine with no church background at all have raced to the front at altar calls, then happily attended discipleship classes and house groups.

From the article linked below: «A 13th century gothic church, it offers its visitors a breathtaking high ceiling, a majestic nave, grand ornamentation, and an opportunity to worship: not at the great altar of God, but at the many altars of literature.».

What the Roman mass has been saying in glorious drama through the centuries is that in the sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection of Christ, ever repeated through the most solemn rites of the Church, the God who has acted in him for our redemption is here at the altar and will act again and now for those who seek him in true penitence and faith.

A number of churches now practice intercommunion with other churches, which means that a member of one church, say, the Church of England, can receive Communion at a Swedish Lutheran church, but the Roman Catholic church does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic achurch, say, the Church of England, can receive Communion at a Swedish Lutheran church, but the Roman Catholic church does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic aChurch of England, can receive Communion at a Swedish Lutheran church, but the Roman Catholic church does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic achurch, but the Roman Catholic church does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic achurch does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic altars.

Were members of a United Methodist church to have described the holiest moment of the year for their congregation, they would uniformly have cited the warm, candlelit hours of Christmas Eve when families would arrive whenever it was most convenient for them for a private Communion at the altar.

There is a basic continuity with the push in Pentecostal circles to journey ritually from congregational singing to preached word to encounter at the altar, which is really a standard low church evangelical pattern.

Christ was born, he preached, to a world as disparate as shepherds and kings, not merely to nuclear families, and the way the church witnessed God's new embrace at Christmas should be by congregation - wide Communion, not private huddles at the altar.

I decided one time at home I'm going to go to church, I'm going to respond to the altar call, and I'm going to commit my life to Christ.I spent a few...

Yoga pants in the pews, pajamas near the altar — will everyone soon start showing up at church dressed like «the Dude» in the film, «The Big Lebowski.»

On his festival, the altar in the chapel devoted to him in a certain church in Rome «is embosomed in flowers, arranged with exquisite taste; and a pile of letters may be seen at its foot, written to the Saint by young men and women, and directed to «Paradiso.»

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan cChurch; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan cchurch and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan churchchurch.

I could scream at the altar of a church, with a crucifix stuck deep up my asshole, that I fuck Jesus Christ hard through the hand holes and cream on his crown of thorns, and I will never hit the level of blasphemy that's required for someone to pray to god for their family's pet dog to return home.

Washington Post: Protests of Va. parish's move away from altar girls reflects wider Catholic debate Mass had just begun at Corpus Christi Catholic Church when Jennifer Zickel, a Sunday school teacher, glanced at the church bulletin and saw something that made her sick to her stChurch when Jennifer Zickel, a Sunday school teacher, glanced at the church bulletin and saw something that made her sick to her stchurch bulletin and saw something that made her sick to her stomach.

But at one small altar in a church's side chapel stood the image of San Martin de Porres, dressed in humble robes.

As my research indicates, where the leadership of the diocese is theologically orthodox, there are more vocations that could fill the role of educators in these schools, the altars of the Churches, and a wide array of needs, both practical and spiritual, of the Church, at large.

10 Journal of the Proceedings of the 55th Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York, 1839, 31, 33, 4344, this was Bishop B. T. Onderdonk whose predecessor, the High Churchman John Henry Hobart, had promoted the arrangement of churches with the pulpit behind the Holy Table, as at least making the altar visible — it is occasionally found in the eighteenth century, as in the Wesley Chapel at Bristol or Bishop Seabury's church at New London, built in 1784 - 86 (Robert A. Haliam, Annals of St. James's Church [New London, 1873], 89 Church in the Diocese of New York, 1839, 31, 33, 4344, this was Bishop B. T. Onderdonk whose predecessor, the High Churchman John Henry Hobart, had promoted the arrangement of churches with the pulpit behind the Holy Table, as at least making the altar visible — it is occasionally found in the eighteenth century, as in the Wesley Chapel at Bristol or Bishop Seabury's church at New London, built in 1784 - 86 (Robert A. Haliam, Annals of St. James's Church [New London, 1873], 89 church at New London, built in 1784 - 86 (Robert A. Haliam, Annals of St. James's Church [New London, 1873], 89 Church [New London, 1873], 89 - 90).

As it is, his face is so fair and freckled that he could still be the altar boy he once was at Our Lady of Angels Church in the Bronx.

The police in Lagos, on Thursday nabbed a pastor for allegedly beheading a seven - year old boy and burying his head at the church's altar.

The altar at Dan and Jennifer O'Neill's The Venue at St. Joseph's, a renovated church now an event space Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015 in Cohoes, NY.

Between standing at the baptismal altar at the front of the church, to posing for pictures outside on the lawn, you'll likely be on your feet most of the day.

Or at St Mary's by the Sea, an historic 1880 fully restored non-denominational church with a large glass altar window offering breathtaking views of the Coral Sea and rainforest clad mountains.

She's in a church, knelt down at the altar, when she picks up a cross, and... well, there's a sudden squelch!

According to FWM, his «theological concepts, at times rendered through text, diagrams, and architectural elements — such as altars, church pews, and in this exhibition, a pulpit — create unexpected encounters through his use of unique materials.»

Born to a poor but close - knit Byzantine Catholic family, young Andy Warhol absorbed images of both the saintly icons on the altar of his local church and the glamorous stars he saw in the movies at his neighborhood cinema.

Edgar Arceneaux's sculptural installation The CENTER of the EARTH was inspired by two altars that he encountered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Creative Time Presents: In Situ Talk One ↑ Thursday, March 16, 7:00 pm Cathedral of St. John Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue Sit in with Iranian - American artist Shirin Neshat as she chats with Slavoj Žižek and Sister Helen Prejean in the church where you can also ogle at a Keith Haring altar piece.

Rachel Maclean is representing Scotland at the 57th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale, with major new film commission Spite Your Face - a modern - day, dark Venetian fairytale presented as a large - scale portrait projection at the altar of a deconsecrated church.

What better way to keep those who genuflect at the altar of the Church of Global Warming continuing to «believe» in the gospel of the «Goracle» and permit them to levy carbon taxes.

With sport - utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for Congress to bail out the struggling auto industry... Local car dealerships donated three hybrid SUVs to be displayed during the service, one from each of the Big Three.