Sentences with phrase «at ordination»

I had the privilege of preaching at the ordination of a friend to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the small Protestant denomination to which I belong.

«Today is a unique occasion marking a new step in the life and history of the Catholic Church,» he said at the ordination ceremony.

«It was indicated to [ordinands at an ordination service] that while kneeling and prior to the stole being placed about them, they were to kiss it, as if this were a routine ceremony.

In the Church of England at the Reformation, the priest at his ordination was given a Bible instead of a paten and chalice.

At their ordination Lutheran pastors vowed to teach in accord with these writings, and the synod's own bylaws affirmed that the Scriptures and these writings (understood as an accurate exposition of biblical teaching) were the standard for the church's public doctrine.

(John Paul II, My Friends, Rome 1993) Jan Tyranowski was not to be present at the ordination of his friend in November 1946.

Just so, the priest is «alone» but not lonely because through the character of soul he receives at ordination, Christ is always with him.

Where else do we get the opportunity to be fed with the Word of God, explained to us by some one filled with the Holy Spirit at his ordination?

Let us remember the words we pronounce at the ordination of priests: «Let them meditate on your law day and night, so that they may believe what they have read, and teach what they have believed, and practise what they have taught.»

A young man whom I have known for almost 30 years recently invited me to preach on this text at his ordination.

Had Joshua presided at my ordination, I doubt he would have let me get by with a simple vow to study, pray, teach and preach.

One of the most sublime of Bach's works, played at my ordination and my wedding, and so here, too.»

Catholic priests take the title «Father» because they put on the person and character of Christ at their ordination.

Thus the preacher need have no hesitation in doing what he or she was exhorted to do at ordination: apply himself or herself to the study of Scripture, so that the deepest reality of the abiding gospel may be grasped and conveyed through proclamation to the men and women to whom that proclamation is addressed.

One well - meaning moderator changed all of the «brother in Christ» language at an ordination service to «daughter in Christ.»

Rufus Anderson, The Theory of Missions to the Heathen, A Sermon at the Ordination of Mr. Edward Webb, as a Missionary to the Heathen.

Quintana in consecration to Jesus at his ordination.

Antoinette Brown, the first woman to be ordained in an American church, was a graduate of Oberlin, and at her ordination Wesleyan Methodist minister Luther Lee preached on «Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel» (1853).

We are all called to give generously: parents, in the efforts they put in for their children; young adults, in recognising that their bodies are «for the Lord» and should be considered as something holy; consecrated religious, in giving themselves in prayer out of a perfect love for God; and especially priests, who are told at their ordination that they must imitate what they celebrate at the altar.

He doesn't need to wash his hands, because Jesus has already set him apart by the laying on of hands; he was vested at ordination.

Men are conformed to Christ in their very being at ordination so that repentant sinners can hear the words, «I absolve you of your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit», and know their power and effect for real.

a way so as not to be recognised as one whom the finger of God touched at ordination?

Those things were clearly written into the vows we said at ordination, and are repeated in the services of covenant that take place whenever we am settled with a new congregation in The United Church of Canada.

The point is that at ordination a young man hears his name called and responds, «I come to serve.»

At ordination, he calls every priest to a special relationship of friendship with himself and service to his people.

Every priest freely chooses celebacy (at ordination, that is).