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.
Not exact matches
Just
so, the priest is «alone» but not lonely because through the character of soul he receives
at ordination, Christ is always with him.
At the time of my ordination discussions to unite the Church of England and the Methodist Church were well advanced — even so, as I was marrying a Methodist, the diocesan bishop refused permission for us to have Communion at our wedding servic
At the time of my
ordination discussions to unite the Church of England and the Methodist Church were well advanced — even
so, as I was marrying a Methodist, the diocesan bishop refused permission for us to have Communion
at our wedding servic
at our wedding service.
One of the most sublime of Bach's works, played
at my
ordination and my wedding, and
so here, too.»
The controversies in the church are about its institutional structure, papacy,
ordination of women, lay presidency
at the Eucharist and
so on.
See for instance Raimon Panikkar, La plenitud del hombre (Madrid 1999), p. 26: «The existential situation
at the end of this century is
so serious that we must not let ourselves be consumed by internal political fights and rather private problems (the
ordination of women, protestant sacraments, ecumenism, sexual morals, modern rites and the like)».
The John Fisher School
at Purley was looking for a chemistry teacher,
so after
ordination I was sent there.»
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.