(John Paul II, My Friends, Rome 1993) Jan Tyranowski was not to be present
at the ordination of his friend in November 1946.
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.
Rufus Anderson, The Theory of Missions to the Heathen, A Sermon
at the Ordination of Mr. Edward Webb, as a Missionary to the Heathen.
Not exact matches
The question
of women's
ordination is regarded as church - dividing,
at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress in dialogue is to be expected
at all.»
Tim joined a wave
of evangelicals commencing training for
ordination in the Church
of England and was ordained
at St Paul's Cathedral in 2013.
Just so, the priest is «alone» but not lonely because through the character
of soul he receives
at ordination, Christ is always with him.
Sixteen years ago
at diaconate
ordination, a youngish seminarian made his promise
of celibacy.
Then, in a detailed analysis
of a paragraph
at the end
of the letter to the Romans, he demolishes any hope given to the cause
of women's
ordination by the brief reference to Junias (or Junia), clearly showing we can not know with any certainty the sex
of this member
of the early church, nor his or her place in relation to the apostles.
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?
At the very end
of the
ordination service,
of all songs, we sang: «I will go Lord, if You lead me.»
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.
(For more information: A History
of Women's
Ordination at the Jewish Virtual Library is decent, though a bit dated; it doesn't speak, for example, of happenings in the contemporary Orthodox world such as the ordination of women under the new titl
Ordination at the Jewish Virtual Library is decent, though a bit dated; it doesn't speak, for example,
of happenings in the contemporary Orthodox world such as the
ordination of women under the new titl
ordination of women under the new title Maharat.
Soon after his
ordination as a Catholic priest, Joseph R. Windle, then the Catholic bishop
of Pembroke, Ontario, took advantage
of Richard's annual return to Canada, the land
of his birth, to invite him to dine
at the cathedral....
In order to address these questions I advocated the theological notion
of «partial identification» and «spiritual resistance»
at the Second Roman Catholic Women's
Ordination Conference in 1978.
At issue were the familiar questions:
ordination of women and the Book
of Common Prayer.
Only later did I become involved with Roman Catholic groups such as the Women's
Ordination Conference or the National Assembly
of Religious Women, which contacted me because
of my position
at Notre Dame.
They have been
at a church for a very long time, they have served, and yet not once has their priest tapped on the shoulder to say, «Have you thought
of ordination?»
Geoffrey Wainwright allows for alternatives, but insists that churches use «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit»
at key points
of Christian worship such as baptisms, eucharistic prayers, creeds and
ordinations.
Regarding the issue
of ordination raised by James Nuzzo,
at stake is the question
of how all believers share eucharistically in Christ, definitely not brickbats or sibling rivalries.
David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future
of evangelicalism to a colloquium
at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas
of tension among evangelicals: women's
ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies
of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications
of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci
of the preceding chapters have
at least been representative.
Questions have been asked about the consistency
of The Rev. Vosper in regard to her public statements as opposed to her public professions
of faith and belief
at the time
of her
ordination and every single time she was covenanted into a new pastoral relationship, including in 1997 with her current congregation.
Well, the C
of E has done what everyone knew it would do sooner or later; it has decided to proceed
at some point to the
ordination of women - bishops).
Bishop Hall told William Temple, the Archbishop
of Canterbury
at the time: «I'm not an advocate for the
ordination of women.
While everyone is eagerly awaiting the Mansfield ball, Edmund has his mind on other things, being «deeply occupied in the consideration
of the two important events now
at hand, which were to fix his fate in life —
ordination and matrimony.»
At the very least, recovering the tradition Puts Students in touch with the assumptions that function in the hymnbooks and prayerbooks
of their prospective parishioners, the lections from which they will preach and the
ordination papers they must write.
As long as pension and job security benefits are more obviously
at stake in
ordination than vocation, a certain hesitancy
of purpose will be felt.
To make the point more strongly, I know
of at least four priests who have come from families who were not practising when they were brought for baptism as infants, but who through the influence
of a school, or priests, teachers or grandparents were led to strong and deep faith and then to
ordination.
One
of the most sublime
of Bach's works, played
at my
ordination and my wedding, and so here, too.»
It was an Anglican clergyman, the professor
of botany
at Cambridge, who encouraged him to move away from studies for
ordination in the Church
of England, and to take up botany, and indeed to take up the post
of an unpaid naturalist on the HMS Beagle — the research from which ultimately led him to the ideas he formulatedon evolution.
At the time
of ordination the church publicly and thankfully acknowledged a gift, a discipline, and a man's intention to assume a task.
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)».
Catholic priests take the title «Father» because they put on the person and character
of Christ
at their
ordination.
When Father Roger Nesbitt celebrated the 40th anniversary
of his
ordination in 2007, he was presented with a scroll signed by almost forty priests, each
of whom owed his vocation,
at least in part, to Fr Nesbitt's example.
In the Church
of England
at the Reformation, the priest
at his
ordination was given a Bible instead
of a paten and chalice.
Gavin:
At the start of writing this book, we'd lived in the Midlands for 14 years, I'd been at Youth for Christ for 14 years, Anne was doing her early stages of training for ordinatio
At the start
of writing this book, we'd lived in the Midlands for 14 years, I'd been
at Youth for Christ for 14 years, Anne was doing her early stages of training for ordinatio
at Youth for Christ for 14 years, Anne was doing her early stages
of training for
ordination.
He went to Australia
at the age
of twenty - six only a year after his
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.
At ordination, he calls every priest to a special relationship
of friendship with himself and service to his people.
One well - meaning moderator changed all
of the «brother in Christ» language
at an
ordination service to «daughter in Christ.»
Soon after his
ordination as a Catholic priest, Joseph R. Windle, then the Catholic bishop
of Pembroke, Ontario, took advantage
of Richard's annual return to Canada, the land
of his birth, to invite him to dine
at the cathedral rectory.
From Adam: Scot, you and a bunch
of others I am aware
of are moving toward Anglican
ordination or
at least membership.
There was no unanimity
at the conference with regard to the
ordination of women and the pyramidal pattern
of the structure
of some churches.
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.
I suppose that is why the
ordination of women is finally, for me, an, inadequate expression
of the essence
of feminine theology, just as obtaining the vote in patriarchal societies proved illusory in terms
of granting women civil liberties
at the beginning
of the century.
Luther believed that this «
ordination» ceremony, which he had gone through with such enormous anxiety
at the cathedral in Erfurt, was wrongly understood, like the Mass itself as a kind
of reverse image
of the pagan priesthoods and pagan sacrifices.
While dissidents within the Church may try to use this year's low numbers in New York to bolster their calls for women's
ordination and a removal
of the celibacy requirement for priests, the latest data from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) reveals that
ordination rates to the priesthood are
at a 20 year high.
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.
We are
at the same time sure that the human word is given the status
of divine Word in the command (v. 27)
of indiscriminate slaughter; and we are sure that Moses never regarded such an act as
ordination to priesthood (v. 29)!