Sentences with phrase «at the parish church»

One weekend in that tumultuous year 1968 I was on call at a parish church outside of Baltimore.

In any case, it seems fitting to report that on Easter morning 1966, Evelyn Waugh collapsed and died after attending solemn high mass (in Latin, of course) at his parish church in Somerset.

The Sunday before the training was going to begin, I decided to hear mass at our parish church, Our Lady of Fatima in Mandaluyong.

Not exact matches

As for what this priest wrote, he forgets that most Catholic parishes, at least in the USA, depend very heavily on retired men and women to help out with many parish duties, from helping to serve communion at daily Mass to assisting with the front office or helping out with various ministries, so to say seniors have been forgotten by the Church is not true...

The phones are ringing off the hook at the parish of St. Michael's Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse scChurch, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse scchurch's sexual abuse scandal.

There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.

At the same time as Bishop Chartres was making it plain that he would sooner demolish an unused Anglican building than allow an Ordinariate parish to use it, Archbishop Vincent was saying that the natural place for Ordinariate Catholics to worship would be their local Catholic parish church.

The meeting is held in the parish house of a church, rented by the AA group at a nominal rate.

From neither bodily nor congregational habitation do I see miraculous escape, either by comic recognition that will give the church a special knowing at a higher stage of development or by a romantic quest that turns the parish outward into God's undomesticated presence in the larger context.

In purely aesthetic terms, it's hard to imagine a starker contrast than which Father Ed Tomlinson and his family and flock must have felt four years ago when, as a group, they left their Anglican parish church of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pechurch of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of PeChurch through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pembury.

We want to make our church look like a quintessential English parish, to return traditional treasures to the people and to re-capture that distinctive English spirituality that was lost to the Catholic Church at the Reformation», hechurch look like a quintessential English parish, to return traditional treasures to the people and to re-capture that distinctive English spirituality that was lost to the Catholic Church at the Reformation», heChurch at the Reformation», he says.

At Easter, 1965, I attempted to present the «good news» of Christ's Resurrection to a mass audience through a televised sermon delivered at a service of Holy Communion in a great parish churcAt Easter, 1965, I attempted to present the «good news» of Christ's Resurrection to a mass audience through a televised sermon delivered at a service of Holy Communion in a great parish churcat a service of Holy Communion in a great parish church.

Ye t the Council said nothing at all about facing the people, and its permission (not requirement) for use of the vernacular included the expectation that Latin and the musical treasury of the Church would also continue in use as a normal part of parish life.

«Filled with panic, some Christians began to flee until bullets and grenades began to fall in the parish grounds, trapping those who remained in the compound,» Moses Aliou, a priest at the church, told Reuters.

For this had been possible in the early Church and exists even today at least in very rudimentary form in the institution of the so - called patronates and in certain rights of the congregations in some Swiss cantons regarding the appointment of their parish priests.

I am thinking of parish councils, lay advisory committees and similar institutions which aim at giving the laity greater responsibility and cooperation in the decision - making of the Church.

According to Ryken, Packer failed to hear the genuine Gospel in his upbringing in a Church of England parish: He «did not know what [saving faith] was,» Packer says of himself at age fourteen, on the eve of his confirmation.

I was appointed to a parish in Appalachia half time, and taught half time at a local church junior college, named for its founder, Young Harris.

In February's Public Square (While We're At It), Richard John Neuhaus responds to a Christianity Today article by a married ELCA parish council member and youth group leader who discussed his desire to be able to share with his church his struggle with a homosexual inclination.

There are signs that during the past decade the New Breed has been influential in campus and experimental ministries and even in administrative positions within the churches, but our data suggest they have had little success at the parish level, where most clergymen are and where most communication between the clergy and the laity takes place.

The church is realized and expressed at the local level (parish / diocese / region / nation) as well as the universal.

In the current circumstance, it seems that the more general reality is that Catholics are rallying to the defense of the Church, or at least to the defense of their own parishes and priests.

At the same time, churches complain about the children's lack of participation in the religious programs of the parishes.

Looking at the varied interplay of these factors makes for a powerful and very successful sociological analysis that can be applied to many situations — businesses, churches, (including dioceses and parishes) as well as clubs, movements and whole nation states.

At the time of the study, three - quarters of the twenty thousand parishes in the country had an RCIA program of nine months or more to prepare adults for membership in the Church.

The youth group strives to entertain the church's sense of the absurd in its skit at the next parish supper.

«He also suggested that parishes introduce Forty Hours» Devotion, where Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is kept up continuously at a succession of different churches.

Thus, the Church at the parish and diocesan level is the focus of much current ecclesial inquiry and theological reflection.

The Church does have a remedy for this, which is being attempted at the parish of St Benedict's, Ealing Abbey It seems to be bearing fruit.

Even so, at least one banner headline displayed prominently at the back of parish churches up and down the country on the following Sunday clearly suggested that a change of discipline might still be on the cards.

Eck had been working hard at pastoral work in several parishes around Ingolstadt, and had become a devoted Reformer within the established Church — he had always granted Luther's thesis against Indulgences, but reform should keep within the bounds of established canonical and papal norms.

One must, surely, chuckle with delight at the wonderfully ironic thought of the physical overlap of all those deliberately liturgically impoverished South coast dioceses with all those currently Anglo - Catholic parishes, soon to be safely in the Catholic Church but barricaded against the local Catholic bishop within their ordinariate, South coast parishes so renowned for reverent, sumptuous and utterly numinous liturgy, often with wonderful music sung by professional choirs, and glorious antique vestments, saved from the scrap heap as they were thrown out ofCatholic churches by the Spirit - of - Vatican - ll.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that this teaching and instructing can be done much more effectively in the parish house, in the church hall and the like, at sessions specifically arranged for the purpose, rather than in the course of divine worship.

According to the Church of Scotland, Lochside is among the 40 poorest communities in the country while at the same time the St Columba's parish as a whole is among the wealthiest.

For it is at the grass roots, in the diocese and parish, that the church and society most truly meet.

A gay vicar's decision to hold a «commitment» ceremony at his own church to mark his civil partnership is reportedly creating tensions within the parish.

He was distressed at the sad condition of the Church of his day, the money shown by so many of the clergy from the pope himself to parish priest and he had been influenced by Franciscan spirituals and similar groups.

As a matter of fact, he had not said anything of the kind, but evidently the word «resurrection» conjured up in the minds of the men the stained glass windows in their parish churches back at home, where, in flagrant contradiction to St. Paul (1 Cor 15:36: «Thou fool»), the resurrection of the dead is depicted in ordinary human and terrestrial categories.

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.

The church was packed and Communion went on a very long time, and at the end everyone sang out «Jesus Christ is risen today,» except for those who never sing, of which Immaculate Conception has few, since so much of the parish is Filipino, Italian, and WASP (in this case standing for White Anglo - Saxon Papist.)

Although he commanded the laity to attend church every Sunday and feast day and to make at least an annual confession, he restricted the number of the clergy, tended to make the parish priests an hereditary class, regulated the interior life of the monasteries, and insisted that the Church keep out of civil afchurch every Sunday and feast day and to make at least an annual confession, he restricted the number of the clergy, tended to make the parish priests an hereditary class, regulated the interior life of the monasteries, and insisted that the Church keep out of civil afChurch keep out of civil affairs.

The non-Fascist, the anti-Fascist, was approaching a point at which he would have to ask himself whether the parish church was still his church; he was now having to go to mass early in the morning if he wished to avoid the sermon, which too often comprised a full - scale attack on all the democratic, masonic Governments which were opposing the providential plans of the Duce.

[The reader may find additional material by or about Samuel Shoemaker, Jr., at: (1) the Maryland Historical Society, Manuscripts Division, under «Shoemaker Papers;» (2) the Princeton University Archives at Princeton University, Olden Lane, Princeton, New Jersey, in the Samuel Shoemaker alumnus file; (3) the Episcopal Church Archives in Austin, Texas; (4) the Library of Congress, in the Ray Foote Purdy files of the Moral ReArmament (and Oxford Group) Archives; (5) the Maryland Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church; (6) the Stepping Stones Archives, Bedford Hills, New York, the Shoemaker - Wilson letters; (7) the Hartford Theological Seminary Archives, Hartford, Connecticut; and (8) the parish offices of Calvary / St.

Obviously, Boe's role at Wounded Knee was not a traditional ecclesiastical one; AIM was not a «parish» of the American Lutheran Church (though that church has made regular grants to it); probably no one was confessing his or her sins; and Boe was not asked to divulge the content of any such confessions aChurch (though that church has made regular grants to it); probably no one was confessing his or her sins; and Boe was not asked to divulge the content of any such confessions achurch has made regular grants to it); probably no one was confessing his or her sins; and Boe was not asked to divulge the content of any such confessions anyway.

For just a moment, let's look at the local church with a «parish lens.»

Retired clergy, men just out of seminary and women are more apt to accept these parishes than are experienced men at the height of their careers — unless they have chosen small - church ministry as their specialty.

Culture wars are a cancer eating away at the church, but getting to know actual people in our parish could be an antidote to this ideology, and a timely one at that.

In his sermons in the parish church he often made little or no reference to public affairs and his own battles; in one at this time, he said: «He who calls on Christ in faith... the Holy Spirit most certainly comes to him.

Finally, the Council offered a moratorium on further change and a request to Karlstadt to cease preaching or at least to leave Luther's pulpit in the parish church.

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.