Located directly across the street from our office is
the beautiful Church of Saint Mary, constructed between 1864 and 1869.
Difficult to resist the charm of the baroque style that opens the eyes of the B & B La Piazzetta in the foreground,
the beautiful Church of the left made dall «architto Emanuele Manieri.
Today you travel by rail to Munich and take a guided tour of Bavaria's capital city, including
the beautiful Church of our Lady which was finally completed in 1524, as its domes were installed.
Here you'll find many of the city's most famous landmarks including the 15th century astronomical clock and
the beautiful Church of St Nicholas.
Welcome to Syracuse: Holy Trinity Church,
beautiful church of German and Italian immigrants, is now a mosque.
She began the series of tweets with a photo of the mosque and wrote: «Welcome to Syracuse: Holy Trinity Church,
beautiful church of German and Italian immigrants, is now a mosque.»
Not exact matches
Christianity Today strengthens the
church by richly communicating the breadth
of the true, good, and
beautiful gospel.
Ok, I won't let a gay teach in the
church I pastor because
of it being a degradation to something
beautiful.
Keith Long from Post Office said: «We're delighted to be opening a new - look branch inside this
beautiful church in the heart
of West Hampstead.»
We had a
beautiful church, a traditional New England style house
of god.
«Ok, I won't let a gay teach in the
church I pastor because
of it being a degradation to something
beautiful» (Fishon)
Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to
church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?&
church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles
of the
Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?&
Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this
beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»
(Dr. Browning didn't contemplate the possibility that, without Jesus, there would have been no iconoclastic destruction
of Scotland's ancient and
beautiful Catholic
churches, or no mass burnings
of «witches» by his forebears in the kirk; but that, perhaps, would have been cutting a bit too close to the bone.)
God has taken my beauty and I out
of institutional
church and on a
beautiful journey.
Houston agrees that it's the presence
of relationship that makes worship in the local
church so
beautiful and transformational.
They then have the power to convert us to an alternative worldview by proclamation, grace, and the sheer attraction
of the good, the true, and the
beautiful (not by shame, guilt, or fear which are low - level motivations, but which operate more quickly and so
churches often resort to them).
Remarkably, however, they are no less corporately passionate about the same
beautiful gift: the fullness
of the truth
of the
Church's teaching about life.
Each person in your
church congregation and youth group has a set
of weighing scales and places your invitation on one side
of the scales: «We're going away together to a
beautiful country location, with fantastic speakers for youth and adults.
We find that these principles provide a
beautiful and compelling answer to much
of the confusion and contradiction in both teaching and practice which afflicts the
Church in many areas at the end
of the twentieth century, and at the beginning
of the new millennium.
Christine Hoover is a pastor's wife, mom, speaker, and the author
of From Good to Grace, Messy
Beautiful Friendship, and The
Church Planting Wife.
«The Pope has already himself said that he is in favour
of celibacy and that celibacy has really, really,
beautiful reasons practically and spiritually - why it's a gift to the
Church, but he is responding to the needs that have been said in Brazil.»
I see the
church more like the ocean —
beautiful, inviting, refreshing, teaming with life, unpredictable, full
of power and surprises, always changing and never able to be fully harnessed nor controlled.
We sat in two comfy armchairs in the foyer
of his
beautiful, brand - new
church building, and for over an hour talked about Reformed theology.
My interest was further piqued when we sang a
beautiful hymn, «O God
of Every Nation,» a hymn I rarely hear in the conservative, nationalistic
churches down South.
Casualties included a story about practicing the Sabbath, an account
of the Puritan ducking chair, an interview with a courtship couple, an in - depth look at the it - couple
of the Early
Church (Priscilla and Aquilla), and and a far too detailed description
of the
beautiful grotto at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama
What happens within is another story but it doesn't mean any
church deserves to be burned (most are quite
beautiful regardless
of what they represent)... maybe they should be used for better purposes (housing the homeless for example).
The
Church has to form the consciousness
of her young people in what is the true and the
beautiful in their loving.
By opposing these things the
Church is a «sign
of contradiction'to the beliefs
of the secular world, and other faiths, while acknowledging whatever is good, true and
beautiful in other faith systems.
What I suspect many
of us crave is a
church where we can be our whole, ugly -
beautiful selves.
The
Church must not settle down with what is merely comfortable and serviceable at theparish level; she must arouse the voice
of the cosmos and, by glorifying the Creator, elicit the glory
of the cosmos itself, making it also glorious,
beautiful, habitable, and beloved.»
It's a
beautiful piece
of work, but it was never meant to be interpreted as I think some
churches do.»
Within minutes I was laughing and eating chicken nuggets with a bunch
of bright, engaged Christian students (at Wingate University), remembering once again that the
Church is bigger and more
beautiful than its ugliest moments.
In this time
of waiting, in this age marked only by the absence
of faith in Christ, it is well that the modern soul should lack repose, piety, peace, or nobility, and should find the world outside the
Church barren
of spiritual rapture or mystery, and should discover no
beautiful or terrible or merciful gods upon which to cast itself.
Actually, I think this is one
of the greatest and most
beautiful pictures
of unity in the
Church.
My family being Orthodox, I can say that every Orthodox
church I've been to is simply magnificent place with
beautiful iconography and most
of those
churches are much more than 500 years old with amazing stories behind it's every piece.
I can give you the short answer as to why Catholic
Churches were so
beautiful in earlier centuries; in the words
of Isaiah, «I have loved, O Lord, the beauty
of thy house and the place where thy glory dwelleth.»
But it could be the nucleus
of a complete neighborhood, one which has a
church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most
beautiful parts
of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).
The Anglican community (
of which the Episcopal
Church is a member) retains the same
beautiful liturgy with which I grew up loving.
I grew up in a big
church, always full and
beautiful from the outside, but empty and hollow inside, filled with the ghosts
of a much more authentic spirituality.
Funny how those that went to
church then sat around eating an over abundance
of food and candy bragged about whatt a
beautiful service they saw and heard but some were out on the streets doing a
beautiful service.
It is not uncommon to go into some
of the poorest and most destitute communities around the world, where many
of the people live in cardboard and tarpaper shacks and have barely enough food to live on, and in the middle
of this community, find a large, grandly constructed
church building with towering steeples, intricate stained glass,
beautiful woodwork, and gorgeous hand - painted murals.
Why is it that when an Atheist does something «good» for humanity we call them generous and good, even though most
of their money is spent on personal pleasures and when a
church or a Christian does something good we say that they are not doing enough because they spent money building a
beautiful church?
But, for all those problems, it was a
beautiful chapter in the life
of the
Church, filled with simple faith, devotion, and sacrifice.
«The
church we have today was built in honor
of Edward the Confessor, to provide him with a far more
beautiful and up - to - date
church to house his body,» Carpenter said.
Pastor Weedon found a
beautiful summary
of why the
Church Year is so important and useful: As the seasons of the church year make their annual circuit, the preacher has no other task than to unfold the mysterium Christi, the mystery of C
Church Year is so important and useful: As the seasons
of the
church year make their annual circuit, the preacher has no other task than to unfold the mysterium Christi, the mystery of C
church year make their annual circuit, the preacher has no other task than to unfold the mysterium Christi, the mystery
of Christ.
It fits in so deeply with the Faith
of the
Church, takes in the
beautiful teaching
of the Fathers from early Christianity, and also tries to makes sense
of modern science, in much the same way as St Thomas Aquinas attempted to do in the thirteenth century.
Yet these young social liberals are not attending the dozens
of theologically liberal old line Protestant
churches in DC whose
beautiful sanctuaries are typically half or more empty with disproportionately old congregants on Sunday morning.
After walking through the slum and trying to serve some
of the people that lived there, the team I was with happened upon a
beautiful brick
church building, complete with steeples and stained glass.
What we Catholics need to hear, what all
of us need to hear from Pope Francis, is an exhortation calling attention to the artistic impoverishment
of Holy Mother
Church: to her hunger and thirst for justice and for what is
beautiful.
This is a
beautiful summary
of the mission
of the
Church and the purpose
of our Christian lives.