Sentences with phrase «became saints»

There was a book about children who became saints.

I point this out because even if JPII has been beatified sooner and may be canonized sooner than people in the past, it doesn't mean that he actually becomes a saint sooner, or gets any sort of «preferential treatment» from God.

«What have we to do in order to become saints?

Unlike Joe, Father Bill does not leave the seminary on fire with the idea of becoming a saint.

To seek consciously to become a saint, or attain «union,» as is advocated by some modern mystics, (See for example the writings of Gerald Heard, in particular The Third Morality [New York: William Morrow, London: Cassell, 1937], chaps.

If this happens twice, this dead person becomes a saint; or

If this happens twice, this dead person becomes a saint.

He said he would like to become a saint (and I think it's quite likely that he did become one).

On Sunday, Mother Marianne Cope — along with another North American, Kateri Tekakwitha — will become a saint, a designation so difficult to achieve that only 10 other Americans have been canonized before her.

This sinful woman becomes a saint.

The former pope - who became a saint in May - developed a close bond with Mexican Catholics and travelled to the country on five papal visits.

It means, that through the gift of faith, trust and salvation, we have become saints, that is redeemed.

And if theSacrament of Penance is linked in the minds of the People of God to a concerted effort to become saints, then it will be seen as a true life - line and an essential part of the devout life.

There are in every generation people who, beginning innocently, with no predetermined intention of becoming saints, find themselves drawn into the vortex by their interest in helping mankind, and by the understanding that comes from actually doing it.

The idea of becoming a saint might seem beyond our reach.

«We don't go to heaven to become saints,» one preacher declared.

Ignacius Loyola, who murdered South American Indians because they wouldn't switch to Christianity, became a Saint!

«We become saints to go to heaven.»

Curiously enough, Ibn Taymiyya, who fought the worship of saints so vehemently has become a saint in spite of himself.

The few characters who might be described as heroic — Galahad, Bors, Percivale, and, by the end, Lancelot — do not save the world from the machinations of a sorcerer - villain or secure some magical artifact for the safekeeping of the benevolent powers; they become saints.

The criminal who becomes a saint can never undo the terrible loss of his victims.

When Christianity became the primary religion in Europe, November 1st became All Saint's Day — a day to honor the saints who, for some unknown reason, didn't have a day dedicated solely to them.

If you are in the Peoples Democratic Party, you are a pen robber, but if you joined the APC, you become a saint automatically.

«That's why he has been opening the door for those undergoing corruption trials to cross over to the APC and as soon as that is done, they become saints.

They have become saints because they dumped the PDP?

«We observed that once these people renounce their membership of the PDP and cross over to the ruling APC, they automatically become saints.

A great one - act play for KS2 that tells the story of how the wandering Knight, George, became Saint George.

By the way, if you take the more aggressive approach and happen to end up in tax court, you will not only be immortalized in the annals of Tax History, you will become a saint of sorts to those who toil in the tedious theater of tax law: every CPA in America will appreciate you settling this issue once and for all!

The Saint Lucia Tourist Board will work with those who have registered to become a Saint Lucia Touchpoint by sharing travel and tourism information about Saint Lucia in order to enhance their product knowledge of the destination.

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Lilysse (left) has agreed to become the Saint, much to Arnice's dismay for reasons I don't want to spoil.

We love characters, and our story in Arcadian Atlas is very character centered — about how people become saints or monsters because of the choices they make and the ripple effect that has on Arcadia.

Life is a text, a book to be read after you die, which is how Judge Walters always thought of it and there must be a point, he figured, you can no longer redeem yourself and become a saint.

Not exact matches

The industry has become «way too restrictive,» says Hans Mercier, a lawyer in Saint - Georges, the heart of maple syrup country in the Chaudière - Appalaches region.

Lady Diana Spencer, soon to become the Princess of Wales, turns as her bridesmaids set her train on arrival at Saint Paul's Cathedral for her wedding to Prince Charles in London, July 29, 1981.

Instead, he helps readers understand how the saint became so widely influential and revered by taking them on a journey from Ramakrishna's childhood through his spiritual education.

Zenit Saint Petersburg coach Roberto Mancini has agreed in principle to become the next Italy coach, Italian federation (FIGC) commissioner Roberto Fabbricini said Tuesday.

Within a century, the foundation of St. Sofia was laid, and the cathedral became the burial place of church leaders and saints.

It is not clericalism but priestly duty — a duty that can become a delight — to set forth, persuasively and winsomely, «the faith once delivered to the saints.»

The Latter day Saint (mormon) version of Jesus is living on the planet Kolob, and Mormons believe that they too, will become Gods with Jesus, and join him on Kolob, if they follow their religious duties correctly.

Some who have no such experience become great saints.

To be present among [the least of these] is to encounter what the Celtic saints called «thin spaces,» places or moments in time in which the veil separating heaven and earth, the spiritual and the material, becomes almost transparent.

The group's announcement said that «this painful decision has become necessary by concern for the common good of the Society of Saint Pius X and its good government, according to what Archbishop Lefebvre denounced: This is the destruction of authority.

One need not be a saint, or a mother, to become a bearer of God.

Niels Stensen founded the sciences of paleontology, crystallography and mineralogy, became a priest, was appointed bishop and subsequently declared a saint.

Pressure had been building on the Vatican to proceed with criminal charges against Wesolowski, a Polish native ordained by Saint John Paul II, since the accusations against him became public.

In the vertically oriented world, the priest transmits the divine and inanimate objects like saints» bones become conduits of the supernatural.

The communion of saints who make up the City of God is a genuine visible fellowship that becomes the extension of triune life in the world.

God became man at Christmas to redeem and share in the lives of saints and sinners alike - even «high - level sinners,» Francis said.

But alas, the people of the world no longer listened to Christ, they had become idolaters and now worshipped the Pope and the catholic MVP club they call the saints.