Sentences with phrase «celebrant of»

If you are marrying through a religious or secular ceremony, you should discuss their requirements with the celebrant of your marriage.

Compassionate adventurer, celebrant of our vital elements on our beautiful planet.

Thus the traditional clerical dress received its initial form: the alb, the long white undergarment; the tunicle, reserved today for the dress of deacons; and the chasuble, the sleeveless outer garment worn by the celebrant of the Eucharist.

To me he sounded like a brilliant celebrant of the split between faith and reason.

In my view, therefore, John Updike is our finest literary celebrant both of human ambiguity and the human acceptance of it.

He must humbly recognise that he acts in the name of Jesus and that his vocation as celebrant of the sacraments comes only from the One who has chosen to act in them.

Novak is derided by his critics as an uncritical celebrant of the American experiment.

If truth can not be spoken for fear of ridicule, we will concede the world to the celebrants of postmodern confusion.

By the time Palm Sunday comes around, we are celebrants of the coming King.

As celebrants of multiculturalism, the editors may protest that they can not limit themselves to biblical faith, since, after all, it has no higher claim on their attention than that it is the religious connection of more than 90 percent of the population and the religio - moral foundation of Western Civilization.

It is time to take Pentecost back from the celebrants of exuberant but easy triumph.

Forget that Gropius, Corbusier and Perriand were also media - savvy; the point is polemical: they, the protagonists of modernist design, were cued by functional structures, vehicles, things, but we, the celebrants of Pop culture, look to «the throw - away object and the pop - package» for our models.

Honey has important meaning for the celebrants of Rosh Hashana.

Not exact matches

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

At the end of the X-Prize award ceremony in St. Louis, when the giant check had been put aside and the celebrants huddled on the stage to pose for photographers, he suddenly looked up and started searching the skies.

Aging out of your teenage years is a tough transition for anyone, but today's birthday celebrant has had it harder than most.

Such self - discipline on the part of celebrants would also help eliminate the clericalism (and worse) involved when Father Freelance, well, free - lances.

In a properly celebrated Mass, the vocalized dialogue of prayer between celebrant and congregation takes place in a linguistic rhythm established by the shared text of the Mass..

It may come as a surprise to Father Freelance, but after more than four decades of priest - celebrants trying to be Johnny Carson, Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, or whomever, this act is getting very old.

While I am glad for the new and more accurate translation of the Mass, which is not perfection but closer to it than one deserves in an imperfect world, a far more important reform would be the return of the ad orientem position of the celebrant as normative.

Meanwhile, for more than a year, we went to Mass every Sunday, and every holy day of obligation, sitting where we knew we could get in line to approach the celebrant priest (not a deacon or extraordinary minister) with our arms folded to receive a blessing.

Ann Marie worked for CPS at the time, and having recently wed her partner, Patricia (in a church commitment ceremony at which I served as celebrant), she decided to become a foster co-parent to Hailey, a child with special needs stemming from the chaos of her life's earliest months.

In some of the traditions related to one or the other of these fertility sex goddesses, celebrants would rise early in the morning to observe the sun rising in the east.

The principle of ex opere operato - the effectiveness of the sacrament does not depend upon the spiritual state of the celebrant, but upon the proper performance of the rite in the Church - does not preclude the importance of a spiritual openness on the part of initiate and celebrant.

Lolli writes: «An even dim awareness of the pleasurable connotations of some phases of the drinking episode can not fail to stir up anxieties in those therapists whose conscious and even more whose unconscious life is governed by the principle: «I shall help the sufferer and punish the celebrant.»»

Then, at the Eucharist, which incorporated so much of the Hindu temple ritual, the celebrant called us to communion with the words, «Jesus invites us all to share in God's limitless love».

But the «making present» of the Eucharist does not withdraw celebrants from the rough terrain of the political; it brings to the surface those conflicts with which the political order must cope.

At Joe's first mass, Father Stock, his old parish pastor and a money - grubber, takes advantage of having two newly ordained celebrants in his parish to take up a special collection.

Note to Celebrants (not «Presiders»): If you've fallen into the bad habit of concluding Mass by some variant of «May almighty God bless us all, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,» please cease and desist.

To resolve the Donatist controversy, St. Augustine formulated the doctrine of ex opere operato; that is, that the Eucharist does its salvific work regardless of the sanctification (or lack thereof) of the celebrant.

He still stands in front of us at Mass in the person of the celebrant who as Alter Christus says the words exactly as Christ did at the Last Supper using the first person singular.

As well as campaigning for a more secular society, the BHA offers trained celebrants for weddings, births and funerals; for people who want meaningful but religion-less rites of passage.

Characteristic is the development of apologies; that is, prayers reciting the unworthiness of celebrant and people rather than proclaiming God's actions.

«As requested by the Holy See, the main celebrant and homilist will be His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.

The beautiful rhythm of the chant alternating between priest - celebrant and people as the Mass is prayed, including the occasional chanting of the Roman Canon, is one of the most appealing aspects of the sung Novus Ordo, an embodiment of the «noble simplicity» which is one of the foundational principles of Sacrosanctum Concilium.

At a High Mass, besides the chanted readings and the celebrant's prayers, the music of the Mass falls into two categories known as the «proper» and the «ordinary».

As Christmas and Easter are commonly celebrated by perhaps the majority of celebrants, any latter - day «prophet» might be constrained to cry out, «Thus says the Lord, «I hate, I repudiate your feasts...»» It is perfectly clear, however, that the articulation and, indeed, the very preservation of Christian faith requires the cultic enactment of birth and death and resurrection — this appropriation of the past for the present and the consequent faithful union of time in hope and confidence in the future.

On two occasions I participated — once as the celebrant, once as the preacher — in peace masses inside the Pentagon, nonviolent and orderly demonstrations for the cause of peace.

And so Old Adam still will have his day As celebrant at feasts some people keep For flesh and blood that never wake from sleep, This bread and wine of human show and play.

In the first instance, it suggests that the priest - celebrant is the master of the divine liturgy rather than its servant.

Five years before the times When celebrants who'd always turned their backs On those who served and poured and knelt and bowed Would face lay faces and the music of Guitars, I lit six wicks and watched white wax Melt down.

From the body of the church, nothing strange would have been noticed — the celebrant with his back to the congregation had to move about from time to time in any case.

For the high priest has been given his own proper services, and the priests been assigned their own place [of dignity, seated on either side of the chief celebrant], while to the Levites their ministrations are given.

As readers of Evangelical Catholicism, my book on deep reform in the 21st - century Church, will remember, I proposed just such a change in the orientation of celebrant and congregation during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: Priest and people would face each other during the Liturgy of the Word; celebrant and congregation would then pray together, facing the same direction, throughout the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

The fact that Melchizedek, l6 the priest - king of Jerusalem (already identified with Christ in Hebrews), offered bread and wine (Gen. 14:18) made it natural for the royal priestly people to think of their cultural celebrant and spokesman, by assimilation, as their high priest.

Thus even in the middle of the third century the laity preserved their «1iturgy» of electing, of bringing the offerings or tithing, of identifying themselves with the prayers of their celebrants in antiphonal amens.97 Moreover, their consent was sought in dogmatic and moral formulations.98 Closely connected therewith was the people's prerogative in the recognition of martyrs which in the fourth century was to become the communal voice in the authoritative canonization of saints.99

Watching fellow Super Bowl celebrants dive into a bowl of processed cheese queso years ago, a natural foods chef (who had upgraded her vegetarian diet she'd been living for decades to a full vegan one out of compassion), had her «Aha!»

After Detroit's victory in the final game of the World Series last October, celebrants outside Tiger Stadium hurled rocks and bottles, fought with police and burned and overturned cars.

The way in which we keep, or do not keep, the promises that we vow and the commitments that we make on our wedding day to our future spouse, before God, a celebrant authorised by the government to receive such declarations and probably anywhere between two and two - hundred witnesses, will unquestionably be a direct reflection of our own integrity, loyalty and faithfulness to our marriage partner.

However, the real celebrants are mom, dad, the rest of the family and all of the friends who have been invited to celebrate this big day.