Sentences with phrase «celebrants in»

An opening dance sequence set in a Cleaver American Fifties features more stunt people, professional dancers, and trampolines than Cirque du Soleil, its artificiality setting the tone for the rest of the film, while the scene's conclusion (with the picture's hero trapping the celebrants in a giant dance hall, dooming them to death should a fire break out) serves as a pretty succinct summary of the film's feckless themes and carelessness.

John Grunsfeld, head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, opted for the latter, telling the celebrants in Laurel, «Five hundred years from now, we will look back on this as the golden age of exploration.»

Humanist celebrants in the UK have performed same - sex wedding ceremonies ever since the invention of humanist ceremonies.

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

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.

According to English Celebrant In France, it's fairly common for guests to wear black.

She commented, «I began working as a celebrant in 2012, and quickly learnt that the tribute is the central part of a humanist funeral.

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.

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 MassIn 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 Massin a linguistic rhythm established by the shared text of the Mass..

But, when it is over, and the celebrant has resigned the vestments proper to it, then he resumes himself, and comes to us in the gifts and associations which attach to his person.

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 easIn 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 easin the morning to observe the sun rising in the easin the east.

Pastors are losing touch, and celebrants are taking their place in the funeral industry.

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».

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.

His partner in crime on the Mid-faith Crisis podcast is Joe Davis, Baptist minister, local celebrant and speaker for Renovaré UK and Ireland.

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.

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.

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

I would think God looks past the outer covers to judge what's in the celebrants heart.

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

One Sunday at a church I attended in Pennsylvania, the celebrant appeared to think that he was being extremely inclusive when he said, «I welcome all baptized people and Quakers.»

For a moment he made as if to leave the altar, and said something to the Prior who was standing by him, to assist him at his first Mass, as was the custom, precisely in case the new celebrant experienced any difficulty.

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.

Together, the priest - celebrant, and those who have baptized in order to offer God proper worship, are facing toward the Lord who is to come — and who, in coming eucharistically and in glory, brings the human drama to its fulfillment.

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.

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.

They'll even put a candle in it for the birthday celebrant.

If you're interested in a humanist funeral for yourself or a loved one, or training to be a Humanists UK - accredited celebrant, you can find out more at https://humanism.org.uk/funerals

Now, anyone who has a funeral conducted by a Humanists UK - accredited celebrant is eligible to have their story lodged in the Archive, with scripts submitted at the request of families.

At that era, it was believed that during a person's birthday, evil spirits would haunt and harm the celebrant and in order to protect the person, people would gather together and bring presents with them to avoid the ward off evil spirits.

In fact, we have a national network of trained and accredited celebrants.

Working with a trained celebrant, our clients mark the most significant moments in their lives, be it the naming of a child, a marriage, or the death of someone close.

«We enjoin all celebrants, especially the youth to celebrate in circumspection and moderation to prevent any unfortunate incidents,» he said.

Some humanists also contribute to society through their work as celebrants, helping the non-religious to mark important occasions in their lives in humanist ceremonies for baby namings, weddings, civil partnerships and funerals.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson added, «Religious people currently have the legal right to marry in a ceremony that reflects their most fundamental views of the world, but humanists can not do likewise: they are denied legal recognition for a bespoke personalised ceremony that reflects the values of the couple involved, that they share with the celebrant, and that is built around them.

This differs from the situation in Scotland, where the Scottish Government intends to allow humanist celebrants to perform legal same - sex marriages.

Except at St. Patrick's breakfasts where celebrants guzzle green orange juice and await the session - ending coronation of Irish - person - of - the - year in goofy green hat, Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce breakfasts rarely draw more than 225 people.

In an age of choice, the right celebrant can be one of the most important choices you make.»

Jane has had extensive experience in caring professions, with qualifications in psychotherapy, adult education, and counselling and she is accredited in non-religious pastoral support by the British Humanist Association (BHA), with whom she is also an accredited funeral celebrant.

Except at St. Patrick's breakfasts where celebrants guzzle green orange juice and await the session - ending coronation of Irish - person - of - the - year in goofy

In his goodwill message, Osinbajo described the celebrant, Uche, as a model Christian, whose love for the country was not in doubIn his goodwill message, Osinbajo described the celebrant, Uche, as a model Christian, whose love for the country was not in doubin doubt.