Sentences with phrase «church at my mother»

We are doing a big mothers day lunch after church at my mother's house.

The connections across time of the physical space of the old Mt. Zion church where the South Carolina Black Convention was held in 1865 and the modern A.M.E. churches at Mother Emanuel and Mt. Zion in Charleston that I discussed in my prior post have led me to think about how the voices from that convention 150 years ago still speak to us.

Not exact matches

They are the church that pokes at the others that left this mother church, calling them heretics.

(CNN)-- CNN's Brooke Baldwin spoke to Barbara Johnson who says a priest denied her communion at her mother's funeral Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland because she is a lesbian.

Wasn't Lonnie the Mother's Day preacher when the Holy Spirit explosion occured at Wimber's church and the beginning of the Vineyard renewal movement was born?

At one point the protagonist, John, has a conversation with History in which History informs him that the Landlord (God) has sent «pictures» of Himself to many of the pagans in the land who live apart from Mother Kirk (The Church).

It is many of the Protestant churches who condemn abortion even when the life of the mother is at stake, while many Catholic bishops will condone abortion in that instance.

I heard it at a young age, and later in life when my mother died, father, brother who were Catholics and I was given money to donate to the church for a «mass».

«The roothas been sociological factors — as family breakdown has increased and children are split between their mothers and fathers at weekends, regular Church attendance is less consistent and is having an impact.

According to the grand jury report, Neill told the victim assistance coordinator that during his childhood, Gallagher discussed masturbation during confession; fondled him during outings in the priest's car, at the house of the priest's mother, upstairs in the rectory, in a utility room in the sacristy and in a loft in the church; and that the priest also hit the boy.

commercial acumen of their compatriots in business, church leaders employed special advertising for Mother's Day services in hopes of packing the house as at Christmas and Easter.

Sadly, I've also noticed that even at church most bullies learned their craft, as they say, «at their mothers knee», meaning that they watched their parents bully others.

Some see Mother's Day as at best an antiquated observance or at worst a patriarchal indulgence, evoking traditional ideals of motherhood and domesticity, when what the churches really need are new liturgies of gender equality and inclusion.

At times the churches explicitly joined Jarvis in her resistance; one writer in the Christian Advocate worried that Mother's Day was becoming but «a tool of commercial interests,» that the «spiritual values» of this festival of the Christian home were being obscured in an onslaught of «expensive gifts» and «falsely sentimental advertising.»

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.

The mother took shelter at United Church a day before she was supposed to return to her native land of Peru.

After suddenly losing my father - in - law to a tragic car accident and my mother - in - law just two years later, all in the midst of leaving the church my husband had been on staff at for ten years to move to a new church in a new town with new friends, I had let my overwhelming circumstances crowd my heart and mind.

At Fordham University in New York, a Catholic school, a proud mother of a grown gay son drew a standing ovation when she told a story about discovering the effect of church teachings on her child.

Three weeks later the young lady and her mother arrived at our church (after catching three buses) to thank the team that had prayed for her.

Her funeral was at Our Lady Help of Christians Church on 27 March and she was interred next to her mother in the churchyard of St Mary and St Eanswythe (a local Folkestone saint to whom Hazel had devotion), on a site where Christian worship has been offered since AD 630.

[12] and yet was eager and diligent to bring material support from the various budding Gentile churches that he planted to the mother church at Jerusalem.

The same one that I would refer that stole much of its materials from my holy Bible not of original thought at all even going as far as to acknowledge Jesus Christ, Mother Mary and Moses and claiming bolsterously to be the true church of the world?

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

Could the church and the secular society recover some sense of their constitutional obligations and care for unwanted children, or at least care for weary and harried mothers and fathers until they can renew the capacity to care?

Considered in this light, Mantel's mother's sins, which set Mantel at odds with the Church, may have been less important for her spiritual development than the loss of her father, which estranged her from God himself.

Although not willing to invest themselves personally, the «overseers» are happy to throw money at the plant — so long as it remains faithful to the likeness of the mother church.

I am not blind to my mother's behavior or those at the church.

Maria Furlough is a wife, a mother of five, head of a women's ministry at Lake Forest Church in Huntersville, North Carolina, and author of Breaking the Fear Cycle: How to Find Peace for Your Anxious Heart.

To settle the matter, the church at Antioch sent a delegation, headed by Paul and Barnabas, to the mother church in Jerusalem to ascertain from the apostles and elders the position of the church in the matter.

Here, more than in any testimony developed at the trial, was the mute evidence of the anguish caused by the rift in the church: «Green silk altar hangings given by Miss Winifred Walker in memory of her sister, Ruby Walker... Private communion service given by Mrs. Annie Rose Robertson Sprague in memory of her mother and her sisters... A dogwood planted on the front lawn in memory of Marie Gatling Payne...»

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

The pope explained it in terms of the fittingness that the Son of God should have such a mother, the Church's liturgical practice in celebrating the Feast of the Conception of Mary, and the teaching and practice of previous popes, which he reviews at some length.

If breast feeding is to be okay in public, and to be okay in a church (which I am fine with, as it is the most useful thing a church is for), then mothers should have absolutely no problem with people looking at them while they do it.

I remember being at a church in Virginia, and the only black woman was the maid of my friend's mother.

The church staff was on a retreat at his parents» mountain cabin, and Jim had come along with his mother and father to help.

This violent mental disposition took on its lifelong religious expression when, at age thirteen, Rossetti began attending Christ Church Albany Street with her mother Frances and her sister Maria.

His mother was descended from the famous nineteenth - century church historian, Karl von Hase, and his father, Karl Ludwig Bonhoeffer, was a noted physician and soon to be professor of psychiatry at the University of Berlin.

Because officials back at LDS Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, can't monitor what each member does, whether with good intentions or not, names slip through — names like Daniel Pearl, Mickey Mouse and Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother.

The gunman who killed 26 people at a Baptist church in Texas on Sunday sent threatening text messages to his mother - in - law before the rampage, authorities say.

Those Catholic spouses who found from their own experience that the Church's ban posed a serious threat to their own marriages — and often to a mother's physical and mental health — were forced to make choices that, either way, left them embittered toward the Church, or at least toward the hierarchy.

Teacher and mother Mel Currer from Waterbrook Church in Bristol recently spent a weekend at Lox Lane Encounter Centre in Gillingham, Dorset.

This is one of the reasons that more people attend churches at Christmas, Easter, and possibly Mother's Day.

First, the terror: A young man named Dylann Roof, armed with a.45 - caliber handgun, sat through almost an hour of the Wednesday night Bible study at Charleston, South Carolina's venerable «Mother Emanuel» AME Church.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

Celie can't resolve the conflict between her justified rage at the «father» who abuses her and the church that has taught her, «Bible say Honor father and mother no matter what.»

The need to give young people this apologetic, to give them a reason for believing in Christ, His infallible Church, His seven sacraments and His Blessed Mother, is so important that we repeat at least some outline of the apologetic at every one of our conferences.

And if you are a pastor of a church or are on the planning committee for a mission's conference, maybe this year, instead of inviting the overseas missionary to speak, you could invite up the mother who is raising her children at home.

However, all this, as we know, has had to be reconsidered by Christians, Mother Church included, once the geological and palaeontological sciences began to reveal the apparently immense age of the earth and the evidence that the biological species did not all come into existence at once exactly as they are today but by some kind of transformism.

During the school year she and her Anglo - Catholic mother, Barnard College professor Ursula Niebuhr; usually attended services at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, or St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University, or James Chapel at Union Seminary; occasionally they attended the East Harlem Protestant Parish or heard Harry Emerson Fosdick preach at Riverside Church.