Sentences with phrase «consider ordination»

One of them, Padre Eric Cordingly, first challenged him to consider ordination in the Anglican Church.

Speaking to Premier Christianity, Rt Rev Mark Tanner, the Bishop of Berwick in Northumberland, called on those considering ordination to think about being trained in cities such as Durham, Liverpool and Leeds.

Not exact matches

In this regard, we must consider that the indelible character of baptism, confirmation, or priestly ordination does not disappear, either, when the Catholic who has received the sacrament distances himself from the Church or from his priestly commitments.

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They are encouraging women to prepare for and seek ordination, and they are trying to be open to considering women as well as men for positions of lay leadership.

The UUA is now considering a controversial report urging the full ordination of a second ministry, the ministry of education.

Ordination has been spiritualized if ministry in a congregation is considered the only, or the highest, form of Christian vocation.

Those who in conscience can not receive the sacramental ministry of women should not be excluded from being considered for ordination

Rejecting the recommendation of a task - force study that such ordination be allowed, the assembly voted instead that only repentant homosexuals who choose celibacy or seek a reorientation of their sexual desires should be considered as qualified candidates for ministry.

Conservative MP Chris Davies welcomed the progress the Church had made increasing female clergy members, but added: «What steps are the Church taking to ensure the diversity of those being considered for ordination better reflects the country as a whole?»

Post-Reformation issues such as papal infallibility, the Marian dogmas, ordination of women, and contraception are «tests of catholicity» precisely because they divide people who consider themselves part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.

We are all called to give generously: parents, in the efforts they put in for their children; young adults, in recognising that their bodies are «for the Lord» and should be considered as something holy; consecrated religious, in giving themselves in prayer out of a perfect love for God; and especially priests, who are told at their ordination that they must imitate what they celebrate at the altar.

The recommendation made by the United Church's Executive Council in 1973, if difficult to implement, is the appropriate stance: «It [the Executive Council] recommends to associations that in the instance of considering a stated homosexual's candidacy for ordination the issue should not be his / her homosexuality as such, but rather the candidate's total view of human sexuality and his / her understanding of the morality of its use.»

(Even when I still had my ordination, I considered myself a Pentebaptist, or a Bapticostal) But in fact, I never truly understood the Holy Spirit.

Or consider the divisive question of women's ordination.

The change, which opens up the possibility that people in same - sex relationships can be considered for ordination, is expected to take effect starting on July 10.

The Archdiocese of New York (where I consider it a privilege to be counted a member) has recently received some criticism for its low number of priestly ordinations this year.