Sentences with phrase «do pastoral work»

Under such conditions we are freed to do pastoral work that is not mainly about us and, say, our preaching.

So while I would do pastoral work anyway, I think it is important — especially as a community grows — to either pay a staff or step up to the plate and become an engaged community with all hands on deck.

Not exact matches

If our pastoral practice is driving people into despair, even to the point of taking their own lives, you don't have to be an Oxbridge ethics professor to work out that there is something wrong with the theology that informs it.

The dynamics of human development, of sexual relationships, and of interpersonal adjustment are now interpreted with insights which have not been available in the past, and we have discovered that much pastoral work has been done in ignorance of many factors which we need to understand.

The internist is equipped to treat the physiological problems and administer Antabuse; the psychologist is trained to do testing through which the alcoholic's therapeutic needs can be evaluated, and he may be trained to do research and psychotherapy; the psychiatrist, being a medical doctor like the internist, can prescribe medication, but his unique skills are in the area of individual and group therapy and their relationship to drug therapies; the social worker may be trained to help the alcoholic work through his marital and vocational problems and do group as well as individual therapy; the social worker may also work with spouses; the pastoral counselor is specially equipped by training to help the alcoholic with his «spiritual» problems as these relate to his sobriety and his interpersonal relationships; he may also be trained to do group and marital counseling; 40.

If you, as the pastor, used to do 90 % of the «ministry» functions of the church (however that is defined) during your 60 - 70 hours of work, but you can now only devote 10 - 15 hours per week to «pastoral work» (but see the point above), this means that someone else in the church is going to have to step up to the plate and fill in the gaps.

If in relatively normal circumstances there is too great a gap between the theoretical morality of the Church and what is actually practiced even by good Catholics, the Church will have to ask herself whether she has really done all that was necessary as far as the working out of her doctrine in pastoral practice is concerned.

We may begin, for example, with a certain tradition within the Church of England, in which the minister or priest performed his liturgical, homiletical, and pastoral duties, and perhaps even did spots of reading about them, but in which his serious continuing intellectual work along some particular line might have little or nothing to do with theology.

I have seen Christians in both academic and pastoral work attracting admirers who then progressively lose the power to distinguish between devotion to their human teacher and loyalty to their divine Lord, and I don't want anything of that kind to happen to me.

What we have to do in our preaching and pastoral counseling is to combine a Christian doctrine of providence with an understanding of the way in which God works consistently in his world through a natural sequence of events.

But as pastoral director he is to give guidance, encouragement, and leadership to a congregation of people who do the work of the Church, and who are seeking to live as committed Christians.

Speaking on Premier's «News Hour», Katrina Lee, who worked with Sister Philomene at the Catholic Diocese in Sydney said: «she did a lot of good work for the Archdiocese of Sydney in renewal and pastoral planning, as well as teaching at the school.

«Minimalist» seniors may let associates do a lion's share of the work, thus encouraging growth and pastoral maturity.

The institute describes the extensive program of enfoldment for those who do respond and join the Garden Grove Community Church: lay training for ministry, small - group work, pastoral care, involvement in mission, education.

While the everyday pastoral work must continue, the Faith apostolic vision pushes us to do more, to appeal to the mind in both youth and other work.

For it forms the background of the work I am currently trying to do in the recovery of the classical pastoral traditions.

They also have more time on their hands, so they're much more able to be involved in the pastoral work of the Church as they don't usually have the commitments that a husband and father, wife and mother, have with family and children.

Back in my youth, many eons ago, there was the theory that pastoral Hebrews simply did not like having to work at building projects, as was custom during the lean seasons, in exchange for food from Egyptian stores (remember the Joseph story?)

The task of the pastoral leader is not to do all of the work of the church; it is to engage all of the people in all of the work of the church.

In proposing this fresh presentation of classic moral truths in a delicate area of pastoral care, the Cracovian theologians drew on the pioneering work done by their archbishop, Karol Wojtyla, in Love and Responsibility — work that Wojtyla, as John Paul II, would later develop in the Theology of the Body.

If we do not see this, we will lack one of the main keys to understanding what happens in pastoral care, as well as miss some fundamental realities in the life and work of the Christian minister.

Even if one does not actually obstruct the Curia's work we would question how up - building it is to one's own faith (and how helpful it is to those who have been entrusted to our pastoral care) to greet every initiative or document coming out of the Curia with instant suspicion.

What we are here emphasizing is that the pastoral counselor does his work within the structure of the pastoral office.

At the very heart of pastoral ministry lies the good news of a power that is not our own, a labor that ultimately is not our work, a grace that is not of our own doing.

A competent linguist who had enjoyed a distinguished career in the Holy See's diplomatic service, he was also a man of pastoral sensibilities, having done a lot of youth work as a young priest and curialist.

The problem is he barely has a pastoral bone in his body and the parent / child analogy doesn't really work when you're dealing with grown ups.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

But even though I enjoy pastoral ministry, I don't think I could ever work 80 hours every week.

It recognized that the whole church is sent into mission and that all it does has to be seen as part of its calling - worship, parish life, diaconia, developmental work, pastoral work, catechetical instructions, interventions in political life, etc. 22

Laura, the author of the post, is a kind, witty and brilliant friend who is doing some of the hardest pastoral work there is and sometimes must lovingly serve others who would hate her.

However, chaplains with clinical training tend to define the bulk of their work in nontraditional areas such as pastoral visitation to patients, counseling patients, teaching in in - service programs, developing liaison with the community, conducting clergy training, performing administrative work, teaching religious classes, participating in research, working with volunteers, counseling employees, and doing religious group work.

Then the text moved on to a formidable list of reformanda: inadequate procedures for selection and training of priests, pastoral responsibilities allotted to those living elsewhere (Campeggio as Bishop of Salisbury would be an example — but Rome was full of such men who used a part of their salary to pay a vicar to look after their diocese while they did other more congenial work in Rome); the bequeathing of benefices in wills especially to the children of priests, pluralism, failure to correct those who make money by hearing confessions.

I wanted to know when my time and work here was done so that I could let go and pass the pastoral responsibilities on to someone more suitable to the task.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

The director, Gillian Armstrong, assembled a fine cast, and her cinematographer, Dion Beebe, does beautiful work with the pastoral French countrysides.

But I don't need that study, because I am witness to this experience in the many pastoral couples I have the privilege of working with.

(a) qualified members of other professions, such as physicians, social workers, lawyers, pastoral counselors, professional counselors licensed under Title 37, chapter 23, marriage and family therapists licensed under Title 37, chapter 37, or educators, from doing work of a psychological nature consistent with their training if they do not hold themselves out to the public by a title or description incorporating the words «psychology», «psychologist», «psychological», or «psychologic»;

I suspect that this has a lot to do with the fact that Catholic clergy, both religious and lay, undergo training in pastoral care that includes course work in social work and abuse counselling.