Sentences with phrase «embraced celibacy»

Pusey, of course, was and is an Anglo - Catholic institution and I was a member of its staff at the time, one of the few married clergymen it had ever employed, since it more or less embraced celibacy just as it more or less embraced many other Catholic practices.

Of course, the vast majority of Christians can not embrace celibacy and enter an actual Benedictine monastery.

a church that embraces Celibacy, but says molesting children is OK....

It was the Holy Spirit who gave her the grace to embrace celibacy while still so in love with her husband Eddie.

If we now have plenty of people to guarantee our survival as a race, and if lots more people may make that survival harder, then it's time to follow the lead of those clerics a little — not to embrace celibacy necessarily, but to love your child to pieces, and with whatever you have left to start working your way down the list.

I've enjoyed stepping back in time to dwell with the Shakers awhile to discover their odd ways of life, such as condemning marriage and embracing celibacy.

Not exact matches

Scattered references such as in Ignatius of Antioch suggest that some were embracing continence or celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom, following the Pauline encouragement, but that this was of their own free will.

Priestly celibacy is never just celibacy - it is chastity embraced for the sake of the Kingdom.

But he had sensed the call of Christ to priesthood, he knew celibacy was integral to that vocation, therefore it was his will to embrace it - wholeheartedly - because he wanted to imitate Jesus Christ.

The practical advantages were laid out, and of course we were told that it was all done for God, but one was left with the impression that celibacy was something you just had to do, and a bit like embracing an iron bar - rather cold.

For gays / lesbians who see their sexual orientation as incompatible with their faith, I think celibacy is a good option that should be more seriously embraced and celebrated by the Church.