Sentences with phrase «evening ritual of»

April 28, 2014 — A morning and evening ritual of Montmorency tart cherry juice may help you sleep better at night, suggests a new study presented today at the Experimental Biology 2014 meeting.

«A morning ritual of exercise and meditation and an evening ritual of meditation and quiet are the two bookends to a highly productive and rewarding day when done consistently.»

«A morning and evening ritual of tart cherry juice may help you sleep better at night... Researchers found that drinking tart cherry juice twice a day... helped increase sleep time by nearly 90 minutes.»

Both you and your baby will benefit from the evening ritual of going to sleep.

Its songs, its dedication, its piety, even its ritual of preparation for a demonstration, all are taken from the life of the Negro Churches.

That is why the Psalms dominate even the ritual of the Christian churches.

Not exact matches

Its chief executive even skipped the usual New York Stock Exchange ritual of ringing the opening bell.

Its CEO is even skipping the usual New York Stock Exchange ritual of ringing the opening bell.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Ceremony and ritual are important to people of all faiths, even none at all.

Even his earliest Episcopalian churches are characterized by a faithful transcription of the then controversial catholic principles of the Oxford movement» prominent altars, side - aisles, and a cruciform plan all underpinned by a profound understanding of the spirituality of religious ritual.

As in liberal Protestantism, the Father was Good; the Son, being human, even better and more philanthropic (well, the Jews and Muslims dropped this bit); and keeping God's commands involved less tradition or ritual and more love of our fellow - men, all men being sons of the one Father.

Even so, Schickel has been criticized in the past for abetting liberalism via relativism and lack of commitment, an argument he counters by appealing to the distinction between doctrine, which is permanent, and discipline (ritual, language, and arts), which changes with the times.

In the article even in the Mormans there are Mormans that are not good enough or spiritual to be presence in some of their rituals.

Initiates, after a lengthy period of preparation, would enter into communion with the Church during an evening ritual replete with natural and biblical symbols.

Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»

Even when we disagree on the nature of deity, Pagans generally use the same type of language during ritual.

Even Muslims who are not in a state of ritual cleanliness can not enter Mecca.

The atheist is there to point out the fact that christians did not create ANY of their practices or rituals, not even christmas.

«The most positive effect of the Pope's visit was one that even the BBC could not prevent - and that was the public display of Roman Catholic ritual at its most gorgeous and replete,» wrote British philosopher Roger Scruton perceptively.

The narratives of the Bible report those acts for the same purpose and even prescribe ritual events for the telling and retelling of the sacred stories.

The redemption of the festivals shows that God can redeem holidays and rituals for His own honor and glory, and that even as His people, He still wants us to enjoy life with parties, laughter, and celebrations.

Preaching is the creation of a finite form (sermon) that is brought to the assembly in order to be broken by a holy God who is radically other than festival, ceremony, or even ritual performance.

Even now initiates are preparing for their winter dancing rituals in the centuries - old secret Seyouwin societies that flourish on the western coasts of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

The tradition of using a tiny bit of bread and wine (or juice) has continued to be practiced, even though it does not even come close to what was practiced by Jesus and His apostles on the night He was betrayed, and reflects instead some sort of magical ceremony where some people believe that God is giving them special grace and power through the ritual elements of bread and wine.

Emblazoned on that rec room wall is a quote from Stanley Hauerwas: «The work of Jesus was not a new set of ideals or principles for reforming or even revolutionizing society, but the establishment of a new community, a people that embodied forgiveness, sharing and self - sacrificing love in its rituals and discipline.

I can't even begin to express how happy I am that these types of silly religious rituals mean absolutely nothing to me.

Cf. Jürgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), pp. 269 - 270: «The weekly Sabbath is not merely ritual and symbol but an anticipation of the shalom, even if it is on the «exceptional day.»

Just as he did in Earthly Powers, Burleigh's new book shows how the over-politicized state, having failed to wipe out Christianity, became insanely jealous of it, eventually trying to appropriate its power and even adopting its rituals and rites to produce new, secularized religions, reproducing in reverse the dogmatism they rejected but without any biblical restraints.

When I look around I see people conforming to the definitions and rituals of the world (even in church).

It is much too long and involved to include here — even a detailed description of the sacrifice, much less of the ritual associated with it.

The details of these myths and the accompanying ritual differed from country to country, and even from city to city, but certain motifs became dominant and chief among these was the concern with life and death.

They have been only too successful in their iconoclastic projects and to such an extent that they have had to allow the return of ritual and the pseudo-sacramental through the back door, even if it is empty and meaningless.

The Mevlevis argued in favor of the ritual dance that dancing and rejoicing is common to all living beings; even animals jump, run, and play when they are happy.

«Symbols, rituals, traditions and presentation» and even «the time and energy we would invest in the construction, protection and perpetuation», if done to show Christ to a broken lost world — instead of for the mask — is a good and godly thing.

Even the most spontaneous people have rituals, big and small, woven into the structure of their life.

Most strikingly, however, it prescribes with the ritual requirements for meeting the restrictions created by Yahweh's holiness an even higher moral, social and ethical demand than is found in either of the other codes.

As a code, it is even more heterogeneous than the Book of Covenant or Deuteronomy; and much more than either of the other two, it of course strongly emphasizes ritual law.

What we have seen throughout this survey of Scriptures on baptism is that water baptism was a symbolic ritual in biblical times which everybody understood, even those who were not followers of Jesus.

Even as they complained about his leadership, Cox was off into new territories, raising respectful questions about the necessary role of play, ritual, and imagination, questions about the undeniable strength of the popular devotions of stubborn peasants — in Latin America under the traditional power of the landlords, and among the shipbuilders and electricians of Poland, who had the foot of communism on their necks.

They have history in their walls, a majestical vibe that spreads, they have witnessed rituals many of inhumane nature that makes me even question more who we are as a specie, would a g - d really want cruelty and violence inside those holy walls?

But if we are true to these rituals we will know that they do not teach us to rule others as others might rule us, but rather to witness to the truth even as we know it will be rejected, by thought police and many others, of any generation.

Because when you get a bunch of people together for a specific purpose, having organization and even rituals are practical necessities.

Even if you take Science out of equation, Rituals, Robes, Candles, and Praying??? come on its common sense that can not do anything, its as barbaric as thinking a rain - dance will work.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

Even at the level of tribal religious rituals, which Whitehead compares with the co-actions in animal herd behavior, a process of abstraction can be discerned which augments solitariness and world - consciousness.

Discard completely the permanently stained, but save for next week's pre-wash treatment your favorite ways to wear the dirt you're drawn to even on wash day, even mid-cycle of such necessary ritual cleansings.

The basic religious instruction also includes instruction in ritual purification and in performance of the salat, the daily ritual prayers, and in the proper way to formulate the intention to fast the following day, an intention which should be expressed every evening during the month of Ramadan.

For many it means depriving yourself of something; for some it evokes the ritual slaying of some animal or even of a human being.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.