Sentences with word «exhortation»

Two recent documents from the Holy See — Pastores Gregis, the post-synod apostolic exhortation of Pope John Paul II, and the Directory for the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops from the Congregation for Bishops — vigorously affirm the value and necessity of national episcopal conferences while refining and clarifying their proper role.

For example, an apostolic exhortation of one pontificate does not possess more authority than an encyclical of a prior papacy.

Pope Francis's recent Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, Amoris Laetitia, represents an effort to combat this trend.

By noon on Tuesday, when polls opened in Ulster County, social media was filled with exhortations for voters to head to the polls, whether they were enrolled in a party or not.

Verbum Domini» [1] is the 2010 Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Benedict XVI following the 12th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops of October 2008.

Cairo (CNN)- Muslim - Christian sectarian violence intensified in Egypt this weekend, spurring an emergency meeting of the Cabinet and public exhortations from Coptic Christians for international protection.

Reviewing Whiteheads book in the New Republic (April 14), Margaret Talbot retorts that such moral exhortations for commitment will simply fall flat since they fly in the face of the American ideal of marriage as an enduringly affectional relationship.

Additionally, donors may see the propriety, in our indulgent culture, of exhortations by R&D professionals against selfishness and materialism, but they understand that development «education» that consists of popularized versions of dependency theory is not likely to be helpful - either for rich Western Christians or for their impoverished Third World brethren.

However the real process of character formation involves not merely an absorption of precepts, but also the general orientation of the soul in which the ethical life is integrated with «the good life» in its broadest sense, so that morality becomes a matter of aspiration as well as exhortation.

A few days ago, in the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Rocco Buttiglione entered the thorny debate over Pope Francis's post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.

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He hears in church a great many platitudes and familiar moral exhortations which do not move him much, with now and then a sermon which gives great comfort and support to the inner life.

Apostle Paul says it best with the following exhortation: «Be devoted to one another in love.

In this book I hope I may be nudging an ecumenical discussion or two to take function seriously, instead of making exhortations about diakonia and then discussing ministry in terms of status rather than function.

And did you try to address it through exhortation and evangelism?

Moll's exhortation comes at a propitious time.

Earlier this month, the conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh blasted the pontiff, calling his latest major writing, an apostolic exhortation called Evangelii Gaudium, «pure Marxism.»

Thus the final exhortation of Paul to his beloved community in Philippians 4:8: «Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.»

Pope Francis in his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, quotes his predecessor with approval.

One thing is clear: policy makers and practitioners seeking to increase the impact of parliamentary strengthening programmes don't need more exhortations to pay attention to context or facilitate local ownership.

As we await the Papal Exhortation following the recent Synod on «The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith» Dr Dudley Plunkett encourages a humble realism concerning the state of British «outreach».

Blessed Pope John Paul II welcomed this demand and committed the Holy See to prepare one in his post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio of 1981.

Despite formal exhortations like this, there's a growing feeling in the legal community that Groia has been treated unfairly, and that careful review of what actually happened shows his conduct was not egregious.

In his many exhortations on the subject, John Paul II has emphasized that more than anything else the martyrs are a sign of unity in Christ.

It means living lives in a faith community where the ethical exhortations of the apostle Paul shape both the individual and common life.

Why is it that we continue to flock to megachurches, eat hungrily from the hands of prosperity - gospel preachers and buy Christian - living books that aren't much more than humanistic doctrine camouflaged as biblical exhortation?

The Bible closely linksmany instructions about proper conduct - commandments, prohibitions, legal prescriptions, prophetic exhortations andaccusations, counsels of wisdom, and so forth - to the storiesconcerning the history of salvation.

Forget Abigail Adams» famous exhortation: Women in sales, clear and simple, outperform their male colleagues.

Although couched in terms of encouragement, Sandberg's exhortation contains more than a note of reproach.

That's the latest exhortation from Max Hollein, director of Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle.

As the following of the Pauline exhortation grew in enthusiasm, various other ideas were mixed in such as ritual purity and the Levitical code, and an associated interpretation of the periodic abstinence from sexual relations to be devoted to prayer (cf 1 Cor 7:5).

When a speaker failed to show up at a Sunday school convention, he undertook his first public exhortation — over 60 were converted.

In a nut shell: Perception or Prophet — very good at seeing what is right and wrong good and evil — think of the prophets in the bible Serving - people who work hard — what would we do without them Teaching - teachers and researchers who love to teach Exhortation - they inspire and motivate Giving - these people among other things are very good at making money Administration - very good leaders Compassion - lovers

The passage itself embodies a strongly christological thrust in the phrase «you did it to me,» which makes Jesus in some sense the referent of all the deeds of mercy done in the world.3 More importantly, Matthew attaches the pericope to a series of exhortations obviously intended to encourage the Christian community to persevere until the final judgment; 4 thus the deeds of mercy inculcated are direct responses to the Christian proclamation (7:794).

Unfortunately, this type of pious exhortation has almost no impact on behaviour, because our water is incredibly cheap: an average of 86 cents per thousand litres.

Exhortation typically calls for a change of behavior without offering the congregation a new metaphor by which to understand the world.

The head of Norway's intelligence police, Janne Kristiansen, told a Norwegian newspaper Monday that Breivik had «deliberately desisted from violent exhortations on the net.

But exhortation does tend to morph from an encouragement to holiness to a legalistic demand for holiness.

The best moments, in fact, consist of people rolling their eyes at the grieving mother in quiet exhortation for her to fucking shut up already — a nice reversal of the picture's intent for us to get a few rocks off at Becca's constant lashing out.

In his 2007 Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis, Pope Benedict XVI, «[t] aking into account ancient and venerable customs and the wishes expressed by the Synod Fathers, -LSB-...] asked the competent curial offices to study the possibility of moving the sign of peace to another place, such as before the presentation of the gifts at the altar» (Sacramentum Caritatis 49, note 150).

«Those are the sorts of impassioned exhortations suited to a Zuccotti Park soapbox, not a prosecutor's press conference,» the lawyers wrote.

The exhaustion is even greater in the face of endless exhortation to «act now or lose everything.»