Sentences with phrase «exhortation called»

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.»

What we Catholics need to hear, what all of us need to hear from Pope Francis, is an exhortation calling attention to the artistic impoverishment of Holy Mother Church: to her hunger and thirst for justice and for what is beautiful.

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The result is this 270 - page formal letter, called an apostolic exhortation, addressed to bishops, priests, married couples, and lay people about «love in the family.»

Michael J. Perry, a leading legal scholar, argues that judicial review should serve the role of «prophecy,» calling us to a deeper understanding of ourselves through moral exhortation by the Supreme Court.

In «Evangelii Gaudium» (The Joy of the Gospel), officially known as an «apostolic exhortation,» Francis calls for church reforms, urges Catholics to be more bold and joyful, and castigates elements of modern capitalism.

We're calling our first podcast Quick to Listen — a reference, of course, to James's famous exhortation to be «be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry» (James 1:19).

In his third Apostolic Exhortation, called Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis also suggested that believers ought to care for the welfare of migrants as much as they are concerned about preventing abortion.

Clinical students, spending hours writing up a pastoral call so that it could be analyzed — and seeing the immense complexities in the person and relationship — were startled by the breezy minister from outside the hospital who rolled in, issued a few exhortations and a prayer, and departed happy that he had done his stint.

A great light of religion shone on the minds of the hearers of Peter, so that they were not satisfied with a single hearing or with the unwritten teaching of the divine proclamation, but with every kind of exhortation besought Mark, whose Gospel is extant, seeing that he was Peter's follower, to leave them a written statement of the teaching given them verbally, nor did they cease until they had persuaded him, and so became the cause of the Scripture called the Gospel According to Mark (49).

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

It is teaching, or exhortation (paraklesis), or it is what they called homilia, that is, the more or less informal discussion of various aspects of Christian life and thought, addressed to a congregation already established in the faith.

I can't escape the exhortations of joy, the call to joy, the prayer for joy, the yearning for joy in Scripture and in the Spirit and in the Christian tradition.

Pope John Paul II called for opposition to this omission in his 2003 apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Europa.

I am with an anglican church and they do allow women ministers and they preach.So if you are a women and God has put a calling on your life to preach then join a church that allows you to use that gift from what i understand exhortation prophesy and evangelism are topics that can be preached in any church by women and there no restrictions outside of church as in home group type situations.This is one of those situations that we may not agree on scripture but we still are one in Christ and to God be all the glory.brentnz

(Hebrews 5:8) The roll call of faith's martyred heroes, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, ends in an exhortation to the contemporary church (Hebrews, Chaps.

Positive or Negative: Perhaps some subdividing is called for here, since the positive messages can be words of encouragement, reassurance, or exhortation, while the negative ones can take the form of warning or blunt threat.

Look around at the calls to remove religious access for military personnel & exhortations to get rid of all religions, then tell me again just how intolerant the military was when they offered to let him opt out of the ceremony.

The Pope's address, called an «apostolic exhortation,» is part mission statement, part pep talk for the world's 1.5 billion Catholics.

The Kasper spin was then picked up by some of the usual media suspects, who called on the usual Catholic talking heads on the port side of the Barque of Peter, who took matters further by speculating that the apostolic exhortation would open up even more revolutionary paths, involving the Church's eventual acceptance of same - sex marriage and other matters on the LGBT agenda.

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.