Sentences with phrase «exhortations for»

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.

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.

But the common Christian believer may intuit the threat of the historical consciousness in something like this crude way; the perceived threat can not be conjured away by unsupported exhortations for the believer to accept the modern world view.

To such an audience, this appeal to the agricultural parables, have more to say than a mere exhortation for «trust in God's future.»

Eschewing the story's details, they invariably talk about «passing by on the other side», a reference for those with ears to hear, a decontextualized general moral exhortation for those without.

Several Assembly members who attended said Cuomo closed the breakfast with an exhortation for lawmakers to come back every two weeks.

The British artist Zoe Buckman erected a 43ft installation on Sunset Boulevard of a rotating, glowing white uterus with fibreglass boxing gloves in place of ovaries — an exhortation for female solidarity.

Education guru John Hattie captures this idea in his phrase «know thy impact,» an exhortation for teachers to track how much their students learn, and then use that information to inform their future practice.

Furthermore, the program has been shown to save the state money, advancing the constitutional exhortation for «efficiency.»

What an erudite, sapient specimen of exhortation for us all to excogitate.

Not exact matches

The francophone entrepreneur, who has signed his emails with the exhortation, «Go, Go, Go,» for years, has good reason to hustle.

With this guarantee, there was little incentive for these countries, beyond exhortation from other EURO countries, to control their deficits and debt or to implement structural changes in labor and product markets needed to make their economies competitive.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouFor the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spoufor union with her divine spouse.

Like, for example, the recent apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the meaning of which seems to have the College of Cardinals currently at odds.

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.

And if we could stick to our discipline for a few more weeks until then, he would like us to read Familiaris Consortio, the 1981 papal exhortation of St. John Paul II, our «pre-Cana,» as it were.

For all churches, large or small, my exhortation is to think biblically about how the church might make much of Jesus, multiply and grow disciples, and, ultimately, die and be forgotten.

What remains was already evident when we began our reflections on the text of the «secret»: the exhortation to prayer as the path of «salvation for souls» and, likewise, the summons to penance and conversion.»

In Romans 12 - 13, Paul's exhortation to suffer injustice without vengeance is rooted not only in hope for divine vengeance but in an expectation that wrongs will be avenged by civil powers.

The teaching of Christ in the gospels is full of exhortations to «works righteousness,» however inconvenient they may prove for certain established strains of Christian dogmatics, and the episode of the young ruler is wholly lacking in the sort of exegetical ambiguities that might allow for reassuring evasions of that sort.

Thanks for the admonishment, and exhortation....

But what we need today is a home and an inheritance, not exhortations to defend academic freedom (or other freedoms, for that matter).

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.

Buttressed by such a phalanx of support Leo XIII ended his encyclical with a ringing exhortation, «We exhort you, Venerable Brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defence and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences» [6] It was an exhortation that was welcomed and followed by many in the Church so that it has been written «We are accustomed to consider Saint Thomas, Thomism, and Aristotelianism as the predominant points of orientation and the most favourable to the Church.»

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.

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.

♦ Early in July, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia issued a set of guidelines for implementing Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation on marriage and family, Amoris Laetitia.

For wedding servers were exposed, time and again, to the prescribed «exhortation» the priest read to the couple before they pronounced their vows.

Now I would like to elaborate the larger rationale for such an exhortation.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

For Dillard these small adventures are as exemplary of freedom as Augustine's robbing the pear tree is of sin; indeed, they are Emersonian exhortations to «cobble up an original relation with the universe.»

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.

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.

One reason for such an exhortation is that Catholics and Anglicans both, each in their own way, have been and remain prone to alignments of interest with, frankly, evil powers.

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

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.

Now, perhaps we need exhortation to avoid scorning those who vote for Donald Trump.

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

For preaching of the gospel is a declaration before it is our exhortation.

I thought of these new Catholics, and their motivations for entering the Church, when reading Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, «The Joy of Love,» and particularly this sentence in paragraph 307: ««To show understanding in the face of exceptional situations never implies dimming the light of the fuller ideal, or proposing less than what Jesus offers to human beings.

And this great missionary zeal is evident in his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium: «I dream of a «missionary option», that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the evangelisation of today's world.»

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».

And this great missionary zeal is evident in his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium: «I dream of a «missionary option», that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the...

While I am grateful for Evan Lenow's exhortation to fellow Protestants to take seriously the Catholic Church's teaching on sexual morality, I was surprised that he fails to see the fundamental difference between natural family planning (NFP) and contraception.

I agree with Alan that Paul's exhortation in 2 Tim 2:15 is for Timothy to continue down the road he is already walking.

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.

So, the exhortation to Timothy — in the presence of those who live contrary to God's desire — is for the young man to do whatever it takes to continue down the path of the good news of Jesus Christ.

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.

Paul's exhortation to «glorify God in [our] bodies» is profoundly wise and profoundly Christian; appropriate care for the body's health and nourishment is responsible stewardship of creation.

While Paul's readers are most likely regenerate, Paul's exhortation implies that walking in darkness is a distinct possibility for believers.