Sentences with phrase «faithful service to the church»

For twenty — five years he gave good and faithful service to his Church.

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«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.

And in a vibrant Church, the work of theologians serves as a gift and service to both the hierarchy and the faithful.

Though they were generally regular, faithful members of Catholic services (until the Reformation), they seem to have viewed the worldly Church establishment in its wealth and power as corrupt.

They did not submit to the terms of Stout's description, but they did suggest that their efforts to make their churches more faithful yields greater service to the world, rather than less.

The knighthood is in recognition of the faithful and devoted service Mr Leach has given to supporting the mission of the Catholic Church through publications and media communication.

Certainly, Conor O'Clery's jubilant crowing about «the few remaining faithful in this once Mass - going nation [setting out] out for midnight services on a freezing cold Christmas Eve» (as though even the weather was the bishops» fault), has more to do with his ownobvious animus against the Church than anything remotely to do with reality.

In «Scandal Time III,» Richard John Neuhaus expresses in several places his concern for a now — elderly priest who is «repentant» and has «rendered decades of faithful service without a hint of suspicion» that he «pose [s] a threat to children or anyone else,» because such a priest may now «be thrown out as an abuser,» not «welcomed as a forgiven sinner to the company of forgiven sinners that is the Church.»

Practical theology, emerging out of life in a faith community, is a doxological mode of reflection that, by placing itself within the context of the church's service to God, attempts to facilitate the goal of a faithful life in the present on behalf of God's future.

-- Our Catholic faith tells us that the God who invites us to be his partners commissions human beings for his service and entrusts them with responsibility for keeping the church faithful to the gospel and united in faith.

Some churches have embraced a business - oriented «the customer is always right» approach to worship that places individual comfort at the center of Sunday service, says Cherry, author of «Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services.»

Communication leaders in the mainline churches would be much more faithful to the demands of the gospel if they were to accept the limitations of the mass media, and then help other church leaders devise a total communication strategy for the churches in which mass media took its rightful place alongside worship services, group processes, retreats, occasions for fellowship, service, education and mission — in other words, as a part of the whole life and witness of the church.

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Abilene, TX About Blog Taking the time God has given us to practice the good work of theology in imaginative, faithful, and playful ways, in service to the church and the world.

Abilene, TX About Blog Taking the time God has given us to practice the good work of theology in imaginative, faithful, and playful ways, in service to the church and the world.