Sentences with phrase «faithful women in the church»

None of this must be taken as detracting from the fine example of the many very wonderful and faithful women in the Church today.

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Yet «faithful Catholics» do in fact disagree about church teaching regarding contraception, the ordination of women, and the nature of the papacy, among other things.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

Repeatedly he argued that the introduction of women priests, the new prayer book and other changes in the Episcopal Church had taken it out of the mainstream of Episcopalianism; that in fact the schismatic group, by separating itself from all that «error,» is the faithful remnant.

I can understand Jesus appearing to the remaining 11 disciples, to the faithful women who followed him, and even to Paul all very practical appearances in terms of establishing the church and its mission.

Does such a critical, yet faithful, approach as that outlined above imply that only the expert can arrive at an adequate Biblical understanding of the role of women in the church and family?

In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary is a mysterious and awesome institution — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and turning out men and women in a highly specialized field — .In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary is a mysterious and awesome institution — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and turning out men and women in a highly specialized field — .in a highly specialized field — ...

There is indeed in baptism the assurance of forgiveness of sins to those who repent; but above all, and chiefly, there is the guarantee of spiritual strength to live as Christ's man or woman and the grafting of the new believer into the body of Christ's church, which is «the blessed company of all faithful people.»

Citing a mountain of statistical data that shows women are more inclined than men to remain faithful to their religious affiliation and participate regularly in communities of faith, some folks — like controversial West Coast pastor Mark Driscoll — have declared the situation a «crisis,» concluding that the Church has failed men by projecting a «Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ» instead of the true, «Ultimate Fighting Jesus.»

Despite the efforts of individual bishops, the church may also be criticized for turning a deaf ear to the expressions of pain and frustration voiced by faithful women, many of whom have no desire to be ordained, who are working as diocesan social action directors, parish - based directors of religious education, parish administrators, and in a host of other critical capacities.

Holy matrimony deals first with God and God's church, but it deals also with a particular woman and a particular man who come together «in the presence of God and these witnesses» to ask for our blessing to have sex, make a home together, conceive and nurture children, be faithful and ask forgiveness when unfaithful, disagree over the budget, argue over politics, and have sex.

Agreed: «don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...» Those who «show» their faith, whether through their profession (Pastor, Missionary) or pious works (church board, conference speaker), can only be assessed as more sincere if there is evidence they were religious / pious / faithful when no one was looking (Pope John Paul II never confirmed this, but as a young priest, it was reported he worked in the Polish underground to save many Jewish children from the Nazi's, years later, he was visiting Israel and a woman who claimed he was the priest who saved her from the Nazis stepped forward to meet him, he blessed her, yet never did confirm or deny if he had played the part of a hero).

I'm the kind of woman you like to be around with my friends and family say that I'm funny, caring, loving, good friend, compassionate, appasion, faithful, sensitive I attend church every Sunday I am woman that likes to help others in need and I love...

I am a single Christian women who is loving CAREING passionate loyal trusting faithful I do to church every SUNDAY AND WENESDAY NIGHTS I ALSO SIGN IN THE CHURCH CHORU I am al a homemaker as I cook the holiday meals for my family no one taught me how to cook at all I learned on my own also I am afchurch every SUNDAY AND WENESDAY NIGHTS I ALSO SIGN IN THE CHURCH CHORU I am al a homemaker as I cook the holiday meals for my family no one taught me how to cook at all I learned on my own also I am afCHURCH CHORU I am al a homemaker as I cook the holiday meals for my family no one taught me how to cook at all I learned on my own also I am affec...