Sentences with phrase «figure of the priest»

It is here that we find mention of the mysterious figure of the priest - king of Salem, Melchizedek (Gen 14,18).

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The figures have prompted some to question the spiritual life of serving priests.

The witness also said he was touched inappropriately by a priest while an altar boy at the orphanage, and called on the Pope to take action against the abusive figures, adding he wanted to see the Sister of Charity disbanded.

Orthodox priests serve as guides along the path of life — and are not viewed as authority figures who are meant to be «holier than thou».

Anyone could be in the Court of Gentiles, and it was easy to figure out who could enter the Court of Women, but how could the priest stationed at the entrance to the Court of Israelite men keep out all those who were not Israelites?

To young priests and seminarians of the first decades of the 21st century, he is the hero figure of the later decades of the 20th, and as such a priest and bishop for the modern era whose style and message, insights and vision are a model for them to follow, as well as a saint whose intercession they seek and to whose influence many attribute their discernment of a call to the priesthood.

With rare exception, he is represented as a singular figure, functioning in the fashion of a judge, priest, or seer.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

In the second part of his article Fr Ross Campbell, assistant priest in Kirkintilloch, offers an insight into the challenging Mariology of one of the major figures of 20th - century theology.

Again, at the beginning, we have that mysterious figure Melchizedek, King of Salem, «priest of God Most High», with his offerings of bread and wine.

And, of course, you are so utterly clueless that you can't see the difference between asking someone to take off their baseball cap which they're wearing simply because they like wearing a baseball cap... and asking a woman to take off her faith - based scarf or an Amish man to shave his faith - based beard or a Sikh (which is * not * a Muslim faith) to take off his turban or a Catholic priest to take off his cross... well, if you can't figure out the difference yet, there's no hope for you.

We met in his office not far from the burial place of Bishop Frederick Baraga, a 19th - century missionary to the Ojibwa known as the «snowshoe priest» — a beloved figure among Indian people and the creator of the first Ojibwa dictionary.

@Nancy, the truth you speak of is only what your pastor, priest, or whichever other male figure of authority in your sect tells you what it is.

Many priests trained in the past 20 years have attended catechetical courses given by national figures using precisely Fr Purnell's approach where the Church teaching and liturgy are just the explication of what is going on in each person.

Ray — having been aided by Ken, who in the course of the movie quite unexpectedly emerges first as a priest - figure and then (logically) as a Christ - figure — has already exhibited evidence of his own moral and spiritual progress.

And the fact is that two Catholic priests, Gregor Mendel, O.S.A., and Georges Lemaitre, were pivotal figures in creating two of the most important scientific enterprises of the twenty - first century: modern genetics, which is giving humanity previously unimaginable powers over the human future; and modern cosmology, which is giving us glimpses of the universe in the first moments of its existence.

Returning to Cyprian, he then goes on to pick up the figure of Melchizedek of Salem from Genesis 14: 18 - 19a: «And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine, for he was a priest of God Most High and he blessed Abraham.»

Even when we think we have it all figured out, might we too change our minds, as did Queen Orual (at the end of her life), Queen of Glome «who was the most wise, just, valiant, fortunate and merciful of all the princes known in our parts of the world», as attested by Arnom, priest of Aphrodite.

im still trying to figure out if your a priest and defends them because of that or if your something much worse...

The two figures most highly ranked in the traditions of Judaism, Moses and Elijah, are remembered and recorded in the dual role of prophet - priest (Moses is a Levite [Exod.

After a few months of repeated failures, the students are invited to bring along their priests, ministers, rabbis, imams, and other religious authority figures to lead their prayers.

Silence, the haunting 1966 Shūsaku Endō novel of faith, apostasy, and martyrdom in seventeenth - century Japan, tells the story of a Jesuit priest, Sebastião Rodrigues, in search of a former mentor, Cristóvão Ferreira, an historical figure who apostatized after undergoing torture at the hands of the Tokugawa state.

(Besides Moses, two other dominant figures of relatively early times, Samuel and Elijah, combine in themselves marked qualities of priest as well as prophet.)

We in the West always make the mistake that we put in too little effort to figure out what real faith means — we are too materialistic, and that is the reason why always false priests, bishops and pastors (also on the Protestant side) mislead us, and can tell us idiotic strories of cheap grace or workrighteousness.

Very good points and I concur with your non-adoption of any religion — one day, maybe, the world will wake up and see all these religions for what they are — egotistical power players in the business of convincing people the «boogyman» is real and by giving them your goods, money, life — «they» will protect you from said boogyman — been going on forever since the first priest figured out that the boogyman was power.

If he were done with Jesus, he could get back to the story of his life the way it was originally written — with the high priest as the central religious figure, the true keeper of God.

This movie is like an examination of conscience, when you stay up all night trying to figure out a way to tell the priest: I know I done wrong, but, oh, Father, what else was I gonna do?

She's surrounded by people throughout most of the movie — brother - in - law Bobby Kennedy (Peter Sarsgaard), Social Secretary and close friend Nancy Tuckerman (Greta Gerwig), a priest (John Hurt) and Bill Walton (Richard E. Grant), to name a few important figures — but she's portrayed as deeply alone and hurting, and Larraín and Portman make that pain tangible.

Inspired by a priest's sermon, they decide to rid the city of «evil men» and begin staging elaborate slaughters of underworld figures.

He does nothing to pull you into the man's consciousness the way Robert Bresson did in «The Diary of a Country Priest,» with everything from the priest's handwriting, ink blotters that resembled Rorschach tests, tight shots of his cloaked, fragile figure and closeups of his anguished brow and burning eyes.

The priest is nothing but a stereotypical religious figure that tries to explain to Mia and John about how evil works, and Evelyn is the typical African - American harbinger of doom.

And why, after all these centuries, not to mention the 45 years or so since the filming of «The Exorcist,» doesn't the Prince of Darkness figure out a more priest - proof way of doing his dreadful deeds?

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good By Jan Karon Berkley • $ 16 • ISBN 9780425276211 The 10th installment of Karon's beloved series finds Father Tim back in Mitford, trying to figure out his place in the village since his retirement as parish priest.

The second figure associated with Uluwatu Temple was a priest from East Java by the name of Danghyang Nirartha.

The one on the left is of a typical heroic figure from one of the Hindu epics; the one on the right is a pedanda, a Brahmana priest.

Papety presents religious figures in a derogatory light; for Courbet, the rabbi and the priest in the Studio are personifications of self - satisfaction and hypocrisy.

On the mezzanine level are 87 watercolors: cartoon images of voluptuous women cheerfully engaging in all kinds of sexual activities often involving runty, priapic male figures and sometimes priests.

A clash and entwinement of ideologies and social institutions — church and state, military and revolutionaries, politicians and priests — is visualized through the amalgamation of numerous figures, some of whom carry Maasai and Zulu war shields.

They are collaborations between the artists who sculpt the figures, the priests who add the sacred materials to the containers on their stomachs, and the people in the landscape of conflict whose leaders add the metal protruding nails, that symbolized an agreement or the end of a dispute.

As a conjuror or priest - like figure, Byars often participated in his own exhibitions wearing a hat and black, red or gold suits, discussing the work with visitors or standing motionless as if he were part of living sculpture.

Kevin Trenberth, an advisory high priest of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and key «Climategate» scandal figure, wasted no time (or opportunity) to link the devastating 2004 U.S. hurricane season to man - made global warming.