Sentences with phrase «for holy orders»

If one does not understand and can not interpret the meaning of a non-infallible teaching of the magisterium, given by Vatican II or in, say, an encyclical, one can not give the assent asked for in the Church's own Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelityrequired of candidates for Holy Orders and of others.

Throughout the eighteenth century, Newton was read by Cambridge men preparing for Holy Orders in the Church of England as part of their theological training.

Wesley Walker is a classical educator with Classical Conversations, a seminarian and a postulant for Holy Orders in the Anglican Church in North America.

Not exact matches

Data on users and their preferences and behavior is the Holy Grail for most advertisers, and the reality is that Google and Facebook have orders of magnitude more data than their nearest competitors, and more ways to slice and dice it.

One opinion that makes any sense to me, out of hundreds, that's sad both for muslim and christian civilization... why one has to turn to some farytales characters and holy books in order to live a normal, productive and moral life?

Should we not be wary that Muslims are just looking to weaken Israel's strongest ally in order to reclaim the Holy Land for themselves?

He has been telling me for years how he doesn't like «the order of service» as it orders Holy Spirit right out of church.

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

Searching for Sunday has provided ample opportunity for creative collaboration because the sacraments at the heart of the book — baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, anointing the sick, and marriage — are rich and complex and endlessly inspiring.

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

In Acts 2.38 we read that in order to receive the Holy Spirit we need to be baptized for the remission (aphesis) of our sins.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

At the behest of the Holy Father, Williams was inducted as a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory I in a special mass for Christian unity.

There is both a state church and an outlawed underground church, and there are many people who belong to both, moving back and forth between them «beneath the radar,» including an unknown number of bishops and priests, who receive their holy orders publicly for the state church and privately for the Church of Rome.

1 Timothy 3:5 means: «Of one wife»... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than once.

Jesus has borne ours sins when he died for us on the cross, he lives in order to sanctify us through the Holy Spirit.

In a pair of articles written some years ago («The Holy Trinity as a Community of Divine Persons,» Heythrop Journal 15 [1974], 166 -82,257-70), I endorsed the argument of the medieval theologian, Richard of Saint Victor, to the effect that two persons in love with one another need a third person whom they mutually love, precisely in order to achieve the fullness of love for one another.

Simply this, to hold fast to and in a completely new way to understand and practice the truth that God stands above all gods, and that the church in Volk and society has, under all circumstances, and over against the state, her own task, proclamation and order, determined for her in the Holy Scriptures.

At that time I said rather just what I had always tried to say, namely, that beside God we can have no other gods, that the Holy Spirit of the Scriptures is enough to guide the church in all truth, and that the grace of Jesus Christ is all - sufficient for the forgiveness of our sins and the ordering of our lives.

What you are saying might have some truth in it if we evolved; But since we were created by a thrice holy God, that told us about marrying, who: (marry whom you will, only in the Lord), and how: (Thou shalt not lay with mankind as with womankind), then in order to please him: (Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life...) we have to abstain from this.

I assayed many ways to help to quiet my conscience, but it would not be; for the concupiscence and lust of my flesh did always return, so that I could not rest, but was continually vexed with these thoughts: This or that sin thou hast committed: thou art infected with envy, with impatiency, and such other sins: therefore thou art entered into this holy order in vain, and all thy good works are unprofitable.

Bishop Munib Younan from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land told Premier's News Hour the violence is forcing Christians out of the region: «They are emigrating in order to secure a future for their children.

Thus, in order to entice Protestant laborers to the colony and in order to provide a safe haven for Catholics, he determined to pursue a policy of toleration toward all Christians who believed in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

In order to secure a future for the child, the voice of the holy intervenes in the night when the royal menace is at rest.

Before Paul instructs wives and husbands to «submit to one another out of reverence for Christ» (Ephesians 5:21), He encourages them to be filled with the Holy Spirit — as if to say, in order to pull this off, you're really going to need the Holy Spirit's help.

And it is in this context that I seek, trusting in the grace of God and in the power of the Holy Spirit, to examine three passages from the New Testament in order to frame my own principles for the environmental movement.

Just because the gospel writers had the order of a few things different (for example, when the disciples recieved the holy spirit... in the upper room..

And not just the nonhuman created order — even we ourselves, as Christians, who have received the advance gift of the Holy Spirit, are now groaning within ourselves, for we are also waiting — waiting for the transformation of our bodies and for the full experiencing of our adoption as God's children.

For now, pastors must make it clear that no one blesses children during the Communion procession except bishops, priests, and deacons, i.e., those in Holy Orders.

We do not need a priestly mediator, or special words, or a holy language, or a spiritual frenzy in order for God to pay attention to us.

When Pompey in 63 B. C. stormed Jerusalem, he forced his way into the Holy of Holies, much to the horror of the Jews, in order to see for himself what was the inmost secret of this unusual religion.

It is, rather, holy, austere, concerned for others in their total relationship to one other, to themselves, to God, and to the natural order in which they live.

As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee of any particular social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers of the «age to come,» the work of the living Christ, the influence of the Holy Spirit, the impact of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms of this world.

(CNN)- A federal judge ordered a Tennessee county to conduct a final inspection of a new mosque, clearing the way for worshippers to possibly begin using the building in time for the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Thursday.

``... (human) souls are depicted in the Holy Qur» an as having three main faculties: the mind or the intelligence, which is made for comprehending the truth; the will which is made for freedom of choice, and sentiment which is made for loving the good and the beautiful... God orders people to fear him as much as possible, to listen (and thus understand the truth); to obey (and thus to will the good) and to spend (and thus to exercise love and virtue).»

It is holy in that in principle it is different from the world at large, not in order to boast of its glory but in order to be an instrument of God for that world, showing the «fruit of the Spirit» in love, joy, peace, long - suffering, and the rest of the virtues to people who are walking in darkness and doubt.

Most of their colleagues don't want to get rid of Jesuits, nor do they covet holy orders for themselves.

The Knights Hospitallers of the Order of St.John in 1099 established in the Holy Land a hospital that could care for 2,000 patients.

And se.xual immorality is ANY se.xual act outside that of the prescribed order in Genesis — 1 man with 1 woman in holy matrimony for life.

I was a member for 25 years in a Church that was under the pastoral care of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists), a contemplative Religious Order that is faithful to the vision of its Founder, St. Alphonsus Liguori.

For example, in the fourth book of Father Paul Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent, you will find that in the year 1551 the Papal legates who presided over the Council ordered: «That the Divines ought to confirm their opinions with the holy Scripture, Traditions of the Apostles, sacred and approved Councils, and by the Constitutions and Authorities of the holy Fathers; that they ought to use brevity, and avoid superfluous and unprofitable questions, and perverse contentions....

There seems to be little to gain by speculating what Joseph thought about why he had to travel to Bethlehem for the census or if the Magi picked up their gifts in the market on the way over to the stable, in comparison to the great mystery of the Creator of the cosmos taking on human form in order to save us from the fires of Hell and restore us to how we were created to be, let alone «considering afresh the Holy Incarnation».

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

In safety borne away not to escape but to fulfill his destiny by dying in order to redeem those first holy innocents, and the innumerable others of history's Rachels weeping for children lost.

You know what orders we gave you, by the help of Jesus Christ: it is the will of God that you should be holy, that you should abstain from sexual immorality and learn, each of you, to keep his body in holiness and honor... not to overreach his fellow - Christian or to invade his rights... About family affection (within the Christian «family», the Church, he means) it is not necessary for me to write to you.

Having set out to assert distinctions within the unity of God in order to account for their beliefs about Jesus and the Holy Spirit, theologians then found it necessary to emphasize that they were still thinking in strictly monotheistic terms, not in the tritheistic fashion which has often characterized popular devotion with its half - concealed idea of what the late Bishop Pike used to call a «committee God».

His challenge is stark and stunning: Before ordering that the Gentiles be baptized Peter asks «Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?»

Probably Muhammad made - up the Koran, in order to unite the Arabic tribes or gangs for a war against the Holy Empire Byzantium.

It is up to the Christian communities to analyze with objectivity the situation which is proper to their own country, to shed on it the light of the gospel's unalterable words and to draw principles of the church... It is up to these Christian communities, with the help of the Holy Spirit, in communion with the bishops who hold responsibility and in dialogue with other Christian brethren and all men of good will, to discern the options and commitments which are called for in order to bring about the social, political and economic changes seen in many cases to be urgently needed.

On the other hand, some groups have been suspicious of Sabbatarianism so strict that it might seem legalistic («If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake, then I order you to work on it, to ride on it, to feast on it, to do anything to remove this reproach from Christian liberty,» Martin Luther declared) or have emphasized, like the Quakers, that all time is holy with God.