Sentences with phrase «for synod»

3) What are your hopes for Synod 2015?

Soon the essential question for the synod was not «what is happening out there,» but rather «what is happening in here?»

«It is not, therefore a matter of debating doctrinal questions,» said Archbishop Bruno Forte, who will be the special secretary for the synod, «which have in any case been clarified by the magisterium.»

Speaking personally and not for the Synod he said, «The theme of the promised land can not be used as a basis to justify the return of the Jews to Israel and the expatriation of the Palestinians....

Let us ask for God's grace and mercy in preparation for the synod.

In his dialogue with the Pharisees about the legality of divorce, 5 Jesus offers a precious departure point for the synod participants.

Not exact matches

It's also worth mentioning that the Church of England approved marriages for divorcees with the General Synod Ruling of 2002.

The measures are part of an overhaul of canon law regarding how church leaders dress which is set for the upcoming General Synod meeting later this week.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

I will never forget the horror when I realized as an adult convert during the schism in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that, if it weren't for the protection of the civil government, there were people in that Church who would probably kill me for what I believed.

Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, by Mary Eberstadt (Ignatius Press): The Catholic Church is going to spend a lot of the next eighteen months wrestling with the crisis of marriage culture throughout the world, given the two Synods on the subject that Pope Francis has called for October 2014 and October 2015.

Even the dissidents in the ELCA are divided between denominational Lutherans and evangelical catholics, and the Missouri Synod, with its «biblical fundamentalism,» is not, for him, an option.

Evangelii gaudium, which followed a 2012 Synod of Bishops meeting on «The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith,» has long been seen as a sweeping statement of Francis's agenda.

So when some synods asked for help on the question of sexuality, the denomination complied.

The document will be used as a guideline for discussions at a synod, a meeting of top Catholic bishops convened by Pope Francis, to be held in Rome in October.

Just how that charge is to be exercised is nowhere indicated in the text, and the possibility remains, therefore, that outside the Latin church the jurisdiction will be exercised via the patriarchs and ruling synods of the Oriental churches — normally, by way of reaction, namely, in the event of patriarchs or ruling synods calling on the pope for mediation in some dispute («appellate» jurisdiction), and abnormally, in the pope taking some initiative to bring a matter to the attention of such patriarchs and synods.

Coming after the Extraordinary Synod on Marriage and the Family, and preceding this year's follow - up, it had a special appeal for many.

When pastors from our synod gathered with our national leaders after the September 11 tragedy, I told them that we had been ordained and baptized for this moment.

George Weigel makes this as one of the key ideas which the recent Synod on the family has thrown up for resolution.

In the Synod of Bishops that followed there were 87 votes cast for a position that would encourage the pope to allow the priestly ordination of «married men of mature age and proven life» (ibid p. 250 fn.52).

The preparatory document for the 2018 Synod on Young People ignores the many young Catholics today who are hungry for tradition and beauty.

It is true that Presbyterians held a different idea concerning the right of synods or Church assemblies to legislate for local churches and to ordain or examine ministerial candidates.

The essays were originally published in Lay Witness, the publication of Catholics United for the Faith, in anticipation of a forthcoming Synod of Bishops.

The synod agreed that the evils responsible for the recent catastrophes were such things as pride in heart and body, a spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.

As bishops» conferences from all over the world are electing their representatives for this year's synod, it becomes clearer that the conservative line will be upheld by a wide majority of the participants.

This insight, though commonly cited, including in the Instrumentum Laboris for the 2012 Synod on the new evangelisation, remains however somewhat nebulous.

Not by chance, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, underscored in an interview with the Italian weekly magazine La Settimana that the strong points of the last Synod of Bishops were the doctrinal framework, the Gospel of the Family, and the push for young people to receive an education about love.

This time, the Synod has made no provision for a fudge which would satisfy the Anglo - Catholics, who last time were given «fying bishops» — a provision enabling them to erect a church within a church.

Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia, who was Cardinal Bergoglio's auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, recounted shortly after Pope Francis's election that «at the end of the Jubilee Year, for which Cardinal Bergoglio had called a missionary year, we priests of the archdiocese asked Cardinal Bergoglio to call a synod in order to discuss how to harvest the fruits of our mission and draft guidelines.

Cardinal Walter Kasper is proposing that the Synod of Bishops on the Family consider relaxing the Catholic Church's discipline on who can present themselves for Holy Communion.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella is the president for the Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation, which Benedict XVI established in 2011, and was thus a key participant in the Synod on the same subject in October 2012.

Some months back, Americans found bewildered fascination in the story of John Emil List, a Missouri Synod Lutheran who, out of despair over his inability to provide for his family and concern over the state of their souls, killed his mother, wife, and three children.

That can happen, of course, but I'm not sure I ever knew a Missouri Synod Lutheran for whom it was a clear and present danger.

Assemblies and synods, on the other hand, are always asking what word they need to speak to the churches and to the world — as though there is some single, coherent message for everyone.

Growing up in the Missouri Synod I understood, with Augustine, that for all that we must give to life on earth, and for all that it can so richly give back, we have here no abiding city.

But he responded that a synod was good only for producing useless documents, while the only thing we need to do is to continue our missionary efforts and to remain in a state of permanent mission.»

In this regard the Lineamenti, or outline notes, for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the theme of the New Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord «will give his Spirit and provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in new ways which can speak to today's cultures».

The motion, backed by General Synod during a summit in York last July, recognised the «need for transgender people to be welcomed and affirmed in their parish church».

In a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»

An Instrumentum laboris (working paper) was prepared for the XIV Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops and published on June 23, 2015.

The Appeal sharply criticized paragraph 137 of the Instrumentum laboris for the upcoming Synod on the family.

Tietjen observes that «pastors who wanted to join [the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches] could not bring their congregations along because they had neither properly informed them about the events in the Missouri Synod nor adequately prepared them for the formation of a new church.»

The General Synod heard the ban was widely ignored which prompted calls for the Church law to be updated.

The vote happened Saturday at the General Synod, the three - times - a-year meeting that sets policies for the Church of England.

In response to the pervasive relativism in contemporary culture, and the form of relativism that is called religious syncretism in the dialogue between religions — a problem that came in for special attention at a recent Synod for Asia — CDF, with the Pope's express support, is reiterating the Church's faith that Jesus is, as he said of himself, the way, the truth, and the life.

She has been active in the national life of the Church of England, serving for many years on General Synod's Standing Committee, including sitting on the panel of chairmen.

If the product of their work is not taken seriously» as, for instance, an invaluable reference in a synod of bishops dedicated to a program of comprehensive reform» it may be a very, very long time before people of their quality will make a comparable effort to help the bishops with much of anything.

(The enaction of the recent synod in Rome has disappointed those who support a full role for women in the church.)

Similarly, Lindsell's historical analysis has some validity for the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, which took theological shape in a confessional reaction to the 19th century emergence of the «Evangelical United Front» — a reaction grounded in Lutheran scholasticism just as the Princeton theology was grounded in Reformed scholasticism.

But this was contrary to the Old Side orthodox view, which stressed the strict adherence to a confession of faith and argued that the presbytery, and ultimately a synod, determines the fitness of a man for the ministry on the basis of his education and doctrinal beliefs, and an external call from a congregation.