Sentences with phrase «from public worship»

Apart from public worship in church or chapel, of which we shall speak separately, the most important times of private prayer are upon awaking, at bedtime, before meals, at irregular intervals through the day, and in a regular, uninterrupted, unhurried period which can be fixed for any convenient time but which ought not to be left to the mercy of circumstance.

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«Old English cirice, circe «church, public place of worship; Christians collectively,» from West Germanic * kirika (cf. Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche), probably [see note in OED] from Greek kyriake (oikia), kyriakon doma «Lord's (house),» from kyrios «ruler, lord,» from PIE root * keue - «to swell» - etymonline.com

Religious belief should live in the believers» hearts and houses of worship, and should be removed from the public square entirely.

It is a public worship expressing the full equality among Muslims gathered together from all over the world with a common objective — all performing the same actions, all seeking to gain God's favor.

At first they were subjected to all kinds of social restrictions, they were heated as outcastes and polluted persons, they were banned from showing themselves at the baths and market places and finally they were excluded from all public places, essentially places where they worshipped their gods, because they believed that the very presence of these outcastes violated the place of their gods.

Both Kavanagh and Jesuit theologian John Baldovin have shown how early Christian worship was a highly civic affair, just as the Church itself was from the beginning a public, urban institution.

«But this is the first time that the parietal bone is being moved away from the mainland for a public worship.»

It should be remembered that, years before, Neuhaus had almost single - handedly challenged the notion of the «naked public square» — the reduction of religious belief to private worship, surgically separated from the precincts of secular society.

After exerting influence on state affairs under Czarist rule, the church found itself overnight banished from public life, its property confiscated, its worship repressed, and its role in the educational system ended.

This does not of course assume that there are, in the apostolic tradition, clear and commanding directives concerning the form and content of public worship; it affirms, rather, that ways of worship which ignore or distort the liberating message of God's Christly action must be corrected from that central action.

A congregation of believers assembled for the public worship of God knows that it did not come into existence at that moment, knows that it is not alone, knows that what is happening is happening because something has happened from God's side.

Everyone knows that great numbers of these are totally dissociated from the influences of public worship.

Churches that pray for the specific needs of churches from other denominations in public worship and know the specific needs of other churches.

Members of one church in Florida not only led the fight to exclude three hemophiliac boys with AIDS from public school but also decided not to admit persons carrying the AIDS virus into Sunday school, worship or other church activities (Florida Baptist Witness, September 17, 1987).

They attend to scripture; struggle to discern the gospel's call and demand on them and their congregations in particular contexts; lead worship, preach and teach; respond to requests for help of all kinds from myriad people in need; live with children, youth and adults through life cycles marked by both great joy and profound sadness; and take responsibility for the unending work of running an organization with buildings, budgets, and public relations and personnel issues.

And I do hereby request all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

Such a restriction is an error, however; the Greek word from which «liturgy» comes is defined in the lexicon as meaning «a public work» — and all corporate worship is such a public work.

Yet, while exact statistics are lacking, by the end of the century the percentage of the population attending public worship, although larger than in Germany, appears to have declined from the level of the mid-century.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

When public worship moved from the house church to the large basilicas to accommodate the growing numbers of Christians, worship settings became much more grandiose and formal.

Malik al - Zahir held meetings with theologians for discussion of religious matters and the recital of the Qur» an, went to Friday public worship on foot, and from time to time went to war against the unbelievers in the interior regions.

Everything that our government promises — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear — everything starts with public safety.

De Blasio also reversed Bloomberg - era policy that banned churches from using public schools for regular Sunday worship at nominal cost — something mostly taken advantage of by the right - wing Christian fundamentalist «church planting» movement.

Following the tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, Public Advocate Tisch James is inviting faith leaders from across New York City to join her in a discussion about safety in local houses of worship.

Drug fueled addicted, pregnant, manslaughter, and homosexual actors and actresses were some of the things he kept hidden from the public eye, to keep their image as clean as possible for our worshiping needs.

Marijuana stores would have been prevented from locations within feet of a house of worship, public library, public or chartered elementary or secondary school, state licensed day care center or public playground.

Since their founding in 1994, KIPP public charter schools have won high praise from educators and politicians - some say bordering on worship - for their apparent success in helping poor children of color excel in school...

The call to worship blares out over Camp Delta's public - address system five times a day (the chaplain downloaded from the Internet recordings of it from Mecca and Medina), the only American government facility in the world, it seems, that does that.

Inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 speech, «Four Freedoms» (freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear), this project has presented public works from contemporary artists to inspire deeper political engagement for citizens who want to have a greater impact on the American political landscape.

Far from a rosy reimagining of America's pastimes, however, the show explores how Rockwell used these four 1943 paintings — which also include Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, and Freedom from Fear — provided a call to action in response to President Roosevelt's public entreaty to defend liberty and equality across the globe in the face of World War.

According to the directive, the concept of religion should in particular include the holding of theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, the participation in, or abstention from, formal worship in private or in public, either alone or in community with others, other religious acts or expressions of view, or forms of personal or communal conduct based on or mandated by any religious belief (art. 10).

The House held that the words could not apply to places used for religious worship from which the public was excluded.

The exemption from rates in para 11 of Sch 5 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (LGFA 1988) in respect of «place of public religious worship» can not apply to places used for religious worship from which the public is excluded; such exclusion is not discriminatory on religious grounds.

The American tradition, enshrined in the constitutions of 36 states including Florida for 140 years, is that tax dollars are to be used for public education, while churches and other houses of worship, provide religious education funded by tuition from parents and the generous donations of parishioners.