Sentences with phrase «function of the priest»

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

The function of the priests is to blow their trumpets signaling the engagement in the battle with the enemy.

Another kind of position about the ministry, which now seems likely to be adopted to a certain extent by the Roman Catholic Church, is to create a group of subministers, who are permitted to perform nearly (but not quite) all the functions of the priest, but who will be trained much more quickly.

All of these functions of the priest have a common basis.

Not exact matches

Later the ephod, together with the Urim and Thummim, was sublimated and rationalized, becoming part of the priest's symbolical dress and no longer functioning as at first.

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

The sources of the authority of the pastoral ruler Gregory the Great describes are doubtless the same, but as his functions are differently ordered from those of the modern priest so also the bases of his power are mentioned in a different order and with a varying emphasis.

Second, one of the primary purposes of the citation of this psalm in the Letter to the Hebrews is to defend Yeshua's priestly role against the charge that he could not function as a priest because he was descended from Judah rather than Levi (Hebrews 7:11 — 17).

The priest, however, must exercise other functions besides administering the sacraments and institutional means can not empower him to fulfill these duties; hence he needs to practice spiritual discipline, cultivating all the Christian virtues; he also needs to study, for «how can he teach unless he himself possess knowledge» and have gained a «full grasp of the Catholic teaching on faith and morals?»

Islam does not have priests, for like Protestant Christianity it insists upon the universal priesthood of believers, but there are Imams, mullahs, ulemas, who perform many of the functions of ministers, teachers, leaders in Islam, and these must be trained in the knowledge and understanding of the Koran.

This became a part of the function of the specialized manual priest, leaving the more formal and public ritual utterances to the Hotri or sacrificing priest.

This is the meaning of certain comments on the monarchs found in our Books of Kings; it is in large part the viewpoint of the Chronicler; it is freely expressed in the chapters added to the prophecies of Ezekiel in which the function of «the prince» is little more than one of leadership in ritual under the priests.

There has been a tendency ever since to expect «the Christian home» to function as a source of spiritual formation, as the monastery had been the spiritual home for monks and priests.

I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.

On the other hand, we see little reason to doubt that Samuel did exercise a multiple function in Israel; that he did in fact combine in himself certain qualities of seer, priest, prophet and judge, consistent, to be sure, with his age and time; and that he performed substantially as represented the function of king - maker in early Israel.

So it was quite impossible for the engineers to understand what the priests were talking about, for the brick makers to share the architects» vision, for the philosophers to agree on the function of the tower and for the conservationists and poets to overcome their revulsion against such a monstrous desecration of the pastoral environment close to the shores of the Mediterranean.

(To defend the cult against the charge of sexism, I might add that some of its establishments also had male priests with similar functions.)

It is all one and the same gift: The animals get their food as he gives food to those who can hear his word and can offer him in return the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, functioning as priests on behalf of the whole creation.

Thus, against an «activist» interpretation of the work of the priest, Pope Francis offers the following tag: «unction, not function.»

Ambrose states his conviction as to the prophetic function of the bishop very well in a letter to Theodosius: «There is nothing in a priest so full of peril as regards God, or so base in the opinion of men, as not freely to declare what he thinks.»

For while this process was going on and presbyters were becoming priests in their own right, the primitively cultual bishops assumed more and more of the disciplinary functions of the presbyters and the magisterial functions of the teachers.

As of 2002, Aurelio was no longer functioning as a priest and lived out of state.

In that more sanitised film, Tom Wilkinson played Wilde's notorious nemesis, the Marquess of Queensbury, and funnily enough turns up with a small role here serving the exact opposite function: he's the Irish priest who forgivingly ministered on Wilde's death bed, while all his remaining well - wishers clustered around.

Following the development of specialization in various societies, these interventions were often conducted by particular members of a community — for example, a chief, priest, physician, and so on — usually as an ancillary function.