Sentences with phrase «gift to the church»

The amount may also be given as a charitable gift to the church or similar organizations.
It is an essential gift to the Church in order to maintain the impact of the Incarnation, and the consequent unity in truth and charity.
He will be remember lovingly, for his legacy and his monumental gift to the Church of handing over the papacy when he knew he would not be able to meet the physical demands of the job.
All external signs of identity, all structures, associations, and programs, valuable or even essential as they may be, ultimately exist only to support and foster the deeper unity which is, in Christ, God's indefectible gift to his Church
Didn't God give gifts to the church, not according to ability or talent, but according to his Spirit?
The Petrine ministry can be experienced as God's gift to the church only to the extent that it develops new models corresponding to the new models of the church which it serves.
Life lived long enough and fully enough in the pastoral office gives rise to a way of seeing in depth and of creating new realities that is an indispensable gift to the church, to all who are members of it, and indeed to public life and to the world.
But surely another reason is the widespread perception among church people that gifts to church colleges are gifts to a generalized kind of «higher education» rather than a specific kind of «Christian higher education,» in which churches have some unique stake.
Hi personally I would like to give either O Church or Father Forgive as a parting gift to the Church I serve and will sooner or later transition from.
Perhaps Bonhoeffer's greatest gifts to the church is his book Life Together.
«The Pope has already himself said that he is in favour of celibacy and that celibacy has really, really, beautiful reasons practically and spiritually - why it's a gift to the Church, but he is responding to the needs that have been said in Brazil.»
This is God's gift to the church and, through the church, to the world, embodied at this moment in the liturgy.
- Christians Debate by Justin Lee — This book is a gift to the Church.
Their entire site is a gift to the Church.
It is a gift to the church, to be used in ways that build up the faithful.
Additionally, in one of his greatest gifts to the Church, he founded an eponymous pontifical institute (with several worldwide branches) devoted to the graduate study of marriage and the family.
Those who experienced the pontificate of Pope John XXIII will understand me when I say: it was easier in those years to speak of the Petrine ministry as God's gift to the church.
Enns begins with the assumption that «the Bible is ultimately from God and that it is God's gift to the church
I learned from direct, first - hand experience that Benedict XVI is truly a man of God, a gift to the Church and a shepherd after the heart of the Good Shepherd.
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