Sentences with word «handmaid»

After graduation from high school, I joined the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary in Staten Island, New York, a community of teachers dedicated to serving Harlem's poor.

This ring is sold and dropped by shrine handmaid in untended graves, even if you have already purchased it from her.

You can bought it from the shrine handmaid in the firelink shrine for 1500 souls after acquiring the dream - chasers ashes.

We know the story focuses on a more - than - meets the eye handmaid who enlists an heiress, con man and pickpocket to do her devious bidding.

Preliminary rituals of Bible - reading (by the Commander to his household) preserve «bits of broken symbolism left over from the time before» (p. 60)-- bits that also appear on police vans (the Winged Eye), in uniforms (Handmaids wear red habits and stiff white blinders), in common speech (their standard farewell is «Under His Eye») and military orders (Guardians of the Faith watch everywhere, outranked by Angel forces).

Our story picks back up with main character June (called Offred under the Gilead regime — birth names are forbidden for Handmaids).

When we last left June, she was newly pregnant and had refused to stone fellow Handmaid Janine / Ofwarren, inspiring the other Handmaids to drop their stones in turn.

It kind of reminds me of what I imagine «the future» looks like, without the flying cars or robot handmaids.

Handmaids gather outside the Senate Lobby in support of the Reproductive Health Act and Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, (Matthew Hamilton / Times Union)

Standing outside the Beverly Hilton on Sunday were ten women dressed in red robes and white bonnets: The Hollywood Handmaids.

Moss followed up her 2017 dramatic actress Emmy win for her role as the titular handmaid Offred in Hulu's «The Handmaid's Tale» with this honor from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn..

Facing declining fertility they begin to employ handmaids, to let the ruling caste procreate.

The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order.

I am concerned that we will soon choose to engage only by electronic means or, heaven forbid, resemble in any way, a puritanical Handmaids Tale society of government regulation between men and women.

Handmaids of the Lord: Women Deacons in the Catholic Church by Jane Coll, Gracewing, 422pp including appendices and index, # 20.00

Even with such a sketchy picture of the methodology of liberation theology, it must be apparent that philosophy's role as handmaid to theology must come into question.

I also love the Santa Clarita Diet (its funny, but a bit gruesome), Handmaids Tale, and Jane The Virgin.

The video is garnished with darker shots of group hangings, Handmaids in training, and what appears to be the colonies, the ruined areas of North America where prisoners are sent to do often dangerous menial labor.

The cheap Wilkinson stick is good too, and I have a handmaid soap made by a Hungarian soapmaker.

Untethered viewing is coming to Hulu subscribers, as will a third season of «The Handmaids Tale» and a new series by Mindy Kaling.

At the Rachel and Leah Reeducation Center, «Aunts» armed with cattle prods and words from St. Paul have trained up the Handmaids in the way they should go, promising salvation through childbearing, under the threat of dismemberment and death.

She is not forced to say yes to the Angel Gabriel but was fully free to utter her «I am the handmaid of the Lord».

In this essay, I wish to briefly survey this harmonious relationship as perhaps the supreme example of reason at the service of revelation, or of philosophy as the handmaid to theology.

For those just joining us, Bruce Miller's television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's firebrand 1985 novel centers on the world of Gilead, a dystopian society where a Christian theocracy has forced fertile women into slavery as Handmaids.

Elected officials, Commanders, rape these Handmaids once a month (while their wives hold them down) until the Handmaid produces a healthy baby.

The regime divides and conquers, pushing the Handmaids into a gray moral territory in which they must evaluate the lives of the many versus the lives of the few.

Religion and myth should be its handmaids, opening the individual to the mysterious depths of human existence, as well as providing our culture with a shared vision of those things unseen which Davies believes are what largely govern us.

When I consider Mary's response, though, «Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word» (v. 38), along with her glorious song to God recorded in verses 46 - 52, I am reminded that a calling may feel like a burden and, indeed, sometimes may actually be a burden, but it is one of God's own choosing, which means that it is one that He works through to give us strength in spite of the circumstances.

In the Douay - Rheims translation, «And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word.»

But on the whole the most important function of knowledge was to serve as a handmaid to understanding and contemplation.

Even simple ordinary folk today put reason before faith, unlike before the «enlightenment» when theology was accepted as the «queen of sciences» and science its handmaid.

The Rosary begins with the trusting faith of Mary who, like the servants in the Gospel today, obey the Master: «Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.»

Thereupon R. Simeon wept and said: «The handmaid of my ancestor's house was found worthy of meeting an angel thrice [Hagar: Gen. 16], and I not even to meet him once.

We are referring to the step from a working hypothesis as a handmaid of research to an affirmation of faith.

38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.

And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

So she had to use a male servant (as per your bible and handmaids).

Either science has become the handmaid of technical progress — that is what it means to most people, even the educated; medicine, law, and history are then merely departments of technology.

We learn this information from the perspective of a handmaid played by Elizabeth Moss.

Mary, a teen girl, submitted herself as «the Lord's handmaid» to bring Christ the Savior into the world.

He then posed the following question: «What will it do with the signs of Ishmael, a handmaid's child cast away to make room for Isaac, the heir, the desert kingdom of Esau who had his birthright cheated away by the cunning Jacob, or the mission of Cyrus, the pagan king summoned by God to carry out his word which made it possible for Israel to go free?».