Sentences with phrase «holy holy week»

I confessed my fears of motherhood (the comment section after that one is perhaps my favorite ever), my struggle to find identity in the Christian «industry,» my not - so - holy Holy Week, my mistakes, my questions, my April Fools jokes, my joys.

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People participate in a sawdust carpets contest during the celebration of the Holy Week in front of the cathedral in Leon, on April 10, 2017.
On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland.
Last week: Both Christians and Jews celebrate their most sacred holy days this week: Easter and Passover.
Those wanting to attend Easter and Holy Week services and activities on the USD campus can do so at The Immaculata Catholic Church.
«On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland,» Ingraham wrote on Twitter.
You might try saying something spiritually uplifting that is not praising yourself, in a roundabout way, especially during Holy Week — though nobody seems to know how to comment on it here in a constructive way.
The largely manufactured hysteria of the last months and weeks is now squeezing into a final few hours, and the prospect is certain: if Satan has been this angry, something very good and holy is about to happen.
Did you hear last week in your holy land they chopped a guys head off for sorcery?
Maybe there is no h.ell and atheists are in heaven, they just have to change little baby jesus» diapers every christmas for eternity and then clean up all the easter eggs the Monday after we celebrate a rabbit distributing eggs on a holy day, just like we celebrate shopping for five weeks before virgin mom drops the saviour.
Traditionally, Russian Orthodox believers have communed only three or four times a year, and sometimes only on Great Thursday of Holy Week.
It is Palm Sunday and here is the television guide for Holy Week.
These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.
Is it possible that the editors of the guide were not aware that it was Holy Week and Passover?
None of the programs was related to, and some of them were grossly antithetical to, what is represented by Holy Week.
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It was experiential religion, whether Catholic Holy Week liturgies in Rome, black Baptist call - and - response preaching and hymnody in Harlem, or Anabaptist communitarianism, that never failed to grab him.
However, I don't think that Christians should keep any day of the week holy.
Like Jesus, who agonized in prayer before facing the political and religious establishment of his day, it would pray for days and weeks for the transforming presence of the Holy Spirit before initiating a nonviolent campaign.
I was determined to present a little cross to everyone at church that night in honor of Palm Sunday and the commencement of Holy Week, so the two of us spent the afternoon painstakingly folding the six - inch leaves into tiny green crosses.
It's Holy Week in the Church calendar now.
I always long to bake bread during Holy Week, so this year, I just went ahead and did it.
Having just moved into the Diocese of Lancaster I wanted to attend this Holy Week's Chrism Mass, presided over by Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue.
It is during Holy Week that the stories of these women really shine.
I don't know how you are doing now or if you will ever see this, but I experienced two weeks of hell, mentally and spiritually, as a demon brought that blaspheming the Holy Spirit passage up in my mind and forced a cursing thought about the Holy Spirit into my mind over and over again.
It's Holy Week and anyone who's been crucified by Christians gets to look in the eye of their crucified Lord.
(The quote I've written above is from the Holy Week Readings of Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.)
To consider why this is so, let us go back to the very beginning, the institution of the Eucharist... Approximately two thousand years ago, Jesus had a roller - coaster Holy Week ride, which ultimately saw Him, through God's power, famously defeat sin and death, thereby providing us with the possibility of eternal life.
Lent leads to a set of powerful and paradoxical realities manifested in Holy Week and the paschal event: death and life, defeat and victory, crucifixion and resurrection.
Every morning, I read the stories of Holy Week, all over again, and every year, on this day, I reach that line: «Jesus knew that the time had come to leave this world to go to the Father.
Thinking of you all during Holy Week, and wishing you a blessed Easter with friends and family, and in the presence of the Risen Lord.
One year while serving as pastor of a congregation just outside Indianapolis, I met with a two - member worship committee to plan Holy Week and Easter services.
In a Good Friday article about Holy Week, NPR inaccurately described Easter as «the day celebrating the idea that Jesus did not die and go to hell or purgatory or...
Holy Week isn't perfect for the Church.
It is easy to dismiss the women of Holy Week, to say their presence at critical moments in the Easter story is inconsequential, holding no significance in modern - day conversations about gender equity in the Church.
Holy Week is being celebrated in thousands of churches with an excitement unknown for centuries.
Since then, with the exception of the holy month of Ramadan, the Muslim prisoners are allowed to gather only once a week.
After all the controversy of last week, it's tempting to turn this post into a discussion on gendered language around the Holy Spirit (feminine in Hebrew and Aramaic, typically neuter in Greek, masculine in this particular text), but that's just not how this passage is «singing» to me today, so instead I'd like to focus on Jesus» stirring and tender words in verse 18: «I will not leave you as orphans.»
Back in 2012, I wrote a post for Holy Week about Mary's experience during the crucifixion.
U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching on abortion is a human rights abuse, revealing a chasm between the Church's understanding of its mission and how U.N. officials perceive it.
The cathedral's Canon Treasurer, the Reverend Nick Papadopulos, said: «In Lent Christians remember the days when Jesus was driven into the wilderness; in Holy Week we remember his suffering at the hands of imperial power.
In this light Pope Benedict's use of the word «open» in its various grammatical forms throughout Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week, especially in reference to the new worship which Jesusinaugurates, is not without significance.
This is visually seen in the twelve depictions of Holy Week chronology found in the free Twilight Report on my website.
This week, The Liturgists released «Garden» — which combines music, prayer, poetry, and spoken word to create an honest and evocative liturgy around Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.
As we participate in Holy Week, I'm wondering if any of you feel the same way.
Mark Greaves has written an article for this week's Catholic Herald («Bishops insist on uniformity for Masses on Holy Days») in which he quotes «an official» from Ecclesia Deiwho dutifully says of traditionalists «They're obliged to keep to the Holy Days that have been agreed upon» but then goes on to say that there is «no problem» with them also celebrating them during the week
«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»
These and many other insights await the reader in Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week.
Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week addresses various issues significant for modern theology and the world today.
In sum, even without making explicit reference to liturgical orientation, Pope Benedict's study of the Holy Week mysteries provides evidence for and confirmation of his insistence upon the essential nature of the ad orientem position during the Eucharistic liturgy.
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