Sentences with phrase «holy act»
However, in the case, of the formally organized, local congregation, the congregation has a properly called person to administer such holy acts.
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There is no question that nursing is a supremely holy act.
A monastery of arches filled with monks» cells each with an arched door and a single arched window, and in each cell a single painting either of arches or in the shape of an arch, and inside each painting, people in holy acts of contemplation.
No one said that only holy acts or narrowly defined liturgical acts were proper before the altar, for the church was the center of life.
When the poor kid had finally finished explaining to me that «God's decrees are the wise, free, and holy acts of the counsel of his will, whereby, from all eternity, he has, for his own glory, unchangeably foreordained whatsoever comes to pass in time, especially concerning angels and men,» he was allowed to leave the table and watch Scooby Doo on TV.
I think our souls require some release: for wisdom, for perspective, for laughter, for tears, for even the holy act of hearing «I see you and I'm listening.»
Every action can be a holy act, if offered out of love for God.
The marriage vows said before God and consecrated within the bed chamber is a Holy act.
For confession is a holy act, which calls for a collected mind.
It feels like a holy act to lift one crying and cold baby up out of her darkness and hold her to my body, to still the cries of at least one soul.
God takes our rejection, rebellion, hatred and indifference that leads to a judicial murder and makes it a holy act.
One such an occasion is the office of Confession, the holy act for which preparation should be made in advance.
As a man changes his raiment for a feast, so is a man changed in his heart who prepares himself for the holy act of confession.
This silence is the simple festivity of the holy act of confession.
No, to confess is a holy act, for which purpose, the mind is collected in preparation.
From antiquity, marriage has been sanctioned by God as a holy act between man and woman.
Premarital sex reduces a holy act into a base, animalistic desire.
Sexual intercourse, when done properly, is a holy act.