Sentences with phrase «holy orders as»

We discussed the whys and whens of my loss of faith in the first place (I was raised a devout Catholic, at one point considered holy orders as my life's work).

What we need to defend is that which is essential; and that which is essential is the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, with its Scriptures, its sacraments, its life in Grace, its faith as witnessed by the Creeds, and its holy order as symbolized and continued in the Apostolic ministry.

Not exact matches

Ross sees the low liturgies of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical order or the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit, but not both.

But as that gap has narrowed and disappeared with the commodification of culture and our loss of a sense of the holy, art must become the void itself in order to re-establish the very idea of the sacred.

«Nothingness is order and can not be contained», «Nothingness, the Holy Spirit, better known as «Chaos» by the ancient Grecians».

If we want to go back to the Odyssee, so you're telling me that something holy and written as scripture has to say it is in order to make it true?

He has been telling me for years how he doesn't like «the order of service» as it orders Holy Spirit right out of church.

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

As we settle upon a state in life, some of us will receive holy orders or embark upon the sacrament of marriage.

Coll herself says that the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council saw the diaconate as part of the sacrament of Holy Orders but made no clear pronouncement on the character conferred by the sacrament (p237).

In order not to burden the church, Paul sacrificially earned his own income while preaching the gospel so as to model a righteous and holy life (2:10).

At the behest of the Holy Father, Williams was inducted as a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory I in a special mass for Christian unity.

On the other hand, however, it also becomes evident that the official order of prayer of the Church as a society must also be the prayer of the Church as the people of God in the Holy Spirit.

In a pair of articles written some years ago («The Holy Trinity as a Community of Divine Persons,» Heythrop Journal 15 [1974], 166 -82,257-70), I endorsed the argument of the medieval theologian, Richard of Saint Victor, to the effect that two persons in love with one another need a third person whom they mutually love, precisely in order to achieve the fullness of love for one another.

Christ's willingness to offer his life simply means a conception of the world as being so evil that the Holy One unconditionally had to die — unless he wanted to become a sinner or a mediocrity in order to become a success in the world.

What you are saying might have some truth in it if we evolved; But since we were created by a thrice holy God, that told us about marrying, who: (marry whom you will, only in the Lord), and how: (Thou shalt not lay with mankind as with womankind), then in order to please him: (Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life...) we have to abstain from this.

In order to do this the Messiah is, again as in Mark, Himself «anointed» with Holy Spirit.

First, we look to God as the one who is holy in Himself and in whose trinitarian communion we must participate in order to be holy.

Before Paul instructs wives and husbands to «submit to one another out of reverence for Christ» (Ephesians 5:21), He encourages them to be filled with the Holy Spirit — as if to say, in order to pull this off, you're really going to need the Holy Spirit's help.

But in the midst of our unpreparedness, even as we repent of our sins, the Church bears witness to that heavenly order of rejoicing in that Light which illumines every light: God is coming into the world, to make holy all the world in «the economy of the flesh,» as St. Cyril has it.

It's about your relationship with the one who died on the cross — and if you have a relationship with Him, as it says in the Bible, the Holy Spirit will convict you of what is right and wrong — but in order to have the Holy Spirit, you must seek the only one who is worth seeking.

You're still hung up on a simple explanation of Holy Orders that was given you as a child?

And not just the nonhuman created order — even we ourselves, as Christians, who have received the advance gift of the Holy Spirit, are now groaning within ourselves, for we are also waiting — waiting for the transformation of our bodies and for the full experiencing of our adoption as God's children.

As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee of any particular social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers of the «age to come,» the work of the living Christ, the influence of the Holy Spirit, the impact of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms of this world.

``... (human) souls are depicted in the Holy Qur» an as having three main faculties: the mind or the intelligence, which is made for comprehending the truth; the will which is made for freedom of choice, and sentiment which is made for loving the good and the beautiful... God orders people to fear him as much as possible, to listen (and thus understand the truth); to obey (and thus to will the good) and to spend (and thus to exercise love and virtue).»

Most of the rest of the chapter (John 6:30 - 64) tells of Jesus often speaking metaphorically AS the Holy Spirit in order to try to awaken his audience to being OF the Spirit, because he himself was living and being fully IN the Spirit.

Acts is transitional, and so we can not really take the «order of events» in baptism and the coming of the Holy Spirit as normative.

Of course, if someone is so close with God and Jesus as the apostles and many Christians in the 1st century were, that believer won't need the Bible in order «to hear» God speaking since he hears the Holy Spirit directly.

I suggest that a reading of scripture gives us the clues, that John was in fact the last Levitical priest whose task was to inaugurate the» handing over» of the priesthood to the new High Priest, in the new order of Melchizedek (as the writer of the Letter to Hebrews explains it) So Jesus came to John the Levite, John gave Jesus the ritual bath of the High Priest, then Jesus emerged from the bath not to be anointed with oil as the old Levites, but to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and then Jesus» distinction was announced to the people by the voice of God Himself.

Most of the students were in holy orders and theology was regarded as the «queen of the sciences».

Jesus, a new creation of the holy Spirit and as a result the divine Human Being is adopted by David's descendant Joseph in order to fulfill the promises made to Israel,»... and he called his name Jesus.»

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

And while making the point about God's gifts to us, she sees the sacramental message that is written into creation itself: «Food is and always will be a sign built into the order of creation, physical nourishment that illuminates and spiritual nourishment we receive in Holy Communion... the more we see food in that light — the more we see it as a perpetual sign of God's goodness and love — the more fully we can understand the Eucharist as a holy and tremendous sacrifice in which love and gift, grace and life are bound up together.&raHoly Communion... the more we see food in that light — the more we see it as a perpetual sign of God's goodness and love — the more fully we can understand the Eucharist as a holy and tremendous sacrifice in which love and gift, grace and life are bound up together.&raholy and tremendous sacrifice in which love and gift, grace and life are bound up together.»

His challenge is stark and stunning: Before ordering that the Gentiles be baptized Peter asks «Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?»

Throughout the eighteenth century, Newton was read by Cambridge men preparing for Holy Orders in the Church of England as part of their theological training.

As a brand - new and now thriving religious order, they have a specifc charism, centred on a sense of being called by the Holy Spirit to love the women and children they seek to serve.

Holding a lighted candle in his hand, Luther said aloud in front of the whole community: I, Brother Martin, do make profession and promise obedience to Almighty God, to Mary the Sacred Virgin, and to you, the prior of this cloister as representative of the general head of the order of Eremites of the holy bishop, St Augustine, and his rightful successors, to live until death without worldly possessions and in chastity according to the rule of St Augustine.»

There are many distinctions noted between the various Sufi orders — as to whether they observed seemliness or extravagance in their exercises, whether they were urban or rural, whether they tried to propagate the faith among non-Muslims or wandered about with no particular mission, whether they set up new dynasties dedicated to holy war or the extirpation of heresy, and the like.

As we have noted, Holy Scripture teaches that marriage, as ordered by God, is a mysterious sign of the union of Christ and the ChurcAs we have noted, Holy Scripture teaches that marriage, as ordered by God, is a mysterious sign of the union of Christ and the Churcas ordered by God, is a mysterious sign of the union of Christ and the Church.

We describe holy orders of Bishop, priest, and deacon as a sacrament.

Some Americans dreamed of missionary communities on the model of early medieval or Celtic missionary monasteries, but none of these survived as such — Bishop Ives» Order of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina, broke up, and the mission begun at Nashotah, Wisconsin, in 1842 continued only as a seminary.

However, several societies of clergy bound by rules which include vows of celibacy (usually not formally lifelong, but taken for a period with the expectation of renewal), have been founded, such as the Oblates of Mount Calvary in America, associated with the Order of the Holy Cross, and the recently organized Company of Mission Priests in England.21

Herein, in contrast to all other church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «as servant in the midst of the holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament apostles.»

I'm of the strong conviction that with preserverence, good intention, prayers, fairness and firmness of purpose in the pursuit of good deeds preserverence Allah swt will make us benefit from the rewards and blessings inherent in the Holy month I enjoin Muslim Ummah and scholars to pray and preach in order that all Muslims will in this month accord Ramadan as an important pillar of Islam with the needed devotion for the good of the religion, humanity and the society at large.

He advised all Muslims to strictly observe the injunctions of the Holy Quran as they pertain to their conduct and personal disposition during the holy month in order to benefit maximally from the fasting exercHoly Quran as they pertain to their conduct and personal disposition during the holy month in order to benefit maximally from the fasting exercholy month in order to benefit maximally from the fasting exercise.

«Where, therefore, the holy man of God refuses to review his decision to resign, CASER shall seek an order of court to compel him to remain as the general overseer.»

I accept that (supposedly) New Labour (would) like to «button hole» the entire, ECLECTIC, Conservative movement as «Toffs» and then some - working but not working class, well spoken but ashamed of it, of order and behavioural standards but «holier than thou», hypocritical, money grabbing, voracious and deceptive, inclusive (possibly) but divisive...

In order to give back to her community on top of her already noble contributions, Mrs. Figueroa can often be found at Holy Cross Church, contributing to their mission and volunteering as an adult Altar Server.

«The direct experimental proof of confined ultra-long linear carbon chains, which are more than an order of magnitude longer than the longest proven chains so far, can be seen as a promising step towards the final goal of unraveling the «holy grail» of carbon allotropes, carbyne,» explains the lead author, Lei Shi.