Sentences with phrase «in a cathedral built»

For example, I was too busy checking out the boy I had a crush on in my confirmation class to pay attention to the fact that I was taking my first communion in a cathedral built in the 11th century.

Clearly, the work of those aspiring to create a new norm for how humans define progress and relate to resources, both living and nonliving, is akin to the methodical, sustained work required in cathedral building.

Not exact matches

«This place is one big building site,» said Luca Dioletta, the owner of Bar Duomo in the L'Aquila's main square, dominated by the neoclassical cathedral which is one of few buildings not shrouded in protective tarpaulins.

In Silicon Valley the tight correlation between personal interactions, performance, and innovation is an article of faith, and innovators are building cathedrals reflecting this.

Some services took place publicly in Cathedral Square while the building was closed.

As in Holloway's image, when building a cathedral one storey can only be built upon the preceding one.

Becky Clark, the Church of England's, Director of Churches and Cathedrals, said in statement: «The challenges of caring for old and complex buildings are manifold and, like the rest of the heritage sector, we are facing increasing challenges in raising funds for repairs and maintenance.

Let's build a very large, Christian cathedral in Afghanistan.

To take what might seem a painfully obvious example, nobody proposes to build a road through the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan.

When one looks at the most beautiful or historically important buildings in the World, they tend to be religious monuments — the pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica, the great cathedrals of Europe, Spilt Blood and St. Isaacs in Saint Petersburg, the Greek and Roman temples, the Taj Mahal, the Wots of Asia, even the modern Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and the like.

Beautiful buildings in which to worship are not meant as gifts to the world but as offerings to God; offering not the mediocre but only the best, it is a material offering, just as we try to offer the best body (which is called by Him His temple) to Him, the difference being that He builds up in us the best temple in which to reside, Could more people have been fed with the money spent on building a church or a cathedral; maybe.

The Catholic cathedral in Zaithun was built and endowed by the wealthy wife of an American trader.

In 1793, secularists famously seized the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, to build a «Temple of Reason.&raquIn 1793, secularists famously seized the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, to build a «Temple of Reason.&raquin Paris, to build a «Temple of Reason.»

«The point of the building is to leave people feeling awestruck,» said the Rev. Michael Busch, rector of St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto.

Heavy rain was coming down when the crane fell around 10:55 a.m. in a parking lot adjacent to the cathedral, smashing cars and damaging another building on the grounds.

A banner with the Grenfell Heart will be displayed in the domed building, while the Ebony Steel Band, the Portobello Road Salvation Army Band, an Islamic girls» choir from the Al Sadiq and Al Zahra Schools, and the St Paul's Cathedral Choir will perform.

Our reflective and passionless revolutionaries have left all the buildings standing, the old flags flying, the Queen on her throne, the Bishops in their cathedrals.

Coventry Cathedral in England, which for all we know may have been built on the site of some Druid grove, still lies in ruin wrought by Nazi bombs of World War II.

And that means we'll have all the leisure we'll need to be appreciative enjoyers of French culture — sitting for example, for hours in cafes in squares graced by cathedrals that were built based on beliefs that no sensible person has anymore.

Today, in the former USSR, a great Catholic cathedral has been built in honour of Our Lady of Fatima in Kazakstan.

But as I sit in my office and stare out the window at the Lakewood Church palace to Joel Osteen... and think about the brand - new multi-million dollar Catholic Cathedral in downtown Houston... and think about the fact that the University of Houston is about to tear down their perfectly good 35,000 seat football stadium to build a brand new $ 100M 40,000 seat football stadium... I really wonder why those three projects all qualify as «Charity.»

in 1236 the cordoba mosque was recaptured and a christian cathedral was built on the site.

The community website LondonSE1 reported that Southwark Cathedral is undergoing to repairs to areas damaged when police forced their way in to search the building during their response to the events of Saturday night.

The cathedrals were built in the center of the population on the highest hill to dominate the countryside, just as the Christian faith dominated the culture.

Its confidence is reflected in the building of the great European cathedrals.

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, who built the Crystal Cathedral, was voted out by the church's board in recent weeks.

Wanis, a poet and songwriter who owns a multimedia company, noticed the historic grounds of St. Mark's Anglican Pro-Cathedral (a parish church used as a cathedral), built in 1839 in the village of El Menshaiya, were beautiful — and underutilized.

It was during this time that the Church developed scholasticism, built the Gothic cathedrals (with their stained - glass windows and monuments), created the universities and the hospitals, encouraged the sciences and technical progress, perfected international relations between states, abolished slavery, advanced social progress and raised the condition of women, in such a way that, in the fourteenth century, Europe had far surpassed all the other continents.

We seek for strength, for peace, for a path through the forest, but Christians are people who maybe more than for anything else seek for Christ, and from the shabbiest little jerry - built meeting house in the middle of nowhere to the greatest cathedrals, all churches everywhere were erected by people like us in the wild hope that in them, if nowhere else, the one we seek might finally somehow be found.

She was a devout Catholic and her last project was to raise money to build a new cathedral in Jeremie, Haiti, her hometown.

Members of the clergy and congregation of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, an Orthodox church located at 59 East 2nd Street, described the financial pressure that maintaining the building exactly in its current state would require.

The modifications, unveiled at a press briefing Thursday, would allow St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, and Central Synagogue, which together own millions of square feet in air - rights, to sell those rights to developers seeking to build skyscrapers not immediately adjacent to the religious buildings, a stipulation normally required by city law.

«If you go and visit Chartres cathedral in France, you'll realize that it took 150 years to build, and we don't know the names of the artisans who built it.

At the grand bishop's seat of Gardar, 35 kilometers away by boat from the modest farm at Tasilikulooq, grass grows around the ruins of a cathedral, the bishop's residence, and myriad other buildings probably built by stonemasons shipped in from Norway.

The world's northernmost Gothic Cathedral, Nidarosdomen, was built in Trondheim, with its first stones laid in 1070 over the grave of Olav Haraldsson.

I'm not only building a cathedral, I also building the house the pastor stays in.

We set off from Amman early in the morning... which was built on the site of the ruins of an old Byzantine Cathedral dating back to the 6th century.

Probably the most attractive building in Romny is the cathedral of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1735 in place of a wooden church.

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Amman Dating Sites We set off from Amman early in the morning... which was built on the site of the ruins of an old Byzantine Cathedral dating back to the 6th century.

Cologne Cathedral built in the Gothic style - note the soaring verticality and stained glass.

To add to the visual chaos, any scene that takes place in an old stone building — house, cathedral, or castle — is shot with two - thirds of the frame obscured.

6:00 pm — TCM — The Bishop's Wife Cary Grant is an angel sent to help Anglican bishop David Niven, but not in the way he expects — Niven wants to get a new cathedral built, but his single - minded drive is hurting his family and parish more than he realizes.

Skillfully wrapped in historical background, murder, intrigue, suspense, and a host of interesting and fully - formed characters, the building of a cathedral in a small English market town took on a fascination that I had not believed possible.

When Ken Follett published his massive novel «The Pillars of the Earth» some 21 years ago, my first reaction was one of misgiving - 1000 - pages - plus about building a cathedral in 12th century England?

«Songs, poems, chants, and rhymes, for example, made it possible for workmen in the Middle Ages to be organized to build great cathedrals.

• Almost midway, on two of the 19 piers, Father Peter built a chapel to honor Archbishop Thomas a Becket, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.

After he died in 1042 the Wessex line was re-established by Edward «The Confessor» (most famous for building parts of Westminster Cathedral).

This is the second book Follett has written about building cathedrals in England an life during the 14th century.

It is situated in a beautiful old building that is a short walk from the cathedral, and close to main avenues that connect to all areas of this vibrant city.