Sentences with phrase «in holy silence»

First the believers of the various religions listened to the Word of God in the various sacred scriptures of mankind and then in holy silence hearkened to the inner Word of God.

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For decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precept.

While I've learned a lot about introspection from my wife, I was intimidated by a communal hour of intentional silence in expectation of the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Holy Communion and Calvin are full of normal, struggling people who are rediscovering God in silence.

At Sunday services, silence does not focus on the holy meal as it does in the liturgy at Holy Communholy meal as it does in the liturgy at Holy CommunHoly Communion.

And I'll connect it to the ways that when we are in the struggle of our new births how we often withdraw from the strangers, from the bright lights, from the noise, from the unfamiliar or untrusted or untried, how the Spirit hovers over our darkness and causes new life to begin to rise from that place of silence and darkness, relentless, inexorably holy.

We could also use the liturgical tools of Holy Saturday where the disciples had to live with the reality of Jesus» death and the silence of God in the midst of it.

It is a powerful witness to the sacrality of the Liturgy to be in a crowded St. Peter's and experience the silence after Holy Communion.

Given that situation, it will seem natural (though infinitely sad) that we should maul the holy liturgy so rudely, that our new churches should be built smart and heartless, that we should chatter so brightly and forget silence, that we should carry on in general as though the following of Christ crucified had been restyled into an exciting gay adventure for getaway people.

It was unusually strong language for the Holy Father who also called for a moment of silence during his address to the crowds in St Peter's Square.

I can remember sitting right back there just a few rows from the back in worship when there was a time of silence, and all of a sudden I knew I was on holy ground — such a glow within me and around me as I became aware of the invisible presence of all those who have stood in this place and heard God's call, of all those who have made life - changing decisions right here.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.

Most prominent among these was a sacred meal of special kinds of food which the brothers ate, clad in holy garments, in perfect silence.

In fact, they used the term euphemism as a euphemism - meaning to keep a holy silence (that is to say, by speaking well by not speaking at all)!

The artists included in this section include an anonymous medieval wood carving from the 15th century to the hagiographic Catherine of Alexandria by Antonio Alonso Villamor (17th Century) to the contemporary «virgins» and «martyrs» by Elena Kovylina, Shirin Neshat, Charlie White, Simon Periton, Xan Medina, Nezaket Ekici, John Brophy, Carlos Aires, Djamel Tatah, Cristina Lucas, and Nicola Verlato; they all reveal in their work the shift from the biblical and idyllic image towards a more earthly woman that combats and questions in an active manner that which Carla Ricci defined as «the exegesis of silence» imposed by the holy writings.