Sentences with phrase «in pastoral work»

As part of his 10 years in pastoral work he frequently helped people with addiction problems and subsequently founded an alcohol and drug treatment center, which he directed for eight years.

The unique confluence of forces and influences that impinge on those who engage deeply and well in pastoral work shapes them powerfully, fostering a set of sensibilities, virtues and skills that characteristically belongs to good pastors.

Holloway, «Slim» to most of his friends, spent his whole life in pastoral work but also managed, despite many obstacles and difficulties, to single - mindedly leave a far - sighted and remarkable theological and philosophical legacy for this millennium, surely the millennium of the harmony of Science and Religion, in which Christ is seen as the Master of both.

Equally important, and somewhat related, is what the late Otis R. Rice, pioneer in pastoral work with alcoholics, called «remote preparation for counseling of alcoholics.»

In reality, there is a growing number of clergy who accept this teaching and are seeking to show it in its positive and life - giving fullness in their pastoral work: many of them have had the opportunity to be involved in movements which embrace the Church's teaching and / or have come into contact with Humanae Vitae for themselves and subsequent Magisterial teaching.

Immersed in pastoral work, with all the distractions, affections, and heartaches of parish life, he still set about the task of renewing and developing the framework of Catholic thought for the twentieth century and beyond.

They also have more time on their hands, so they're much more able to be involved in the pastoral work of the Church as they don't usually have the commitments that a husband and father, wife and mother, have with family and children.

This view has been prevalent in moral theology and indeed in pastoral work for well - nigh 600 years.

He spent fifty five years in pastoral work in many different parishes, wrote some magnificent theology and philosophy, helped many men to be priests, edited a magazine for twenty years, gave numerous retreats, talks and lectures, founded a youth movement and left a remarkable intellectual legacy.

But, unlike those clergy, the Mormon priesthood is occupied by part - time lay people with little formal training in pastoral work or counseling.

I am very much struck by the fact that it never occurred to me how extraordinarily helpful the psychoanalytic method might be in pastoral work.

In his pastoral work, he frequently encountered a strong sense of need among parents of sixth grade preadolescents.

under Queen Anne, may be considered as the provision of tools for the clergy, in their pastoral work.