Sentences with phrase «instead of the priest»

Perhaps you should have gotten off your butt and said something about him instead of the priest.

But instead of priest, they are the good old boys protecting thier beloved football game instead of protecting little boys.

Consequently, those Protestants demonstrate themselves just as committed to the same things (it's just pastors instead of priests and two sacraments instead of seven).

Not exact matches

I think anyone that any Christian who looks at what Jesus message was said to be, and any other person who just looks at what the right thing to do for someone who needs comfort is, instead of focusing on absurd man made rituals, would see that the priest was very much at fault here.

I just saw the altar and the priest instead of facing the tabernacle was facing the people.

If people got priests that encouraged them to be more and more free instead of more and more guilty, the church may save itself yet.

Instead of accepting blame for the son of their most famous church member, George Romney, they slandered the priest.

Instead, it was a priest, teacher, parent, or friend who demonstrated the ideas and doctrines of our religion to us in a living way.

There followed a baffled silence at the other end of the line, and in the end they asked a priest in charge of the Shrine at Knock to engage with the humanist instead of me.

Seek your own path instead of having some preacher or priest tell you what your path MUST be.

Instead, why don't you teach your children to study hard and get a good education at a «real» college where they can learn «real» subjects like biology and astrophysics, instead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the unInstead, why don't you teach your children to study hard and get a good education at a «real» college where they can learn «real» subjects like biology and astrophysics, instead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the uninstead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the universe?

Likewise, evil is not exclusive to catholics priest therefore my point that instead of complaining about catholicism and bashing «catholics», we should all condemn pedophiles, regardless of who they are or their roles in their communitiies.

Then instead of attacking all Catholics in all of the ranting, attack the men who have committed these crimes, the boy scout leaders, teachers, coaches, next door neighbors as well as the priests, pastors and deacons of whatever church they are part of.

Instead it was me, the priest, four old ladies, one short reading, a lot of prayers I didn't understand, and a Communion that I happily had the inner wherewithal not to participate in.

Church today is like Jericho complaining that the Good Samaritan had shown up a day late and a dollar short while the priest and the Levite who'd left the victim on the roadside had done the proper thing by hurrying on to their destination instead of helping out.

Pope Francis has told off priests and bishops who take pictures during Mass instead of focusing their «hearts on God».

Instead, I'm looking across the Great Schism to read the Lenten reflections of Alexander Schmemann, an Orthodox priest and teacher well known for his prolific writing on the liturgy.

But other than that, they've become a den of sin — even their priests molest children, and they fell away from the teaching of Jesus and his apostles long ago, worshiping saints and images instead of the One to be worshiped and adored.

I realized something was wrong with religion at 13 when my questions to my pastor / priest / mullah / rabbi / reverend were met with control responses instead of anything that made sense.

Jesus would be appalled that the priests that molested kids were not in prison, and that people still supported the chuch instead of demanding change.

I think the world would be a better place if all the bible thumpers would actually read the books, instead of listening to preachers, ministers, priests, etc..

So God gave them a religion of priests and sacrifices and laws instead.

Daughters of priests who engaged in sexual relations outside of marriage were to be burned alive (Leviticus 21:9) When the home of Abraham's nephew Lot was surrounded by a mob of men from Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot refused to send out his guests to be raped but offered his virgin daughters instead, as they were more expendable.

Instead, we read of same - sex marriage, keeping divorced Catholics from Communion, abortion, and Humanae Vitae; of the marriage of priests, of whether there are «biological solutions» to left - right divisions in the Church, and whether stable second marriages should be called adulterous.

I recently told an Episcopal priest whom I was leading in spiritual direction that until he used the motivation of joy instead of guilt, he would never be able to stop smoking.

Instead, the intent of this notion is to depict humanity as the priest of creation.

The church needs to get its act together, let priest marry and starting practicing the word of God instead of just taking about it Sunday mornings to an ever declining group of church goers.

In the Church of England at the Reformation, the priest at his ordination was given a Bible instead of a paten and chalice.

Why is the church not ensuring these priest focus on what Jesus preached instead of being blinded the sin of Lust and the ways of the world?

These novels by McDermott and Hijuelos are meditations on sainthood in the same vein as Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, but instead of a protagonist as priest hunted by totalitarian thugs, they show us New Yorkers as unlikely saints: an advertising executive and a worker for Con Edison.

The danger is that these proposed reforms, instead of being debated on their own merits, may now be driven by seriously distorted media» generated assumptions about priests, bishops, and sexual abuse.»

Instead, if he wanted to remark on Catholic dogma, he should have completed an anatomically - correct photorealistic sculpture of a drooling, liver - spotted old priest struggling frantically to work his dried up half - rigid erect1on into the 4ss of a confused, frightened child.

«Instead, the report says, the abuse occurred because priests who were poorly prepared and monitored, and were under stress, landed amid the social and sexual turmoil of the 1960s and 70s.

Perhaps, then, instead of fleeing being alone, we might embrace our loneliness whether that be as single people, married couples, religious or priests who feel a certain discomfort in the world.

the pope and the majority of priests are guilty of converting boys to Homosexuality instead of guiding them to the real teachings of Jesus.

It's reasonable to say that he could defrock and excommunicate these priests instead of allowing them to be reassigned, but the difficulty is in determining whether every priest in all these cases are actually guilty.

That «god» actually put «his» fear of graven images and idols into the Ten Commandments pretty much proves that there was no god, but instead a very sharp marketeer «priest» who wanted to control his people and keep his job.

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.

She had to instead stay around the king's court to face charges of the priests against her faith.

He considered becoming a priest, but instead promoted all the boxing in Pittsburgh out of a seedy hotel office which people entered by stepping through the window.

For instance, when the whole «priests and pedophilia» media debacle happened, newspapers could not factually claim that priests are at an increased risk of being pedophiles (because the reverse is actually true), so instead, they would pair stories about priests with unrelated generic articles about pedophilia in the front page.

If the Church had done the right thing in the first place, instead of years of covering up criminal acts and protecting its priests, it never would have come to this point.»

Instead of cheap thrills, Schrader gives us a frightening vision of a good priest who fears goodness may not be enough.

Returning home, her family decides her illness is beyond the scope of physicians, and instead enlists spiritual treatment from their Catholic priest.

(Even the local priest isn't an intrusive moral force, making the character a no - nonsense realist instead of a filmic cliché.)

Several Hindu scholars had expressed their doubts about the leaflet, pointing out that any pawisik of such importance was usually bestowed on a sulinggih (high priest) instead of a layman.

Instead of forensic teams and detectives, Khura'in relies on priests and mediums to dispense justice, guided by their mystic teachings.

The game knows its story isn't the best around, with yet again another case of wasted villain (the hipster priest doesn't show up as much as he should), focusing on providing great gameplay instead.

Instead, the Catholic church stands as a beacon of pre-Enlightenment thought, secrecy, exclusion (no women priests, gays, or contraception), and corruption (child abuse, financial mismanagement)-- exactly the kinds of preferred targets of this secular era's artists, who by and large pride themselves on liberality, skepticism, and criticality.

The «real Catholic TV» even has a «shadow priest» instead of an actual priest.