Sentences with phrase «kind of priest»

He is the kind of priest who makes house calls, and he is also the type who knows that spiritual guidance can only go so far.

I said but what kind of a priest am I?

Not exact matches

«It's kind of like getting sex education advice from your priest.»

This young man was simply following the gospel and a kind word of warning from his priest which was - «There is no way you are going to wrestle and mount this young lady in compromising positions in a tight High School uniform before I do, get in line sonny!»

In the Texas case, plaintiff's lawyers are going for multimillions in damages, and to get that kind of money are claiming that not only the diocese but the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and its operating arm, the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), are liable for not properly supervising the priests in question.

The willingness to use the «abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus» (to borrow from Jefferson) takes a «different» kind of personal morals than I am equipped with.

(n. 29) «Therefore, the priest's life ought to radiate this spousal character which demands that he be a witness to Christ's spousal love, and thus be capable of loving people with a heart which is new, generous and pure, with genuine self - detachment, with full, constant and faithful dedication and at the same time with a kind of «divine jealousy» (cf. 2 Cor 11:2)-- and even with a kind of maternal tenderness, capable of bearing the «pangs of birth» until «Christ be formed» in thefaithful (cf. Gal 4:19).

So many kind - hearted and compassionate priests tried to change our minds, even to the extent of giving us an article penned by the Canadian Bishops refuting it.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

(Cf. I Samuel 14:33 - 35) There was no order of hereditary priests, and the sacrifices, long after the settlement in Canaan, were apparently few in kind and simple in observance principally the peace - offering, where the fat and blood were given to Yahweh and the people feasted on the flesh, and the burnt - offering, where the whole animal was burned upon the altar.

This kind of thing gets covered up everyday, and not because we're all catholic priests.

Second, I believe the early Protestants should have had no objection to priest and people kneeling before some kind of table, provided the table or even «altar» is understood in terms of commemoration and communion and thanksgiving and not as a symbol of pretentious repetition.

If such a person were asked whether he were a theologian, he could reply, «I am a priest, and also a kind of mathematician.»

Volf believes that classical Catholic and Orthodox theologians have harnessed their trinitarian views to a certain kind of ecclesiology, resulting in two ecclesial practices that Volf finds unacceptable and potentially repressive: the exclusive and indispensable sacerdotal office of the bishop or priest and the disqualification of laity in the «order of salvation.»

The customers were always shocked to find out he was a atheist.They all thought he was some kind of guru or high priest.

In 2011, 125 priests were dismissed from ministry by the Vatican because of accusations they had sexually abused children, Scicluna told CNN on Friday, citing the «Activity of the Holy See,» a kind of Vatican yearbook.

The ministry of today and tomorrow must indeed represent all the kinds of authority associated with the office in the past — institutional, teaching or Scriptural, communal and spiritual; but as institutional authority was central in the priest's office and Scriptural in the preacher's so communal authority becomes of greatest importance to the pastoral director.

We also learn that evildoing ideologues especially want to win control over the moment of death — purging it of wives and priests and anything else that would compromise a kind of fake Socratic nobility.

This is kind of what they did with pedophile priests, told them it was a no - no and let them go their way.

Another kind of position about the ministry, which now seems likely to be adopted to a certain extent by the Roman Catholic Church, is to create a group of subministers, who are permitted to perform nearly (but not quite) all the functions of the priest, but who will be trained much more quickly.

All kinds of homily services cropped up, some offering «hints» and «helps,» and others selling complete texts that are sometimes read by priests verbatim.

They interpreted Vatican II as a kind of «palace revolution» in which the bishops put limits on the papacy, decentralized the Church, and transferred to the laity many powers formerly reserved to priests.

We take him to be some kind of a prankster, because his use of oil and wine seems to be a spoof of the actions of the priest in worship at the temple.

There's a line, again from the Gospel of Luke, that I've revisited many times in my life as a priest because it speaks to the kind of disciples we need to be.

The first way is expressed by the apostate priest Cristóvão Ferreira, who applies a kind of scholastic logic to Japanese Christianity: The swamp of Japan has caused the root of Christianity to decay and rot, turning it into something else.

I give thanks to all those that are escaping the chains of organized religions, you do not need a temple, church, priest, imam, deity, etc. of any kind to enjoy the wonders of our earth and universe.

All the Reformers were of one mind in wanting to abandon the implications of the sometimes hysterical piety of the faithful towards the «Blessed Sacrament», marvelling at a kind of almost horrific miracle in the «transubstantiation» which occurred, as it were automatically, when the correct words and gestures proceeded from a properly ordained priest.

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.

I have a friend that met her husband on match.com and when they met with their priest about their wedding he asked them how they met and they kind of just looked at each other and the priest was all, «It's okay if you met at a bar.»

What George Clooney Does: Stares glumly, stares glumly, stares glumly, shoots this guy, shoots the lady he just had sex with, drives and stares glumly, meets contacts, makes a gun, talks on the phone to the boss he no longer trusts, stares glumly, makes another gun, talks some, meets a lady assassin who's even more cold - blooded than he is, stares glumly, gets kind of turned on when he shoots his gun in the lady assassin's direction and she doesn't even flinch, talks to a priest, stares glumly at the priest.

When Jonah returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent family, Sara enlists the aid of enigmatic priest Popescu (Elias Koteas) in driving the evil out before it consumes her son's body and soul.

It's high cheese of the best kind, complete with gratuitous guinea - pig violence, tragically comprehensive narration directed to a priest («I had to get him, Father, and I had no time to lose»), and a budget - inspired reticence to indulge in graphic gore.

There's a whole subplot about a Vietnamese priest that purposefully refuses to make any kind of sense for most of the run time.

With the blessing of a kind priest (Macy), O'Brien sets out to lose his virginity with the aid of a sex surrogate (Hunt).

Her firm but kind way of dealing with Lady Bird's spates of rebellion is a really good example of what Alissa was talking about with the priest.

Of course we got all the regular fantasy elements: conjurers, priests, elven warriors, dungeons, forests, orcs, knights, scouts, and creatures of all kindOf course we got all the regular fantasy elements: conjurers, priests, elven warriors, dungeons, forests, orcs, knights, scouts, and creatures of all kindof all kinds.

But then the Volturi — a kind of Vatican council of vampire high priests, headed up by an impish, scene - stealing Michael Sheen — get a tip about the birth of the half - breed vampire baby and determine that the entire Cullen family must be destroyed.

On the mezzanine level are 87 watercolors: cartoon images of voluptuous women cheerfully engaging in all kinds of sexual activities often involving runty, priapic male figures and sometimes priests.

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.

In terms of «corruption» or the kind of rhetoric we have here about priests and dogma it's frankly quite weak.

There is a body of law that surrounds each kind of privilege (attorney - client, psychotherapist - patient, doctor - patient, priest - parishioner, accountant - client, husband - wife) that covers exceptions to the general rule.