Sentences with phrase «look at the parish»

Not exact matches

A couple weeks in the parish looking around at things, assessing the state of the Sunday school or catechetical education or the decrepit office equipment, with your head simply bubbling with all the latest liturgical gizmos plus a really whiz - bang theory about the authorship of John, and you will wonder how this creaky old congregation ever managed to survive without you.

There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.

The Salesians of St Stanislaus Kostka parish would say «Look, there goes the saint» and «The glory of God dwells in Rozana Street» (where Tyranowski lived at number 11).

We want to make our church look like a quintessential English parish, to return traditional treasures to the people and to re-capture that distinctive English spirituality that was lost to the Catholic Church at the Reformation», he says.

Looking at the varied interplay of these factors makes for a powerful and very successful sociological analysis that can be applied to many situations — businesses, churches, (including dioceses and parishes) as well as clubs, movements and whole nation states.

There are many other important aspects: promotion of vocations, evangelisation, relationship with local parishes, that must be looked at and form part of the Chaplain's ministry.

In a study of «the forgotten virtues of community» journalist Alan Ehrenhalt looks at three Chicago - area cornmunities between the 1950s and the 1990s: a Catholic parish in the city, an African - American section of the South Side, and the suburb of Elmhurst.

For just a moment, let's look at the local church with a «parish lens.»

God wishes to make beggars into Lords... Look about you at the courts of all the kings and princes, at the cities and the parishes... There you will find lawyers, doctors, counsellors, writers, preachers, who for the most part were poor and who have certainly all attended school, and who by means of the pen have risen to where they are lords.

A study led by Professor Nick Gallent of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, looked at how communities in Kent have sought to influence the policies of local authorities and service providers and how, in the recent past, they have engaged with planning professionals around the production of «parish plans».

A darkly funny, furious look at the nature of faith in a world gone wrong, Calvary stars the bearlike Brendan Gleeson as a good priest in a small parish in the west of Ireland.

Looking at the Boston Globe's investigations into the city's archdiocese cover up of systemic sex abuse of children in their parishes, Tom McCarthy's film is an

Looking at the Boston Globe's investigations into the city's archdiocese cover up of systemic sex abuse of children in their parishes, Tom McCarthy's film is an All the President's Men for the modern era.

* About the Don Camillo books: Starting in 1946, Giovannino Guareschi wrote more than 300 stories about the hot - headed parish priest Don Camillo, and his battles with the communist major Peppone, all set in the Po Valley of Northern Italy - if you're not familiar with these stories I do suggest you look them up, all appear to be out of print now but you can find plentiful used copies at Addall.com and Amazon, and probably in your local library).

Several years ago I looked at how many counties, parishes etc there are in our country.