Sentences with phrase «most ancient churches»

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``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

The point that most excites me about Father Heisig's essay is the new and revolutionary meaning that he appears to bring to the ancient image of the church as the body of Christ.

For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.

For all of its Renaissance splendor, the most impressive thing to me about St. Peter's is the necropolis, the ancient Roman cemetery far beneath the magnificent church of Bernini and Michelangelo.

The Antiochian Church, unlike most Orthodox organizations in the U.S., has committed itself to seeking converts in North America and sees itself «on a mission to bring America to the ancient Orthodox Christian faith.»

One of the phenomena most difficult for the Catholic Church to understand, as Gilfeather O'Brien points out, is how the Guatemalan cofradias (religious fratemities based on the syncretism of Roman Catholic and ancient Mayan teachings) have been unable to compete with Pentecostal groups that offer «personal transformation of the kind the Catholic Church has desired but never achieved over the centuries.»

The particular diversion which Philip devised for use during the Carnival was a pilgrimage on foot to the «Seven Churches», the seven most ancient and important basilicas of Rome, a tour which lasted an evening and a day.

Sensing those ancient corporate realities and learning to bring them into creative correlation with the social factors of Faith Church constitutes one of the most creative challenges in preaching.

The series incorporates contemporary Bible study with the church's most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina, and moves the reader from study (lectio), to reflection (meditatio), to prayer (oratio), to discernment (contemplatio), and action (operatio).

BTW, Catholics are taught that the Eastern Churches are the schismatics; but if were five ancient patriarchs at the time of the schism and four of them are still in communion with each other which one is most likely to be the schismatic?

It is flatly inconceivable that anyone would invent a Son of God who was consigned by church and state alike to die the most extreme form of death by degradation and dehumanization known to the ancient world.

[7] So the love of the Sacred Heart is of one economy with the wisdom enshrined within the fabric of our ancient universe, but most especially in Scripture, the institution of the Church and sacraments, and above all the Holy Eucharist.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a solemn feast day and a holy day of obligation that we celebrate each year on August 15th, is the Church's most ancient Marian feast.

The church and the ancient Hebrew - Jewish community, with which it is continuous, together form the historic stream of which the event, in the stricter sense in which we have for the most part been using the term, is the center.

His «anti-life» budget, they wrote, ignores the «most ancient moral teachings» of the Catholic Church on the duty of the powerful to care for the powerless.

If we grasp this aspect of our preaching, we may well have our part in a great movement of return to the intention of the Reformers of the sixteenth century as well as of the Fathers of the ancient Church: that the Lord's Supper shall in very deed be the act of Christian worship most loved, most used, and most honored by the whole of the Christian world, without base superstition or ungodly fear but in loving obedience to the command of the Lord and for the «strengthening and refreshing» of his people.

San Francisco Plaza Hotel is a first class hotel is located in the historic center of the city of Cusco the ancient capital of the Inca empire, three blocks from the Plaza de Armas, Cuzco's central plaza, where they are located the cathedral and most important museums.Located one block from the charming Plaza San Pedro, where the traditional San Pedro Mercado designed by Eiffel, the Church of San Pedro and the train station to Machu Picchu.

Churches too play a large part in the country's architectural identity and some of the world's oldest can be found on the islands of Lake Tana, while at Axum (home of the Queen of Sheba), the giant, granite obelisks prove even the most ancient architecture is phenomenal.

The narrow paved streets with low stone benches, twisting and turning like a labyrinth, ancient pillars and Roman marble urns mapping out the oldest historical remains of the city, and the most stunning of it all — the tiny church of Epta Martyres («the Seven Martyrs») perched on top of a small hill, seemingly floating on the azure sea... you will feel like you're inside a fairytale.

Cadiz is one of the most beautiful and historically rich regions in Spain, made up of ancient mansions, picturesque churches, scenic plazas and expansive streets.

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She points out that most people associate mosaics with representational art in churches, on ancient Roman floors, and in other public spaces created by tradesmen or craftsmen — a perception that she and other modern mosaicists delight in challenging.