Association of festival
observance with psychological distress in a rural Japanese community
• Greeting and serving guests • Collecting glasses and cleaning ash trays • Ensuring
observance with food safety regulations • Maintaining a clean, tidy, and healthy work area • Receiving cash and operating cash system • Recording hours worked on a every day basis • Answering telephone calls in a professional and courteous manner • Managing display and refilling stock • Responding customer inquiries quickly and politely
Maintained standards of cleanliness in
observance with health codes to increase customer loyalty
February is National Pet Dental Health Month, which is an opportunity for pet retailers to stock up on dental health products for pets and promote
the observance with signs in their stores, as well as announcements on their websites and social media pages.
The Four Townes Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is promoting
the observance with the Humane Society of the United States.
Not exact matches
The pair competed in long - sleeves and long - pants in
observance of Egypt's Islamic culture of modesty, a significant contrast to the bikini - style uniforms that has long been associated
with the sport; Elghobashy also sported a hijab covering her hair, which was permitted after a last - minute decision from the International Volleyball Federation following a request by African Volleyball Confederation chairperson Amr Elmany.
Because it's topic is martyrdom, which fits in rather well
with today's
observances, don't you think?
(Christmas, Easter — great
observances, but the celebration dates coincide
with pagan holidays.
Albeit, they didn't «need» to fire her, but I do not believe her religious lines were crossed, she was not celebrating the birth of Jesus, nor any other religious
observances connected
with that day.
The NT wasn't written by the priestly class, it was written by lay folks who clashed
with rabbis over proper synagogue
observance.
As usual, the MSM missed the
observance of Ash Wednesday in the wider world of Christendom and in particular
with respect to Ron Paul.
During the Eid al - Adha holiday, considered one of Islam's most revered
observances, many Muslims around the world sacrifice a sheep and share the meat
with the poor.
The Declaration affirms: «Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community
with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and
observance» (Article 18).
(Leviticus 19:2; cf. 20:26; 21:18) Along
with moral commands against such evils as child sacrifice, adultery, and sexual perversion are detailed injunctions concerning ceremonial
observances, reminiscent of the old taboos.
We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its
observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted
with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.
Not only does the completion of creation in six days correlate
with and support the religious calendar and Sabbath
observance (if the Hebrews had had a five - day work week, the account would have read differently), but also the seventh day of rest employs to the full the symbolic meaning of the number seven as wholeness, plenitude, completion.
The Christian story and
observance had to do
with a real person, who had been personally known and was remembered by people still living when the story was being told and put on record.
Laxness in
observance of fasts and friendship
with religious and social outcasts could certainly be regarded as related to one another, but only in a quite general way.
That they choose not to because it interferes
with observance and reverence would be the primary issues, and should be respected.
• The Orthodox Union's National Conference of Synagogue Youth has completed a massive study of Jewish young people,
with some encouraging conclusions about the pattern of return to religious
observance.
In bothpublic and personal life, the institutions,
observances, and teachings associated
with religion — in this case meaning Christianity — appear to be ever more marginal, giving credibility to the idea that there is a necessary connection between modernity and secularity.
«Work» strictly refers to
observance of not engaging in the 39 melachot - the activities that were involved in building the original tabernacle after the Israelites received and accepted the ten commandments and a covenant
with God.
It reconnects us, in quotidian
observance,
with the great meta - story that remains true even when everything conspires to make us believe it too good - at any rate, too bizarre - to be true.
The December 25th
observance was conducted by the Catholic Church and had nothing to do
with the pagan
observances (Saturnalia to be precise) Catholics, like the Jews have a liturgical year.
When to this is added the stipulation that no condition» such as the proper
observance of human rights» should be attached to development aid, the stage is set for countries
with faulty political and economic systems to demand, in the name of human rights, that economically successful countries bail them out.
Or someone who has grown up
with a formal kind of Christian
observance but would not be able to talk about a personal relationship
with Jesus?
The religious calendar helps us wait by punctuating the year
with certain
observances, dissolving the secular routine's corrosive effects.
Then Galarius consulted
with his colleagues and said: «Since you have set yourself as an enemy of the gods of Rome and of our religious practices, the emperors could not be able to bring you back to the
observance of their sacred laws and also you are an instigator and leader for most atrocious crime.
In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and
observance), about a relationship
with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.
Our schools always got winter and spring break
with observances for those holidays in the christian calendar.
At the same time, and as a necessary consequence, there is a communion among those who have been caught up into Christ, so that when the Eucharist takes place those who are assisting at its
observance find themselves belonging
with each other in a new and vitalizing fashion.
While his may not be a household name — we historians work
with lights under bushels — he has written several works of considerable influence and inspired the regard and affection that attracted a host of us to the seminary's
observance of this rite of passage.
These ideas are further elaborated in the Talmud and the Midrash, the major sources of traditional Judaism, which teach, for example, that the authentic
observance of religious precepts is possible only in the Land of Israel and that only there is it possible for a Jew to have direct communion
with God.
Jesus did not hesitate to disregard the sabbath
observance and the dietary regulations when they conflicted
with human good or to point out the hypocrisy latent in such legalism.
These latter deal
with the simple household sacrifices and
observances connected
with such things as building a house, cattle breeding, farming, also rites for the prevention of disease, love rites, the ancestral and funeral rites.
Here he lets everyone know that he is not an enemy of the Torah, even if the conclusions he draws from the Jewish conviction that love is both core and apex of Torah
observance place him in tension
with many Jews, including those who follow Jesus.
They are no longer satisfied
with the mere
observance of the outward form of their religion but are looking for spiritual and moral guidance in Islam compatible
with modern civilization.
So somehow, in the span of a few decades, the Lord's Supper goes from referring to the once - a-year
observance of Passover to being a more frequent meal of fellowship
with other believers.
The more comfortable I became
with Judaism, and
with Jewish
observance, the less I could defend the separationist position.
The American bishops did much better: while also making the matter optional, they offered a powerful and sympathetic discussion of the religious reasons for the old
observance and urged American Catholics to continue the practice as a gesture of solidarity
with, and gratitude for, the passion of Christ, as an act of fidelity to the Christian past, and to help «preserve a saving and necessary difference from the spirit of the world.»
Using a four - part measurement of religious
observance for Christians — weekly church attendance, daily prayer, saying religion is important and believing in God
with «absolute certainty» — Pew found that 70 percent of Christian college grads were highly committed to their religion.
suras 12:2; 13:37; and 41:44 attest that the quran is written in perfect arabic but there are egyptian, hebrew, greek, syriac, akkadian, ethiopian and persian words and phrases and there are adjectives and verbs inflected without
observance of the concordes of gender and number; illogically and ungrammatically applied pronouns
with no referent; predicates separated from subject.
Boomer disaffection
with conventional forms of piety such as Sabbath
observance, their reluctance to make commitments and the gender revolution all contributed to the overturning of traditional religious practices, though not the quest for wholeness.
But since you Christians can not get a clue on your own, we will have to pummel
with acorns until you get a dictionary and discover that «religion» is» (1): the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2): commitment or devotion to religious faith or
observance.»
Harris - Shapiro suggests that the best way for Jews to «combat» Messianic Judaism is to strengthen the religious institution at the center of Jewish life: the home,
with its weekly Shabbat worship and
observance of other Jewish holidays.
Whereas the «seven days» of creation communicates to us a particular truth about correct religious
observance, rather as the Greek myth of Narcissus warns against the vice of vanity, Genesis 1 - 3 does deal
with actual, primordial events.
What we do have in the Old Testament is a mass of evidence that the dead were of profound importance to the living, that elaborate ceremonies and popular customs were involved in dealing
with them, and that such
observances were concerned both
with the veneration due from the living to the departed and
with the possible good or evil that might come from the departed to the living.
Details of the postexilic
observance wanting here may be filled in from the tractate «Yoma» in the Mishnah, where the prayer of the priest, pronounced
with his two hands upon the scapegoat, is given as follows:
When Jews who have become inattentive to their religion wish to deepen their
observance, rabbis tell them
with one voice: You must begin by keeping Shabbat.
Bishop Gore ended his book, The Sermon on the Mount, by saying: «Many will come to him in that day
with a record of their orthodoxy and of their
observances, of their brilliant successes in his professed service; but he will protest unto them, «I never knew you.»