Sentences with phrase «of holy silence»

Where Nyepi is a day of holy silence, the day preceding (the Bhuta Yajna) is a day of hell on the streets; of demons on parade through the towns and village of Bali as they march slowly towards their own consumption by holy fire.

If you're lucky, there will be a moment of holy silence before someone wonders out loud if such a question might put a damper on Easter brunch.

Not exact matches

For decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precept.

Indeed, when Benedict reflected on Holy Saturday as the day of his baptism, he made a similar statement: that «through God's silence, still we hear him speak, and through the darkness of his absence, we glimpse his light.»

Jesus had silenced the demons when they acknowledged his divine superiority and called him «the Holy One of God.»

While I've learned a lot about introspection from my wife, I was intimidated by a communal hour of intentional silence in expectation of the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Holy Communion and Calvin are full of normal, struggling people who are rediscovering God in silence.

A picture of Holy Communion's spire comes to mind and I remember the words of St. Bernard of Clairvaux: «Continual silence, and removal from the noise of the things of this world and forgetfulness of them, lifts the heart and asks us to think of the things of heaven and sets our heart upon them.»

I am humbled into silence to see the girls I helped bring into the world, diapered, assisted with homework, watched on playing fields, paid tuition for — now turned into holy persons of God, missionaries, radiant with presence and power.

And I'll connect it to the ways that when we are in the struggle of our new births how we often withdraw from the strangers, from the bright lights, from the noise, from the unfamiliar or untrusted or untried, how the Spirit hovers over our darkness and causes new life to begin to rise from that place of silence and darkness, relentless, inexorably holy.

But I wonder whether this silence is the breaking down of our delusions and our internal institutions about Holy Love and his world.

We could also use the liturgical tools of Holy Saturday where the disciples had to live with the reality of Jesus» death and the silence of God in the midst of it.

It is a powerful witness to the sacrality of the Liturgy to be in a crowded St. Peter's and experience the silence after Holy Communion.

Given that situation, it will seem natural (though infinitely sad) that we should maul the holy liturgy so rudely, that our new churches should be built smart and heartless, that we should chatter so brightly and forget silence, that we should carry on in general as though the following of Christ crucified had been restyled into an exciting gay adventure for getaway people.

First the believers of the various religions listened to the Word of God in the various sacred scriptures of mankind and then in holy silence hearkened to the inner Word of God.

This silence is the simple festivity of the holy act of confession.

It was unusually strong language for the Holy Father who also called for a moment of silence during his address to the crowds in St Peter's Square.

I can remember sitting right back there just a few rows from the back in worship when there was a time of silence, and all of a sudden I knew I was on holy ground — such a glow within me and around me as I became aware of the invisible presence of all those who have stood in this place and heard God's call, of all those who have made life - changing decisions right here.

Most prominent among these was a sacred meal of special kinds of food which the brothers ate, clad in holy garments, in perfect silence.

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The artists included in this section include an anonymous medieval wood carving from the 15th century to the hagiographic Catherine of Alexandria by Antonio Alonso Villamor (17th Century) to the contemporary «virgins» and «martyrs» by Elena Kovylina, Shirin Neshat, Charlie White, Simon Periton, Xan Medina, Nezaket Ekici, John Brophy, Carlos Aires, Djamel Tatah, Cristina Lucas, and Nicola Verlato; they all reveal in their work the shift from the biblical and idyllic image towards a more earthly woman that combats and questions in an active manner that which Carla Ricci defined as «the exegesis of silence» imposed by the holy writings.