Sentences with phrase «of life of priests»

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

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You will never know what brings each woman to make the decision to terminate a pregnancy, but the simple fact remains: They know the circu.mstances of their lives better than any politician, priest or stranger like you.

If so, we'll see how well the relationship and the faith hold up when her priest tells her she should stop living / sleeping with him out of wedlock.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

I decided right then and there that this nun was an idiot, the church was devoid of logic, the priest was a liar, and there was no «life - everlasting» after death.

I'm good friends with an Episcopalian priest who tells me she has spent most of her life living in the cracks of the lives of others.

The figures have prompted some to question the spiritual life of serving priests.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Evangelical Catholicism understands the priesthood in iconic terms: The Catholic priest is a man whose ordination makes him into a living re-presentation of the Lord Jesus.

He's been a priest all of his adult life and never has had to worry about being out on the streets in the winter snow and being hungry.

«Benedict was a vociferous advocate for the poor and strongly opposed income inequality,» says James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author of «The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life.»

He proposed a new indictment of priestly celibacy, pointing out that by the year 2000 «more than one million» «above - average» Catholics will not have existed because the forty thousand «on average, above average» priests living in 1900 could not marry and have children.

They seem to be mostly about priest abusing little boys, Westboro Baptists saying God hates the families of fallen soldiers, politicians deciding that women now need two (not just one) unnecessary medical procedure before they can be allowed to make decisions about their bodies, and Christians telling couples who want to legally commit their lives to each other that they aren't allowed to do that.

per vertssss; american living here in canada in niagra falls; the niagra parway is beautiful and the houses magnifigant and there is this huge huge mcmanision called precouis blood 16 plus bedrooms with own bathrooms horse farm top of the line cars in the back very very elegant; guess who lives there priests so thanks for your donations the perverts are living well your not but they are hahahaha people are so stupid to give these freaks any money; and you are totally illiterate if you think these people have any connection to god; i would have to say that god will probly punish the phony pervs and any followers they may have; obviously they know the religion is phony or they wouldnt be doing what they do

Not one word about the man, what he loved to do, how he lived his life, nothing... just promotion of the catholic church and the lead priest prancing around in his robes with a microphone like a freakin rock star.

Instead, it was a priest, teacher, parent, or friend who demonstrated the ideas and doctrines of our religion to us in a living way.

That stole, touching both priest and couple, embodies the classic Catholic teaching that the couple who bind themselves for life are the ministers of the Sacrament of Matrimony.

Orthodox priests serve as guides along the path of life — and are not viewed as authority figures who are meant to be «holier than thou».

I think Jesus may well have come back to earth in the form of this priest (at least possessing his body and mind) to try to make the world a better place us all to live.

Geno: The Life and Mission of Geno Baroni by Lawrence M. O'Rourke Paulist Press, 314 pages, $ 11.95 Geno Baroni, who died in 1984, was an Italian - American priest - politician famed for his commonsensical radicalism in devotion to the poor.

I was raised a strict Catholic and lived in fear of priests and nuns in my schools for 12 years.

jwt, yeahright, tom tom on the pipe, and others YHWH made this law of life for all the people of this earth, so to say your god is redundant, and at a lost for as He states in Isaiah 56, and in Exodus 33 vs. 16 this is for all nations, and people of this earth those who were mislead, and not taught properly by these priest, popes, false prophets, elders, and shepherds, as YHWH taught us of them all misleading the flocks, in Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23 vs.1 - 8, Ezekiel 20, and Ezekiel 34, yet YHWH will save them all when His day comes, as said in Isaiah 51 vs. 5, that His righteousness is near.

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

No question about it, the listening is demanding, not only because of the writer's rhetorical style but also because of the assumption that the reader knows the Old Testament and the wilderness life of Israel, a life centered in the tabernacle and the daily ministrations of the priest.

In studying the methods and message of St John Paul as priest and bishop, we can apply them to our own situation — that is why the lives of saints are held up to us by the Church — and we should do so with gratitude to God for this example.

Next year, I will return to the Archdiocese to be ordained as a priest and live out the rest of my life in the service of the Church in our part of Scotland.

(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).

And the point in his life which most vividly touches our own, qualifying him to be our priest, is his time of fervent prayer.

I will respond simply to two of his points which touch the central point of the original article: first, whether or not vowed chastity (or «celibacy») can enable a fuller living - out of the loving of Christ the priest and second, whether the Council Fathers in Presbyterorum ordinis intended more than simply defending celibacy in the Latin rite as a «useful discipline».

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

But to affirm as Mr O'Donnell does that the celibate «is more available and can give himself more to the service of the Lord and his people» (and that this is St Paul's understanding of the «higher vocation of the celibate») is simply to recognise that the celibate priest is freed to love the Lord and his people in a way that is closest to Christ's own loving who «gave himself to the point of laying down his life and came «to serve and not to be served».

The young priest who accompanied the students, the chaplain at the Newman Centre student parish, said that while he would perhaps not have been motivated to put in the time and effort to go to the March for Life on his own, the enthusiasm and desire of his students convinced him that he needed to attend with them personally.

From that time on Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Thistle Farms - Founded in 1997 by Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest on Vanderbilt's campus, Magdalene is a residential program for women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution and addiction.

The Servant of God Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to the priests of the world, starting with a passage from St. John: «For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

We would expect to see greater levels of abuse amongst groups in which celibacy is a normal way of life (such as Catholic priests), and by extension lower levels of abuse in groups in which celibacy is unusual.

The internal principle, the force which animates and guides the spiritual life of the priest, inasmuch as he is configured to Christ the head and shepherd, is pastoral charity, as a participation in Jesus Christ's own pastoral charity.»

People can ask the priest for teaching and guidance regarding the mostintimate areas of their lives that nobody else will ever know about.

He stopped being a priest when he realized that he was playing the role of the «caretaker and star» in people's lives.

declares that the important moment in the life of Jesus came with his «seizure and occupation of the temple in Jerusalem... the essential point is that Jesus drives out the priests, the merchants, and holds the Roman garrison [Roman indeed!]

Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper, 4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.

This is the embattled front line in this war: shaken - up youth workers who've been confronted by armed teenagers, sombre - looking parish priests supporting grieving parents of murdered children and weary hospital chaplains who have witnessed too many life - changing injuries.

Talking over the deep questions of faith and values with a theologically trained counselor (your minister, priest, or rabbi) can help to stimulate this growth in the vertical dimension of your family and personal life.

The whole idea of the re-creation of the last days of Jesus» life and the supper comes forth so much more clearly in the new mass than in the Tridentine mass, in which the priest is praying privately and you are just involved in your own little private space.

People look at this from the stand point of NOW... the early religious building were built to overwhelm and scare people so as to control them... early religious structure were not for the people to ENTER... they were places where the priest visited to SERVE THE GODS THAT LIVE OR VISITED THERE... AND GET MESSAGES FROM THE SECRET UNSEEN GODS to convey to the people... this goes back even before the great Egyptian temples and gods... way way back into prehistory.

His latest book is Exiles, based on the life of poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins and his response to the shipwreck of the Deutschland, which carried five exiled Catholic nuns.

In fairly short order, a community of laymen, lay women and priests dedicated to Our Lady were given permission by the Church to live together in poverty, chastity and obedience.

And he continued: «Personally, I owe deep gratitude to the priests involved with the Work [Opus Dei], to whom I have entrusted with much satisfaction the spiritual direction of my own life and that of other priests.»

If this life is lived with authenticity and commitment he foresees no shortage of priests from all levels of society but particularly from the young.