Sentences with phrase «of older priests»

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Twenty - year - old female tour guides dressed in traditional kimonos wash their mouths and hands at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine before attending a purification ceremony with a Shinto priest to celebrate Japan's Coming of Age Day on January 11, 2013.

It may come as a surprise to Father Freelance, but after more than four decades of priest - celebrants trying to be Johnny Carson, Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, or whomever, this act is getting very old.

In that context, the charitable reading of the tweet is that Father Spadaro was reminding us of the obvious — that pastoral care is an art, and that the priest dealing with complicated and messy human situations is not like a first - grade teacher drilling six - year olds in addition.

How is it that an inspired woman could write scripture (e.g., Mary's song), and an inspired woman could determine for both a king and a high priest whether something is scripture (e.g., the prophet Huldah in 2 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 34)-- or at least could do these things in the time of the Old Testament — but an inspired woman can not now teach about God?

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

The universe came from somewhere, but when I see a phrase like, «Suffering is necessary» spoken by a Catholic priest, given the history of priests getting diddlely with children, I think I'm seeing a little bit of justification by this old yutz.

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

another passing tought most of the cardinals electors are in their 60 or 70 years old according to the cannon law they could elect someone from the archbishop branch I am sure there is a younger and stronger priest that will have the courage and the strenght to clean and stear the barc of St. Peter and he will make the church stronger by correcting the wrongs of the past and mending and shapping the future of the church otherwise stay tuned for another older cardinal to be elected pope and wait another 8 years and we will have this very unsettleing situation once again.

According to ancient Jewish canon (law) a priest (of which Jesus was one) was required to be at least 30 years old, married and have children BEFORE becoming a priest so that he would be able to understand the problems and conflicts of marriage and parenthood.

They even brought defrocked priests and nuns into their fold, as well as disgruntled Christians who bemoaned the declining morals of their old churches.

Some biblical scholars (including Jewish ones) believe that the Code of Leviticus was intended to apply ONLY to worshippers going up to Jerusalem, and priests and levites going up to the Temple to perform their yearly duties, something similar to the old Roman Catholic communion fast.

Jesus Christ, during the time of His earthly ministry, set up a spiritual kingdom on earth, in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy; He being the King and all born again believers the subjects of the Kingdom, and they are now reigning with Him as Kings and priests on the earth.

Over 4300 priest have been accused and / or convicted of raping children just in the USA (almost always boys under 14 year old).

If you read carefully, the Pope didn't laicize (defrock) this priest through the newly widened authority he has to do so, but the old fashioned way — AT THE REQUEST OF THE DEFROCKED Ppriest through the newly widened authority he has to do so, but the old fashioned way — AT THE REQUEST OF THE DEFROCKED PRIESTPRIEST.

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.

Might the priest facing in the same direction as the faithful be more expressive in some ways of the meaning of the Old Testament priesthood rather than the priesthood of Christ?

Christians should burn their copies of the NT for the 2000 year old con job that has been perpetuated on them by popes, bishops, priests, ministers and evangelicals such as Osteen.

He finds the idea of the priest's facing the people a most disedifying factor of the modern liturgy: «How wise the old liturgy was when it prescribed that the congregation should not see the priest's face - his distractedness or coldness or (even more importantly) his devotion and emotion.»

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

Now Professor of Sociology at both the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona, Greeley repeatedly asserts his dual identity as both priest and sociologist, and in the latter capacity he adamantly insists that he is a «scientist,» usually defining that term in an old - fashioned positivist manner.

It is true for the old, as for the rest of us, that «we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses».

Rogue ordinations of priests and consecrations of bishops are nothing new in Christian history, but with the breakaways to the Old Catholic Church following Vatican Council I in the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes (bishops on the loose) became a pronounced feature of an underworld of apostate Catholics and sectarian Anglicans.

A deposition heard by the court alleges that when a 14 - year - old girl asked the priest for advice on how to fend off inappropriate advances from a 64 - year - old parishioner, he simply told her, «this is your problem; sweep it under the floor and get rid of it.»

I've seen 18 year old black kids sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling cocaine to adult buyers; these predatory priests should be looking an serious issues of prison time · (measured in decades) while their purple - robed protectors deserved to be confined with them.

Brennan Manning told the story of a priest in Ireland who, on a walking tour of a rural parish, saw an old peasant kneeling by the side of the road, praying.

But he too tried to blame the victim, saying he (the 15 year old boy) made the first move... it is sickening to hear someone in even more authority would say such a thing... car accident or not, he needs to be removed from his position of HELPING other priests...

Instead it was me, the priest, four old ladies, one short reading, a lot of prayers I didn't understand, and a Communion that I happily had the inner wherewithal not to participate in.

Although I'm a somewhat spotty attender of church, I really like our priest because he does preach against greed, the wars, and about our duty (both as individuals and as a nation) to care for those who are in need, the sick, the very young and the very old.

Andrew Birks, who was ordained a Church of England priest last year, was one of five officers investigated after 40 - year - old Sean Rigg collapsed and died at Brixton police station in August 2008.

The question that therefore arises is how far the French (and others) will identify with the victims — an old priest, savagely slain, and a handful of believers and sisters.

Entering the Old City at the historic Jaffa Gate, Demetrios was ceremonially welcomed by the bishops and priests of the Greek Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, Israeli government and municipal officials, a police honor guard, six bemedaled consuls - general, representatives of the Roman Catholic, Armenian, Syrian Orthodox and Ethiopian churches, two uniformed Dragomen, a baton tossing drum - major, the Arab Orthodox Boy Scout drum and bugle corps, uniformed schoolgirls, scores of monks, nuns, reporters, cameramen and a smattering of curious tourists.

But instead of priest, they are the good old boys protecting thier beloved football game instead of protecting little boys.

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

They give me and my goons (priests) 10 % of their money and believe in some old story... Oh by the way, my buddy is the one who pulls the sun across the sky in a chariot.

The answer lies hidden in Sir Winston's reference to that good old Egyptian priest whom he made to visit the Council of Trent.

You'd do well to look into the old ways of the «two» priests it required for the atonement of sin of the people — one for the inner court and one for the outer court, and the two animals — the spotless sacrificial lamb, and the scapegoat of whom the blood of that sacrificial lamb was placed and sent into the wilderness.

With the priest the bishop is somehow implicated, and with the bishop the archbishop is somehow implicated, and with the archbishop the cardinal is somehow implicated - and, as everybody knows, all roads lead to Rome and so the story leads to You Know Who, the representative of the oldest and largest institution in the world.

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

Old Testament history recounts events, the lives of great men, prophets, priests and kings, migrations, wars, political decisions — everything affecting the exterior life of the nation, the observable course of her turbulent history.

There were patriarchs from Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria; archbishops from the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran communions; bishops from these communions and from the Old Catholics, Methodists and Moravians; members of the supreme courts of Germany and Scotland; deans, canons, professors, executives, editors, ministers, priests, missionaries — and seven women!

With regards to creation / evolution, that isn't something that determines the validity of the Bible as many Christians, (even pastors / priests) believe in millions of years old earth.

Remember the old joke, half nelson, full nelson, father nelson, how true of the catholic church priests

The God of the Old Testament and Jesus are the same true God (in different persons) but it is not evil for God to tell other people to do evil things as long as he doesn't have to do it himself (something that is presented as hypocritical in the chief priests who would hire someone to betray Jesus but would not even touch the «blood money.»

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

The Catholic church is slowly disintegrating due to the centuries old abuse of children by pedophile priests.

the priests of the old covenant are subject to death.

At age 60, Rupp decided to walk 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago with an older friend, a retired priest (though they often ended up taking a bus).

It was the murder of 75 - year - old Tom Repchic that was the final straw for Father Greg Maturi, a Dominican priest in Youngstown, Ohio.

On the morning of the following day the priest had all the people, old and young, men, women, and children, gathered together, and standing before them he began to tell them about the revelation he had received, dwelling on the great manifestations of regard and the many acts of kindness they had received day after day from their god.