Sentences with phrase «of pilgrimages made»

Concurrent exhibitions of Starling's work, currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago and the Arts Club of Chicago, present us with similar byproducts of pilgrimages made by both the artist and his artworks.

This lesson looks at the spiritual value of a pilgrimage made to Israel from a Christian perspective.

Not exact matches

This may be the last year Kenny, Ireland's leader since 2011, makes the White House pilgrimage on behalf of Ireland.

Which means we're stuck trying to make the best of the faithful pilgrimages.

Last month, the Ontario mayors of Toronto, Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge made a pilgrimage to Silicon Valley.

When the Oracle of Omaha talks, people make pilgrimages.

Entrepreneurs regularly make the pilgrimage to the company's Las Vegas headquarters, to learn about Zappos's commitment to being «a little weird,» its over-the-top customer service, and even its policy of offering new hires $ 2,000 to quit.

In early January, I made an annual pilgrimage to that City of Sin — Las Vegas — to attend the most prominent technology conference in the world.

«Some schools long ago saw the need to travel to the coast to get a sense of the Silicon Valley - Bay Area ecosystem; more and more are following their lead, making such pilgrimages de rigeur for the best programs,» according to Poets and Quants.

Pilgrimages to Belgium, beer - nerd heaven, were made, mixing into the American brew scene a diversity of styles long forgotten.

Just like every four years, thousands of sports fans are making the pilgrimage to the Summer Olympics.

he told the thousands of faithful who made the pilgrimage to Omaha.

Am I going to make a pilgrimage to the Verizon Cathedral of Chartres?

It makes sense then that we celebrate Ramadan (the month of fasting) with Eid and the pilgrimage to mecca with Eid and many of us do not celebrate Halloween (because of reasons above) or Christmass or Birthdays but many of us celebrate a slightly altered version of Thanksgiving (on Thanksgiving day) that focuses on being grateful to God and sharing a meal.

In addition to meeting with Netanyahu, she is scheduled to make a pilgrimage to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and to Nazareth, the home of Jesus.

I've never recommended an eBook before, but I'll happily note that the glorious color in the eBook edition of Roman Pilgrimage may yet convert me to reading -(at - least - some - books)- on - a-tablet, a confession this veteran paper guy never expected to make.

A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries, where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.

Some of Russia's greatest writers and artists made pilgrimages to the famous startsi (holy elders) at Optina Pustin.

But I have joined the thousands of Russians who make pilgrimages to the lavra each year.

Of course, God has a personal relationship with each of us, but it is the fact that we love one another, help one another, and pray for one another that makes it possible for us to complete our pilgrimagOf course, God has a personal relationship with each of us, but it is the fact that we love one another, help one another, and pray for one another that makes it possible for us to complete our pilgrimagof us, but it is the fact that we love one another, help one another, and pray for one another that makes it possible for us to complete our pilgrimage.

He will blame his woes during his «pilgrimage» on his lack of faith, but clearly his woes are of his own making.

Those without a formal religious affiliation might make the pilgrimage because the pilgrimage as symbolic of human life is an image that they recognize.

Footnotes suggest a scenario behind the text: an illness, an inability to make pilgrimage to the Jerusalem temple, the taunt of naysayers who treat bad health as a sign of divine disfavor, the persistent hope that the soul now cast down will once again be raised up.

In modern times the improvement in travel facilities has made it possible for large numbers of people to make the pilgrimage even from distant lands, an important factor in bringing the Muslims of the Far East into closer relations with their brothers of the Turkish and Arab areas of Islam.

«We are immensely grateful to the crowds of people who made the pilgrimage to Trinity Square and contributed to an unbelievable atmosphere.»

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

The worship of God is made up of prayers, fasting, payment of religious tax, and pilgrimage.

«Christians understand the importance of making a pilgrimage - it is a time of deep significance for those making the journey.

Each year Muslims from all over the world, Muslims of every color and race, gather in the Holy Land to fulfill their obligation to make the pilgrimage.

The pilgrimage is an annual form of congregational worship in which those Muslims who are able to make the trip assemble from all over the world at Mecca, the home of the revelation to Muhammad (may God bless him).

Although the pilgrimage is compulsory only for those who have the means to accomplish it, Muslims exert every effort to attain the heights of happiness by making the pilgrimage and often thereafter proudly add the title Hajj to their name.

Meanwhile, 50,900 adults make the pilgrimage to Notre Dame for a Pentecostal rally, a teen - age guru turns on young people from coast to coast, and demand rises for books that run the gamut from thin prayer guides to thick encyclopedias of theology.

In 1206, a young man by the name of Giovanni Bernadone made a pilgrimage to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

In the month of Shawwal 628, Muhammad ordered his followers to obtain sacrificial animals and to make preparations for a pilgrimage (umrah) to Mecca, saying that God had promised him the fulfillment of this goal in a vision where he was shaving his head after the completion of the Hajj

In his journal Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 he wrote: «The Latins take a great deal of pains to expose this ceremony, as a most shameful imposture, and a scandal to the Christian religion; perhaps out of envy, that others should be the masters of so gainful business; but the Greek and Armenians pin their faith upon it, and make their pilgrimages chiefly upon this motive.»

Large number of believers made pilgrimages to the monasteries even on Sundays.

The ancient prophet Elijah made a pilgrimage to the holy mountain of God and looked for God in the tornado, the earthquake and the fire.

The most popular of these shrine figures is the Virgin of Guadalupe, a dark - skinned (Indian) Mary whose veneration goes back to 1531.45 A basilica in her honor stands now at the place where she first appeared to a humble Indian, Juan Diego; and hundreds of thousands of Mexicans from all over the nation make pilgrimages there on the edge of Mexico City.

One would think that a Christian Prince from a church in Idaho would make a pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, now a World Heritage site & the Church of the Holy Sepulchre *, Jerusalem, built by the Christian Prince, Constantine!

If Advent is allowed to work upon us, then we will be prepared to receive the graces of Christmas, and only then can we make an interior pilgrimage that truly prepares us to receive Christ, just as the Blessed Virgin Mary did.

Thousands of Orthodox believers from Russia make pilgrimage to Chersonesos every year.

And when we went, we would make a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The film is written and directed by his real - life son Emilio Estevez, who also plays the recentlydeceased firstborn of Sheen's character, on whose behalf he is making the pilgrimage.

We shall get our bearings by setting forth in this first chapter the two different ways in which Protestant thought today describes our human pilgrimage and defines the kind of hope which is possible for those who believe that God is, and that he has made himself known to us in Jesus Christ.

It's hard to believe that it's been five years since my son, Stephen, and I spent two months in Rome — all of Lent and Easter Week — preparing a book that would allow readers to make the city's ancient Lenten station church pilgrimage at home.

- Pilgrimage to mecca was orginally a pagan religious rite of peace from all the different pagan religions a week of peice and trade (making the person or tradesman who owned mecca the wealthiest man and most powerful man in the region no wonder mohommed wanted it back so much was a money thing).

In addition to the pilgrimage to Mecca, great numbers of Shi`ites make the pilgrimage to Karbala, Najaf, Meshed, Qum, and other such centers where they honor Ali or the other Imams.

A few days before we returned to England, we travelled to the island of Gozo and made a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine of Ta» Pinu.

He went on to describe a pilgrimage that he had made to Auschwitz a few years ago group of Catholics and Jews.

People would make a pilgrimage of hundreds of miles to pray before one of these relics.