Sentences with phrase «of the priests serving»

Poturajus22 were another group of priests serving the village spirits both benevolent and malevolent.

There still remained great numbers of priests serving the Temple in Jerusalem and they were organised into hierarchies and rotas.

Not exact matches

I am outraged that Heather Cook, the former Episcopal priest, has the audacity to request to be released from prison after serving only two and a half years, not even four years after killing bicyclist Tom Palermo in a horrendous turn of events in which she showed herself to have no moral compass,...

Bishop - elect Stock, 53, was ordained as a priest in 1988 and served as parish priest across the Archdiocese of Birmingham, most recently at the parish of The Sacred Heart and St Teresa in Coleshill.

Throughout my ministry as a priest, I have been sustained in grace by the prayers of the parishioners and religious that I have been privileged to serve and by the prayers of my brother clergy in the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

«Today Cardinal Dolan had the long - awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors, during the time he was privileged to serve as archbishop of Milwaukee,» Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said in a written statement.

Major rescue networks were centered in Genoa under the leadership of the Jesuit Cardinal Pietro Boetto, who worked closely with the Jewish emigration agency DELASEM, and in Milan under the leadership of a Jesuit priest who served as Cardinal Schuster's head of the office of religious assistance.

The arrangement of allowing a Jerusalem cleric to serve the parish while commemorating the Antiochian bishop worked fine until March 2013, when Jerusalem decided to consecrate its priest in Qatar as the «Archbishop of Qatar.»

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

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.

And those who have the privilege of being selected to go to heaven, serve in an official capacity as «kings and priests» (Rev 1:6), not as equals to God, but as 144,000 individuals who recognize that God, whose name is Jehovah, is the Grand Creator of all the universe, with these ones casting their crowns before God's throne, saying: «You are worthy, Jehovah, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.»

The priest - Father Joseph Pavanivel Jeyapaul of Ootacamund, India - served in a diocese in Crookston, Minnesota, for a little more than a year in 2004 and 2005, according to church documents unearthed in a lawsuit related to the case.

While serving guests at Our Lady of the Angels Food Pantry, I was interrupted by shocking news: A priest in France had been slain during Mass..

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».

The team reported that 10,667 people in the US had made allegations of child sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002 against 4,392 priests (about 4 % of all 109,694 priests who served during the time period covered by the study).

Through the gift of celibacy, a priest can serve the Lord with an undivided heart.

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».

We saw in Luke 1:5 that Zacharias was a priest, of the division of Abijah, and it was his turn to serve in the temple.

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.

From the day of my ordination onwards I shall be serving a parish of around 10,000 people in a town near my home in Southwest England, under the careful supervision of its vicar, or parish priest.

A team of a dictatorial doge & an overzealous pope decided celebacy was the only option for a priest in order to «truly serve God» (& be obedient to his «betters», i.e doge & pope)!

It's not a contrast, however, on which Father Ed — now a Catholic priest of the Ordinariate serving both his Ordinariate group and diocesan Catholics at St Anselm's — dwells.

Another priest once told a story of a young boy who came regularly to serve at devotions and Benediction on a Friday night.

Until its destruction it was served by thousands of priests.

Pastors, priests, imams, rabbis, etc., all have the wonderful privilege of serving,...

But normally the life of the consecrated virgin is rooted in the particular situation of her parish, in which she will wish to be a supportive and unobtrusive presence, in cooperation with her parish priest, and to serve as he considers appropriate.

Pastors, priests, imams, rabbis, etc., all have the wonderful privilege of serving, caring for, teaching and guiding people.

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.

Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.

Studies by Protestant and Catholic scholars show that one reason for the evangelicals» success is the lack of sufficient Catholic priests to serve the burgeoning population.

But even broader contributions await release in the priests, pastors, rabbis, lay leaders, and grass - roots members of religious communities (i.e., congregations) Approximately 124 million members of 320,000 churches and temples are served by 246,000 clergymen and rabbis.

It did mean two things: that a specially designated hierarchy as a channel of access to God was rejected; and that, under some conditions, any Christian might properly serve as priest to any other.

Tomas Halik, a Catholic priest, teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague and serves as President of the Czech Christian Academy.

Men and women in same - sex unions were already allowed to serve as priests in the Church of England, but there was a moratorium on advancement to the episcopate - becoming a bishop - while the church considered the issue.

The first question to confront such a body of bishops would probably be this: Since laypersons and presbyters (priests) are also involved in oversight, should they also be reconciled and serve in such a body?

They have been at a church for a very long time, they have served, and yet not once has their priest tapped on the shoulder to say, «Have you thought of ordination?»

Before Sinai, before Exodus Nineteen, the Hebrew people were an escaping band of slaves; but after Sinai they were a holy nation, a people of destiny, a nation of priests ordained to serve the world.

Man will never be a «God», but was created to live on the earth forever, with only a limited number of 144,000 going to heaven (Rev 14:1, 4) to serve in the official capacity of «kings and priests» as members of God's heavenly kingdom.

Atlanta's Archbishop Wilton Gregory said he approved construction of the 6,000 - square - foot home after agreeing to leave the traditional archbishop's residence to make way for priests who serve the cathedral next door.

A priest who answers the rectory door and a bartender who places before her customer a cool glass of water and a menu share the obligation to look upon the congregant with love and respect and then to assess what's the best way we might serve.

It would be hypocritical of me to continue going to Church when I know the priest and community blindly follow not the teachings of Jesus but their leaders» self - serving, exclusive, and good - old - boy rules.

So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

Most of us, not being hermits, also are called to love and serve others: a parish priest his parishioners, a cloistered nun her community, a wife her husband, a father his children.

I wish that the Church were more focused on removing pedophile priests than punishing women who often serve the most vulnerable segments of society.

and India, serving as a Roman Catholic priest and as a professor of Religious Studies.

He has served as hospital chaplain, parish priest, Dean of Studies at Oscott seminary and vicargeneral of Shrewsbury diocese, and is a popular speaker at catechetical events and at theological conferences.

The reform of parishes is long over due and if the Synod serves to galvanize bishops, priests and lay people to turn their attention to parish life, it will be a felix culpa rather than a disaster.

After serving as a model priest and prelate, he became an equally beloved pontiff, convening Vatican II and articulating the timelessness of the Church's teachings.

Indeed, as a result of the perfect freedom and the voluntarism born of pluralism, the American church boasted a vital, generous membership served by a necessarily vigilant and attentive body of priests and religious.

When Father Boyle was serving as a priest in East LA, he buried an alarming number of young people involved in gangs.