Sentences with phrase «order by the clergy»

Maggie Q stars as a Priestess, who has been ordered by the clergy to retrieve Bettany, but finds herself divided between her loyalties to the Church as a deity and to the renegade Priest as a friend and fellow warrior.

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In order to appropriately assign the blame for the state of the «church» we must see - through the clever psychological side - step that's been used by pastors and clergy for centuries to deflect their personal responsibility for the sad state of affairs within Chrisendom.

In the island, again, called the island of Dioscorides [Socotora], which is situated in the same Indian sea, and where the inhabitants speak Greek, having been originally colonists sent thither by the Ptolemies who succeeded Alexander the Macedonian, there are clergy who receive their orders in Persia and are sent on to the island, and there is also a multitude of Christians.

The quality of the clergy during much of the century is indicated by the fact that many, including bishops, were Free Masons, in spite of the Papal prohibition to Catholics of membership in that order.

By the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790) the Catholic Church was ordered reorganized, and that in spite of Papal condemnation.

However, several societies of clergy bound by rules which include vows of celibacy (usually not formally lifelong, but taken for a period with the expectation of renewal), have been founded, such as the Oblates of Mount Calvary in America, associated with the Order of the Holy Cross, and the recently organized Company of Mission Priests in England.21

Thus in place of three basic, though overlapping ministries of the primitive church (sometimes concurrently discharged by the same person) we found at the end of the two centuries of evolution three main orders of the clergy: the episcopate, the priesthood, and the diaconate and an ever - growing series of lower orders.

For in this very text and a related place71 Clement goes on to say that though the Christian gnostic or seeker will conform to church life as it is ordered by the ordained clergy, spiritually, he is already on his way to becoming himself an angel, indeed, divine:

Chairperson, Eminent Clergy, ladies and gentlemen, the New Patriotic Party and I won, by the Grace of God, last year's elections with clear marching orders from the Ghanaian people.

At noon, clergy will hold a press conference and deliver a petition signed by over 100 faith leaders calling for the Millionaire's Tax to be expanded and the 2 percent spending cap eliminated in order to invest in fighting poverty and inequality, War Room, 2nd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.