Sentences with phrase «own sacred days»

Interesting Story, BUT does anyone else find it offensive that CNN releases this story on EASTER - the most sacred day of the Christian faith?

You guys can't let up on Christians even on our most sacred Days.

Even though she dislikes Halloween, Capnerhurst has found a way to blend it with her own sacred days, Samhain.

Christians call them the Triduum Sacru, the three most sacred days of the year, the three most sacred days of all time when time is truly told.

With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 24/7.

In one sense, the music lives in our civil religion — in our celebration of sacred days, sacred places and revered leaders.

It reinforces the idea that faithfulness to ones» sacred days are a personal affair.

If Jesus allowed for breaking the honored Sabbath laws so as to provide for healing or gleaning, though the ancient laws forbade these on the sacred day, would he not also allow for a suspension of the proscription against divorce if such were to liberate a person from the bondage of an intolerable marriage?

Then was born the «Sabbath», so characteristic of the first covenant, and which foretells the sacred day of the new and final covenant [in Christ].

Are all other Christians sinners because their sacred day is Sunday and not Saturday?

Normally I only eat it on that sacred day, but this year was an exception.

I feel blessed with its immeasurable gifts every sacred day and feel humbled to be able to share them with my community!

I flew to meet Maryna and for 4 sacred days we escaped the daily to - do's of our ordinary lives and ventured into the lush and sometimes precarious terrain of the island Maryna now calls home.

That sacred day the white bells of the underworld will ring a miserable anthem of freedom while I'll be sleeping like a baby on your breathless chest.

Super Bowl Sunday is a sacred day for most American men.

With an expert nurse named Kathy as guide through her mother's nine - day stay, Cobb came to see hospice as a place where the ordinary dovetails with the sacred every day... our time in hospice was infused with miracles, ordinary miracles, which I have come to believe are part of the spiritual energy that surrounds every death.

This Nyepi, feel the mystical energy of Bali's most sacred day in the laid - back surroundings of Katamama.

«Early Netherlandish altarpiece paintings were a devotional object, kept closed and opened for display on sacred days.

Not exact matches

Such tantrums might have been tolerated in the old days, but Twitter makes nothing sacred anymore.

Your mornings should be held sacred because they set up your mindset for the rest of the day.

Last week: Both Christians and Jews celebrate their most sacred holy days this week: Easter and Passover.

These two hours have become sacred to me and I look forward to this ritual several days a week.

As a day trader, the news is a sacred thing for you that you have to monitor and act upon.

3 ««There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly.

The vocation of marriage is the one where people are not keeping sacred their vows these days in comparison to the vocation of priesthood.

The Millerites now set their eyes on October 22, «the tenth day of the seventh month of the Jewish sacred year, as the day of the Lord's advent.»

Instead, it represented a brilliant fusion of two of the great cultural tendencies of our day: the pressing of Hollywood celebrities into positions of cultural authority which gives them powerful influence far beyond their ability to hold a note or to learn a script; and the transformation of the serious and the sacred into the idioms of showbusiness.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)- For the second time in two days, a deadly blast shook a northwest Pakistani city as worshippers marked the sacred holiday of Ashura.

For a long time the Temple in Jerusalem was actually a sacred place, it even was the most sacred place on earth, because the God of Israel had promised, to be present at the Temple (1 Kings 8, 29: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.).

Look to the examples of the Apostles and how they conducted the meeting of the saints on the Lord's Day — this is sacred... It is to be treated as such.

They needed eight days to make the sacred oil.

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

Its author lives in another world than the Palestine of Jesus» days — one can scarcely believe that he ever saw Palestine, or knew Judaism and its sacred Scriptures intimately and sympathetically.

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

There's a kind of sharing and intellectual / spiritual intimacy which is only possible after a few days of dining together, learning together, studying our sacred texts together.

In Romans 14, Paul writes that some Christians consider «one day more sacred than another,» whereas other Christians consider «every day alike.»

If Rome is not, as it was called in the days of the Caesars, the caput mundi, it is nonetheless a place of sacred memory made such by the dual apostolic martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the many others who followed their example.

As the ancient Hebrews turned the mundane calendar into a sacred calendar of holy feasts, and as the early Christians turned the Roman calendar into a sacred calendar of Christian days and seasons, so the practice of the disciplines can create a sacred rhythm to our days, weeks, months and years.

Meditation entailed a memorization of notable content so that the monk could ruminate over the sacred text throughout the day and slowly absorb its nutrients, like a cow chewing its cud.

When through an unusual coincidence President Reagan's second inauguration was telecast on the same day as the 1985 Super Bowl, the entire day seemed liturgically orchestrated, as viewers moved from one sacred event to another.

The Bible, the creeds, the sacred traditions are only pointers to God which must be transcended, explored in the light of each new day.

5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike.

In northern Europe, where the miracle play had its origin, she starred in such sacred theatrical productions as Dulot's Maria Magdalena, his motet written for Rouen Cathedral, as well as the art of the day.

I'm more interested in that if it is something that is sacred to some of the Ja - panese... and it helps them get through the day, with all that has happened and still happening in their country... that's alright with me.

The five books of the law had been accepted as sacred Scripture for four or five centuries, and for two or three centuries the books of the prophets had been recognized as a second body of sacred literature; but the rest of the Old Testament (known to this day simply as Writings or Scriptures) had not yet been «canonized.»

We hear of fast - days on the Jewish model, but on different days, and the adoption by the Church of the Old Testament as a sacred book played a large part in forming the prayers as well as the instruction of Christians.

As long as anyone is alive to play a part or talk about it afterwards, the sacred narrative continues — at least until the day we wake from sleep to find that there is room in God's story for us all.

All Saints Day on November 1 is probably a sort of spinoff from Samhein - the most sacred holiday on the Pagan / Wiccan Wheel Of The Year, which is October 31.

Look at the one community dominated by 7th Day Adventists that tried to force the USPS to not deliver mail in their area on Saturday, but instead do it on Sunday, because they hold Saturday to be sacred.

This day was the first chance the public had to see inside the sacred space for the area's 49,000 Mormons, and it was also one of the last.