Sentences with phrase «passing on their faith»

This is necessary both in order to identify and reject heretical deviations from the truth of the gospel and also to provide sound instruction for passing on the faith intact to the rising generation.

This is an adapted version of a talk given on 9 March 2013 at the Westminster Diocese event «Passing on the Faith: Virtues and Values.»

Are parents today more or less influential in passing on their faith?

Many Catholics still suppose (as I did when 20 years ago I crossed the Tiber) that one way to pass on the faith to our children is to send them to a Catholic school.

We have our link with the martyrs and can take courage from those great heroes who did not fail to pass on the Faith to us.

You can not pass on the faith, you can not pass on moral values, unless your life is modelled on the Gospel.

Mary was nominated by the Jersey groups of the Catholic Women's League, who say: «We are truly blessed to have some one of Mary's enthusiasm and endeavour in passing on the faith to the young people of our Island.»

One thing I can say with certainty is that whilst, of course, the task of the Catholic teacher in a Catholic school is to take seriously his / her part in passing on the Faith, this can not be done successfully solely by telling.

The revival of confessionalism poses a different challenge for mainstream conservative Baptists, namely, how to use historic documents of the church in passing on the faith to the rising generation.

We do not just pass on a faith but seek to know its depths and mysteries more clearly.

Dr Peter Kahn writes regularly for the Catholic Truth Society and is the author of the CTS booklets «Passing on Faith to Your Children» and «Work and the Christian Family».

Another told me without hesitation that the reason their church is so successful in passing on its faith is «because there is complete coherence in everything that we are taught, right across the curriculum.»

They are often hailed as being an authentic example of what the Second Vatican Council really wanted to achieve, in terms of an active and informed laity working to pass on the Faith and to bring it alive in the hearts of those to whom the Church had seemed remote and boring.

The authors Victor W Watton and Michael Elson begin the ever - important task of passing on the faith to our children with a chapter entitled «Believing in God».

In terms of the mechanics of passing on the faith (I am not speaking here of the essential grace of the sacraments), the parish reinforces and backs up the life in the home.

Of course, Ken's tips are provided within the overall context of a healthy, committed, loving relationship with one's children — which affirms Dr. Bengston's findings that passing on our faith to our kids is as much about being emotionally connected as it is about being pious.

Over time, they realize that passing on their faith requires something more than simply schooling them at home.

Sister Anne, who has dedicated her life to Catholic education sees this unique role as a wonderful opportunity for our students, faculty and all of our IMS staff since she says, «The main reason Catholic schools exist is to pass on our faith to the next generation and to help all members, Catholic and non-Catholic, recognize that they are loved unconditionally by God.»

Not exact matches

The market's faith in the Chinese financial industry is being weighed and the headlines point to a merger of the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, with some of their current powers — such as financial regulations and prudential oversight — passed on to the People's Bank of China.

There WAS a successful grassroots effort on the part of private citizens who happen to be of the LDS (MORMON) faith who fanned out in their communities all over California in an effort to Pass Prop 8.

I believe that we are all born with an intuitive faith in the goodness of life; but it is a fragile faith that can be easily lost when we experience cruelty rather than love, often tragically early in life, from those whom we intuitive trust and who are often unconsciously passing on their pain to others.

Truthfully though, to prove God would eliminate the need for Faith and on that option I would pass.

I try to live the best I can as a Christian and not pass judgment on other Christians who may not be walking in the faith.

Given these people's wariness in talking about faith, it was hard to see how they could pass that faith — whatever it was — on to their children.

And how about a declaration that, in the event of death or divorce, the Catholic party does not waive the right to pass on the Catholic faith to their children?

Bishop O'Donoghue, the Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster, in his preface reminds us of the duty of every Catholic to «assist in passing on to others the Faith handed down from the Apostles» (p. 11).

@HS = HB: regardless of your opinion on how the world should work; regardless of you passing judgement upon anyone not of your faith; regardless of your blind hate and ignorance... you will eventually die and the world will not even notice.

Faith of our Fathers is a spirited defense of Catholic ritual, discipline, and communal observance» of the ways in which the collective wisdom of Christian tradition is passed on from one generation to another.

Today many mothers and fathers struggle to pass on to their children a faith they do not understand themselves.

The Need To Develop It remains strange that so many of the Church's leaders seem incurious to the opportunity of science for the Faith, as the potential impact of science on society (for good and ill) becomes ever more important with each passing year.

Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of spiritual value, to pass on to their children.

Above all, one must keep on trusting God by faith where he can not see, and wait for the storm to pass.

Adam and Eve passed on their knowledge of God and that's was the point of people's faith.

The «Second Reconstruction» through which we are now passing underscores the need for the faith «that has brought us thus far on the way.»

It is right to ask, as do the authors of Speaking the Christian God, whether the faith we are passing on to the next generation is in continuity with the faith of the past, even as it is continually reformed.

The statistical reality, so far as I can tell, is that Judaism in the contemporary world is far more threatened by a simple lack of interest by Jews in Judaism, and hence an inability to pass on (as a religious faith) beliefs that are not broadly held.

Edward Holloway, the founder of the Faith Movement, who died in March 1999, was amongst those deeper and subtler minds who early on recognised the passing of the «old synthesis» and the urgent need for a development of theology and doctrine to meet the needs of the times.

In this Year of Faith, the theme is that of upholding and passing on the Catholic Faith.

Overall, I think Douthat's version of the conservative story pays too much attention to popes and bishops and ecclesiastical politics, and too little to the hows and whys and results of the collapse of the institutions and processes by which the faith had been passed on from one generation to the next.

Popular applications of theories about stages of faith can give the impression that there is a developmental sequence, through which most children and youths in the church can or do pass on the way to becoming adult Christians.

A faith practice is one of those things that must be passed on, handed down.

He wants us to finish well, and one of the ways we do this is by passing on our values and our faith to those who will follow us.»

He explains, «My T cell level is at an all - time high giving me a zero per cent chance of passing on the virus... miracles have been persistent in my life, therefore faith has been persistent in my life.»

The Second Vatican Council's Dei Verbum could say: «There is a growth in insight into the realities and words that are being passed on... [coming] from the intimate sense of spiritual realities which they experience... The Holy Spirit himself constantly perfects faith by his gifts, so that they may be more and more profoundly understood.»

Be that as it may, for the people of our age, likewise seeking Truth amidst the shallowness and relativism of the day, these solid and substantial meditations on the dogmas and doctrines of our Catholic Faith may well come as a refreshing change amidst so much that passes for «spirituality» in the contemporary Church.

They become more excited by the faith and want to pass the faith on.

The leaders of the University» faculty, administrators, and trustees» have a responsibility of stewardship to pass on to future generations the heritage of faith at Notre Dame.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

It means better church schools and Christian schools of higher learning so that the heritage of our faith may be passed on more fully and vitally to oncoming generations and so that adults may understand more accurately the foundations of their faith.

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