Sentences with phrase «pilgrim people»

In this model, the church uses the language of peoplehood, of being a pilgrim people, strangers and aliens in the territory in which they find themselves, citizens of the reign of God.

At its best, confession is a way of telling the story that bears a pilgrim people from past to present to future.

In a church which understands itself as God's pilgrim people, called to confront new challenges, church leaders have a double duty.

This is the more strange because the more deeply a concern is loaded with history, the past, things accomplished long ago, the more a church understands herself as a «pilgrim people of God» — that is, called, continuous, on the way, starting with a constitutive deed and living out her life in a hope which is both a given and an awaited consummation — the more clearly the church understands that, the more embarrassing her problem with a flat and impoverished language.

For she is the pilgrim people of God which makes its way through history in freedom.

It is a portable sanctuary, for they are still a pilgrim people destined to wander for some forty years as nomads in the wilderness, learning, worshiping, preparing for the day when they claim the Land of the Promise and make it their holy land forever.

Yet on the part of the people there are times of both light and darkness, fidelity and infidelity, obedience, and rebellion; times of being a pilgrim people and times of being a people adrift.

Though the church historian, as a person of like faith, must walk on common ground with all the pilgrim people of God, perhaps he or she may see just a bit more clearly as together they strain toward their first glimpse of that eternal «city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God» (Heb.11: 10).»

She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.

Clearly, it is within the canon of most religious traditions themselves to regard their followers as a pilgrim people whose tents must always, in a sense, be in motion through the wilderness.

This dramatic vision of the universal church in no way minimizes or mitigates the importance of the local congregation, the covenanted community of God's pilgrim people which regularly gathers to worship, praise, sing, pray, proclaim, discipline, love, serve, and send.

Perhaps the most persuasive witness of the church to the Jewish people would be for Christians to live as a pilgrim people engaged in the practice of the imperatives of the gospel.

In fact, however, the Christians as the pilgrim people of God have been given the absolute command to hope, and this includes that they must always abandon also fossilized social structures.

Israel was a pilgrim people liberated from Egyptian bond - age in quest of a promised land that was to be theirs by a Providential Will that directed them toward a glorious future.

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A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim.

At 62, I have already lived most of my life and I don't quite care about heaven or Hell but I do care about the people with whom I share the earth, my fellow pilgrims, so yes, I would still stick with the Jesus thing as it helps me to remember to be humble, charitable and mindful in my daily walk so that I can contribute positively to the existence of others.

ROME (AP)-- A tour bus filled with Italian pilgrims plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night and smashed into several cars that had slowed in heavy traffic, killing at least 36 people, said police and rescuers.

Upon arriving in America (the Pilgrims being the first to arrive in 1620), the journey began for the search of the «perfect» religion that could satisfy the needs of the people.

«In 1987, however, Iranian pilgrims incited a riot that killed more than 400 people».

Organizers said 400,000 pilgrims from around the world had registered, though the crowds are expected to be much larger as people try to catch a glimpse of the pontiff known as the «people's pope.»

Oh, pilgrims walking by oblivious, your minds, it seems, on something not at hand, can you have come from such a distant land» the way you look suggests as much to us» that you're not weeping, even as you pass right through the suffering city, like that band of people who, it....

«Everyone arrives at the same time, at exactly the same place, and every year there are more and more people,» said Dr Husna Ahmed, principal author of «The Green Guide for Hajj,» a booklet promoting ecologically - sustainable practices among Hajj pilgrims, released earlier this week.

(CNN)- An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, said to be the largest annual gathering of people in the world.

«Lord,» inquired the pilgrim, «after all the people had been fed with the bread and fish, you said to your disciples: «Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost» (John 6:12).

At Mecca all pilgrims stand on equal footing whether rich or poor, rulers or ordinary people, scholars or laborers.

A railroad station crush left 36 people dead Sunday among tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims flocking to the banks of the Ganges River for the world's largest religious gathering, authorities reported.

Although we occupy a different time and place than our friend Chaucer, we are a people no less laughable and in need of grace than his pilgrims.

It becomes a pilgrim community in which people grow by sharing their experiences and insights.

We know from the other Gospel accounts that most of these people here were pilgrims from Galilee (many of them were disciples; Luke 19:37) or Jericho (Matt 20:29).

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

So as these pilgrims were approaching Jerusalem, they would be singing the final few lines of Psalm 118, and as they did, the throngs of people, the multitudes would welcome them by joining them in singing.

Islamic State said it was responsible for a gun attack targeting a bus carrying Coptic Christian pilgrims on Friday which killed 29 people.

The appeal did not result in a formal youth council, but Taizé became the meeting point of thousands of young people, especially at Easter, with more and more young «pilgrims» participating in the prayers of the monastic community.

Nothing but Killer Sharks they are those occupying Israel sending people out of their houses, out of their lands, out of their country land... showering people with illegal weapons... killing infants, children, youth, young and elderly women and men mercilessly... what Shalom or peace is that what religion is that what worshippers or pilgrims are those if this was supposed to be a Holy Land..??

The quotation from Psalm 118:26 in verse 9 was employed as a greeting for any pilgrim coming to a religious festival; verse 10 does refer specifically to the messianic kingdom, but the people probably have in mind the popular political hope.

After sunset, the people of Jerusalem, and the numerous pilgrims up for the feast, turned to the celebration of Passover; for this was the day set for it in the official calendar.

Thus the Church remains what she is and always has been, the people that has no abiding city here on earth, the pilgrim seeking the eternal home which is realized through this very pilgrimage because it has still to be built.

Sheen is in the UK to promote The Way, a film about an unlikely pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago (the «Way of St James», a Catholic pilgramage through France and Spain walked than more than 100,000 people each year).

Louise Morse from Christian charity Pilgrims» Friends Society told Premier why elderly people shouldn't feel downcast.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

To say, then, that the Word «dwelt among us» is to say that the Word chooses as target the heart of the common life of the people of God, wherever that might be in their pilgrim wanderings.

«So we've got a thing called «mountain pilgrims» which is sort of beginning to be a fresh expression of church which is encouraging people to make a link between natural beauty and the sense of awe and wonder which they feel at that and then a sense of awe and wonder at the Creator who created this wonderful beauty.»

The monasteries also opened their doors to pilgrims and other travelers and no doubt offered them medical care when it was required, as well as to the lay people who served them.

In each case these holy people treated the bodies of the dead neither as a bother or embarrassment, nor an idol or Icon, nor just a shell, They treated the dead like one of our own, precious to the people who loved them, temples of the Holy Spirit, neighbors, family, fellow pilgrims.

Oh, pilgrims walking by oblivious, your minds, it seems, on something not at hand, can you have come from such a distant land» the way you look suggests as much to us» that you're not weeping, even as you pass right through the suffering city, like that band of people who, it seems, don't understand a thing about the measure of its loss?

In the act of doing the work that leads to the development of persons, the intimation of reality that is the driving image behind it makes reality present, just as Mecca becomes present in the midst of a pilgrim's journey.

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Stephen, seeing as how the Separatists (sorry, can't use the term Pilgrims) survived the first couple of weeks on food caches they stole from the Wampanoag, and then those same Native Americans taught them how to farm in the poor New England soil, they definitely had more to thank the local Native population for than most people give them credit.

In my experience, judgmental leaders or members of the Church always ultimately reveal that any persons, who judge other pilgrims or attempt to control grace, have no true experience of grace for themselves.

Mr. Prothero... the pilgrims thanked the indigenous people with a feast for SAVING THEIR LIVES when they couldn't fend for themselves.