Sentences with phrase «pilgrimage churches»

In the 1200s this cathedral became one of the most important pilgrimage churches throughout Europe.

Drive to Ždár nad Sázavou in Moravia and visit the pilgrimage church, built in honour of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora.

Not exact matches

And perhaps I may be permitted to note two recent books of my own: Roman Pilgrimage: The Stations Churches (Basic Books), co-authored with Elizabeth Lev and my son Stephen, and Practicing Catholic: Essays Historical, Literary, Sporting, and Elegiac (Crossroad).

A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries, where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.

They allowed the Church to establish new seminaries, reopen monasteries, ordain young candidates to the priesthood, develop publishing and media activities free of censorship, and organize pilgrimages within Russia and to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Europe.

Can the church effectively assign a day of penitence or reasonably expect a pilgrimage of preparation to begin and end according to the church calendar?

Perhaps its signiicance in the future may be for Moslem pilgrimages, attracted by the extraordinary link with the founder of their religion, open in new ways to the truth of Christ and the Church.

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

The love of a man and a woman, lived out in the power of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the fullness of the eternal wedding.»

No complete system of Christian faith is yet possible, for the Church is still on her pilgrimage.

On a pilgrimage to Fatima, Pope Benedict XVI spoke movingly about the continuing role of suffering in the life of the Church and thus of the Pope.

These three walked the Lenten station church pilgrimage in preparation for this book, which features biblical exposition, stunning photographs, and expert historical comment.

He is also a board member of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and the director of racial reconciliation pilgrimages for the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.

, Newman saw these assorted proto - revelations as themselves signs, not just of the presence of God's logoi spermatikoi in all of human society but also as pathmarkers for the Church's evangelizing pilgrimage through salvation history, a journey he describes in one of the most magnificent passages in his Essay on Development:

It explains why they built the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the most important Christian pilgrimage site in the world, in Jerusalem, right above the place where they believe Jesus rose from the dead.

Though he seemed barely capable of affection for his family (his occasional devotions to Holly were not fully reciprocated), in late middle age he began an impassioned study of his genealogy, and the bare Pennsylvania church yards where his ancestors lay buried became sites of pilgrimage for him.

Every time we venture to church, we make a small pilgrimage.

But now the original sense of pilgrimage as a concretely physical spiritual practice is being recovered by broad sections of the Christian community and by people beyond the church's walls as well.

For instance, Telos pilgrimage participants meet Rev. Mitri Raheb, the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem.

One would think that a Christian Prince from a church in Idaho would make a pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, now a World Heritage site & the Church of the Holy Sepulchre *, Jerusalem, built by the Christian Prince, Constachurch in Idaho would make a pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, now a World Heritage site & the Church of the Holy Sepulchre *, Jerusalem, built by the Christian Prince, ConstaChurch of the Nativity, Bethlehem, now a World Heritage site & the Church of the Holy Sepulchre *, Jerusalem, built by the Christian Prince, ConstaChurch of the Holy Sepulchre *, Jerusalem, built by the Christian Prince, Constantine!

I am sure that many tourists will get used to paying for church, while the faithful on pilgrimage or tour should be scandalized.

This ruin housing the bare and fractured bones of once magnificent churches could never again become the place of pilgrimage, inspiration and learning it once had been, I thought.

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.

It's hard to believe that it's been five years since my son, Stephen, and I spent two months in Rome — all of Lent and Easter Week — preparing a book that would allow readers to make the city's ancient Lenten station church pilgrimage at home.

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

The particular diversion which Philip devised for use during the Carnival was a pilgrimage on foot to the «Seven Churches», the seven most ancient and important basilicas of Rome, a tour which lasted an evening and a day.

Though he had been on a three - year pilgrimage, had «devoured» churches like a religious fanatic, his God was the art of an alien religion, and he was not at peace.

An analysis of how a church converted to the world nevertheless could remain distinguishable from it occupied George Webber's God's Colony in Man's World.16 He conveyed images, which other works later amplified,» of pilgrimage and poverty distinctly Christian yet subordinate to society at large.

The awesome number of local church services, showings of Luther films, pilgrimages and ecumenical programs; the array of displays in Europe and America; the lectureships and conferences — these all suggest some promise.

The churches of the WCC are on a pilgrimage towards unity under the missionary vision of John 17:21, «that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me».

Prayer, the Church's banquet, angels» age, God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian's plummet sounding heaven and earth.

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

The Council helped us to see that the church too is on pilgrimage, led by God to the promised consummation of history.

Karl Barth, in his 1939 report to the readers of The Christian Century on «How My Mind Has Changed,» wrote the following concerning his theological pilgrimage during the 1930s: «In these years I had to learn that Christian doctrine, if it is to merit its name and if it is to build up the Christian church in the world as she must needs be built up, has to be exclusively and conclusively the doctrine of Jesus Christ - of Jesus Christ as the living Word of God spoken to us men.»

With regard to the damage done for Christian witness by Christian divisions, the report says: «We believe that unless the pilgrimage route leads the churches to visible unity, in the one God we preach and worship, the one Christ crucified for us all, the one Holy Spirit who creates anew, and the one Kingdom, the mission entrusted to us in this world will always be rightly questioned».56

I had stopped going to church when I was seventeen and had been on a kind of pilgrimage of my own making — a pseudo Eastern - hippy - thing — hardly an ironclad or defendable.

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However, as the barbarians became Christian and either through their conversion or by abandoning Arianism became members of the Catholic Church, they looked to Rome as the geographic center of their faith, made pilgrimages to its shrines, and regarded the Popes as the successors of Peter and as possessing the authority which, they were taught, had been entrusted by Christ, as His representative, to Peter.

The general significance of Jerusalem to Christians outside the Holy Land entered a period of decline during the Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire but resumed again c. 325 when Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Helena, endowed Jerusalem with churches and shrines, making it the foremost centre of Christian pilgrimage, see also Constantine I and Christianity.

When 7 or 8 million Christians make such a pilgrimage, the churches need to ask themselves why they are failing to fulfill believers» needs.

Bethel Church has been a place of pilgrimage for charismatics who travel from across the globe to attend its high - energy ministry conferences.

As the drama played out in radio and television reports, friends and families have drawn together in the churches that sponsored the Holy Land pilgrimage for the Illinois residents.

On the highlights of the programme for the pilgrimage, the minister disclosed that there would be daily prayers and meditation at important and significant sites mentioned in the Bible, boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, worship on MT Camel, the mountain of the prophet Elijah, renewal of wedding vows in the Church of the Miracle of Cana.

On social interventions, he said he provided 100 bags of cement for rehabilitation of churches and mosques, purchased 10 packets of roofing sheets each for some 4 communities (Konkomada, Batiyok, Kpalsako - Champiani - Susudi and Basyonde), ensured absorption of all primary schools in the constituency into the Ghana School Feeding Programme with 90 caterers engaged, supported 7 elders to perform the the Holy Pilgrimage to Mecca (the Hajj) and constructed some market structures at Bulpielise and Nagani.

Saint Margaret's Well was a place of pilgrimage originally situated at Saint Margaret's Church in nearby Restalrig, The medieval well house was moved in 1860 to a natural spring in Holyrood Park.

During the 14th - century heyday of the North Wales pilgrimage, when some 20,000 sick and infirm pilgrims traversed the Llyn en route to a blessing on holy Bardsey Island, this tiny, single - knave church was a key rest spot.

I love the idea of a pilgrimage site slowly developing its facilities for people to visit, to live there for a while and to leave their mark — little churches, walls of votive offerings, town squares, guest houses, fountains, murals, presumably coffee shops.

Players take the role of a fool on a pilgrimage who must repeat the sins he's committed on his journey to be absolved by the local church who can't forgive sins committed outside its parish.

My own pilgrimage there, before art meant such big business, sought a monster landscape by Frederic Edwin Church.

This year's pilgrimage to Marfa on the occasion of Chinati's 25th Anniversary Weekend was well worth the effort, not only for the main events, but for the many other surprises, some in unconventional venues like Tableaux Parisiens, an exhibition of art from and about Paris in an old church called The Do Right Hall, Patrick Keesey at the Marfa Country Clinic, Valerie Arber at the Thunderbird Lodge, and Charles Mary Kubricht at The Marfa Book Company.