Sentences with phrase «pilgrimage which»

The Sacred Mayan Journey is an event that brings to present one of the oldest traditions of the Mayan culture; the pilgrimage which, year after year, was performed by the Mayan canoeist paddling towards the island of Cozumel to worship the goddess Ixchel with offerings and in search of the divine message from the goddess for the maya people.

Even if we picture the goal of the pilgrimage as a sort of peasant paradise, it will be far more practical than setting out on a pilgrimage which has no goal....

I attended myself back in 2000 in Rome, and I can assure you it was no picnic, but rather a spiritual pilgrimage which has had a lasting effect on me.

The area attracts millions of Muslims each year, especially during the Hajj pilgrimage which starts next month.

Entrepreneurs are always on a pilgrimage which finally leads to the realm of the Spirit... Inexorably, one has to end up in the field of the ultimate.

Not exact matches

Which means we're stuck trying to make the best of the faithful pilgrimages.

The Archbishop of York has completed a six - month pilgrimage across his diocese, which spans 2661 square... More

Then we will see that our actual existence is, from the viewpoint of the inherited ontology of nature and grace, «mixed» from its origin and at every step, «a pilgrimage in which the miracle of divine love... is the most ordinary of events.»

She has even performed Haj pilgrimage (which I haven't yet (how shameful).

As for the somewhat chaotic condition in the Vatican in the latter years of the pontificate — not to mention the poor preparation for the 2012 pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, which seems to have had an impact far beyond the Caribbean — why did Pope Benedict not ind himself a more competent «prime minister» than Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose record as Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwise?

CNN: iReporters: 5 life lessons from the Hajj Millions of Muslims began the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, which represents one of the largest annual human gatherings on the planet.

The festival which comes after the conclusion of the annual pilgrimage is accompanied by animal sacrifice.

The minor details in practices associated with the pilgrimage are only variations which developed in the different schools of law and are not significant.

The two religious festivals sanctioned by Islam and observed by the Sunnis are the Id al - Fitr, the Little Festival, which comes at the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting, and the Id al - Adha, the Great Festival, which comes after the pilgrimage.

Pilgrimage remains one of the vital pillars of Islam, wisely instituted by the Qur» an and Sunnah as a form of worship which brings Muslims closer to God and to each other.

The pilgrimage is an annual form of congregational worship in which those Muslims who are able to make the trip assemble from all over the world at Mecca, the home of the revelation to Muhammad (may God bless him).

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.»

But in the meantime the non-religious concerns of the earlier prophets had found new forms of expression in the emerging institution of the synagogue, which pioneered quite a new phase m man's spiritual pilgrimage.

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

The Hijaz is called the Holy Land, for there stands the Ka «ba, which is the goal of thousands of pilgrims every year, and nearby is Arafat where pilgrims slaughter their sacrifices at the great Feast of the Sacrifice (Id al - Qurban) which terminates the pilgrimage.

He did this mainly through his poetry, which so brilliantly displays the moral incoherence of our time, and recounts his own pilgrimage of faith.

Justin Welby has described his 12 day trip, which draws to a close on Friday, as a «pastoral pilgrimage».

Whether it's a mission trip, a pilgrimage or a holiday, time away can bring fresh perspective which means life is never the same again.

I recently read Charles Foster's book, The Sacred Journey, which, according to the back cover, is a book about calling Christians to go on a pilgrimage.

As with the Passover, these other holy days were holidays on which the people made a pilgrimage to Yahweh's sanctuary (v. 16).

As Hull says, «Ultimate reality was not to be sought in a set of timeless facts which maybe mastered at any moment, but in companionship with the Spirit of truth who leads one on a pilgrimage of discovery.»

It is part of «The Ancient Practices Series» of which, I have previously read two other books (the volumes on Pilgrimage and Sabbath).

As a result, «ideas of purity and impurity» which were so pervasive in the lives of Hindus have become much weaker, and in the life - style of the middle class they are «becoming confined to rites of passage, pilgrimages and a few festivals».

Our purpose was to encourage New York City to give permanent recognition to its Muslim community by adding two holidays observed by Muslims to the public school calendar: Eid ul - Fitr, which celebrates the end of Ramadan, the sacred month of fasting and Eid Ul - Adha, which celebrates the end of the Hajj, the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca.

«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding occasions, for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).

Finally, we shall state the key concept by which a Christian conception of history can maintain fidelity to the facts and yield a more sobered but still hopeful view of the long pilgrimage of man.

Rejecting the pseudo-Lutheran view which attempted to justify existence in this world as only being on a pilgrimage, Bonhoeffer now declares that a man «takes up his position against the world in the world; the calling is the place at which the call of Christ is answered, the place at which a man lives responsibly.

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.

We have reviewed, then, two ways in which the Christian mind has tried to grasp the infinite mystery of the human pilgrimage.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

We shall get our bearings by setting forth in this first chapter the two different ways in which Protestant thought today describes our human pilgrimage and defines the kind of hope which is possible for those who believe that God is, and that he has made himself known to us in Jesus Christ.

This is known as the «farewell pilgrimage,» during which the Prophet received the divine message that his mission was fulfilled and foresaw that the end of his life was near.

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.

This pilgrimage was an ancient devotion, into which Philip and his followers breathed new life.

Muhammad taught that Islam is based on the Five Virtues, the Five Pillars, which are the repetition of the Word of Witness, praying, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage.

Id al - Adha, also called Id al - Qurban, the festival at the end of the pilgrimage, is the Great Festival at which Muslims from all over the world gather at the mosques to worship and then kill animals to memorialize the story of Abraham and Ishimael and their willingness to obey the authority of God.

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Especially was it thought that a pilgrimage to the land that had been trod by the feet of the Saviour of the world, to the Holy City that had witnessed his martyrdom, was a peculiarly pious undertaking, and one which secured for the pilgrim the special favor and blessing of Heaven.

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.

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.

Dante's pilgrimage toward the vision of God which begins with the love of Beatrice is an archetypal account of this pilgrimage.

On this fiftieth anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, thanks are also due to the Israeli authorities for the care they have taken to make genuine pilgrimage possible throughout the Holy City, which is far more open to people of all faiths today than it was when the city was divided between 1948 and 1967.

Everyone on this earthly pilgrimage is presented, sooner or later, with two ways: the easy way of indifference and self - indulgence which leads inevitably to death and destruction and the more difficult way of hard choices and self - denying experiences, the end of which is life.

Might it have been because he knew the goal was now within his reach, that after three hard years of testing, trial, stress and many disappointments, giving, always giving, pouring out his mind, his heart, his very soul, spilling forth so readily the vibrant life that was within him in acts of healing, feeding, loving, might it have been with some relief he caught sight of the end of his long journey, glimpsed the goal which, fearful though it was to us, to him would mean fulfillment of his task, the long - expected climax and conclusion of his pilgrimage?

Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age, Gods breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heav»n and earth; Engine against th» Almightie, sinner's towre, Reversed thunder, Christ - side - piercing spear, The six daies world - transposing in an houre, A kinde of tune, which all things heare and...