Sentences with phrase «priests used»

When I was in college I learned that Greek priests used to come on stage before a play and bless the stage, invoking the Gods» blessing.

Our guide explained that Incan priests used to pour llama blood (usually that of a black llama) into the channels as part of a ritual to determine how next year's crop would perform.

One thing that I do see happening here with the Catholic church is a breakdown of its foundations as rouge priests used their positions of leadership and trust to use the little children entrusted to them.

I'm glad so many Catholics are proudly paying the victims of abuse since it's almost certain that none of those priests used any contraceptives while they were r a p i n g children.

Actually those are interesting hats, because they are very similar to the hats the Jewish priests used to wear.

Our Lord would have used the same prayers and psalms as the Levitical priests used, and these would have been in Aramaic.

The chief priests used the money to buy a field known as the potter's field, but the people of Jerusalem named it Akeldama, meaning in Aramaic «Field of Blood.»

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

He fashioned the Urim and the Thummim - which in the Old Testament were «divine dice» the priests used to cast lots but Smith insisted were «see - er stones» - into spectacles through which he looked and the hieroglyphics were magically translated into mangled King James English.

In the Third Eucharistic Prayer, the priest used to say only «see the Victim.»

Being translated: These troubled priests use language similar to Stafford's, ergo Stafford is responsible for their troubles.

Cindi, my sentiments exactly, for YHWH is love for all, and I have mentioned before that many of these high priest used to take these laws into their own convenience to use, changing them.

Hi reading that I was just reminding what my parish priest used to say: «Bible is like old women skin you can stretch wherever you want.

There's a lump in your throat as you hear the surviving victims describe just how priests use their power to lure kids in and how kids believe they should trust their priests.

Many of the film's priests use shame liberally, but one young priest — played with vigour by Sherlock «s Andrew Scott — offers hope and understanding.

«When a priest uses any object in performing a ceremony, that object becomes endowed with... something like [a spirit], the priests call it tonwan or ton.

Not exact matches

A priest in Italy, already known for an iPhone application, has now developed an app for the iPad that would give priests the ability to celebrate Mass using the popular tablet computer from Apple Inc., rather than the traditional missal.

Study not what the priest, books, and profits tell you but how relgion has acted as has been used through man kind's written history and «goodwill» becomes very debatable.

«Responsible homosexuals would join Paul in condemning anyone who uses children for sex, just as we would join anyone else in condemning the threatened gang rape in Sodom or the behavior of the sex - crazed priests and priestesses in Rome.

«but apparently the priest was fine and dandy with giving communion to the 90 % of Catholics who use or have used birth control?»

More «Catholic priests are a bunch of pedophiles» and «I'm against pedophiles» posts by people who really know very little about pedophile statistics and just use these areticles to vent their anti-catholic prejudices.

25,383 — using the current USCCB rate of victims per priest (2.6) and the New Hampshire level of accused priests (8.9 %)

@ Fred — but apparently the priest was fine and dandy with giving communion to the 90 % of Catholics who use or have used birth control?

I don't see any fault in pastors, priests, rabbis, etc using tools to get the word out.

Women can't be priests, women can't use contraception, women have to wear burka's, women can't go to school, women can't be rabbi's, women obey your husband's every command.

It is also my understanding that women have chosen to use birth control without the consent of their priest — good for them.

Are priests forbidden to use condoms when they molest little boys?

Using two bearded vicars in East London - which has a large Bangladeshi Muslim community - as an example, he said: «The of the most energetic priests in East London have recently grown beards of an opulence that would not have disgraced a Victorian sage.

Are you serious this is the last thing we should be concerned about when it comes to Catholic church what about priest (I use that word loosely they are sleeping with the choir boys and when they get caught they move them to another church so they can start again to me that is what they need to change in the church in the name of JESUS I pray for that right now!!!

The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on temple activities, bathing before the offerings for a fee, dressing for going to the temple, for a fee, buying the offerings, for a fee, paying the priests, temple entrance fees, food prep fees, growing and feeding the animals for the sacrifices, being paid for them, in the thousands and thousands at festival times, ALL in Jewish currency only, which was required for their rituals, and most people used Roman currency for their civil affairs.

The Church of England is examining proposals which could see priests who break the law stopped from using... More

The Archbishop of Baltimore did docu - ment that if a married couple had good reason to use birth control (ie on gets HI - V from tainted blood) and the discuss their si - tu - ation with their priest and pray to God for guidance and they come to the con - clu - sion the should use birth control the can rest a-s-su-re-d they are making a moral decision.

The Hebrew word for work is the same word used of the priest's work in the Temple.

There are many who use God's name for evil, including priests, judges, and politicians.

For instance, the left uses it to agitate for married priests while the right uses it to indict the bishops for general laxity in enforcing orthodox faith and life.

Secondly, as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... This is exactly what happens when a gay priest turned professor what to justify his perverted lifestyle... I rest my case

The willingness to use the «abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus» (to borrow from Jefferson) takes a «different» kind of personal morals than I am equipped with.

The Greek word used refers to the ritual side of religion, the Temple's priests and sacrifices and holiness codes.

I also chose to be known as Father Wil when I became a priest so that the male priests and I would have the same title — which in that church they also used for God.

This seems to be the line which the distinguished priest - philosopher Martin Rhonheimer develops (certainly beyond Pope's Paul's intention) in his recent controversial suggestion that certain uses of the condom within marriage are permissible.

Because of the plentiful supply of priests at Faith movement activities use of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion is never appropriate, even by our local Church's, creative interpretation of the relevant recently updated norms.

He brings up women priests and bishops, the blessing of same - sex «unions» and «marriages» (he uses the quotation marks), and the ordination of homosexuals.

Strange since when the signs were given that it didn't actually change the minds of the Baal priests, and since the reason for Elijah doing it had nothing to do with proving the Baal priests minds, you really don't have any frame of reference to use the sign showing challenge to disprove belief.

There was another woman priest but she used a different title and I felt was seen / placed in a different category.

Did the priests get to use their «free will»?

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest at Georgetown University, said the bishops» statement used «strong and uncompromising» language while not becoming inflammatory.

The practice of psychotherapy as the only real ministry to their congregation has led the Suffragan Bishop of Washington, Paul Moore, Jr., to write: «Too many priests forget their priestliness when they learn some of the basic skills of counseling — or perhaps they have not been trained properly in the use of priestly techniques and therefore are not confident in their exercise.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

No, the cardinal had used the occasion of an Ash Wednesday statement to declare that he would instruct his priests and other church workers not to cooperate with any federal regulation requiring citizens to snitch on illegal immigrants.