Sentences with phrase «rather than priest»

It became a model for Protestant states, where generally the prince, rather than a priest, was head of the church, and at the highest level directed its affairs.

The Spirit - blessed congregation, rather than the priest or bishop, represents the presence of Christ for Volf.

Ministers begin to see their role as the CEO of an organsiation rather than priest / preacher / pastor etc of God's flock.

They are not rabbis, who are teachers rather than priests, though a cohen can become a rabbi.

Not exact matches

«They'd rather have videos of people telling stories about their loved one than maybe a priest just sort of reading just out loud,» he said.

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.

Paul Mariani's poem «Solar Ice,» which centers on a Mass, has a «preconciliar» feel, as a «clear demarcation of place and hierarchy exists between the priest, who is titled the equivalent of God rather than his profession, and the lay congregation.»

The cardinal accepted that abusing priests were routinely moved from parish to parish rather than being defrocked, and the word of clergy was often taken as more trustworthy than children claiming they were abused.

I don't doubt that there was (and will be) pressure from the Vatican for priests to request laicization, rather than the Church kicking them out.

The question is not really about a celibate priest loving God more than a married one; that is disingenuous and rather unhelpful.

Might the priest facing in the same direction as the faithful be more expressive in some ways of the meaning of the Old Testament priesthood rather than the priesthood of Christ?

In the 1970s, priests who were reported to be abusers of children were quietly sent for psychiatric treatment to be treated, rehabilitated, and reintegrated into parish ministry, rather than punished according to canon law.

They then attempted to deflect, confuse, and deny when the scandals broke rather than take responsibility and hand those priest over to the law.

Of course it is the case that there are many priests, whose orientation is homosexual rather than heterosexual, who live chaste and holy lives.

I looked at Leviticus ch 7 and there was no reference there to a milk offering rather than a blood offering and to do with the skin of the animal, that was to be given to the priest.

Morebath is a small sheep «farming village on the southern edge of Exmoor, and from 1520 to 1574 its parson, Sir Christopher Trychay (Catholic priests were then called «Sir» rather than «Father»), kept minute and still extant accounts of church life, which was then coterminous with village life.

«The religious services rendered to these are intended to deprecate anger rather than to seek benefits: but in no case is lust to be gratified, or wickedness practised, as pleasing to these deities,» observed Baker, Jr. 13 Each village or hill had «devil - priests» and their role was significant in controlling or containing the impact of spirits.

Ireland had just had an election then, and the newly elected Prime Minister, Enda Kenny (now triumphing over his referendum result) in one of his first speeches in the Parliamentary chamber, blamed the Vatican for everything whilst the visitation was underway, thus undermining it completely — as though it were Italian or French priests and Cardinals who were guilty of the Irish abuses, conveniently letting the locals off the hook, and redirecting the anger towards Church discipline and teaching rather than criminal individuals.

The priests deserve a chance to have their own say on their own terms, rather than to be blended into some homogenous «biblical» view.

Like Lily Connor and Kathryn Koerney, Clare Fergusson is a tomboy priest, a firmer army pilot who'd rather be out saving the world than raising funds to repair the roof of historic Millers Kill Episcopal Church.

Moreover, I argued on theological grounds that women should demand ordination as bishops rather than just as deacons and priests.

Second, one of the primary purposes of the citation of this psalm in the Letter to the Hebrews is to defend Yeshua's priestly role against the charge that he could not function as a priest because he was descended from Judah rather than Levi (Hebrews 7:11 — 17).

Last year he received widespread media attention when he declared that he would engage in civil disobedience rather than comply with a law requiring him to report illegal immigrants, and he directed priests and other church workers to follow his lead.

Rather than being a Roman leader who could have been cowed into acceding to the wishes of Jewish priests and a Jewish mob, they depict a man who had no compunction killing troublesome Jews and with little respect for Jewish concerns.

He claimed authorities would've made greater efforts to release him if he was a European rather than Indian priest.

They were recalling the church from its newfound privilege of the ministry to diakonia and service; and they generally included friars or brothers, since monk or priest had come to connote privilege rather than service.

In her study of Protestant and Catholic attitudes about «the Christian home» between 1840 and 1900, Colleen McDannell shows how Protestants came to rely on the mother, rather than the father, as the priest in the home.

If she can do that, then she may enable her brothers and sisters in Christ to claim their baptismal commission to be siblings in Christ and priests to one another rather than detached strangers or consumers of individual therapy.

The reform of parishes is long over due and if the Synod serves to galvanize bishops, priests and lay people to turn their attention to parish life, it will be a felix culpa rather than a disaster.

It immediately eliminates any possibility of anonymity, which is a penitent's right in Canon Law, turning the priest into a guru rather than the minister of God's healing grace.

The Tabletatura, of course, hate the whole thing; and they object particularly to the reception of communities rather than individuals, quite simply because far more will come, numerically, under this dispensation than under what previously obtained: i.e., special fast - track arrangements for clergy wanting reordination (this has helped substantially with the shortage of priests) but the old business of «individual submission» for the laity, and off with them to some denatured liturgy at the ghastly concrete Catholic barracks down the road.

It would be great if everyone would live as the Bible suggests, but then how could it be expected when every other teacher, pastor, and priest is either gay or a pedophile and their leader the pope would rather shuffle them around rather than remove them from «service» to God.

What we priests need to live our celibacy faithfully and joyfully is a moral perspective that sees ourselves as made in God's image and called to eternal communion with Him, rather than one based on casuist haggling over the sixth and ninth commandments,» says Fr.

Rather than censure nuns why not open the priesthood to marriage and married priests.

In the first instance, it suggests that the priest - celebrant is the master of the divine liturgy rather than its servant.

A younger generation of priests, in this as in much else, is looking to the Church's authentic teaching rather than to ideas and slogans.

He was neither patriarch nor archbishop, and it is not always easy for those who direct the affairs of assemblies involving high ecclesiastical dignitaries to estimate adequately the services of those who have been the prophets rather than the high priests of such a movement.

When in a polemical rather than a romantic mood, Luther later referred to it as a «nest of priests»; they were one in ten of the population.

The people became passive observers rather than participants in worship, and movement and gesture became the sole property of the priests.

He was received as king rather than as prophet, priest, elder or president.

I'm sure that those molested by priests would have preferred signs that said «go godless» rather than what their religious leaders had in store for them.

In Anglicanism discipline is accepted rather than imposed; and many priests have found value in membership in devotional societies bound together by a common rule of life, some independent and some associated with religious orders.32

Despite his own monastic formation, this eloquent preacher to the turbulent, variegated «audiences» of the two Eastern capitals was certain that monks were not the best fitted for the role of priests, but rather those «who, though having their life and conversation among men, yet can preserve their purity, their calm, their piety, and patience, and soberness, and all other good qualities of monks more unbroken and steadfast than those hermits do themselves.»

36 Rather than being the New Testament counterpart of the Old Covenantal priest, as, for example, in Clement and the Didache, 13.

With dark, sure eyes and the serene expression of a Buddhist priest, he now conveys an air of patience rather than of speed.

Take lots pictures of your baby (sooner rather than later as your child's coloring will change) Dress, hold and clothe your child Spend as much time as you want with your child Have a priest and other family members visit and see your child Get foot and handprints

Ratzinger chose to protect the priests rather than the kids they were raping.

The priest insisted that rather than the said cabal, Buhari should be blamed for the problems in the country.

6) Become a priest only to realize that you shouldve gone with the sugar baby rather than the alter boy.

People confess their deepest secrets to a search engine rather than to a priest.