Sentences with phrase «responsibility as priest»

In the worship of the community, by the hospital bed, in the home of the neighbor we are confronted by our responsibility as priest - theologians.

Those who know their place as servants in Gods economy here in this life, and their responsibility as priests and kings before God, will heed these not often preached commands of our Lord, following him in the paths of righteousness and peace.

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His statements about priest and king being bound to the land and the people ultimately point back toward a view that sees social and moral responsibility for the common welfare as stemming from a prior relational view of human persons.

This is not a criticism of the Baha'is, but a question about the financial priorities of most religious groups and as a parish priest one of my responsibilities has been to raise money to help preserve some of England's historic village churches.

Somewhat earlier the prophet known as Malachi protested vigorously against the misconduct of the priests and voiced a high ideal of their responsibility:

They these priest had a responsibility to all the nations, to all the people on the earth as taught in Isaiah 56, and this they did not do as taught to us in Malachi 2, of the Levites then, and unbelievably they are here now.

Then the text moved on to a formidable list of reformanda: inadequate procedures for selection and training of priests, pastoral responsibilities allotted to those living elsewhere (Campeggio as Bishop of Salisbury would be an example — but Rome was full of such men who used a part of their salary to pay a vicar to look after their diocese while they did other more congenial work in Rome); the bequeathing of benefices in wills especially to the children of priests, pluralism, failure to correct those who make money by hearing confessions.

So the recommendations of Luther's Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church were being realised; if the officials of the Myth, the Christian bishops and priests, would not themselves reform the Church then secular officials would do it, as Christians with the responsibility to act in society.

Formerly the clergy had been «priests,» finding their primary responsibility at the altar; now they were «ministers,» with preaching and pastoral care as their pre-eminent duties.

Fearless Catholic Bishop of Kafanchan Diocese, Reverend Father Joseph Danlami Bagobiri was on point when, recently, he accused el - Rufai of taking sides with the armed herdsmen, thus failing in his responsibility as a true statesman; and becoming, therefore, a biased umpire who, according to the priest, «blames and criminalises southern Kaduna victims as the cause of the mayhem.»

1996 - 2001: Worked as the Market Researcher for the Judas priest Company, New York with the following responsibilities