Sentences with phrase «sacred day of»

Then was born the «Sabbath», so characteristic of the first covenant, and which foretells the sacred day of the new and final covenant [in Christ].

With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 24/7.

Interesting Story, BUT does anyone else find it offensive that CNN releases this story on EASTER - the most sacred day of the Christian faith?

Christians call them the Triduum Sacru, the three most sacred days of the year, the three most sacred days of all time when time is truly told.

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Your mornings should be held sacred because they set up your mindset for the rest of the day.

3 ««There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly.

The vocation of marriage is the one where people are not keeping sacred their vows these days in comparison to the vocation of priesthood.

The Millerites now set their eyes on October 22, «the tenth day of the seventh month of the Jewish sacred year, as the day of the Lord's advent.»

Instead, it represented a brilliant fusion of two of the great cultural tendencies of our day: the pressing of Hollywood celebrities into positions of cultural authority which gives them powerful influence far beyond their ability to hold a note or to learn a script; and the transformation of the serious and the sacred into the idioms of showbusiness.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)- For the second time in two days, a deadly blast shook a northwest Pakistani city as worshippers marked the sacred holiday of Ashura.

For a long time the Temple in Jerusalem was actually a sacred place, it even was the most sacred place on earth, because the God of Israel had promised, to be present at the Temple (1 Kings 8, 29: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.).

Look to the examples of the Apostles and how they conducted the meeting of the saints on the Lord's Day — this is sacred... It is to be treated as such.

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

Its author lives in another world than the Palestine of Jesus» days — one can scarcely believe that he ever saw Palestine, or knew Judaism and its sacred Scriptures intimately and sympathetically.

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

There's a kind of sharing and intellectual / spiritual intimacy which is only possible after a few days of dining together, learning together, studying our sacred texts together.

If Rome is not, as it was called in the days of the Caesars, the caput mundi, it is nonetheless a place of sacred memory made such by the dual apostolic martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the many others who followed their example.

As the ancient Hebrews turned the mundane calendar into a sacred calendar of holy feasts, and as the early Christians turned the Roman calendar into a sacred calendar of Christian days and seasons, so the practice of the disciplines can create a sacred rhythm to our days, weeks, months and years.

Meditation entailed a memorization of notable content so that the monk could ruminate over the sacred text throughout the day and slowly absorb its nutrients, like a cow chewing its cud.

The Bible, the creeds, the sacred traditions are only pointers to God which must be transcended, explored in the light of each new day.

In northern Europe, where the miracle play had its origin, she starred in such sacred theatrical productions as Dulot's Maria Magdalena, his motet written for Rouen Cathedral, as well as the art of the day.

I'm more interested in that if it is something that is sacred to some of the Ja - panese... and it helps them get through the day, with all that has happened and still happening in their country... that's alright with me.

The five books of the law had been accepted as sacred Scripture for four or five centuries, and for two or three centuries the books of the prophets had been recognized as a second body of sacred literature; but the rest of the Old Testament (known to this day simply as Writings or Scriptures) had not yet been «canonized.»

We hear of fast - days on the Jewish model, but on different days, and the adoption by the Church of the Old Testament as a sacred book played a large part in forming the prayers as well as the instruction of Christians.

All Saints Day on November 1 is probably a sort of spinoff from Samhein - the most sacred holiday on the Pagan / Wiccan Wheel Of The Year, which is October 3of spinoff from Samhein - the most sacred holiday on the Pagan / Wiccan Wheel Of The Year, which is October 3Of The Year, which is October 31.

This day was the first chance the public had to see inside the sacred space for the area's 49,000 Mormons, and it was also one of the last.

This was the curtain that hung before the Holy of Holies, that sacred place where only the high priest might enter, and he only on the Day of Atonement, covered with the blood of sacrifice.

He proceeds sequentially, from the sacred architecture of the Old Testament to the early Christian basilicas, then on to the Byzantine and Romanesque cathedrals and churches, and from there to the Gothic, the classicism of the Renaissance, the baroque and rococo, the neoclassicism and «revival» styles of the nineteenth century, and on to the present day.

But in the mornings, I want to write about the gloriousness of the mundane life, the wonder of all of us walking each other home for another day, the holiness of how we all save each other, every day, we are sacred in our daily rhythms, this is the life we're living and it's right now, and so put the coffee on, there is grace for all of us, there is something holy in just waking up to start all over again, new.

In the dioceses of England Wales the Entrance Chant may be chosen from among the following: the antiphon with its Psalm from the Graduale Romanum or the Graduale Simplex, or another chant that is suited to the sacred action, the day, or the time of year, and whose text has been approved by the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales.»

There remain two modern American sacred books to be considered at somewhat greater length, viz., Science and Health Key to the Scriptures, and the peculiar sacred writings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

In one sense, the music lives in our civil religion — in our celebration of sacred days, sacred places and revered leaders.

CNN: As worshipers gather, Pakistani city endures second deadly blast in two days For the second time in two days, a deadly blast shook a northwest Pakistani city as worshippers marked the sacred holiday of Ashura.

And tomorrow when we rise and work all over again, I usually find it — whatever you call it, the Holy Spirit, your muse, your words, your inspiration — rushes into the vacuum left by the sacred act of imperfect creation and again, there is enough for yet another day.

That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way... It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men.

In a day when jihadist violence is an almost - daily occurrence, apologists for Islam sometimes claim religious equivalence — asserting that the sacred texts of the Judeo - Christian tradition have their own incitements to violence.

Becoming like God, sharing in the fullness of the divine life, is a hope that is meant to inform and often enough really does inform the Sunday worship, the still more sacred temple ordinances, and the daily life of Latter - day saints.

This is a well - meaning but bungling and imprecise transfer from the saga of Moses, who spent forty days and forty nights on the sacred mountain.

4 ««These are the Lord's appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: 5The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Many of the elements basic to a Christian way of life were first basic to a Jewish way of life: a reverence for the Scriptures; a sense of the sacred; respect for the law; humility before the transcendent; the cherishing of the human capacity for reflection and choice; the sharp taste of the existing (as distinct from non-existing), and of being (as opposed to nonbeing), and therefore of the blessed contingency of this created world; the practice of compassion; the ideal of friendship with God and of «walking with God»; the habit of prayer; and a sense of the presence of God during the activities of every day — all these are habits of life that Christians share with Jews and have learned from Judaism.

With the other monks he slept in the large upstairs dormitory, ate in the refectory, listening to suitable reading at the same time; and had his stall in the church for the services which were patterned across the day and some of the night These services were centred on the recitation of the sacred poetry of the Jews, the 150 Psalms, which the early Jewish Christians had continued to recite when they became followers of Jesus, and which had become the staple Christian prayer.

If Jesus allowed for breaking the honored Sabbath laws so as to provide for healing or gleaning, though the ancient laws forbade these on the sacred day, would he not also allow for a suspension of the proscription against divorce if such were to liberate a person from the bondage of an intolerable marriage?

As much as I am outside of my comfort zone here (I do not attend church - nor plan on doing so ever again, I have plenty of non-christian friends but not one Christian friend in my current city, I DJ at a bar, I run a radio that plays secular music (yet everything is sacred), I work a regular day job, I struggle with financial hardship and responsibilities I never asked for..., I sometimes have fear of the future and many times my faith dwindles... Some days I cry because I support my family and I feel just really tired...) despite all this fractured humanity that I am....

We are «the church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints»; we are just nicknamed «Mormon» because of another testament we hold sacred and true.

Muharram — first month of the Muslim calendar; the first ten days are sacred for the Shi`a festival in memory of the death of Husain.

We have now amongst us a sister whose lot it has been to be favored with sundry gifts of revelation, which she experiences in the Spirit by ecstatic vision amidst the sacred rites of the Lord's Day in the church; she converses with angels, and sometimes even with the Lord; she both sees and hears mysterious communications; some men's hearts she understands, and to them who are in need she distributes remedies.64

NANCY: You know, I was telling someone just the other day that I can barely walk ten feet without sticking my foot into some kind of sacred ground where something special happened.

I just want you to know it is the single most sacred beautiful life changing book written by prophets through out history protected by God and given to Joseph Smith to be translated for the benefit of the people in our day.

For those days, I want you to remember this sacred space we create and let it live inside of you.

For me, today an explosion of joy, a remembrance of the sacred, acknowledgment of the hurt and a day of hope.