Sentences with phrase «sacred images»

And all this should be happening in a church where sacred images help to focus the mind on prayer, and where everything used in the liturgy is beautiful and of good quality.

She is the human and sacred image; all around her the social fabric shall sway and split and fall; the pillars of society shall be shaken, and the roofs of ages come rushing down; and not one hair of her head shall be harmed.

Officials set a sacred image on the ground before him, and he lifts his foot, knowing that what he is doing «is not just for form's sake,» but a true trampling of everything he has ever known to be beautiful and holy.

As persecution intensifies, he urges his people — and later Garrpe — to follow the officials» orders to apostatize by stepping on a sacred image called a fumie.

And so we threw away the magic, the charms, the spells, the powers that removed all obstacles, the sacred images that won our wars, brought lover to beloved.

And guess what: nobody has ever been tortured or killed in the name of either one, and there are no sacred images or writings to get offended about when someone burns them.

No sacred images whatsoever are present upon our horizon.

We will have an exhibit from the workshops of St. Elisabeth Convent in Minsk, Belarus, as well as a presentation by two sisters on the creation of sacred images.

After hearing the voice of Christ himself, Rodrigues obeys, placing his feet on the fumi - e and defiling the sacred image of his Savior «whom [he has] always longed to love.»

Every death of a divine image is a realization of the kenotic movement, an actualization in consciousness and experience of God's death in Christ; thus a fully incarnate Christ will have dissolved or reversed all sacred images by the very finality of his movement into flesh.

Any intelligent man who wants to destroy the sacred image of Jesus can make a very good grammar and concoct damaging stories about Jesus.

This is particularly significant in light of the heated debate among Protestants and Catholics in the sixteenth and seventeenth century over the role of sacred images — Caccia obviously does not subscribe to the notion of «the Word only.»

(Apology i. 46) Thus Origen, who not only held the view that God had sent prophets to all peoples in all times but also admonished his fellow Christians to respect heathen forms of worship and sacred images.

In a Sunday night post on her Facebook page, the former Alaska governor called the photo released this week of Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard's dying moments on the battlefield in Afghanistan a «sacred image.»

Your practice could involve concentration on a visual symbol, a sacred image, or a candle flame.

A tire, a skull, or a bomb are recognizable images and part of our universal knowledge, just as much as a sacred image, or an image of a dog.

«The Catholic imagination is rooted in and sustained by artistic practice, and fashion's embrace of sacred images, objects, and customs continues the ever - evolving relationship between art and religion,» said Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Met.