Sentences with phrase «sacred times for»

In many cultures, the new and full moon periods are sacred times for ritual, ceremony and the setting of intentions / goals.

Winter and summer holidays are culturally sacred times for families, Brines said, when filing for divorce is considered inappropriate, even taboo.

This is a sacred time for meeting, connecting to and bonding with each other, so unplug from your phone and computer, and have someone else in charge of spreading the exciting news and taking pictures.

Nap time is important for babies but it can become a sacred time for parents to have a small section of the day to themselves.

Through specified one - on - one nutrition consulting and monthly women's circles, I empower my female clients with a plan to restore their digestive health while supporting them with sacred time for slowing down and connecting with community.

A few weeks of claiming sacred time for myself and practicing conscious thoughts of gratitude upon waking have done so much for me.

You will have the opportunity to learn and grow together, make new friends while still enjoying personal, sacred time for the relationship.

So dedicate sacred time for each other and again — without any digital devices to distract you.

In today's fast - paced world, I see therapy be a sacred time for discovery and clarity.»

Individual reflective supervision is scheduled, sacred time for a parent educator and their supervisor to collaboratively reflect on emerging practice issues such as roles, ethics, boundaries, skill development, and self - care.

Not exact matches

The real reason pork was outlawed is similar to the reason cows are sacred in Hinduism (and yet calves are often killed so they don't nurse): raising pigs, which require massive amounts of water so they don't overheat and die requires excessive amounts of capital and water resources, of which the region has been sorely lacking for a long long time.

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.).

Throughout the book, he seems a somewhat ineffectual person, murmuring «For his mercy endureth forever» from time to time while being circled by the villains and thieves who wish to get their hands on the sacred vessel.

Then one time when the priest paused for a bit longer than usual before fetching the sacred species, the boy leant over and helpfully prompted in a stage whisper, «Father, you've got to put the stuff in the thing now!»

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

Time is a sacred category in salvation history, for it is in the Kairos or sacred time that God is presTime is a sacred category in salvation history, for it is in the Kairos or sacred time that God is prestime that God is present.

I guess I just want you to know that I think about this from time to time, that I do my best to acknowledge and pray for the unique and sacred people you are.

For the first time sacred scenes related no less to the world of man than to the world of God.

It can not know an Angst that derives from a longing for the God who is the transcendence of Being, and it will be free of a nostalgia for a sacred time that is irrevocably and finally past.

For while the sacred may be seen as that which gives meaning and value to the profane sphere, at the same time it may by its separateness and elevation tend to empty the profane sphere of significance and worth.

Yet our sacred scripture informs us in Ecclesiastes that there is not only a time for love, but also «a time for hate.»

For example, parallels to the Catholic sacramental model, in which a sacred event is re-enacted within carefully measured boundaries of time and space, can be found in the formal dynamics of sports events and civil ceremonies, such as the Super Bowl or the presidential inauguration.

Interest in the Weberian study of Puritanism also remains strong because of the theoretical implications of Weber's work for understanding the sacred in our own time.

Nor for that matter can a faith accepting the reality of the Fall seek an unfallen sacred or a primordial moment of time.

Images of paradise invariably testify to a longing or a nostalgia for an original paradise, i.e., for participation in an original cosmic Totality, a Totality present in a primordial time prior to the advent of the rupture between the sacred and the profane, a time when suffering, death, and alienation had not yet come into existence.

But we now have gone to «winter break» and «spring break», because people felt that giving children time off from school for religious holidays was pretty darn close to violating the sacred seperation of church and state.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

It hit me when the president decided to shrink Bears Ears (a decision that happens time and again to indigenous peoples in America who fight for the land to remain sacred and cared for): I can't have a

It hit me when the president decided to shrink Bears Ears (a decision that happens time and again to indigenous peoples in America who fight for the land to remain sacred and cared for): I can't have a white Christmas anymore.

Jesus heals the woman in sacred space (a synagogue, mentioned twice) and within sacred time, namely on a Sabbath (noted no fewer than five times), and he is criticized for this breach of the law.

At a time when Israel is isolated and anti-Semitism is again on the march, and when so many other communities are under threat, Sir Martin's life is a reminder that defeat is not inevitable, that evil need not triumph, and that hope can still bear witness to what's sacred in this life — even as we await for God's perfect love and justice in the next.

It doesn't take that much more time to sing all six verses of «For All the Saints» or all four verses of «Crown Him with Many Crowns»; cutting such great texts by two - thirds or one - half inevitably sends the signal that music in the liturgy is filler» and there is no room for filler in the sacred liturFor All the Saints» or all four verses of «Crown Him with Many Crowns»; cutting such great texts by two - thirds or one - half inevitably sends the signal that music in the liturgy is filler» and there is no room for filler in the sacred liturfor filler in the sacred liturgy.

Over the years I had been led to believe that God's leading and calling is to be understood as the supposed sacred mandate for those who enter «full time» service.

The sacred shrine in Mecca, the Ka «ba, was being rebuilt, and when the time came to place the Black Stone (the revered angular stone of the traditional monument), there was a furious competition among the Arab tribes for the honor of lifting it into position.

It's important for me to spend time in contemplation, discovery, and in practice, learning what I purpose or intend when I am afforded that sacred public space.

For anyone to intrude on such a sacred time with angry protests is to violate our need for privacy when we long to be alone with family and friends and GFor anyone to intrude on such a sacred time with angry protests is to violate our need for privacy when we long to be alone with family and friends and Gfor privacy when we long to be alone with family and friends and God.

In his insightful review, Edmund Waldstein defends Andrew Willard Jones's critique of the modern differentiation of social institutions and advocates for a return to the sacred integration of a premodern time.

In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholeness.

At evening time it is, with equal ceremony, locked away for the night in a specially prepared vault for safekeeping.11 It is not a little strange that a faith which rules out idolatry should have come, in the end, very near, if not quite, to making their sacred book an object of worship.

I hope to partner with World Vision for another fundraiser or two, and I'd like to talk more about the idea of sacred time, particularly in our fast - paced, chatter - filled world.

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 just when I start to buy the lie that my schedule is the most sacred thing on the planet, I am interrupted by a reminder to stop, acknowledge the time, and read the appointed prayer for this appointed day on this appointed hour.

Staying up there on the mountain with Jesus and those sacred sources was for Peter like attending some spiritual retreat for the modern Christian: the quiet time, the holy place, the aids to worship: stained glass windows, helpful spiritual directors, rich meditations, prayers and songs, celebrating with thanksgiving the gifts of forgiveness, acceptance and freedom.

The things that define my life, my body, my relationships, the historical events and changes will be the opportunities I have for being reminded at some unique and particular times of an aspect of existence that I may call «sacred.»

If it is the case, as some argue, that a whole generation of Americans is now rediscovering the sacred, then the time has surely come for sustained reflection on the social dimensions of this quest.

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.

And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind of joy (one might call it an experience of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind of commitment in five or ten years.

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....

The command makes feast time for them — like festival time for us — set apart time in the sacred space of Jerusalem.