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Explore the luminous, almost
sacred work of early - American landscape artists.
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Known to reinvent classic and
sacred works of the past with a contemporary style, Awartani does not disappoint in her latest work for 21,39 Jeddah Arts at Athr gallery.
Not exact matches
Of course if you aren't a spiritual person than it will be difficult to see your
work as a
sacred offering and because business is about making up your own rules, I would say... choose to see your business in whatever way
works for you!
3 ««There are six days when you may
work, but the seventh day is a day
of sabbath rest, a day
of sacred assembly.
And compared to the amazing
sacred music
of the Renaissance and Baroque, by which the composers sought to glorify God through the sheer beauty and scale
of their
work, it sounds very paltry indeed.
If you think these ideas are outdated or irrelevant, I suggest you take a look at the damage that has been
wrought on society by rampant divorce, abortion, our
of wedlock pregnancy, falling birth rates, and a general view that life is NOT
sacred, family is NOT important, and that children are more a burden to be avoided than anything.
Somewhat redundant» and with perhaps unavoidable generalizing about «the Catholic imagination,» «a Protestant landscape,» «
working - class aesthetics,» and «middle - class notions
of taste»» this study argues persuasively that «distinct categories
of sacred and profane are inadequate to capture the complexity
of Christian practice» in the corporeal world.
In fact, those human moments are are the
sacred moments — birth, grief,
work, death, suffering, sex, joy, laundry, all
of it.
Matthew 4:17 - 22 gently pries apart
work and faith so that
work can be seen for what it is: a part
of God's creation but nothing
sacred in and
of itself.
Some would make
of the Calling
of the Four a holy baptism
of daily
work; they would use it to mark
work as
sacred to Christ.
As we attempt to reconnect with our own history, which is after all a
sacred history as far as the Divine Liturgy is concerned, the value
of the Church's liturgical traditions are once again being emphasised not just as expressions
of sacredness and beauty in the public
work of God, but as the embodiment and carriers
of the Church's faith.
it's about as «
sacred»
of work as you can get, agreed.
But like all
works of architecture,
sacred buildings reflect not only a faith tradition but the values and concerns
of the builders» immediate context.
Gadamer,
of how the inspired text, which we question in order to find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and
work to bring Scripture into line with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the study
of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.
The profane and
sacred, both in the
work and life
of Scorsese, are inseparable.
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.
In this final chapter we will consider the nature
of spirituality, the
sacred, the role
of worship, different forms
of prayer, the integration
of our
work world into our faith, the nature and purpose
of the Church, and where we go from here.
We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I
work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words
of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag
of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the
work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name
of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle
of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.
On the shadow side, this model
of vocation can become twisted by our own misguided expectations — dreams
of grandeur or a false demarcation between
sacred and secular
work.
I didn't need this weird demarcation between «
sacred work» and «secular
work» — rather all
of my life, seen and unseen, celebrated and uncelebrated, radical and utterly ordinary — all
of it was a place to meet with God and to be transformed.
And if we believe that whatsoever we do, for even the least
of people, we do for God, then the
work that caregivers do is the most
sacred work.
A brief consideration
of the new spirituality which we need to encompass the whole
of life, along with a look at the
sacred, worship, prayer,
work, and the nature
of the Church.
The Reformers denied any sharp division between «
sacred» and «secular,» and rejected the idea that the
work of the clergyman is inherently superior to other callings.
If this feat
of memory seems almost incredible to the modern student, dependent upon his notebook and pen, let him recall that this was the
work of specialists whose primary business it was to cultivate their memories, and who had a profound sense
of the importance
of transmitting, without error, the
sacred text.
Though the doctrine
of reincarnation was
worked out in much greater detail in subsequent Hindu
sacred literature, it is expressed in the Lipanishads in rudimentary form thus:
All growth in holiness, all increase in depth
of spirit, wisdom, charity, courage, reverence and glorification
of the Father in individual souls is directly and personally the
work of Jesus the Word through his own
sacred humanity.
Liturgy and laundry are the
work of the people, according to Kathleen Norris, and now I can bear witness: the line between
sacred work and secular
work doesn't exist anymore when the Spirit lives and moves within us.
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.
It includes both the community's cultic or ritual life (repetitive, symbolic actions expressive
of the community's
sacred story) and its people's daily
work (vocation or «profession») in the world.
The power
of the order
of hierarchs spreads throughout the entire company and
works the special mysteries
of its own hierarchy through all the
sacred orders.
It makes known the
works of God by way
of the
sacred symbols [the sacraments] and it prepares the postulants to contemplate and participate in the holy sacraments.
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.
In baptism, we are all anointed, that is, «marked» with the
sacred oils, which means that we are set aside, consecrated, and dedicated for the
work of God.
These charges are over the top and are an example
of Church and State
working far to chummy to secure power (the most appropriate response the Church should have would be to weep at the violation
of their
sacred moment and invite the band to stay for the rest
of the liturgy).
We used both secular and
sacred song
of the Mundari tribals
of India — here is my teacher who I
worked with for two years when I lived in Minnesota.
Through the
sacred character which they receive, men cooperate with Christ in His
work of redemption and salvation: they are called «to an intimate participationwith Him in His words and
works, His loves and cares» [13].
While the Pope can not be held responsible for the good manners or personal probity
of every individual that
works for the Curia, nonetheless Christus Dominus, one
of the decrees
of the Second Vatican Council, clearly states: «The Roman pontiff makes use
of the departments
of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good
of the churches and in the service
of the
sacred pastors» (italics added).
If you think that I'm now
working up toward a prophetic denunciation
of the new
sacred sexuality, I must disappoint you.
As Catholics we believe that the celebration
of the
sacred Liturgy is vital to our witness to the gospel, to our
works of charity, and to our personal holiness.
Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his
work will be
sacred as the
work of ministry.
No divorce between heaven and earth; our
work on this earth is a
sacred task, the realization
of the reign
of God.26
In Updike's
works the hint
of the
sacred is encountered also in the sexual embrace.
And the sooner we stop fetishizing it as the core
of what it means to be a mother and a woman, as some sort
of sacred, higher, path for the female sex, the sooner we will see it for what it really is: difficult, necessary, and honorable
work whose workers deserve dignified and decent
working conditions.
The
work of sociologist Peter L. Berger has been particularly influential in guiding us toward an understanding
of everyday reality and its relation to the
sacred.
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.