Sentences with phrase «sainthood in»

I hope I am innocent of uncritical adulation, but I do believe that Merton is a prime candidate for multiple - ticket sainthood in the emerging global community.

There was an outbreak of sainthood in sixteenth - century Italy in answer to the challenge of the Renaissance, and another in nineteenth - century France in answer to the challenge of the Revolution.

These novels by McDermott and Hijuelos are meditations on sainthood in the same vein as Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, but instead of a protagonist as priest hunted by totalitarian thugs, they show us New Yorkers as unlikely saints: an advertising executive and a worker for Con Edison.

The doctrine of sainthood is complex and it is not my purpose to discuss that here, because such works have already been done generally to explicate the idea of sainthood 47 and the idea of sainthood in relation to Jesus in particular by Andreas D'Souza.

Before the change, gaining consideration for sainthood in the Catholic Church required martyrdom, living a life heroically of Christian virtues or having a strong reputation for religious devotion.

And yet, all that being said, the standards for sainthood in the Catholic Church are very high, and Chesterton's critics question his suitability for sainthood.

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your nobel peace prize for sainthood is in the mail....

The pope expects to hand choose his successor, live in lavish luxury with expensive meals and even more expensive clothes, and glory at his imminent sainthood.

But even those who believe in the Sainthood of John Paul II have to dismiss it as he would never condone a violent act let alone help carry one out.

A convert to Catholicism after being a protestant missionary in Latin America, it was during his RCIA class that Leonard was struck by the profound importance of aiming for sainthood.

Pope John Paul II is beatified — the last step before sainthood — in a May ceremony attended by more than million people in Rome.

In recent years, the Chesterton revival has taken on new dimensions, with calls to explore his possible sainthood.

Many faiths have their saints, but attaining sainthood may be hardest in the Catholic Church.

Humanity on their part can emulate the model sainthood of Jesus through receiving his ever - flowing effusion of al - jamal in al - qalb or the faculty of the «transcendental spirit».

In the story therefore, al - Khidr, the quintessence of sainthood [a traditionally lesser position in relation to the place of the prophets in esoteric Islam] assumes the role of the primary interlocutor contributing to the cognitive development of Moses the prophet.In the story therefore, al - Khidr, the quintessence of sainthood [a traditionally lesser position in relation to the place of the prophets in esoteric Islam] assumes the role of the primary interlocutor contributing to the cognitive development of Moses the prophet.in relation to the place of the prophets in esoteric Islam] assumes the role of the primary interlocutor contributing to the cognitive development of Moses the prophet.in esoteric Islam] assumes the role of the primary interlocutor contributing to the cognitive development of Moses the prophet.52

In a year that has witnessed a vigorous refurbishing of the aura of sainthood surrounding the Kennedys, it is useful to be reminded how equivocal they and most of their minions were in the face of the demand for black equalitIn a year that has witnessed a vigorous refurbishing of the aura of sainthood surrounding the Kennedys, it is useful to be reminded how equivocal they and most of their minions were in the face of the demand for black equalitin the face of the demand for black equality.

The name Muhammad is thus used in a non-sectarian, trans - religious and symbolic sense to refer to a higher, deeper and essential God - man correspondence exhibited by sainthood.

In speaking of Muhammad here it is his sainthood or the supposed hidden connection with the idea of sainthood that is being referred to and not his prophet - hood.

Couched in the treatise is the concern to show how sainthood is a higher category than prophecy.

Though, Islam is generally understood to be anti-incarnational the ideas of the imam in the Shia sects, the idea of the Mahdi in Mahdawism, the ideas of sainthood, poles, pirs, mujawirs and murshids, and places such as tombs of the saints and dargahs are deemed to be infused with certain amount of the sacred.

This then makes it possible to speak of an alternate and a «superior» way to God [though veiled], whose leadership is not in Muhammad the historical prophet, but in Jesus the seal of the universal sainthood.

It will not be possible to elaborate these liberative hermeneutical trends in Islam in this paper, but I shall attempt to present the idea of sainthood as an aspect of the notion of al - insan al - kamil (the Perfect Man) and point to some broad Christological reflections.

The talk was one of the longest of the visit and was delivered with a low - key intensity; so palpable was his urgency in inviting young people to dare the course of sainthood.

Beatification is the next - to - last step in the sainthood process.

Pope Benedict XVI personally pronounced his predecessor John Paul II Sunday to be among the blessed, one step below sainthood, in a Mass attended by more than a million in Rome.

If your end goal is that of Christianity, achieving salvation or Sainthood, then it is in your own self - interest to act selflessly and dedicate your life to helping others.

There are other people who died and are attributed miracles like Jose Gregorio Hernandez in Venezuela but yet JP II makes it to almost sainthood because some nun's Parkinson's decease is cured by him?

Sheen is now «venerable» in the Roman Catholic Church and, if the Vatican recognizes that a miracle has been operated through his intercession, he would be declared «blessed,» the last step before sainthood.

Ethically, because the body was the center of personal particularity and difference, it was vital for early Christians that this flesh, which bears the marks of persecution, suffering, sainthood and merit in general, be preserved and perfected in the resurrection.

Marannis writes of it, «In the ledger of his life, here was a day for the case against sainthood.»

«One part of what delights us today was the cause of his death,» and Poe's spiritual heroism, indeed his poetic sainthood, rested in his embrace of the life - poisoning alcohol for the sake of his art.

There is, in short, no absoluteness in the excellence of sainthood.

The now deceased Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa in October 2003 and waived the requirement of waiting five years after a person's death to pursue the path to sainthood and opened Mother Teresa's Cause of Canonization less than two years after her death.

At his funeral, thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square and chanted «Santo Subito» - Sainthood Now!

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful will gather in St. Peter's Square to witness the ceremony, the penultimate step towards John Paul II's sainthood.

But we got to know John Paul - who will be beatified Sunday in Rome, the last step before sainthood - very quickly.

But take a couple of months of sleepless nights, a week without a shower, and an inconsolable baby in a Target aisle — and a parent should be nominated for sainthood for not lunging at passers - by who feel the need to dole out helpful hints.

Peter McKay discusses Angela Eagle landing her claws into Jeremy Corbyn, Mother Teresa's sainthood, Hitler's testicle, George Osborne's bet on the Bulgarians and much more in his column.

Olav Haraldsson was the Norwegian king who is often credited with bringing Christianity to Norway and whose sainthood, first proclaimed in 1031, a year after his death, was confirmed by Pope Alexander III in 1164.

In the meantime, Fiona battles it out with a vindictive tenant; Lip cares for a down - and - out Professor Youens; and Frank - miraculously - attains something resembling sainthood.

Attenborough's work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography, in which the hero is rhetorically elevated to sainthood by systematically stripping him of all his psychology and inner life.

by Walter Chaw Completely uncompromising in a way that films, especially sports films, just aren't, Ron Shelton's Cobb is one of the most effective hagiographies in film history not for the way that it elevates its subject to sainthood, but for the way that it allows its subject to be one of history's most notorious, relentless miscreants.

Understand that this is not a defense of sexual harassment in the workplace, but rather a rhetorical question as to whether it's less egregious an offense if the victim isn't up for sainthood.

Morton, adorned with the same buzz cut she wore in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report shares top billing in her smaller, but magnificently graceful role, one bordering on sainthood.

A soulful cinematic sermon elevating a sinner to sainthood for the sake of an uncritical Amen choir still in denial about the truth of the Mike Brown case!

An essay by Donna Frietas in which she discusses her first novel, The Possibilities of Sainthood.

In many ways The Possibilities of Sainthood is an ode to growing up Roman Catholic in an Italian household, and how praying for the saints to intercede on one matter or another is as regularly a part of life as eating pastIn many ways The Possibilities of Sainthood is an ode to growing up Roman Catholic in an Italian household, and how praying for the saints to intercede on one matter or another is as regularly a part of life as eating pastin an Italian household, and how praying for the saints to intercede on one matter or another is as regularly a part of life as eating pasta.

This attitude accounts for her venture into the world of fiction, the publication of her novel, The Possibilities of Sainthood (Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)-- about a fifteen - year - old girl who aspires to become the first official living saint in Catholic history.

«Brilliant week in the Nido» Just back from one of the best holidays I have ever had, the staff are amazing Annie deserves a sainthood she works so hard, the rooms are spotless and the food is basic but there is nothing wrong with that especially for what we paid.

The project saw Dean filming details of Giotto's frescoes in the the Upper Basilica in Assisi — paintings that humanised their subjects in a way comparable to how the humble St Francis humanised sainthood.