Sentences with phrase «since ordination»

Charlie Coen, a Galway native who has served as a parish priest in the greater New York area since his ordination in 1968.

Faber had cherished a devotion to St Philip Neri, the original Oratorian, ever since his ordination as an Anglican on St Philip's feast day.

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First, she claims that the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood would not be threatened since «the unity» of the sacrament resides in the bishop: Scripture gives him the authority to delegate as necessary, and Tradition allows for several grades within the sacrament.

Since the sponsoring group advocated the ordination of women even to the lowest ranks of the patriarchal hierarchy, it refused to publish the paper.

Since there is more equality in ordination, the pastor's spouse is not as likely to function as an unpaid pastoral assistant.

In this context Hans Urs Von Balthasar observed that since the Council the Church has become more than ever a male institution, which without the Marian dimension threatens to become inhuman and irrelevant.9 It is essential that we rediscover the feminine, Marian dimension of the Church because viewing the Church as a mere organisational or institutional entity not only impoverishes her from within but also «severely diminishes her authentic religious appeal and misleads women who are seeking a legitimate and fruitful role».10 The loss of this feminine dimension of the Church gives rise to a false feminism in the Church - one which expresses itself in appeals for the ordination of woman.

The 50 year old presided over a national service to mark 20 years since women's ordination in the Church of England.

Getting my ordination from a Pentecostal denomination, you would think I was a pro concerning the Holy Spirit, since Pentecostals notoriously focus on the Holy Spirit in lieu of Chrisy himself.

Ever since the 1980 General Conference declined to take a definitive position on the ordination and appointment of «self - avowed practicing homosexuals,» the 1984 General Conference, which met last spring in Baltimore, was targeted by several groups within the church to accomplish just that purpose.

Alina Treiger, 31, became the first female rabbi in Germany since World War II with her ordination Thursday, the German news outlet The Local reported.

The monastic or «regular clergy,» in their submission to a rule which was construed as a kind of higher ordination, were eventually to be esteemed by themselves and by the world as clergy par excellence, 53 But since this development belongs as much to the next chapter, a few words must here suffice concerning the pastoral function of monks to those outside the community of anchoritic or cenobitic discipline.

Since the language of the denomination's Book of Church Order already reads «persons» and not «males» in its rules governing ordination to the ministry, what is at stake here is really the repeal of a 400 - year - old interpretation rather than of a specific law.

Since then, whenever the art sought to break or depart from the aesthetic and artistic issues of feature more cerebral, this trend was resumed on new foundations: the American abstract expressionism (decade of 1950) and the German neo-expressionism (decade of 1980), for example., by revaluing the drives emanating from the insides of the human condition, brought with them the recovery of brushstrokes and traces of gesture agile, whose ordination in the works, does without the project.