Sentences with phrase «thanksgiving as»

I can't comment on thanksgiving as we don't celebrate it but for Christmas, I'm all over the turkey!

That I watched with delight and thanksgiving as his stick - like limbs got chunkier and his little belly became roly - poly and his eyes went from murky blue - gray to clear blue and his ears grew cartilage that makes them stick out.

I loved thanksgiving as a kid.

Do we really see thanksgiving as something that might need to be deferred but not omitted?

The substance of what is proclaimed is the same as what is recollected, the same as is now acknowledged by the congregation in thanksgiving as God's salvatory and present power, the same as is offered and received in participation of the members in the Head of the church.

The call to deal in particulars extends to thanksgiving as well as petition.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, the Virginia thanksgiving appeals to my Southern sensibilities in the face of what could be described as New England priggishness.

My son Stephen and I spent an unusual, albeit unusually moving, Independence Day: We attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration of my friends Piotr and Teresa Malecki, which began with a Mass of thanksgiving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Cracow's Wawel Cathedral — the place where Piotr and Teresa had exchanged vows on July 4, 1964, kneeling before their old kayaking and hiking friend, the archbishop of Cracow (who, as Pope St. John Paul II, was canonized some two months before the Maleckis» jubilee.)

Ruth was kind enough to send me the originals — one of the sweetest, most humbling gifts I've received as a writer, and which, in the spirit of eucharisteo, I received with thanksgiving.

Actually, thanksgiving is as much a discipline to be learned as any other form of prayer.

«These things I remember,» he says, «as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and lead them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.»

It was also a thanksgiving sacrifice as well as a meal for the priests who offered it.

In the great psalms of thanksgiving — the 103d, for example the physical basis of life was not forgotten as a cause of gratitude, but thankfulness ranged up into other areas also, such as forgiven sin, the visible execution of divine justice, and the saving experience of divine mercy.

This life, characterized by an abiding joy, unceasing prayer and thanksgiving in all circumstances, is further described as «the will of God (for them) in Christ Jesus.»

As Psalm 100:4 commands us, «Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.»

Since there is only one God, idols are nothing; so long as the Christians offered thanksgiving to God for the meat, they could accept it without any qualms of conscience, as a gift from the hand of the One who opens His hand to satisfy the desires of every living thing.

There is everything to commend in the attitude of humility, or thanksgiving, or petition, or intercession before God, so long as the person with the attitude is not usurping prerogatives either of God himself or of the whole congregation of Christians.

The initiate is asked to kneel before a picture of the Guru Dev while his fellows also kneel and make their offerings and sing prescribed songs (hymns) of thanksgiving honoring the many former leaders of the Hindu tradition known as the School of Shankara.

Sepas, which means «thanksgiving», emerged from the course as a Farsi - speaking service attended by over 110 people every week.

Second, I believe the early Protestants should have had no objection to priest and people kneeling before some kind of table, provided the table or even «altar» is understood in terms of commemoration and communion and thanksgiving and not as a symbol of pretentious repetition.

In the darkness I bump into a rather solid piece of furniture, uttering a word of praise and thanksgiving (I wish) as I bruise myself.

Things going on around me personally that # 1 pains me as I said # 2 makes me much more aware about my own traps # 3 sends me to the Lord in thanksgiving!

Elsewhere in the Old Testament petition is more common than thanksgiving, as it is ever too prone to be.

As for prayers of thanksgiving: if God did not specifically cause us to be fed or clothed or housed or otherwise fortunate, for what should we be giving thanks?

Instead we can now ask them to believe that God in his goodness has received their innocent victim and they should have a Mass said as a sign of their repentance and in thanksgiving for God's mercy.

The motive was the public rendering of thanksgiving / praise to God by the person commissioning the ritual in the presence of relatives and friends for God's signal intervention in saving the man (and his family, if the occasion called forit) from death in war or in some similar grave danger such as famine.

Fairness, however, is always maintained and one finishes reading the book with a sense of thanksgiving that, despite the frailties of her individual members, the Church as the Body of Christ has remained faithful to her mission.

[11] In Hebrews, of course, the prayer is an allusion to the Eucharist as the thanksgiving by Christ for the salvation granted him by the resurrection.

Take, bless, break, give — the bread was taken and offered to God; thanksgiving was said over it — and here we need to recall that for the Jew, all blessings have always been in the form of a thanksgiving to God for the objects which are to be blessed; the bread was broken, as Christ had done at the Last Supper and as His physical body was broken on the Cross; the bread was given — distributed, so that the believer might partake of it and thereby, as the Church believed, partake of Christ Himself and become one with Him.

At the end of my Sunday Mass I came into the body of the church to make my thanksgiving, and as I knelt in the pew I noticed that the pulpit from which I had preached had on its front a banner with the inscription «God is other people.»

The cross is commemorated not in separation from the rest of Christ's life and work but as the final symbolic expression of a total self - giving to God, in which through prayer and thanksgiving Christians are enabled to share.

Professor Trinterud made his second point as follows: «Acts such as prayer, thanksgiving, breaking of bread, are regarded in the New Testament as but an aspect of the «service of God,» and that not the controlling or central aspect.

He defines doxology as «experience of the Divine, as it expresses itself in praise, thanksgiving, reverence and joyful acceptance of the acts God has done on behalf of humankind».33 Each theology has as its base doxology, «the celebration of the self - revealing God».

The adoration, thanksgiving, acknowledgment of sin, prayer for others and for self, which, as we have seen, are integral elements in the whole action of worship, have their significance in the total giving of self, so that the sovereign Will of God may be effected in worshiper and world.

This is the prayer that precedes the canticle we know as the Magnificat (Luke 1:46 - 55), and we can hear this earlier prayer as the prior condition of the possibility of that overflowing outburst of praise and thanksgiving.

The Eucharistic Prayer will, as we have seen above, include thanksgiving and also remembrance of Jesus» words and actions on the night he was betrayed.

This comes about in his penitence, thanksgiving, and petition, which are not just his letting himself feel these things (basic as that is) but his saying he is sorry to God, thanking God, asking God.

The exact mode of it we can not describe, but the reality of it we know as we «feed on him in our heart, by faith, with thanksgiving.»

Second, these originary expressions are caught up in forms of discourse as diverse as narration, prophecy, legislative texts, wisdom saying, hymns, supplications, and thanksgiving.

I think the bible's take on prayer if very intersting, because it seems to cover a range as well... their are times where prayer is looked at quite differently... for forgiveness, for thanksgiving, for tribute, for petition, and much more.

While not a «sacrifice» as a good work, Mass was a «sacrifice of thanksgiving».

In other words, by putting adoration of God and the attitude of thanksgiving in first place, we are enabled to assimilate the truth that men are derivative and limited beings, creatures of God, and that they can only live safely and well when this creatureliness runs as a leitmotiv through all their thoughts and actions.

We now turn to the two final aspects of «vocal» prayer, thanksgiving and praise or adoration; and we shall discuss them together, as we have just discussed petition and intercession together under one heading.

As an act of personal devotion, I suggest that in our thanksgiving after Holy Communion it would be very sensible, and could be very fruitful, if we say a Hail Mary and ask Our Lady to help us preserve the graces and treasures we have just received.

Much thanksgiving for treasured memories, together with hope for the future, as we pray that God blesses them both by adding his «YES» to their «YES».

Both thanksgiving and praise have as their basis the wonder of the divine nature as Love, the ceaseless activity of God in love, and the good things that are made available for men in this world - process where that Love is at work.

As the morning unfolds further and the sun begins to rise on the horizon, enter his presence with thanksgiving and his courts with praise (Psalm 100:4).

Its designation as «eucharist» is only the Greek rendition of the Jewish term berakha, that is, blessing and thanksgiving over bread and wine.

Further books contain liturgical materials such as a hymn of initiants found at the end of a copy of the Manual and the hymns or psalms (hodayoth) of thanksgiving for redemption.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.