Sentences with phrase «through ordination»

The pastoral counseling movement's family of origin is the church — that is, the ecclesiastical bodies in the United States and Canada to which these clergy are accountable through their ordination.

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Just so, the priest is «alone» but not lonely because through the character of soul he receives at ordination, Christ is always with him.

Now, if we be allowed an imaginative look into the future, such communities might in certain circumstances choose an «elder» (presbyter) from their midst who would then become their priestly president through sacramental ordination by the bishop.

It affirmed that the ministry is a gift of God through Christ to his church, and is essential to the being and well - being of the church, that men gifted for the work of the ministry, called by the Spirit and accepted by the church, are commissioned through an act of ordination by prayer and the laying on of hands.

And I sat with the local community for a long time to determine how we were going to do this ordination — what kind of music and what kind of dance and what kind of liturgy — and I was all gung - ho for the fact that they had so many possible ways of incarnating the liturgy through their own African embodiment and rhythms and so forth, but they were absolutely adamant: they wanted Gregorian chant.

I remember the anguish I went through before my ordination.

Working from the dilemma in the Old Testament, Trotter points to ordination as a way of ensuring the integrity of the church through time.

To make the point more strongly, I know of at least four priests who have come from families who were not practising when they were brought for baptism as infants, but who through the influence of a school, or priests, teachers or grandparents were led to strong and deep faith and then to ordination.

Ordination to ministry sets people aside to be responsible for the care of the human spirit through Word and sacrament.

They are not called «Father» in their own right, but in humble recognition that Christ works through them in a particularand blessed way after their ordination.

Thus the preacher need have no hesitation in doing what he or she was exhorted to do at ordination: apply himself or herself to the study of Scripture, so that the deepest reality of the abiding gospel may be grasped and conveyed through proclamation to the men and women to whom that proclamation is addressed.

During most of my professional life I have exercised my ordination through classroom teaching.

Luther believed that this «ordination» ceremony, which he had gone through with such enormous anxiety at the cathedral in Erfurt, was wrongly understood, like the Mass itself as a kind of reverse image of the pagan priesthoods and pagan sacrifices.

We have lived through confusing times, and they are not over yet: Mass attendance figures in Britain have been plunging for decades, along with figures for ordinations and for Catholic marriages.

In thus individualizing ordination Augustine witnesses indirectly to the extinction in the West c. 400 of the older catholic feeling for the corporate ministry of the local church.51 Within four centuries the hereditary priesthood of Israel had been replaced by the indelible priesthood of Christendom, valid not by inheritance and birth but through a kind of rebirth in the solemn rededication of ordination in the descent of the Holy Spirit, an action which also represented a tactile succession going back to the apostles.

We are ordained to the ministry of the Church — the «sacred ministry,» as it is called; but that ordination of ours does not give us any personal rights or privileges which come to us through some peculiar claim of our own.

It is important to not only train each muscle individually to develop adequate strength, but also as a group through functional movements to develop appropriate co - ordination between muscles.