Sentences with phrase «took ordination»

While there, I became Buddhist and took ordination as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 2002.

I would hazard a guess that when she took her ordination vows, she took them with integrity and a clear conscience but that over time she's changed her mind as any intelligent adult would and should.

Not exact matches

«Whilst the Diocese's Child Protection Adviser said police did not believe any criminal act had been committed, the Diocese nevertheless took the decision to withdraw him from ordination training.

Eventually I qualified for ordination as a Methodist by taking courses in the correspondence school.

However, it is unclear whether she links the tradition of ontological change only to the «newer» (that is, from the 11th and 12th centuries onwards) and «narrower» (pp205 - 206) interpretation of ordination, for she suggests that an ontological change took place in both St Peter and St Paul symbolised by their name changes in the New Testament (p47).

I do not see how preaching, worship, prayer, ordination, the sacraments can be taken seriously by the radical theologian.

Soon after his ordination as a Catholic priest, Joseph R. Windle, then the Catholic bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, took advantage of Richard's annual return to Canada, the land of his birth, to invite him to dine at the cathedral....

The seminarian who takes the bait and strikes back at the therapeutic regime will likely be sent for special psychological counseling, which provides the formation team with additional material for a recommendation that he be rejected for ordination.

Ordination can be taken for granted but it seems clear that ordination can not give the pastoral ruler the strength heOrdination can be taken for granted but it seems clear that ordination can not give the pastoral ruler the strength heordination can not give the pastoral ruler the strength he requires.

The first ordination of a female Methodist minister took place in 1974, more than 200 years after their foremothers had publicly preached the gospel.

Li Tim - Oi's unusual ordination took place in 1944, during the Sino - Japanese War.

My friend Sarah heard them when her questions about women's ordination were met with charges that she didn't take the Bible seriously.

It was an Anglican clergyman, the professor of botany at Cambridge, who encouraged him to move away from studies for ordination in the Church of England, and to take up botany, and indeed to take up the post of an unpaid naturalist on the HMS Beagle — the research from which ultimately led him to the ideas he formulatedon evolution.

On reflection it should be evident that it makes little sense to take vows and seek ordination in a religious order unless one is committed to support and serve the hierarchical Church.

To take only one example of this failure, why is it that our denominations seem ready to engage in this great upheaval over gay and lesbian ordination all alone, with hardly a reference to the struggles and decisions of other parts of the ecumenical church?

Catholic priests take the title «Father» because they put on the person and character of Christ at their ordination.

What is needed is a change in perspective, one that places participation on a foundation that is truly distinct to Christianity, one that takes seriously the limitations of the individual voter and the decreasing political influence of Christianity, and one that affirms the Sovereign ordination of the democratic regime under which we live.

In taking this position I do of course raise a very old question in the doctrine of the ministry, the question of whether the minister's authority to preach the Word, administer sacraments, and act as pastor inheres in his office and ordination or whether it inheres in his person and is dependent upon his faith.

We asked the young man from Kinghorn in Fife for his personal reflections upon the eve of ordination, as he prepares to take one step closer to the priesthood.

In episcopal churches, ordination is by a bishop and usually takes place at a Eucharist.

Conservative MP Chris Davies welcomed the progress the Church had made increasing female clergy members, but added: «What steps are the Church taking to ensure the diversity of those being considered for ordination better reflects the country as a whole?»

These developments within Protestantism paved the way for women's ordination as ministry took on an increasingly functional nature and men no longer were seen as symbols of God's transcendence.

In 1869, the Native Pastors» Union took responsibility from the mission for examining candidates for ordination.

Soon after his ordination as a Catholic priest, Joseph R. Windle, then the Catholic bishop of Pembroke, Ontario, took advantage of Richard's annual return to Canada, the land of his birth, to invite him to dine at the cathedral rectory.

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.

Taking a new turn, many of the women announced that the grapes of ordination were toxic in the extreme.

R. G. Usher has pointed out that the bishops did not possess the right to appoint the men they were expected to govern, the prerogative of determining what sort of men they should be, or the power to discipline them once they had been inducted.74 The decision as to qualifications for ordination had been taken from the bishops by the State, while the right of nomination to a parish post, after ordination, was largely controlled by lay patrons, and the bishops were forced to induct the nominee if he met the most meager requirements.

The change, which opens up the possibility that people in same - sex relationships can be considered for ordination, is expected to take effect starting on July 10.

Ministerial Seminary Ministerial seminary is an online ordination website where you can take part in a non denominational ordination.