Sentences with phrase «trained as a priest»

Shortly before leaving school, Alfons told his parents that he wished to train as a priest.

Moreover, there is no such thing as a «Good Friday Mass.» On Good Friday, the day Christ died, Catholics have a service, but they do not celebrate Mass ¯ something everyone trained as a priest should know.

Admired as a romantic poet and trained as a priest — both by the time he was in his early twenties — he found his true mission as a fanatical revolutionary.

After initially training as a priest and then serving in the air force, where he studied art through an extension programme, Flavin began making sketches for sculptures that incorporated electric lights.

He gathered inspiration as much from Allen Ginsberg's Beat poetry and Eastern philosophies such as Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, as he did from Western humanism, his own training as a priest and the growing firmament of Conceptual art, which revolved around the founding of Lisson Gallery and other experimental art spaces in the late 1960s.

(Flavin — who had trained as a priest before going into the air force and then turning to art — had a well - documented obsession with Russian art and later dedicated a group of fluorescent light «monuments» to the Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin, who had trained as an icon painter.)

Not exact matches

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

Being a priest is not simply ones «chosen profession,» as though taking the training and putting on the robes made one a priest.

The practice of psychotherapy as the only real ministry to their congregation has led the Suffragan Bishop of Washington, Paul Moore, Jr., to write: «Too many priests forget their priestliness when they learn some of the basic skills of counseling — or perhaps they have not been trained properly in the use of priestly techniques and therefore are not confident in their exercise.

This is another consideration which might help to overcome the shortage of priests; for there might well be priests who would be suitable for such a Church of faith and have authority, even though they would be received into the clergy as mature men after a quite differently conceived training.

1992 Women training in Anglican theological colleges are permitted to become priests as well as deacons.

The nine men - eight will be ordained deacon, and one as priest - all had theological training and went through a process of discernment before being selected.

Then the text moved on to a formidable list of reformanda: inadequate procedures for selection and training of priests, pastoral responsibilities allotted to those living elsewhere (Campeggio as Bishop of Salisbury would be an example — but Rome was full of such men who used a part of their salary to pay a vicar to look after their diocese while they did other more congenial work in Rome); the bequeathing of benefices in wills especially to the children of priests, pluralism, failure to correct those who make money by hearing confessions.

In the seminaries and theological faculties it is treated on the one hand as of purely academic interest and on the other, as portrayed to many of us when training to be priests, of no significance at all.

... In general, We require that future priests, from the time of Seminary onward, be trained to understand and celebrate Holy Mass in Latin as well as to employ Latin texts and use Gregorian chant; nor should great effort be neglected in regard to the faithful themselves, so that they learn thoroughly the commonly known prayers in the Latin language and in an equal degree that they should learn the Gregorian chant of those parts of the liturgy which are sung.

This comprehensive title in the Signature Lives series describes how Tesla, growing up in Croatia, resisted family pressure to become a priest and, instead, trained as a scientist.

In 1598 was founded as San Antonio Abad seminary's by the sixth bishop of Cuzco, Monsignor Antonio de la Raya, to train Catholic priests.

With certification in Japanese Psychology, training in chaplaincy and ordination as a Buddhist priest I have substantial experience offering individual and group therapy.