Sentences with phrase «who consecrate»

He may eat his God's food, some of the most sacred as well as the sacred, only he must not approach the Veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a defect in him, lest he profane my sanctuary; for it is I, the Lord, who consecrate [Lev.

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«The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

I turn to writer Flannery O'Connor, who, though she never wrote stories about the consecrated or even ostensibly Catholic life, had a great deal to say concerning the intersection of invisible and visible, of grace and nature.

Like Luther, Lumen Gentium affirms the common priesthood of the faithful and grounds it in a shared participation of all believers in the one priesthood of Christ: «The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, in order that through all those works which are those of the Christian man they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of Him who has called them out of darkness into His marvelous light» (cf. 1 Peter 2:4 - 10).

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

The reason for the celebration is twofold (both dating back to c. 165 BCE): the miraculous military victory of the small, ill - equipped Jewish army over the ruling Greek Syrians, who had banned the Jewish religion and desecrated the Temple; and the miracle of the small cruse of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple's menorah instead of just one.»

It was Scotland who came to our rescue and consecrated our first bishop, Samuel Seabury.

Deciding to have communion, we found an old hot dog roll and a bottle of green soda pop, and though the only two clergy among us were Presbyterians who had not received permission to labor outside the bounds of their own presbyteries, we consecrated these elements as the body and blood of Christ.

The word «holy» was to show that followers of God were «set apart» (sacred, consecrated, venerated) from other people who were not God's followers.

Those consecrated few who embrace vows of evangelical poverty still solicit the assets of others.

Consecrated virginity, the perpetual commitment of a woman who is a virgin to remain in that state, in faithfulness to Jesus Christ and prayerful service of His Church is, to say the least, counter-cultural.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

If a weak character sees you sitting down to a meal in a heathen temple — you who «have knowledge» — will not his conscience be emboldened to eat food consecrated to the heathen deity?

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

Recalling the lives of the consecrated virgins who lived during the few centuries prior to the emergence of structured religious orders, Dohen claimed for herself an ancient precedent for the life of freedom and union with God.

Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (458 - 471 A.D.), would not ordain anyone who had not been diligently reciting the psalms; the second Council of Nicaea (587 A. D.) concluded that no one was to be consecrated bishop unless he knew the Psalter thoroughly; and the eighth Council of Toledo (653 A.D.) ordered that no one be promoted to any ecclesiastical position who did not know perfectly the entire collection (Ross, 27).

While in its original use this was probably a reference to sacramental participation in the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist, there is a possible further extension of its meaning so that it will include a relationship with the whole natural order, seen as a sphere of the divine activity and hence as a way of contact with the God who is operative within it.

The example of Legge can be repeated for countless others, men and women, then and now, who as missionary pioneers stumbled on priceless pearls which subsequently they gathered and consecrated, recirculating them as humanity's common heritage.

As if to redress singlehandedly the real and perceived neglect of women's contributions to the Catholic Church, McNamara gives us an exhaustively researched, comprehensively presented, and splendidly written history, from clandestine Roman days to the present, of the women who were consecrated to the lay apostolate or the contemplative life.

indifference stopped short of the vigorous iconoclasm of Calvin, who claimed in the Institutes of the Christian Religion that the only images that belong in churches are «those living and symbolical ones which the Lord has consecrated by his Word.

He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people: «Gather to me my consecrated ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.»

I am sure it was with laughter in his eyes that he confused those who objected to his companions» plucking the grain heads as they passed through the fields on the Sabbath with a reminder of what David, the idealized hero, had done, entering the «house of God,» taking the consecrated bread from the Holy Place, and giving it to his companions because they were hungry.

[15] Focusing on the cup, Cyprian writes that he has been constrained to address this issue because of the «ignorance or naïveté» of some people, who in consecrating the Lord's cup and in its administration «do not follow the precepts and practices of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, the Author and Teacher of this sacrifice» (1.1).

As Rosa Marta's song says so clearly, a mujerista is one who struggles to liberate herself, who is consecrated by God as proclaimer of the hope of her people.

Paul says, «A woman who is really widowed and left without anybody can give herself up to God in hope and consecrate all her days and nights to petitions and meetings for prayer» (1 Tim.

As someone who has been striving to promote a true understanding of the message of Fatima for many years, I was delighted to read Joanna Bogle's informative and balanced article in the last issue of Faith, on the recent resurgence of Orthodox Christianity in Russia, and how this contrasts with the misrepresentations of those who still try to maintain that Russia has not yet been consecrated according to Our Lady's request at Fatima.

It was written by Bishop Reynolds, a Presbyterian leader who was prepared to accept the bishopric of Norwich, to which he was consecrated in 1661 and where he served until 1676.

«Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry.»

For centuries those who committed the unconfessed and therefore unforgivable sin of suicide were not buried in cemeteries that Catholic priests had consecrated.

We need the God Who dwells above, the One who comes to us, not to confirm and affirm and consecrate us in our worldliness, but seeks to draw us up to HimseWho dwells above, the One who comes to us, not to confirm and affirm and consecrate us in our worldliness, but seeks to draw us up to Himsewho comes to us, not to confirm and affirm and consecrate us in our worldliness, but seeks to draw us up to Himself.

[39] They are consecrated as priests of the New Covenant to lead «true worshippers [who] will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.»

We are all called to give generously: parents, in the efforts they put in for their children; young adults, in recognising that their bodies are «for the Lord» and should be considered as something holy; consecrated religious, in giving themselves in prayer out of a perfect love for God; and especially priests, who are told at their ordination that they must imitate what they celebrate at the altar.

Given my belief that communion wine can be validly consecrated into the Blood of Christ, and communion bread into the Body of Christ, we can now cue all the folks who will make jokes about cannibalism, etc. (just as the Romans did about early Christians — very little anti-Christian humor is original).

It is obvious that within this broad context the conception of the minister practically lost its priestly dimension as traditionally conceived, and became that of a consecrated functionary, called of God, who directed the purposive activities of the visible church.

Some lesser lights may illustrate concrete applications even better — Father Huntington who at some moments seemed almost to make the Single Tax an article of the Creed, Father William, friar of the Society of the Divine Compassion, leading a demonstration of the unemployed of Plaistow in 1900, Basil Jellicoe describing his housing projects and recreational activities in Somers Town as an extension of his priestly work of consecrating bread and wine.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Crafted and constructed by international architect Thierry W. Despont — who has been commissioned by other notable clients including Bill Gates, Gianni Agnelli and Stavros Niarchos — 26 Park Lane Circle is a Georgian residence that has everything from an indoor pool and spa to a chapel consecrated by two cardinals.