Sentences with phrase «women deaconesses»

There are women deaconesses, chaplains, Bible study leaders, choir directors, organists, etc..

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In my judgment, the evidence to date indicates that deaconesses belonged to a women's order analogous to the male diaconate, carried out a ministry to women (in the congregation or in a monastic community), were ordained in rites similar but not identical to those for men (e.g., the typology in the prayers is either feminine or masculine), and were prohibited from the liturgical ministry at the altar entrusted to deacons.

The first finding appears to exclude women on the grounds that deaconesses were not admitted to the same office as deacons, and the second finding names the problem the ordination of women as deacons would pose for understanding the unity of the sacrament.

Furthermore, the injunctions against speech and authority are internally contradicted by the equally scriptural witness to the activity of women in the earliest Church: Mary the mother of God praying with the disciples, Priscilla instructing Apollos, Phoebe serving as deaconess, and so on.

In the latter part of the nineteenth century the Protestant Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist denominations in particular called upon women in comparatively large numbers to serve as deaconesses.

Thus Theodor Fliedner (1800 - 1854) developed at Kaiserswerth, where he was pastor, an institution for training deaconesses in which women were prepared to staff hospitals and orphanages.

O eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of man and of woman, who didst replenish with the Spirit Miriam, and Deborah, and Anna, and Huldah; who didst not disdain that thine only - begotten Son should be born of a woman; who also in the Tabernacle of the testimony and in the Temple, didst ordain women to be keepers of thy holy gates, do thou now also look down upon this thy servant, who is to be ordained to the office of a deaconess, and grant her thy Holy Spirit... that she may worthily discharge the work.19

Beginning with the obscure reference of canon 19 of Nicaea respecting Paulinian 18 deaconesses and ending with canon 15 of Chalcedon which prohibits the ordination (cheirotonia) of a deaconess before the age of forty we have the canonical framework of the most significant period in the expansion and elaboration of the ministry of women before modern times.

For over a decade Arsenault has guided parents through pregnancy, labor, birth and the newborn period at Boston's top birthing hospitals including Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Newton - Wellesley Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and Mount Auburn Hospital.

Human investigation committees of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center approved the study, and mothers of all participating children gave written informed consent.

Led by the women leader in the area, Deaconess Martha Philip, the protesters carried placards with inscriptions: «We believe in Udom Dakada spirit but herdsmen is our bane.»

Researchers from the Harvard Medical School - affiliated Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research (IFAR), in collaboration with scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brown University, and Northeastern University, have discovered that postoperative delirium negatively impacts recovery in older adults.

Other contributors include Evis Havari, Raju V. Gottumukkala, Lizbeth Cornivelli and Ross Smith of Joslin; Khadir Raddassi of Brigham and Women's Hospital; Takashi Matsui and Anthony Rosenzweig of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Roderick T. Bronson of Harvard Medical School; Anne L. Fletcher, Shannon J. Turley and Kai Wucherpfennig of Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Sheena Pinto and Bruno Kyewski of the German Cancer Research Center.

The Wyss Institute creates transformative technological breakthroughs by engaging in high risk research, and crosses disciplinary and institutional barriers, working as an alliance that includes Harvard's Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences and Design, and in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston University, Tufts University, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, University of Zurich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

All the actors, apart from two, are non-professionals and clients of the Helsinki Deaconess Institute's women's support services.

You may work for great Boston hospitals like Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and South Shore Hospital.

Similarly, a more recent collaboration (2009) with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to explore the use of this type of intervention for addressing mental health and physical health outcomes among women who have experienced both childhood trauma and current partner abuse.