My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life.
I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
Borne without dissent of Either
To the Parish night --
Of the Separated Parties
Which be out of sight?
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
I name no name, but hell's own flame
Illumes the lobby garish,
A gilded snare just off Times Square
For the maidens of the parish.
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
Good night ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England.
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories