The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
Quotes about priestly (16 Quotes)
The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
Touching the matter of the defilement to which the temple courts had been subjected by traffickers acting under priestly license, Farrar gives us the following 'And this was the entrance-court to the Temple of the Most High The court which was a witness that that house should be a House of Prayer for all nations had been degraded into a place which, for foulness, was more like shambles, and for bustling commerce more like a densely crowded bazaar while the lowing of oxen, the bleating of sheep, the Babel of many languages, the huckstering and wrangling, and the clinking of money and of balances (perhaps not always just), might be heard in the adjoining courts, disturbing the chant of the Levites and the prayers of priests'
I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Please heed the words of our Holy Father There is no place in the priestly ministry for those who harm children,
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends mathematics has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
These years have been years of blessings, but also of learning, and there have been crosses, I don't deny that for an instant, ... But I say that in all of this, the joy and the consolation of the priestly ministry has exceeded any cross that came my way.
I guess you have to have John Pilger. With his tan, his Byronic haircut, his trudging priestly delivery and his evident self-love, your main instinct is to flip right over to BBC1...
To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.
So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
The laity, who pay the bills, have a right to high quality priestly service, in strict commutative justice with the obligation of restitution. So too does the Lord Jesus, whom we purport to represent.