Private baptisms tended to make baptisms a biological family affair rather than a congregational act. |
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The guidelines for the celebration of this sacrament in the liturgy of marriage are the same as for any congregational Eucharist. |
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Here, as everywhere it is very favourable to congregational schools but generally it does not make open war on laic institutions. |
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Family members, congregational members, pastors, and other church leaders are called to honor marriage. |
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In the recording, the choir stands in two rows at the front of the congregational pews, with the musicians placed at either side. |
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Begin with a 45-minute conversation with your congregational board or council. |
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But Farmer's cantus part had no independent existence, and certainly would not have been used for congregational singing. |
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They are patronised mainly by the under-classes, including domestic servants, whose tithe is too meagre for congregational development. |
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In the structure of the hymn, praise is response in the sense of being a congregational response to a call to worship. |
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At the center of congregational life is worship, religious education, and the arts, the last mainly related to music. |
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Stubbings is a previous Master of the Music and Missa Stella Splendens is a festal congregational communion setting. |
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Her faith, however, is not a simple brand of spiritual reductionism whereupon community and congregational problems can be explained by God. |
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Our church family enjoys having our choir standing in the aisles, blending in with the total congregation during congregational singing. |
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His descriptions and observations go directly to the practical application of theory to the hard realities of congregational song. |
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In legal writings the term is applied to the leader of the congregational prayers in the mosque. |
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Or, certain theological assertions are stated, completely disjoined from their congregational, ethical implications. |
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And it's certainly true that our style has infiltrated into the style of singing and congregational worship in this church. |
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In the median congregation, only ten individuals do volunteer work connected with congregational social services. |
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A licensing program can help congregations enrich parts of worship in addition to congregational hymn singing. |
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They attend a congregational church and their views are typical of churchgoers in the United States. |
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Presidents, on the other hand, eschew congregational control in favor of congregational influence. |
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In both, the religious convictions of the early settlers and a congregational church system helped shape social and political institutions. |
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They have had leaders who have helped to cultivate the passions and commitments of congregational life. |
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Unison congregational responses alternate with vernacular stanzas sung by a cantor. |
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His personal and congregational anecdotes weave a significant story of appropriate, evaluated use of technology. |
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His basic intention was to improve the congregational singing in the churches. |
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For many, he is the mentor who set the standard and priority for congregational song. |
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It needs to be up to date, changing as schedules and programs, church seasons and congregational opportunities change. |
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But when believers are called home to be with Christ there is normally music and congregational singing. |
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There are many different ways to weave an intergenerational perspective into all areas of congregational life. |
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A blow to the nose, sharply given by an experienced pastor during a congregational debate, can put a contentious layperson into a stupor. |
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I've been a member of several Lutheran churches and have sat through many congregational meetings. |
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How can a commitment to continual conversion help congregational renewal? |
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For a moment let us observe that instrumental music, when used in the public worship service, is for the immediate and proximate accompaniment of congregational singing. |
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These temples would have housed the cult statue of the deity, for example the head of Minerva found at Bath, and were not used for congregational worship. |
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In the big cities or the remotest rural areas, the azan is called five times a day and the people gather for the congregational prayers at the proper times without fail. |
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There was little pretense of a church service beyond a choral introit and a couple of congregational hymns. |
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In the congregational sphere, the Seder or the Sukkah meal becomes a surrogate for an extended family group. |
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This does not call for a rush of congregational activity by which Churches busy themselves in social matters which are not properly their business. |
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Thirdly, are we jealously guarding united congregational worship? |
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We are hoping for a massive congregational response, no community should feel itself outside of this effort. |
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Music played an important role, with the congregational singing led by three teenagers, followed by a large, wonderful children's choir. |
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They should be attached to a congregation in Canada and this type of work should be a usual congregational activity. |
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We also enjoy his participation in congregational life including Sunday School. |
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In this way, personal growth will lead to the attainment of a congregational and ecclesial goal as well: the building up of the Kingdom of God. |
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The Quakers adopted a simple congregational type of rite that consisted of local meetings for worship and meetings for church business. |
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We also thank you for sharing with us the concerns of the General Administration for the collaboration of India in the congregational mission. |
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These too have particular need to see and to be seen at the congregational level and to feel part of the great congregational family. |
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You must be able to work effectively with an active and diverse board of lay leaders, with rabbinic and non-rabbinic staff, and with congregational rabbis and their boards. |
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In 1972 the Presbyterian church of England merged with most of the congregational unions to create the United Reform Church, but the decline in membership was not arrested. |
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But there seems to be an increasingly widespread sense that we do not have enough good pastors to sustain congregational ministries at high levels. |
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If we want to stop short of being idolaters, how can we advance the analysis and criticism of all such political proposals in congregational locales? |
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These were replaced by the congregational singing of psalms, despite attempts of James VI to refound the song schools and choral singing. |
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The collection is not limited to history, but also includes parish and church congregational histories, and local, natural, corporate, economic, and social histories on topics from golf clubs to redevelopment schemes. |
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The first is al-Maghariba congregational mosque, which is a rectangular building formed from a series of intersecting vaults, in the middle of which is a dome. |
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I am aware that editors on the provincial or congregational level also find it difficult to get their fellow brothers and sisters to share their «news» or positive gossip! |
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Geiser is a member of the Kidron, Ohio, USA, Mennonite Church, where she has served on the youth leadership team, participated in the church choir, a bell choir and led congregational singing. |
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Universalist churches are congregational in polity. |
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In the United States the polity of the Lutheran churches is congregational, but in a complex form in which congregations yield some authority to synods on regional and national levels. |
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Continental hymnody has been largely influenced by Lutheran models, although in Italy the Waldensian church cultivates congregational hymnody influenced by local folk-song and operatic styles. |
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At a congregational meeting he was for the reception of the Portugall embassador. |
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Though our congregational needs are often demanding, we need to find time and place our talents at the service of our international Dominican sisterhood. |
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Communion was celebrated monthly and congregational singing of the psalms was encouraged. |
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Although Zwingli did not express an opinion on congregational singing, he made no effort to encourage it. |
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Some Lutheran churches practice congregational polity or a form of presbyterian polity. |
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This led to a separation of Bethesda from Darby and a clear adoption of an independent or congregational stance by many of the assemblies. |
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In his writings, Ambrose refers only to the performance of psalms, in which solo singing of psalm verses alternated with a congregational refrain called an antiphon. |
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Luther's service, however, included congregational singing of hymns and psalms in German, as well as of parts of the liturgy, including Luther's unison setting of the Creed. |
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Since enthusiastic congregational singing was a part of the early evangelical movement, Wesleyan theology took root and spread through this channel. |
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To offer these psalmic questions for congregational expression as circumstances may require is vital to the church's ministry among suffering people. |
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This connectional organizational model differs further from the congregational model, for example of Baptist, and Congregationalist Churches, among others. |
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This DVD features clergy, congregational members and parish nurses in an engaging format designed for use with church councils, health cabinets, or staff meetings. |
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Most Baptists are evangelical in doctrine, but Baptist beliefs can vary due to the congregational governance system that gives autonomy to individual local Baptist churches. |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams suggested that a congregational hymn be included. |
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Leo Parish in Philadelphia featured an icebreaker game, congregational singing, bells and refreshments, said Pat Lardon, parish services director. |
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