The American Bishops assembled at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore urged the Catholic people to read the Holy Bible.

Since the Catholic Church expresses such desire that the Sacred Scriptures be read, the following taken from the Holy Bible ( New Catholic Edition ) will prove a means of grace and a source of great spiritual blessing.

With two exceptions, some words and phrases which had become archaic were modernized ; secondly, the readings for the Epistle and Gospel at the Holy Communion, which had been set out in full since 1549, were now set to the text of the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible.

* The Holy Bible ( King James version )

In addition, some Christian denominations such as the Moravian Church, believe that the Holy Bible speaks negatively of homosexual acts, although it is still working on establishing policy for the issue of ordination and homosexuality as research on the matter continues.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

It dealt with various Catholic teachings on the Bible testament-wise, Holy Eucharist, Confessions and finally will conclude with the life of St. Francis Xavier.

After studying the Bible, Parham came to the conclusion that speaking in tongues was the Bible evidence that one had received the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

Others are used to instill reverence to the Holy Bible or to celebrate Christian practices such as the eucharist or baptism.

Although the practice of Holy Communion was first alluded to in the Christian Bible and defined by theologians in the 1st centuries AD, it was around the time of the appearance of the first Christianised Grail literature that the Roman church was beginning to add more ceremony and mysticism around this particular sacrament.

Holy Spirit is a term found in English translations of the Bible, but understood differently among the Abrahamic religions.

In Biblical Hebrew the word means literally to settle, inhabit, or dwell, which suggests the concept of a Holy Spirit, and is used frequently in the Hebrew Bible.

* The Holy Bible passage, 1 Corinthians 13: 12: " Through a Glass Darkly " references a dim mirror image or poor mirror reflection

* Horton, Stanley M. What the Bible Says about the Holy Spirit, rev.

", a single by Manic Street Preachers, from their 1994 album The Holy Bible

Their literature has referred to their organization collectively as God's " prophet " on earth ; this is understood, however, in the sense of declaring their interpretation of God's judgments from the Bible along with God's guidance of His Holy Spirit.

The Vatican Persian cock denoting a sacred and religious vessel acknowledged by and from the Vatican, " a girt one of the loins " of Proverbs 30: 31, the Hebrew zarzir, Arabic sarsar, Greek alektor, French coq, Persian bird, Persian cock or the acknowledged rooster from the Hebrew Torah, the Christian Old Testament, the Holy Scriptures of Job, Isaiah and of the Apostles John, Luke, Matthew and Mark, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may still further be viewed through " A Dictionary of the Bible " which tells us that " Pindar ( ca.

:( a ) The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as " containing all things necessary to salvation ," and as being the rule and ultimate standard of faith.

* New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

In the New Testament, his prophecy of the outpouring of God ′ s Holy Spirit upon all people was notably quoted by the apostle Peter in his Pentecost sermon ().

Other scholars have suggested that Hebrews is part of an internal New Testament debate between the extreme Judaizers ( who argued that non-Jews must convert to Judaism before they can receive the Holy Spirit of Jesus ' Jewish covenant ) versus the extreme Antinomians ( who argued that Jews must reject God's commandments and that Jewish law was no longer in effect ).

He claimed the land in the name of the Holy Trinity for the English Crown as called Nova Albion — Latin for " New Britain ".

* Aviam, M., " Galilee: The Hellenistic to Byzantine Periods ," in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol.

The post-apocalyptic role-playing video game Fallout 2 and its sequel Fallout: New Vegas also feature a throwing weapon called the Holy Frag Grenade, bearing the same shape as the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Notable accounts of encounters with the Holy Spirit in this fashion are found in St Symeon the New Theologian's account of the illumination of ' George ' ( considered a pseudonym of St Symeon himself ); in the ' conversation with Motovilov ' in the Life of St Seraphim of Sarov ( 1759 – 1833 ); and, more recently, in the reminiscences of Elder Porphyrios ( Wounded by Love pp. 27 – 31 ).

* Cocteau, Jean, The Holy Terrors ( Les Enfants terribles ), translated by Rosamond Lehmann, New Directions.

However, they shared a distrust of organised religion, and, after witnessing the critically acclaimed Holy Grails enormous financial turnover, confirming an appetite among the fans for more cinematic endeavours, they soon began to seriously consider a film lampooning the New Testament era in the same way Holy Grail had lampooned Arthurian legend.

* Lindisfarne is known as Holy Island and The New Beginning in " Brother in the Land " by Robert Swindells, 1984.

In its entry on " Unification Church ", the 2002 edition of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage advised: " Unification Church is appropriate in all references to the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, which was founded by the Rev.

The first musical use of the term psychedelic is thought to have been by the New York-based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Belly's " Hesitation Blues " in 1964.

** The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ground on which the church stands is venerated by most Christians as Golgotha, the Hill of Calvary, where the New Testament says that Jesus was crucified.

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* Most Holy Family Monastery, a sedevacantist community living in Fillmore, New York, under the headship of Michael ( né Frederick ) Dimond.

Since at least the mid-19th century, a group of Catholic flagellants in New Mexico called Hermanos de Luz (" Brothers of Light ") have annually conducted reenactments of Jesus Christ's crucifixion during Holy Week, in which a penitent is tied — but not nailed — to a cross.

As the name " New Prophecy " implied, Montanism was a movement focused around prophecy, specifically those of the movement's founders which were believed to contain the Holy Spirit's revelation for the present age.

* In On the Resurrection of the Flesh, Tertullian wrote that the Holy Spirit through the New Prophecy cleared up the ambiguities of scripture.

3: 16 ; 2 Peter 1: 19 – 20, 3: 15 – 16 ), holds that the books of both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety, with all their parts, are sacred and canonical because written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.

Wesley, along with his brother, founded the Holy Club while they were at Oxford, where John was a fellow and later a lecturer at Lincoln College.

This emphasis is, in part, a reflection of the Methodist movement's earliest roots in The Oxford Holy Club, founded by John Wesley, his brother Charles, George Whitefield and others as a response to what they saw as the pervasive permissiveness and debauchery of Oxford University, and specifically Lincoln College when they attended.

* Larry Silver, Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor ( Princeton / Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008 ).

According to the account in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, " There is no reason to doubt that she was buried with her husband at Coventry, despite the assertion of the Evesham chronicle that she lay in Holy Trinity, Evesham.

Blackfriars, Oxford houses three distinct institutions: the Priory of the Holy Spirit, the religious house of the friars, whose current prior is John O ' Connor OP ; Blackfriars Studium, the centre of Theological studies of the English Province of the Dominican Friars ( although it numbers members of other orders and lay people among its students and lecturers ); and Blackfriars Hall, one of the constituent educational institutions of the University of Oxford.

* G. B. Caird, biblical scholar, Senior Tutor, and Principal ; later Dean Ireland's Professor of Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford.

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope, or Trinity College for short, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

He led a life of restless wandering, which took him to North Africa, Egypt ( in 1109, maybe in the company of Yehuda Halevi ), the Land of Israel, Italy ( Rome in 1140-1143, Lucca, Mantua, Verona ), Southern France ( Rodez, Narbonne, Béziers ), Northern France ( Dreux ), England ( London, and Oxford in 1158 ), and back again to Narbonne in 1161, until his death on January 23 or 28, 1167, the exact location unknown: maybe at Calahorra at the border of Navarre and Aragon, or maybe in Rome or in the Holy Land.

He is now remembered chiefly because of the contents of his will, which directs that eight lectures shall be delivered annually at Oxford in the University Church on as many Sunday mornings in full term, " between the commencement of the last month in Lent term and the end of the third week in Act term, upon either of the following subjects: to confirm and establish the Christian faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics ; upon the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures ; upon the authority of the writings of the primitive fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church ; upon the divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; upon the divinity of the Holy Ghost ; upon the articles of the Christian faith as comprehended in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds.

The Conference began with a celebration of the Holy Communion at which Whitehouse of Illinois preached ; Wilberforce of Oxford later described the sermon as ' wordy but not devoid of a certain impressiveness '.

While still at Oxford he took Holy Orders in 1815, and became first a curate to his father, and later curate of St Michael and St Martin's Church, Eastleach Martin in Gloucestershire.

His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).

Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain ; his stained glass works include the windows of St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Chelsea, St Martin's Church in Brampton, St Michael's Church, Brighton, Cumbria, the church designed by Philip Webb, All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge and in Christ Church, Oxford.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1893 memoir by Charles Godfrey Leland, in which he says " When the Holy Spirit seized them ... the Holy Rollers ... rolled over and over on the floor.

In 1870 Liddon had also been made Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford.

In 1911, Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland, possessed a Holy Family, and the colleges of All Souls and Magdalen, at Oxford, possessed altar-pieces by Mengs's hand.

After this mental revolution he felt unable to return to Cheltenham, but after doing duty for two months at St Ebbe's, Oxford, he entered in August 1847 on his famous ministry at Holy Trinity Church, Brighton.

The Oxford Bible Commentary states that it may be word-play on the use of " nazirite ," " Holy One of God ," in Isaiah 4: 3, meant to identify Jesus with the Nazoreans, a

* Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor, Oxford Archaeological Guides: The Holy Land ( Oxford, 1998 ), 217 – 220.