Harking back to the regulative principle of worship, the Reformed tradition had long eschewed coming forward to receive communion, preferring to have the elements distributed throughout the congregation by the presbyters ( elders ) more in the style of a shared meal.

The Shafi ' i and Hanbali schools, however, argue that the appointment is not necessary and the prayer is valid as long as it is performed in a congregation.

The orthodox Catholic position was that the sacrament was for precisely such cases, though at the time the Church still followed the discipline of public penance whereby a penitent for such a grievous offence would spend years, even decades, first outside the doors of the church begging for the prayers of those entering, then kneeling inside the church building during services, then standing with the congregation, and finally receiving the Eucharist again in a long progress toward full reconciliation.

However many authorities were lenient in this regard and as long as a cantor was " merutzeh l ' kehal " desired by the congregation, he was permitted to lead the prayers even on the holiest of days.

Stone was expelled in 1851 from the West Brookfield congregation she had long attended for being " engaged in a course of life evidently inconsistent with her covenant engagements to this church.

He was frequently engaged in philanthropic activities connected with his own congregation, but additionally, " no labor was too great and no journey too long for him " in the service of the Jews of Germany, Austria, Russia, and even Abyssinia and Persia, so that he came to be known as the " international schnorrer ".

This is generally done by taking up a collection from the congregation, but fundraising from the wider community is also allowed, as long as it does not involve games of chance such as raffles, lotteries, or bingo.

A Nonconformist congregation was able to acquire a site that had formerly been the tail of a long plot occupied at the other end by the King ’ s Arms.

The McKnight's, who have long since moved beyond the walls of their makeshift sanctuary, hold multiple Sunday services in their current church to accommodate their growing congregation.

In Bangladesh, it is a five day long festival and is celebrated in mandaps ( congregation ).

When food was scarce after the long wars with France in 1817 he started a scheme of selling sixpenny loaves for three pence supported by donations from his congregation and distributed 1, 000 loaves.

The senior Byron Nelson went on to serve as an elder in the Roanoke Church of Christ, and the younger Byron Nelson was a committed member of that congregation — even performing janitorial services there from time to time long after he became famous — he later placed his membership at the Hilltop Church of Christ in Roanoke from 1989 until 2000, when he moved his membership to the Richland Hills Church of Christ in North Richland Hills, Texas in later life.

:" How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmur against me?

:" How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmur against me?

For example, the verse, " How long shall I bear with this evil congregation which murmur against me?

A pew is a long bench seat or enclosed box used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, or sometimes in a courtroom.

This is a year long experience of living in an OMI community, sharing in many aspects of the life of the congregation.

A revival was characterized by large camp meetings, where ministers from various Protestant groups would preach for long periods, with music and dancing often adding to the emotional pitch of the congregation.

In 1383, Dionysius returned from this long journey to his congregation at Suzdal and continued his struggle against the Strigolniki.

The budget for the Universalist congregation was rather small for its needs: $ 40, 000 US dollars ; and the proposed building site was long, but not very wide.

Its cultural identity is very similar to that of the rest of Lower Hutt and has progressed would jokingly disagree a long way from the " congregation of old sheelbacks and whalers, men-o '- wars men and seamen, lags and hard cases, living in tents and whares ... heterogeneous mass of misguided humanity " that existed in 1855.

There they sing and caw for long periods before taking wing simultaneously until the next congregation.

By the mid-1830s, the Old Chapel had long outlived its usefulness and Bishop Fleming wished to construct a house of worship capable of holding his congregation.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

Again, they should learn that if they lack the grace of compunction or devotion they should not think they are not in the state of grace as long as they have good will, which is all that God regards ".

He states in his work, Gynecology, that “ a suitable person will be literate, with her wits about her, possessed of a good memory, loving work, respectable and generally not unduly handicapped as regards her senses sight, smell, hearing, sound of limb, robust, and, according to some people, endowed with long slim fingers and short nails at her fingertips .” Soranus also recommends that the midwife be of sympathetic disposition ( although she need not have borne a child herself ) and that she keep her hands soft for the comfort of both mother and child.

His long progress to the place of assembly resembled a triumphal procession, and the Council of Mantua of 1459, a complete failure as regards its ostensible object of mounting a crusade, at least showed that the impotence of Christendom was not owing to the Pope.

( Tradition regards these as region names with the region Gilead being named so, long before the grandson of Manasseh.

Of special concern with regards to teratogenicity is ribavirin's long half-life in the body.

Pilger has long been a critic of Australian government policy, particularly of what he regards as its inherent racism and the poor treatment of its indigenous population.

While he had long been fascinated by birdsong, and birds had made appearances in several of his earlier works ( for example La Nativité, Quatuor and Vingt regards ), the flute piece was based entirely on the song of the blackbird.

The alternation between the two royal lines seems to have been peaceful for a long time, Alfred P. Smyth regards this early phase as " a century of kingly coexistence ".

* As it gives models to all consistent theories without distinction, it gives no reason to accept or reject any axiom as long as the theory remains consistent, but regards all consistent axiomatic theories as referring to equally existing worlds.

Liberal Catholicism regards these promises as validating all Christian worship of whatever kind as long as it be earnest and true.

Infamous for long, drawn-out shoots without any real regards to deadlines, a running joke amongst the crew was that he would finish in the year 2046.

Lee regards this win as the one that began and established Laver's long reign as world number one.

With regards to how high a balloon will rise, a balloon will rise only so long as it displaces a weight of air greater than its own weight.

*" If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it -- the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.

The philentomas were traditionally placed with the Muscicapidae ( flycatchers ) when these were still used as a " wastebin taxon ", largely as an expedient because these enigmatic birds have long defied ornithologists as regards their systematic placement ; they remain little-studied and their placement here is just as provisional as it was in the Muscicapidae but even if they do not really belong here, they are at least not very distant to the Prionopidae.

" However, Voline's allegations against Makhno in regards to sexual violations of women has been disputed by some on the grounds that the allegations are unsubstantiated, do not stand up to eyewitness accounts of the punishment meted out to rapists by the Makhnovists, and were originally made by Voline in his book The Unknown Revolution which was first published in 1947, long after Makhno's death and following a bitter falling-out between Makhno and Voline.

In addition, the genus Cassia was for long ill-delimited with regards to the related Cassiinae-especially Senna -, many species of which were once placed herein.

Waaler is aware that it is Harry whom Oleg regards as his father – rather than his biological father in Russia, from whom Rakel is long separated – and that Harry is deeply attached to the boy and would do virtually anything in order to save him.

The French definition of passot is the same as the definition given by Joseph Swetnam in regards to the bastard sword, " The Bastard Sword, the which Sword is something shorter than a long Sword, and yet longer than a Short sword.

While Frost regards Piwarski's assertion, that the Polish decision was heavily influenced by the Habsburgs, to have merit, he also says that the Polish interest in a rapprochment with Brandenburg had already emerged in 1656, long before Lisola entered the scene.

However, the council were unwilling to take any further risks with regards to health & safety and therefore decided the lake would benefit the area in the long term.

He has long urged immediate regime change in Iran, which he regards as the mainspring of the Islamic terrorist movement.