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The Church Unity Octave, January 18-25, was enthusiastically devoted to prayer and discussion by the various churches.
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Church and Unity
a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave.
:( d ) The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the Unity of His Church.
This apostolic succession is recognized by Unity Catholic Church, an Independent Catholic Church.
The Athanasian Creed, received in the Western Church as having the same status as the Nicene and Chalcedonian, says: " We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity ; neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance.
Unity failed between Catholic and Protestant representatives “ because of different concepts of Church and justification ”.
At the General Church level, the Council on Christian Unity coordinates the ecumenical activities of the church.
New Thought as a movement had no single origin, but was rather propelled along by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, particularly the Unity Church, Religious Science, and Church of Divine Science.
See also: Unity Church, Christian Science, Christian theological praxis and Postmodern Christianity.
Among present-day Christians, Hussite traditions are represented in the Moravian Church, Unity of the Brethren, and the refounded Czechoslovak Hussite churches.
Most of the Taborites now went over to the party of the Utraquists ; the rest joined the " Brothers of the Law of Christ " () ( see Unity of the Brethren ; also Bohemian Brethren and Moravian Church ).
Several modern religious movements, for example the organizations within the New Thought Movement and the Unity Church, may be said to have a particularly idealist orientation.
The Kansas City metropolitan area is the seat of the Unity Church, a Christian denomination claiming approximately two million members.
Religious Science, Divine Science, and the Unity Church are religious denominations which represent a panentheistic worldview within the Christian New Thought movement.
* Myriam Soria Audebert, " Pontifical Propaganda during the Schisms: Alexander III to the reconquest of Church Unity ," in Convaincre et persuader: Communication et propagande aux XII et XIIIe siècles.
The 2006 Report of the Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church, in theory, attempted to find common ground.
The Unity Church is another denomination that is often confused with Unitarian Universalism.
At a local level, many Unitarian Christian groups ( or members ) have links with congregations affiliated with the United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, and Unity Church ; some argue they feel more at home within these denominations than Unitarian Universalism.
Some modern Church uses also preserve the idea of an eight-day period, starting and finishing on the same day of the week, and retain the name " octave " for them ; for example, many churches observe an annual " Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity " on 18 – 25 January or in the week that begins with Pentecost Sunday.
Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a spiritual philosophical movement within the wider New Thought movement and is best known to many through its Daily Word devotional publication.
In March 2008 Maya Angelou stated that she planned to spend part of the year studying at the Unity Church.
Church and Octave
In the Roman Catholic Church Christmas also has an 8 day Octave similar to Easter.
Prior to the reform of 1955, when Pope Pius XII abolished all but three liturgical octaves, the Latin Church celebrated Epiphany as an eight-day feast, known as the Octave of Epiphany, beginning on 6 January and ending on 13 January.
Finally, in 1856, Pope Pius IX established the Feast of the Sacred Heart as obligatory for the whole Church, to be celebrated on the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi.
* Paul of Graymoor: Founder of the Society of the Atonement and Father of the Church Unity Octave.
The Sunday within the Octave of Christmas is a liturgical celebration in the Tridentine rite of the Roman Catholic Church which, in missals before 1962, takes place on either December 29, December 30, or December 31.
Church and January
File: Church in Tombua, Namibe, Angola. JPG | Church in Tombua, Namibe province, January 2010
In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church assigned the feast to 26 January so as to celebrate the two disciples of Paul, Titus and Timothy, on the day after the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.
The Orthodox Church commemorates him on 25 August and on 4 January.
Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress ( SANNC ) on 8 January 1912 at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population.
Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.
He is celebrated in many churches on his feast days: 30 January in the Old-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church ; 17 January in the New-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church.
They were engaged a few weeks after their return, and were later married at Christ Church, Hampstead on 10 January 1922.
The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Church celebrate his feast day on 9 June and also, together with Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria, on 18 January.
This promotion was completed when Joseph II consecrated the first Ethiopian-born Archbishop, Abuna Basilios, as head of the Ethiopian Church on 14 January 1951.
On 11 January 1848, at St John's Church in Shrewsbury, George married for the third time, to Ellen Gregory, another farmer's daughter originally from Bakewell in Derbyshire, who had been his housekeeper.
The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate two feast days in honor of Gregory: January 25 as his primary feast and January 30, known as the feast of the Three Great Hierarchs, which commemorates him along with John Chrysoston and Basil of Caesarea.
Church and was
Beloved Dr. R. F. Campbell, our First Presbyterian Church pastor, was in charge.
This group in Park Place Church was made up of the earnest few.
This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.
To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.
Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.
But I was deeply moved by his letter of resignation as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta.
At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.
In the midst of this crowded region was the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Dutch Reformed Church, with two steeples and its own school was on Main Street ; ;
the Episcopal Church was one block down Sussex Street ; ;
There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.
The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.
And John's reply was always the same: `` Anything that affects souls is the concern of the Church!!
This conception was taken up by the early Church Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle Ages ; ;
An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.
Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.
The First Christian Church of Pampa was the setting for the wedding last Sunday of Miss Marcile Marie Glison and Thomas Earl Loving Jr., who will live at 8861 Gaston after a wedding trip to New Orleans, La.
He was a member of the Oakland City Methodist Church and a native of Atlanta.
The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.
There was so much interest shown in this present-day venture that it was continued on B.B.C., where comments were equally made by an Anglican parson, a Free Church minister and a Catholic priest.
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