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The priest tells K. that the parable is an ancient text of the court, and many generations of court officials have given interpretations.
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The priest works for the court as a chaplain, and tells K. a fable, ( which has been published separately as Before the Law ) that is meant to explain his situation.
The priest advises K. that his case is going badly and tells him to accept his fate.
A jealous husband disguises himself as a priest, and hears his own wife's confession: she tells him that she loves a priest, who comes to her every night.
* The critically acclaimed award winning The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce tells the true story of Alexander Pearce through his final confession to fellow Irishman and colonial priest Philip Conolly.
Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkerton ’ s religion.
* In the Wet ( 1953 ); an Anglican priest tells the story of an Australian aviator.
Spanning six decades, it tells the story of Father Francis Chisholm, an unconventional Scottish Catholic priest who struggles to establish a mission in China.
A priest tells the gathered soldiers that each religion has endorsed the war by way of allowing soldiers to eat pork if Jewish, meat on Fridays if Catholic, and work through the sabbath if in service of the war for all religions.
" Block tells someone he mistakes for a priest in the confessional booth, " I met Death today.
In the Gospel of Luke ( 10: 25 – 37 ) Jesus tells the story of how a despised and heretical Samaritan ( see Parable of the Good Samaritan ) who ( out of compassion and conscience ) helps an injured stranger beside a road, qualifies better for eternal life by loving his neighbor, than a priest who passes by on the other side.
But he is unable to renounce Helen, even in the confessional, so the priest tells him to think it over again and postpones absolution.
On the day of the wedding, just as the priest begins the ceremony, Lucy finally confesses everything and tells the family she is in love with Jack rather than Peter.
It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory.
He tells him that when he read from the Scroll of Life, he unintentionally brought back to life Kharis ( Lee ), the mummified high priest of Karnak.
The Kojidan tells of an Empress who was possessed, and the Ōkagami reports that Emperor Sanjō was made blind by a tengu, the ghost of a priest who resented the throne.
At the end of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock ( 1938 ), the unnamed Frenchman the old priest tells Rose about, who never took the sacraments but who some think was a saint, is obviously Péguy.
A version of the legend of the Parson and Clerk dating to 1900 tells the tale of the Bishop of Exeter visiting Teignmouth and whilst being guided by a local priest, the devil turns them both to stone, which is seen in the form of two stacks.
When Marius tells the young Lestat the story of his life, he says that Mael was the druid priest who abducted him to become the new " God of the Grove.
After eliminating them all, the priest leading the eulogy tells Tommy he has committed a grave sin and fears his soul is at risk, which Tommy rationalizes at first that he killed all bad men, but seriously takes the priest's warning to heart.
The movie Amadeus is framed as a story an old Antonio Salieri tells to a young priest, because the movie is based more on stories Salieri told about Mozart than on historical fact.
The film version of Amadeus is framed as a story that Antonio Salieri tells in his old age to a young priest.
You must make the greater account of them, as it is impossible to get any more of the same man, nor indeed of his disciple here, who is a priest too, and has been four years about a pair I bespoke of him, which he tells me plainly he cannot finish in less than two more.
After buying some horses they head to Awes, where Emerald tells Eliar that he must show the writing on the knife to every priest in Awes and ask if they can read it.
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K. notices a priest who seems to be preparing to give a sermon from a small second pulpit, and K. begins to leave, lest it begin and K. be compelled to stay for its entirety.
Instead of giving a sermon, the priest calls out K .' s name.
K. approaches the pulpit and the priest berates him for his attitude toward the trial and for seeking help, especially from women.
K. and the priest discuss the parable.
It was probably the priest who received Jones into the Church, Father John O ' Connor ( in fact the model for G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown character ), who suggested that he contact the Catholic artist Eric Gill.
Kotuja ', the K ' iche ' king who founded the city of Q ' umarkaj, bore the name of the deity as a title and was likely to have been a former priest of the god.
The League is organized under a Board of Directors chaired by Philip K. Eichner, a Marianist priest and educator in Long Island, New York.
The Union Party was a short-lived political party in the United States, formed in 1936 by a coalition of radio priest Father Charles Coughlin, old-age pension advocate Francis Townsend, and Gerald L. K. Smith, who had taken control of Huey Long's Share Our Wealth movement after Long's assassination in 1935.
At some point it came under the control of the king and had its original dedication changed ; the inscription K 194 from Phnoṃ Sandak, dated Monday, the 14th or 28th of July, 1119 A. D. records ( line B 13 ) the temple being given to the priest Divākarapaṇḍita and being rededicated to Śiva.
Stephen K. Hayes ( born September 9, 1949 ) is an American Bujinkan ninjutsu master, Buddhist priest and writer.
Its main organiser and chief figure was a Catholic priest, Hugo Kołłątaj ; other notable supporters included Ignacy Potocki and Adam K. Czartoryski.
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The marine slumped forward into a bow like a priest before an idol.
When Beckett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett `` hates life ''.
He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.
Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, ( 1300 B.C. ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic, and corrected an error in its identification.
Dr. Hilprecht was uncertain as to the language used by the ancient priest in his dream.
We may conclude that all six points of information, ostensibly given by the dream priest, could have been furnished by Dr. Hilprecht's subconscious reasoning.
and he, being the eldest, was supposed to be a priest, but he chose to do differently, and one of his brothers is to become the priest.
A Catholic priest recently recounted how in the chapel of a large city university, following Anglican evensong, at which there was a congregation of twelve, he celebrated Mass before more than a hundred.
The Catholic priest, though somewhat superficially drawn, easily came out the best.
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.
but the spirit he wished to call out would not, he knew, come in the person of the temple priest.
When the oath of his priest appeases, they pray and with a song they call their own god, the beautiful Paean.
In Iliad, his priest prays to Apollo Smintheus, the mouse god who retains an older agricultural function as the protector from field rats.
Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.
* Father Paneloux: Father Paneloux is a learned, well-respected Jesuit priest.
In contrast to the humanist beliefs of Rieux, Rambert, and Tarrou, the religious perspective is given in the sermons of the stern Jesuit priest, Father Paneloux.
Thus, a Rabbi, a Catholic priest, and an agnostic might agree that, in this particular case, the best approach is to withhold extraordinary medical care, while disagreeing on the reasons that support their individual positions.
Though Carrel was skeptical about meeting with a priest Presse ended up having a profound influence on the rest of Carrel's life.
In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.
After the decision was made to exclude the statuary of Mary and the archangels, Gaudi contemplated abandoning the project but was persuaded not to by a priest.
* 1876 – Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest ( d. 1929 )
While the priest denied, the Virgin rectified the error.
Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, " Priest-Apostolic " to America and the West Indies.
* 1195 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint ( d. 1231 )
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