How To Use Parishioner In A Sentence

Priests have appealed to all parishioners to attend the celebration to honour a lady who is a highly respected and popular member of the community.
Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands, shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt.
O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried 'Have patience, good people!' As You Like It
Oddly enough morning stars have other names as well, being called “holy water sprinklers” due to the fact that they somewhat resemble the aspergillum used by the church to sprinkle parishioners with holy water, and “goedendag” or “good day”. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1043
Anti-clerical knights of the shire who wished to disendow the Church, riotous tenants of an unpopular abbey, parishioners who refused to pay their tithes, would often be called The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy

The Cardinal was greeted on arrival 46 years ago by a great concourse of parishioners who had gaily decorated the roads leading to the new church with bunting and scrolls, many of which were Irish.
That that personage now in possession of the bishop of Bristoll Deane of Yorke (it being an indowment of the said Deanerie) such slender care hath bene had by him for the preaching of the Gospell unto the said parishioners, and giving them that Christianlike and necessarie instru [~c] on which is fitting, as for a long time they scarce had any sermon at all amongest them. The Evolution of an English Town
Priests have appealed to all parishioners to attend the celebration to honour a lady who is a highly respected and popular member of the community.
The next morning, parishioners lucky enough to attend churches not downsized by pedophilia payouts, consulted freshly plasticized pew cards for the new wording of their Mass. Kate Clinton: Et Cum Spirit Two Two Oh
In a September 11 article in the leading French newspaper Le Monde, titled "Sarah Palin, a funny kind of parishioner" (Sarah Palin, une drôle de paroisienne) sociologist Yannick Fer gives a competent overview of the Charismatic movement to which Palin belongs, but his conclusion is widely off the mark: Scott Atran: Religion in America: Why Many Democrats and Europeans Don't Get It
In both cases, the rights of the patron and of the presentee were challenged peremptorily; that is to say, in both cases, parishioners objected to the presentee without reason shown. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
He said that these same parishioners would eventually turn around and lick him with some big stones.
Readings and Prayers of the Faithful were done by parishioners from all churches in the parish.
This year's concert is dedicated to a parishioner's daughter who recently died.
Following the Mass, parishioners will march in procession as one body to the Convent of Mercy where Benediction will be imparted.
Manning began the attack on Russell, calling on all the churches in his bishopric to rouse their parishioners in opposition.
Meanwhile, the Guild will be holding it's annual door to door collection in the parish next month to help fund the sending of sick parishioners on the Pilgrimage.
It is hard to underemphasize the tension between autocratic church structures and the everyday expectations of most parishioners.
That wise pastor responded in a way that still has the parishioner thinking.
But in the bocage country of the west, where the new local authorities were townsmen already disliked for having done too well out of the Revolution, priests preferred solidarity with their parishioners.
Bishop Murray's Pastoral Letter acknowledges the difficulty that many parishioners have found at this time of change for the Church in Limerick.
For at the core of its success lies a willingness to trust the spiritual integrity and moral judgment of its parishioners.
But another attack, which took place on Easter Sunday, saw a second window shattered, outraging local people and parishioners.
Readings and Prayers of the Faithful were done by parishioners from all churches in the parish.
There was no final confrontation with pastor or parishioners, simply a quiet parting.
It was a privilege for the parish and parishioners to share this Mass with the rest of the country.
As much as they might complain about some of their parishioners, parish priests ministered at some point to almost every person in France, particularly at key transitional moments in their lives.
After one gruesome Sunday when the diocese brought in faux-congregations to each parish, an interim court ruling in February 2008 gave the ANiC parishioners full use of their buildings. The Diocese of Niagara: Rev. Susan Wells and the art of victimhood « Anglican Samizdat
The people we've got to be really mindful of are Father Cheney and his parishioners because they're what I call grief-stricken you know, they have worked for years and years and years for this project to happen and we were on the cusp as they say for it to happen," said Bishop Boland. News for WSAV
Church leaders should not use the protection they enjoy from being forced to reveal the confessional conversations they have with parishioners to shield priests accused of child abuse.
But unlike some scares based on rumors or overcautiousness, the alarm among parishioners at a Long Island church this week is based on a confirmed finding: Someone who touched the communion wafers distributed at two packed services on Christmas Day was infected with hepatitis A. NYT > Home Page
Other parishioners successfully petitioned the House of Lords in 1643 to confirm his appointment.
At a time when there were far fewer social workers, guidance counselors, and psychologists, parishioners flocked to their priest in times of trouble.
The fact that this offender was to outward appearances, a devoted minister to his adult parishioners is admirable.
I was vested in riassa, epitrachelion, and phelonian (in other words: long black robe, decorative stole and sort of a liturgical cape); I'm saying the words: "By the sprinkling of this Holy Water, may every evil action and demon be put to flight …" and the choir and parishioners are chanting the Theophany hymn. ORTHODIXIE ... Southern, Orthodox, Convert, Etc.
Many areas in which the new buildings are going up already have Orthodox churches with a shortage of parishioners.
A parishioner of mine has a son who suffers with Choroideremia, a rare inherited disorder that causes progressive loss of vision due to degeneration of the choroid and retina. Archive 2009-09-01
One of his parishioners, a fisherman with three children and a pregnant wife, is in a state of depression, deepened by the immanence in the world of nuclear-bomb threats.
That, I think, is needed for them (1) to better educate their own children (whom they’ve presumably raised to have at least some respect for Christian leaders), (2) to diminish the chance that their fellow parishioners will be seduced from the righteous path by this Christian leader’s cachet, and (3) to make clearer to the non-Christian world that the Christian mainstream does not endorse this interpretation of Christian scriptures. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jimmy Swaggart, unclear on the Ten Commandments:
All the Goys are ganging up on what Jon Snow called his 'parishioner'. Lord Levy Oozes Hypocrisy
Our parishioner had lived through the removal, replacement and removal again of altars and stained-glass windows.
In his letter to parishioners the bishop said deans had been instructed to work with priests and congregations to ‘implement a development framework’ throughout the diocese.
Following a quick stop in the local café to greet many parishioners, I adjourned to the quiet of my pastoral study.
Casting a shrewd glance around, he perceived just below him, well within reach, one of his parishioners who was wearing a large pair of what in rustic circles are termed "barnacles" tied behind his head. The Parish Clerk
All housebound parishioners will be able to receive Holy Communion on Christmas Day from the Eucharistic Ministers.
When Mr Evans returned to duties this week he found an announcement attached to the church door expressing the desire of ten per cent of parishioners to launch a motion of no confidence against his churchwardens and church council.
All parishioners are cordially invited to attend the function to show thanks to a great cleric.
She begged money from parishioners going to and from St Anne's Cathedral.
The parish statistics show that 18 parishioners died during the year and there were 49 baptisms with the girls outnumbering the boys by almost 25 per cent.
This parishioner , if it was a parishioner, sounded desperate; but who would disturb the sanctity of the Cathedral of Light at this late an hour?
He loved antiquarian research, and all such scientific problems as involve abstruse study and complex calculation, -- but equally he loved the simplest flower and the most ordinary village tale of sorrow or mirth recounted to him by any one of his unlessoned parishioners. God's Good Man
The Rev. Kevin Farmer said Wood was "the kind of parishioner I would wish for. KOLO - HomePage - Headlines
The parishioners spoke in tongues
The work of this group is to decorate the church environment so that parishioner may perceive the above idea.
Priests and parishioners are frequently persecuted, and live under constant surveillance and harassment, usually of the crudest and most unsophisticated form.
But enough influential parishioners were angry to fluster the Parish Council and jeopardize the existence of the groups.
Then, too, consider his philanthropy! and deliberate how insufferable would be our case if you and I, and all our fellow parishioners, were to-day hobnobbing with other beasts in the Garden which we pretend to desiderate on Sundays! Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
The Cardinal was greeted on arrival 46 years ago by a great concourse of parishioners who had gaily decorated the roads leading to the new church with bunting and scrolls, many of which were Irish.
Parishioners now have raised enough money to launch construction of the new cathedral.
The church bells began to toll, calling the parishioners to mass.
Yet, who else but a parishioner would know about the closet, and know that the door was scarcely ever opened.
In the past, the Episcopal Church's loose theology has allowed liberal and conservative parishioners, priests, and bishops to avoid major schisms.
Rather, it indicated their willingness to accept yet another honorific chairmanship from parishioners that required little active engagement from them.
At a time when there were far fewer social workers, guidance counselors, and psychologists, parishioners flocked to their priest in times of trouble.
Details from a monstrance designed for St. John Cantius church in Chicago by one of their parishioners and realized by Granda. Arts from Granda
As a result, the pastor has become less of a spiritual leader and more of a professional service-delivery agent, and the parishioner more of a client and consumer.
the pastor's calls on his parishioners
Other parishioners successfully petitioned the House of Lords in 1643 to confirm his appointment.
She is also unable to hold the chalice, which is used to give parishioners communion.
Normally, you'd find Mary mingling with fellow parishioners at All Souls Church in Salford.
Therefore, status as a regular parishioner is important in its own right, but it also is an indicator of religious practice generally.
Most parishioners, even the most ignorant, regarded the priest as a church functionary, someone who performed necessary services, rather than as a spiritual guide.
Henry VIII had ordered "every of you that be parsons, vicars, curates and also chantry priests and stipendiaries to ... teach and bring up in learning the best you can all such children of your parishioners as shall come to you, or at least teach them to read English. The Age of the Reformation
After their ordinations, parishioners and others will help complete their formation.
Our curate is not a man to preach fire and brimstone or scold parishioners for their failings and sins. Huellas ...en la Parroquia
One evening this past summer, I struck up a conversation with a fellow parishioner at a neighborhood block party.
Also we ask all parishioners to be vigilant and keep a watchful eye on this amenity.
The party next Sunday is an all parish event where parishioners from Abbeyleix and Ballyroan from all churches sit down to wine and dine in style.
The consent of an employee, a counselee, a parishioner, or a patient to the sexual advances of an employer, a counselor, a clergy-member, or a physician, respectively. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Latest in the Rifqa Bary Case
This service which will be continually updated will be of great value to parishioners who are far away from home.
For centuries past, preachers had used exempla - fables, proverbs, anecdotes - to make the principles that infused their sermons both easier understood and more attractive to their parishioners.
Five months after a church was desecrated by vandals, defiant parishioners have rebuilt their place of worship.
Then he handed the altar cross, eternal light, altar service book, paten and chalice, baptismal bowl and lectern Bible to parishioners who removed them from the sanctuary.
The wealthy sometimes arranged for personal anniversary rites and chantry prayers to be conducted in perpetuity, while ordinary parishioners were remembered collectively on the feast of All Souls.
The bells tolled as parishioners carrying candles filed out through the 13th-century doorway of St Ninian's church last night to reconsecrate the ground in which the unfortunate woman's remains once lay.
The church currently maintains 13 ministries in Europe, many of which are not self-sustaining and run at a cost to parishioners based in Scotland.
His parishioners sought his counsel and loved him.
On Good Friday, a fellow parishioner was handing out bunches of nine thin beeswax candles (homemade) for praying the Divine Mercy Novena. Last Day of the Divine Mercy Novena
Is it really true, for instance, as the pastor has heard from a brave few, that a majority of the older parishioners would like to have noneucharistic church services conclude with Benediction?
The windows were open, so I could hear the priest say mass and ring his handbell, and hear the parishioners respond and sing.
The Holy Synod urged all priests and parishioners to repent and come back to the unity of the canonic church.
The Anglicans are the only church to offer condoms to parishioners, and even they seemed to do it reticently. Boing Boing: November 28, 2004 - December 4, 2004 Archives
He explains, moreover, the underlying meaning of chancel, altar, liturgy, rood and rood screen - their crucial role in separating parishioners from the stage and drama of the Mass.
They have welcomed the family into the church where parishioners and the vicar are keeping a round-the-clock vigil over them.
O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried ‘Have patience, good people!’ As You Like It
The squint gave a view of the altar to parishioners sitting in the lost north transept.
Milnrow Parish Church is a millstone around its parishioners necks, says the vicar, the Rev Robin Usher.
He also stressed that elderly and immobile parishioners relied heavily on lifts and that current public transport on Sundays was inadequate.
But parishioners at St Laurence's, the town's parish church, just a stone's throw away, were up in arms because their own vicar's house is Chorley's official rectory.
Church leaders have opted to move the stormtrooper out of sight of praying parishioners. Times, Sunday Times
He heard confessions of sins by his parishioners and gave absolution as he saw fit, enjoining a suitable penance.
After Mass at Holy Family Catholic Community Church, the Rev. Kevin Farmer said Francis Billotti Wood was "the kind of parishioner I would wish for. Times Leader News
One of the most baneful instruments of ancient criminal procedure was what was known as the monitory; this was a notice from the pulpit, given out by the bishop and repeated by all vicars to their parishioners, ordering them to make inquiries about the crime in question, and to reveal all the facts which might come to their knowledge. Mauprat
They saw a video about fish farms and a slide show from a parishioner who visited India.
Any priest who thinks he can dictate the political choices of his parishioners is living an ultramontane fantasy.
Talk to the average parish priest or parishioner and they will tell you of falling numbers, unspiritual schoolchildren, struggles to raise money, initiatives which drain the heart and soul and usually achieve little or nothing.
Due to the wonderful generosity of the parishioners, the Church has been modernised using beautiful and innovative designs.
Replacing the tabernacle with an archbishop's throne in Armagh cathedral caused uproar among parishioners two years ago.
O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried, Have patience, good people! Act III. Scene II. As You Like It
In addition to the Trinity Institute's "New Ways of Knowing" project, the church will celebrate its tercentennial year with a series of concerts, the creation of a time capsule to be buried in the church yard for the next 100 years, and the production of an oral history video featuring Trinity's parishioners. Archives de la Stan
Church leaders have opted to move the stormtrooper out of sight of praying parishioners. Times, Sunday Times
For generations, parishioners have donated many items such as our beautiful stained glass windows, silver chalices, ciboria, monstrance, statues and crucifix.
Trying to determine the reason for the human logjam, I craned my neck trying to see over the heads of the rest of the parishioners.
I reminded my talented young parishioner and friend that Concord Bridge had long since yielded to the edacious tooth of Time. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
When funds are misappropriated from a church, most parishioners express shock that something of this nature could ever occur in their church.
At the meeting the Pope encouraged priests to to catechise parishioners about the depth of the liturgy and the meaning of the sacraments as encounters with God. Archive 2009-03-01
It is difficult to know how well the urban vicariate of Baltimore reflects the behavior and attitudes of parishioners outside the study population.
One of the parson's duties is to encourage and help parishioners find suitable employment.
I'll discover the parish of that parishioner.
Most parishioners, even the most ignorant, regarded the priest as a church functionary, someone who performed necessary services, rather than as a spiritual guide.
There were a few parishioners hunched in contemplation near the jerry-built box of boards and blankets in which he heard confessions. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
If your congregation makes wise use of its gifts, parishioners will likely see it as a good place to invest their energy and their resources.
It is a very useful book to introduce pastors and parishioners to the life of Luther.
She was a good parishioner and the best of mothers, who raised a family in hard times and was never heard to grumble.
The stane was a natural stone or erection of masonry which stood at the churchyard gates, to enable parishioners to mount horses or carts easily, particularly useful for women riding pillion. Tam o' Crumstan
You make the implicit assumption that being a scientist automatically confers on an individual the highest levels of integrity, honesty and incorruptibility in other words you regard scientists in much the same way that parishioners regard priests. How To Generate Scientific Controversy | Live Granades
Part of Paul's work will involve travelling by light aircraft to visit parishioners on the different islands.
Then a priest told Rose about a parishioner who had died of cancer.
Parishioners in Maryville , Illinois, attended a memorial service Sunday evening for Pastor Fred Winters.
In churches parishioners lit candles in front of photographs of the murdered man.
As a regular parishioner of the Rev. Lovejoy's, Homer has been identified on the show as having attended -- and snoozed through -- services at the Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism. IS THE DOPE CATHOLIC? The Vatican blesses Homer Simpson (despite what the show says)
Some of you cluck about not wanting to outdress your parishioners. Archive 2006-06-25
On another some one told him that an irate parishioner had threatened to punch Ray in the nose.
Nearly a year ago conservative blogger Erik Rush called the church "cultish" and "separatist" in a Feb. 2007 interview on Fox News '"Hannity and Colmes" and questioned whether its parishioners could consider themselves Americans or Christians. Sliming Obama
To be sure, no priest with a decent theological training would want to suggest that any or all his parishioners can become mystics or visionaries.
The confidential survey was handed to parishioners at every Church of England place of worship in the deanery.
Also we ask all parishioners to be vigilant and keep a watchful eye on this amenity.
Any parish in transition is going to breed a hard-core of disgruntled parishioners who resent anything that smacks of true expressions of the Catholic faith. How to Hire a Parish Musician
So if nothing else, endorsing candidates from the pulpit might rouse the dozing parishioner.
“The parishioners about here,” continued Mrs. Day, not looking at any living being, but snatching up the brown delf tea-things, Under the Greenwood Tree
Statistics show that one in seven parishioners will leave a church this year.
Early in my ministry I visited in the hospital a parishioner who had just given birth.
It's about facilitating the relationship between the divine and the student, or "parishioner," as we Christians might say. Undefined
And so another parishioner and I took our Host, and broke it, and gave it to the Aboriginal girls.
Registered parishioners were more likely to attend Mass weekly, receive Communion, and participate in a variety of devotional activities.
It is not a lack of money that keeps parishioners from expanding the historic house of worship.
There was no final confrontation with pastor or parishioners, simply a quiet parting.
At Communion time, I stayed with the priest until I thought all the parishioners had received Communion.
Open to all parishioners, this annual meeting is the local level of the exercise of synodical government within the Church of Ireland.
Many pastors, youth ministers, elders, and parishioners effectively intervene to help such troubled families.
Invitation circulars were forwarded to all the principal parishioners, including, of course, the heads of the other two societies, for whose especial behoof and edification the display was intended; and a large audience was confidently anticipated on the occasion. Sketches by Boz
They are not as deferential as earlier parishioners to the judgments of the priest.
The Rev Tim Jones of York has been drenched a bucketful of spaghetti and ravioli thrown over him by a parishioner angered by his suggestion to newly-released criminals that they finance Christmas by shoplifting. 2009 December « Anglican Samizdat
The report accuses the church of allowing white parishes and parishioners to be favoured at the expense of their black brothers and sisters.
It is parish leaders and parishioners who do not value catechesis enough to provide trained young people with well-paid careers in the field.
The work of this group is to decorate the church environment so that parishioner may perceive the above idea.
But the fact remains that Spokane was buggered into bankruptcy by priests known to be deviant, and the underlying causes could have been avoided by unexacting prudential decisions well within the moral compass of an ordinary parishioner. Archive 2005-10-01
He knew that a Baltimore physician and nurse had restored his parishioner to physical health. WITHOUT REMORSE
Moral involvement designates a high intensity of positive involvement - the loyal party member or church parishioner, for example.
Yes, he tells a parishioner, church history was written by the winners.
In churches where there were both pulpitum and rood - screen the latter usually had two doors, and between them was placed, on the western side, the rood-altar, which, in monastic churches, often served as the parish altar, the parishioners being accommodated in the nave. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Other parishioners successfully petitioned the House of Lords in 1643 to confirm his appointment.
He calls himself a “social activist,” and sees Mass as an opportunity to educate his parishioners and empower them politically—often inviting guest speakers to address topics such as AIDS, military recruitment of minorities, and immigration laws in place of traditional scriptural homilies. American Grace
In the year 1896, my great-uncle, one of the first Catholic priests of aboriginal blood, put the call out to his parishioners that they should gather at Saint Joseph's wearing scapulars and holding missals. Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Theresa Marino thought she understood parishioners' reservations about engaging the abortion issue.
This Henderson had, I believe, read The Nether World, or one of the books dealing with the kind of parishioner with whom he was acquainted, and had written to Gissing. The Private Life of Henry Maitland
* Even then, the Archdiocese acts more like a government than a private actor, in that it can issue top-down commands to integrate, even if many individual parishioners would have personally disagreed. The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
It was a heart-warming Christmas gesture made by Hampshire parishioners to poverty stricken young children.
His surprise decision to leave, and the news that the churchwardens are to resign, was broken to parishioners by the Archdeacon of Richmond at the end of yesterday's packed morning service.
Whoever ends up winning the buildings in court, one thing is clear: they belong to the ANiC parishioners who have a legitimate use for them, not to the suits with backwards collars or the odious allotheist with the oven mitt on his head. Diocese of Niagara: In Pursuit of Vindictiveness « Anglican Samizdat
It was a heart-warming Christmas gesture made by Hampshire parishioners to poverty stricken young children.
Put you in that - that kiosk - and expect your parishioners to admire your humility?
Last January our relatively new archbishop began a series of meetings in each vicariate with the priests, deacons, religious, and parishioners.
In an interview here he appealed to his future parishioners not to prejudge him merely because he was young.
Let's not forget the party and the unions are like the church running out of parishioners.
Parishioners now have raised enough money to launch construction of the new cathedral.

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