(n.) One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.
Example Sentences:
(1) I dream about this, the same thing every single night.” He talks of the paranoia that arose after the mass shooting two months after Scott’s death at a black church in Charleston, a few miles away, where a 21-year-old white supremacist is accused of murdering nine parishioners at a prayer service.
(2) To read more about the position of Irish churches on gay marriage, read here , this analysis on why that position may be unconvincing, and this piece on the priests who are urging their parishioners to vote yes.
(3) News of the tragedy had spread through the community, with a Rouse Hill Catholic church holding a special prayer service and urging parishioners to keep the twins in their hearts.
(4) Belmondo could treat women tenderly (as the priest dealing with an ardent parishioner in Léon Morin, prêtre) and harshly (beating up a treacherous moll in Le Doulos).
(5) Perhaps the church perceived these women, with their special, often esoteric, healing skills, as a threat to its supremacy in the lives of its parishioners.
(6) Others have claimed that a number of local priests refused to grant absolution to parishioners who were planning to vote yes to divorce.
(7) Even the church weighed in: The Archbishop of Cyprus urged Russians not to flee the country, while humble parishioners faced tough times.
(8) But he added: “They will all be anxious to promote the pope’s message.” Some priests and bishops, especially those in conservative parts of the country, or where the local economy is heavily dependent on extractive industries, would welcome the pope’s intervention for giving them licence at last to touch on subjects they dared not raise for fear of offending their parishioners.
(9) Luke was one of several parishioners' pets attending services prior to an animal blessing in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.
(10) As a curate, he startled the Cambridge parishioners of St Andrew's, Chesterton, by bicycling in a cassock and a biretta, though eventually the bicycle chain chewed up the cassock.
(11) A dozen gay ministers are to sign an open letter that also urges the church to allow clergy to carry out blessings for parishioners entering into same-sex marriages.
(12) Even Swedish churches have adapted, displaying their phone numbers at the end of each service and asking parishioners to use Swish to drop their contribution into the virtual Sunday collection.
(13) A minister in Bradford since 1976, Flowers was suspended indefinitely by the church last year, and has since told parishioners he intends to retire.
(14) But if Trump really does move to enact mass deportations, a lot of the potential victims will be Catholic parishioners.
(15) Church of England bishops are being cowed by a small group of “super-conservative puritans” who believe homosexuality is a sin, leaving most too scared to speak out in support of gay and lesbian clergy and parishioners, according a leading gay vicar who is quitting the priesthood.
(16) That’s very true.” But it isn’t enough, Young says: compassion is a Christian virtue, too, and his black parishioners don’t see enough of it from the right.
(17) Britain was not working big time, and many of my parishioners were struggling with the poverty this brought into their homes.
(18) Linda Arendt, another Faith Presbyterian parishioner, says she’s not convinced she wants to vote for anyone in the race – she saw a meme (she says même – we’re not far from New Orleans) of “a little boy having the most awful tantrum, saying, ‘Please don’t make me vote for any of these people.
(19) Snowden said professionals were failing in their obligations to their clients, sources, patients and parishioners in what he described as a new and challenging world.
(20) He spent an hour studying with the dozen parishioners in the Bible study room and then opened fire, striking each victim “multiple times”.
Vestry
Definition:
(n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.
(n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.
(n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
Example Sentences:
(1) As previously described with other fluoroquinolones (D. Raoult, M. Drancourt, and G. Vestris, Antimicrob.
(2) We used the shell-vial technique (D. Raoult, G. Vestris, and M. Enea, J. Clin.
(3) I had written other parts of the book in some uncomfortable places: the cold cobwebbed vestry of my parents'-in-law's local church, to which my mother-in-law had the key; the attic of another, earlier house whose stairs were so narrow for my increasingly pregnant body that it seemed possible I might one day get permanently stuck up there.
(4) They charged their mobile phones there and we were taking hot water over to the vestry and to people's flats, people who had young children.
(5) The ancient church has a 19th-century vestry whose walls are lined from floor to ceiling with thousands of cockle shells, the pilgrim emblem of St James.