Sentence examples for advent letter from inspiring English sources

What was described as his forced resignation was the result of having addressed the shortage of priests in his diocese in an Advent letter he wrote in 2006 in which he said, among other things, that in order to increase the number of priests available to serve congregants, the Church should consider ordaining women and married men.

In his Advent pastoral letter in 2006 he had indeed called for such debates and added that there should be similar discussion about Catholics accepting Anglican and Lutheran orders and those of the Uniting Church, a grouping of Australian Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Methodists.

Since the advent of e-mail, and the Letter Wizard feature on Microsoft Word, it often seems like drafting your own letters is a quaint tradition, but nothing you really need to think about.

Before the advent of a federal postal system, letters passed through the hands of many volunteer carriers on the way to their destinations.

My correspondence has followed the same pattern with preferred methods of communication, in descending order: email, telephone, letter ("snail mail" since the advent of email), fax, and finally personal callers (nearly all of them journalists coming to confess).

The letters, she added, marked the advent of celebrity fan mail which became a staple phenomenon in the 20th century but was rare in Byron's lifetime.

The Virago archive is a treasure trove of correspondence with some of the best women writers of the 20th and current century, and founded as the company was before the advent of email, everything is still there in those files, letters often adorned with my filing instructions "put wherever".

Ember Day letters are written during the week of the third Sunday in Advent, the week after the first Sunday in Lent, the week beginning with Pentecost, and the week after the first Sunday following Holy Cross Day.

"Letter from Berlin" (1966): Joseph Wechsberg reports from Berlin, where — five years after the advent of the Wall — "the abnormal is the normal".

It is known that online surveys have a lower response rate than mail questionnaires [ 17, 18], that the response rates to online surveys have been declining since the advent of the internet [ 19], and that questionnaires should be preceded by a postal letter or pre-contact to increase response rates [ 19].

Prior to the advent of our modern technical age, when was the last time someone mailed 28 letters out each and every day?