Sentence examples similar to parish affection from inspiring English sources
The countryside location of his father's parish inspired an affection in Beach Thomas, which greatly influenced his later observational writings about natural history and rural subjects.
Residents speak of "the parish" with the sort of affection usually reserved for a grandfather and are never far from tears when talking about how the storm crushed it.
Reconciliation is not naturally Aristide's forte; in fact, he gained the Haitian people's respect and undying affection when he was a parish priest precisely because he preached justice to the exclusion of reconciliation.
Like a preacher at a service in a parish church, he spoke on Wednesday emphatically, and with familiar affection, of those who had been killed.
Last month a priest was suspended from his parish in Trento after apparently defending paedophilia during a live TV interview, arguing that "children often seek affection".
His father, a dry conforming Unitarian clergyman, had died early, leaving little legacy of affection in his seven-yearold son's memory, and Emerson had liberated himself from a parish minister's duties, including the personally distasteful one of administering the Lord's Supper, before the age of thirty.
"Having been a parish priest before I was a bishop, into the congregations I served came men and women whose affections were ordered to members of the same sex," he says.
"We want to express affection and solidarity for a choice that left us perplexed and stunned," said the Rev. Pietro Diletti, the parish priest of the church of San Tommaso di Villanova, where the pope celebrates Mass each Aug. 15, the feast day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
