Sentence examples for rules of the church from inspiring English sources

Diatonic harmony arose gradually, in the form of numerous exceptions to the rules of the church modes.

"This ceremony is a chargeable offense" under the rules of the church, wrote the ministers, led by the Rev. Randall C. Paige, pastor of Christ Church in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.

And to protect the church Benedict has spent a lifetime nurturing, many are calling on him to explain his own past to show how he understands that the rules of the church do not conflict with the rule of law.

Edited by one of his five children, Katherine A. Powers, the book provides a wonderful picture of a now lost type: the radical-liberal Catholic of the forties and fifties, whose allegiance to the rules of the Church (all those children!) was part and parcel of his allegiance to what would now seem an extravagant, not to say extremist, egalitarian politics.

The rules of the church were her world until, at age 30, her marriage ended.

We have to balance the rules of the Church with the tugging of our heartstrings and the call that we feel deep inside our souls.

Lawrence, by making this couple's world "the permanent bedrock", and showing the exterior world of "streets, church, work, rule-of-the-day" as the unreal husk, frightened that real world enough for it to take vigorous action.

In his rule of the church, Alexander stood in the reform tradition and at the beginning of a line of lawyer-popes that would culminate in Innocent III.

By this period a rule of the church normally forbade the use of vessels decorated on their inner surface as ciboria.

The main business of the council was the debate on a number of canons, or rules, for the church that would be announced.

"Yes, we violated the rules of the Orthodox Church; yes, I admit that," Ms. Tolokonnikova said.