They also served as parish priests and offered hospitality to travellers and alms to the poor. |
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But as soon as he went away, Ravana appeared in the form of a monk begging for alms. |
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The point used to be to give alms to poor people on Hallowe'en and if you didn't then bad luck would come to you. |
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Gifts of alms are for charitable purposes and not the institutional needs of the temple. |
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Setting the tone for the rest of the journey, the queen made public appearances and distributed alms to the poor. |
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Many of the alms will be donated to monks at the temple, as well as to the novices to use during their stay. |
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At the end of the communion service members give an alms offering to the deacon, the only time that offerings are collected in Amish services. |
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Only when we give alms, fast, and pray with the spirit of Jesus and God's gracious presence do we please God. |
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He was nudged awake by one member of a line of Buddhist monks who were making their daily alms run. |
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They pray five times a day, fast during the month of Ramadan, perform the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca, and give alms to the poor. |
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Under the Ottomans they lived in tekkes or lodges, which were similar in nature to monasteries, and lived off alms. |
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The display brings together alms basins, processional crosses and staves as well as plate for the celebration of communion. |
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Priests received a fee to celebrate a memorial mass in the chantry and further alms were given to those who attended the service. |
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The foundation alms had been pilfered and church ornaments and vestments pawned to pay the hospital's debts. |
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So he set out, but on the road and in the village no one made way for him, and when he begged no one gave him alms. |
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When you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret. |
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If the heart is not inspired by sincerity in bestowing alms then almsgiving becomes mere display. |
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The tenth day of the month of Muharram is observed by visits to the graves of relatives, followed by prayers and the giving of alms to the poor. |
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She started distributing alms to the weak hands that reached out and then suddenly she stopped. |
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Traditionally, it was on December 26th that the alms boxes in English churches were opened and their contents distributed to the poor. |
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A person who has found money must give half of it as alms or he will lose more than what he found. |
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On every poor wight have I ever had ruth and give them alms for love of thee. |
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In other words, belief in God and efforts to please Him must be accompanied by acts of charity and alms can be both voluntary and compulsory. |
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Monks, adorned in their saffron robes, walking silent and barefoot, collect their alms from food vendors and passers-by. |
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To celebrate Id al-Fitr, Moslems say the special feast prayer in a community format and give special alms to the poor. |
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She begged for food and alms, reaching wordlessly through the open windows of the buses parked at the bus stand. |
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However, our lesson also states showing mercy by giving alms and earnestly praying elicits God's reward. |
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When a landlord gives them alms, usually wheat flour or grain, a Basdeva sings a song in praise of the family. |
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The destitute depended on begging, soup kitchens run by monks and nuns, and alms distributed by guilds, confraternities, and urban hospitals. |
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The empathy gained by fasting is meant to socialise people into giving alms to the poor which is considered to be the very basis of sociality. |
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The word pitiable or miserable in Revelation 3:17 underlines the Laodicean's desperate need to receive alms! |
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She brought choice cuts of meat to the porter's dog, and ordered full meals for the gaunt nuns who came to collect alms at awkward hours of the day. |
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Maana's wife went to the temple to give alms daily, serving breakfasts and lunches to her son, other novices and monks, until her son was disrobed. |
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The tradition of giving alms or handsels around the Christmas period continued with the celebration of Handsel Monday on the first Monday after New Year. |
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Another piece might cause people to come up short is an elaborate green Burmese Buddhist alms bowl on a stand covered in gold. |
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They are clothed in saffron coloured robes and carry alms bowls. |
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This being the recognised time to give alms, I was besieged by beggars, who spread their napkins before us on the ground, sprinkled with a few coppers to excite generosity. |
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Although I was being importuned with an obstinate request for alms, I nonetheless summoned enough courage to give him a glowering look in an attempt to scare him away. |
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Standish decided to put a portion of his share of the alms given to us by the celebrated Plenipotentiary Of Meat toward playing the numbers-lottery. |
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If you go for breakfast around 7 in the morning, you'll see the saffron-clothed local monks in procession down the street, collecting their daily alms. |
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To do this, they emphasised the practice of zakat, or alms giving. |
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Fakes are currently thought to be made in Spain and Italy, and include copies of wall sconces, alms dishes, ladles, candle moulds and other popular and valuable forms. |
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These are hopelessly corrupted. Most of the poorest villagers seem to get alms of some sort. |
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I visit the inmates of the prisons and the sick in the hospitals preaching to them as well as sharing with them the alms I receive. |
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When we receive no recompense for our work, we can turn to God's table and beg alms from door to door. |
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In addition to saying mass when it is his turn to do so, Vincent takes care of the distribution of generous alms from the former queen. |
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It may be true that there are among Buddhist mendicants, living on alms in dirt and penury, some who feel perfectly happy and do not envy any nabob. |
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Money for good causes is needed and welcome, but under the simpler social systems of earlier times, the giving of alms was considered no more than a natural duty. |
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Queen Isabella was already being called Santa Isabella by many of her subjects because she was liberal with her alms. |
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The use of alms tax to benefit residential districts and villages is now an important factor in local development and in achieving fellow understanding and institutional solidarity. |
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It is mandatory unlike the funds of alms collected for the Mujahidin. |
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Nothing definite is known about their use, but they may have been struck to be used as alms. |
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Almoner, originally, an officer responsible for distributing alms to the poor, usually connected with a religious house or other institution but also a position with some governments. |
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Gautama initially went to Rajagaha and began his ascetic life by begging for alms in the street. |
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From 1709, however, by a resolution of the House of Commons, the franchise was restricted to resident freemen who were not receiving alms. |
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However, Tehran is not presently hard pressed economically and will not be satisfied, like the North Korean 'King Ubu,' with alms in return for reforming its nuclear programme. |
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The question was that of lay fee, which was the equivalent of secular lands, even though it may have been held in free, pure and perpetual alms. |
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Sworn to poverty, they subsisted on small royal grants and alms. |
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Apart from maintaining its facilities and supporting its personnel the church gave most of the donations it received as alms. |
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Local pastors say “inducement” could be taken to mean anything, including giving alms to the poor. Supporters of such laws say proselytisers, or alleluia wallahs, are converting poor Hindus by force. |
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Claims are made that a pilgrimage is undertaken in honour of Mohammed, that alms are used for the upkeep of mosques and that fasting causes an economic slow down. |
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We cannot, however, consider Vincent to be only a man of action and a distributor of alms, but a man of prayer who found the world in God, which made his prayer a prayer of love. |
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That is a means of attacking the fundamental causes, not just doling out charity, alms and assistance but opening our markets to their agricultural products and basic manufacturers. |
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The gold coins are of uncertain use but may have been struck to be used as alms or for gifts to Rome. |
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That Alfred sent alms to Irish and Continental monasteries may be taken on Asser's authority. |
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There is not even a proper definition of the term, which could mean anything from what a village priest provides when handing out alms to what state banks and credit unions offer to their least affluent clients. |
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Three days before this week's anniversary, a soldier was killed by a bomb as he guarded monks begging for alms in Narathiwat city, the capital of the province in which Tak Bai is situated. |
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The respect given to monks has meant that a gesture as simple as a monk accepting and eating alms from someone with HIV has helped to reduce the fear and stigma associated with the disease. |
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Are we going to reduce our authors to medieval minstrels who can play in the middle of the street, with a cap on the floor hoping someone will give them alms? |
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He corresponded with Elias III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and embassies to Rome conveying the English alms to the Pope were fairly frequent. |
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Indeed, giving alms purifies the soul from the base animosity and vice of avarice so as to receive divine blessings through the benevolent action of the Prophet of God. |
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Grain, wine, cheese, meat, fish and oil began to arrive at Rome in large quantities, where it was given away for nothing as alms. |
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The qadis in Egypt and Syria administer the waqfs and alms for the benefit of travellers. |
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At his return, the royal palace prepared a midday meal, but the sangha was making an alms round in Kapilavastu. |
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Gabriel was a great benefactor to his native town of Ruthin and refounded the old grammar school and built the old people's alms houses next to the church. |
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The ancient heart of our town has a church, hall, tythe barn, alms houses, a former rectory and private residences older than all but two of Sunderland's buildings. |
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He gave alms equally as lavishly both individually and en masse. |
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On the one hand the alms of Saint Gregory are to be distinguished from his donations, but on the other he himself probably saw no such distinction. |
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St. Antoninus never refused an alms which was asked in the name of God. |
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In contrast Levellers argued that all men who are not servants, alms recipients or beggars, should be considered as property owners and be given voting rights. |
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