easter letter造句

• He broke his long silence in a pre-Easter letter to priests last month, decrying the scandal caused by some.
• Castrillon was speaking at a news conference to present Pope John Paul II's annual pre-Easter letter to priests worldwide.
• Since revelations began pouring out early this year, the pope's only public reference came in a pre-Easter letter to priests March 21.
• In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave the earliest preserved list of exactly the books that would become the New Testament canon.
• The pope's pre-Easter letter generally expresses his closeness to his corps of priests around the world without taking up such a burning issue as sexual abuse.
• Since revelations began pouring out early this year, the pope's only public reference to the issue came in a pre-Easter letter to priests March 21.
• Since revelations began emerging early this year, the pope's only previous public reference to the issue came in a pre-Easter letter to priests March 21.
• Pope John Paul II was accused by some critics earlier this year of inattention, sitting on the sidelines until speaking out in a pre-Easter letter to priests.
• Castrillon Hoyos, who introduced the pope's pre-Easter letter to journalists, chafed during the briefing at the number of questions being asked in English by American reporters.
• Vatican officials said John Paul may say something Thursday when he issues his annual pre-Easter letter to priests, usually an occasion to refer to the celibacy commitment made by Roman Catholic priests.
• In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave a list exactly the same in number and order with what would become the New Testament canon and be accepted by the Greek church.
• Prior to Sunday, his only statements since the sex abuse scandals erupted in the Boston archdiocese in January had been a pre-Easter letter to priests and a speech to cardinals summoned to the Vatican in April.
• In a pre-Easter letter to priests on March 21, the pope said a " shadow of suspicion " had been cast over priests " by some of our brothers who have betrayed the grace of ordination ."
• Athanasius wrote his Easter letter in 367 AD which defined a canon of 27 books, identical to the current canon, but also listed two works that were " not in the canon but to be read : " The Shepherd of Hermas and the Didache.
• In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave a list of the books that would become the twenty-seven-book NT canon, and he used the word " canonized " ( " kanonizomena " ) in regards to them.
• As soon as he is discovered in this offense, he shall be submitted for capital punishment . . . . . " According to Elaine Pagels, " In AD 367, Athanasius, the zealous bishop of Alexandria . . . issued an Easter letter in which he demanded that texts of Classical antiquity.
• "As priests, we are personally and profoundly afflicted by the sins of some of our brothers who have betrayed the grace of ordination in succumbing even to the most grievous forms of the mystery of iniquity at work in the world, " the pope wrote in his annual pre-Easter letter to priests.
• Three weeks ago, the pope did refer to the scandals in a pre-Easter letter to priests around the world, saying " a dark shadow of suspicion " had been cast over all priests by " some of our brothers who have betrayed the grace of ordination " and succumbed to evil.
• Elaine Pagels writes : " In AD 367, Athanasius, the zealous bishop of Alexandria . . . issued an Easter letter in which he demanded that Egyptian monks destroy all such unacceptable writings, except for those he specifically listed as'acceptable'even'canonical' a list that constitutes the present'New Testament'".
• Yet the best the Vatican has been able to muster in the way of moral and doctrinal guidance to its confused and increasingly angry flock has been a vapid paragraph tucked inside a nine-page pre-Easter letter lamenting the " dark shadow of suspicion " the scandal has cast on the church and innocent members of the priesthood.