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Official Site for the Canonization of Servant of God Demetrius Gallitzin; Obituary of Father Demetrius Gallitzin, Mountaineer, May 14, 1840, reprinted in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County, 1896, transcribed to rootsweb.com website. "Prince-turned-priest on path toward sainthood" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 7, 2005.
Some of the key quotes are as follows: "A natural man… may have the eye of reason open, but he does not discern the things of God in a spiritual manner… he is no more able to judge sacred things than a blind man is able to judge colors" (20). "The ship of ordinances will not carry us to heaven… unless the wind of God’s Spirit blows" (76).
1 Peter 2:16 describes "servants of God" (Θεοῦ δοῦλοι, Theou douloi) being free to act within the bounds of God's will. Following usage conventions established in the King James Bible, the word "servant" is never capitalized or used as a title of nobility. ("The servant is not greater than his lord.") [1]
In Luke's Gospel, the saying is thus clearly one about God and money. In Matthew, the previous verses imply it can mean placing anything above God. Leon Morris notes that the Greek: δουλεύειν, douleuein, translated as serve, literally means be a slave to, unlike in Luke where the reference is to servants. [1]
Isaiah 52:13–53:12 makes up the fourth of the "Servant Songs" of the Book of Isaiah, describing a "servant" of God who is abused and looked down upon but eventually vindicated. [2] Major themes of the passage include: Human opposition to God's purposes for the servant. The servant has an exalted status in the eyes of God, but people despise ...
The answer of St. Michael the Archangel to the non serviam, "I will not serve" of Satan, when the angels were tested by God on whether they will serve an inferior being, a man, Jesus, as their Lord. servus servorum Dei: servant of the servants of God: A title for the Pope. sesquipedalia verba: words a foot and a half long
Funerary inscription (AD 525) calling the deceased Maxima an Ancilla Christi (handmaid of Christ). In the Catholic Church, Servant of God is the style used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading to canonisation as a saint.
The people turned to Bishop Strambi for fear of what the French would do. His response was to gather priests and seminarians in his private chapel to beg for God's intercession and after one and a half hours he rose and declared that Macerata would be saved through the intercession of the Mother of God. The French were indeed defeated though ...