Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office, post, station, or incumbency of a chaplain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office, position, or station of a chaplain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office of a
chaplain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the position of chaplain
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Examples
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From the website: “The mission of the chaplaincy is to lead those who follow Christ, ...”.
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Taking on the chaplaincy is a big challenge, as the University is in a sense a far-flung organisation, with many students living some distance out of the town, and many on part-time courses, and considerable difficulties to be faced in trying to establish contact with the Catholics among them and communicate the message that there is a Chaplaincy there for them, a centre for evangelisation and faith.....
auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007
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Taking on the chaplaincy is a big challenge, as the University is in a sense a far-flung organisation, with many students living some distance out of the town, and many on part-time courses, and considerable difficulties to be faced in trying to establish contact with the Catholics among them and communicate the message that there is a Chaplaincy there for them, a centre for evangelisation and faith.....
Archive 2007-01-01 Joanna Bogle 2007
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[116] A chaplaincy is a pious foundation made by any religious person, and elected into a benefice by the ecclesiastical ordinary, with the annexed obligation of saying a certain number of masses, or with the obligation of other analogous spiritual duties.
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"I'm so excited to combine my love of being a pastor, where I'm leading worship and funerals and weddings, with my chaplaincy, which is helping people in times of crisis in their lives,"
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He says the chaplaincy is a "ministry of presence," where he is "just there to be there."
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It remains to be seen whether the flexibility suggested in the Constitution might ever lead to something less like a 'chaplaincy' and more like a church gathered around a bishop.
Archbishop's address at a Willebrands Symposium in Rome 2009
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It remains to be seen whether the flexibility suggested in the Constitution might ever lead to something less like a 'chaplaincy' and more like a church gathered around a bishop.
Archbishop's address at a Willebrands Symposium in Rome 2009
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A search for "chaplaincy" on that site uncovered this moving article by YNHH Chaplain Kathleen Blake Thompson.
Archive 2007-07-01 Susan Palwick 2007
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If you'd like links to those posts, please either e-mail me privately my e-mail address is in the profile or search on the "chaplaincy" label.
Making Meaning Susan Palwick 2007
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