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  • Baccarin was a nice replacement for Jane Badler in the role of the enigmatic, yet totally hot Visitor commander, and Gretsch's confused parish-priest coming to grips with the motherships arrival and how that event has impacted his faith was subtly well-played, while nicely setting up things to come.

    "V" on tv, again! Chuck Wells 2009

  • He taught novices at Woodchester, was then sent to Hawkesyard to teach theology: in 1906 he went to St Dominic's Priory in north-west London for the first time as parish-priest for two years from whence he was plucked back in 1908 to become Prior of Holy Cross, Leicester, for 6 years until 1914.

    Fr. Vincent McNabb: A Voice of Contradiction 2007

  • In 1914 he was elected Prior of Hawkesyard, where he faced his severest personal and spiritual tests, and in 1920 he returned to St Dominic's Priory in London, where he served again as parish-priest until his death on 17th June 1943, some 23 years later.

    Fr. Vincent McNabb: A Voice of Contradiction 2007

  • He said this in a letter to Joseph Hooker encouraging him to seek out "vivid materials to describe his life as a parish-priest" This is, actually, the most interesting aspect of the book I read Darwin's Mentor, by S.M.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Adam Tierney-Eliot 2006

  • He said this in a letter to Joseph Hooker encouraging him to seek out "vivid materials to describe his life as a parish-priest" This is, actually, the most interesting aspect of the book I read Darwin's Mentor, by S.M.

    J. S. Henslow's Boring Life Adam Tierney-Eliot 2006

  • He, too, married a most sensible, quiet, lady - like little woman: the match was the making of him: he became an exemplary domestic character, and a truly active parish-priest (as a pastor, he, to his dying day, conscientiously refused to act).

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Church, and George Austen (though he afterwards became an excellent parish-priest) does not seem to have resided or done duty at Steventon before the year 1764, when his marriage to Cassandra Leigh must have made the rectory appear a desirable home to which to bring his bride.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • The beginning of the baptismal service and the exorcisms are performed privately in the sacristy by the parish-priest, while the prophecies are read in church [133].

    The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

  • Cassandra Leigh's youth was spent in the quiet rectory of Harpsden, for her father was one of the more conscientious of the gently born clergy of that day, living entirely on his benefice, and greatly beloved in his neighbourhood as an exemplary parish-priest.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • The parish-priest came; and, for six months, six long months, they had had to go to school and church.

    The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

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