All 14 Uses
parish
in
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene by Greene
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- Where was his parish?†
Chpt 1.2
- Twenty-eight years — that immeasurable period between his birth and his first parish: all childhood and youth and the seminary lay there.†
Chpt 1.2
- This is my parish.'†
Chpt 1.3
- His parish, I think, Concepcion, and then — perhaps — his home.†
Chpt 1.4
- He smiled, looking at the ground, while she chided him like a housekeeper: it was just as in the old days when there was a presbytery and meetings of the Children of Mary and all the guilds and gossip of a parish, except of course that...He said gently, not looking at her, with the same embarrassed smile, 'How's Brigitta?'†
Chpt 2.1
- All these years there had been two places to which he could always return and rest safely in hiding — one had been Concepcion, his old parish, and that was closed to him now: the other was Carmen, where he had been born and where his parents were buried.†
Chpt 2.1
- He remembered with appalling suddenness that he oughtn't to be there at all...he was in the wrong parish ...he should be holding a retreat at Concepcion.†
Chpt 2.1
- We are a big parish and the priest has a position to keep up.
Chpt 2.1 *parish = a local church community
- He wasn't content to remain all his life the priest of a not very large parish.†
Chpt 2.1
- He could hear authority, the old parish intonation coming back into his voice, as if the last years had been a dream and he had never really been away from the Guilds, the Children of Mary, and the daily Mass.†
Chpt 3.1
- He had the habit now — like piety and the parish voice.†
Chpt 3.1
- He had no vestments, but the Masses in this village were nearer to the old parish days than any he had known in the last eight years — there was no fear of interruption, no hurried taking of the sacraments as the police approached.†
Chpt 3.1
- He had been glad in a way to turn from Miss Lehr's gate — he had never really believed that he would ever get back to parish work and the daily Mass and the careful appearances of piety, but all the same you needed to be a little drunk to die.†
Chpt 3.2
- No, I used to show the tricks at any entertainments we had in the parish —for the Guilds, you know.†
Chpt 3.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)