pastoral work
Caring for congregation
Pastoral work is the care and guidance a religious leader provides to their congregation—counseling the troubled, visiting the sick, comforting the grieving, and tending to spiritual needs.
The term comes from pastor, meaning shepherd, casting the clergyperson as one who tends a flock: She spent the morning on pastoral work, checking in on elderly parishioners.
- outreachProactive community assistance
- home visitsService delivered at residence
- prayerAddress to deity
- prayer groupFaithful gathered for intercession
- Bible studyExamination of Christian scripture
youth ministry · listening · empathy · sermon · leadership · charity · scripture · fellowship · parish life · community care · guidance · interfaith dialogue · volunteering · reconciliation · sacrament · crisis intervention · spiritual direction · grief support
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- vocationcalling, vocation, divine calling, priesthood, religious life
- cardinalsnorthern cardinal, cardinals, cardinal direction, cardinal points, cardinal virtue
- missionsforeign missions, mission trips, mission stations, missionary, church planting
- nunsnun, nuns, sister, sisters, convent
- Norbertineshabit, Divine Office, communal prayer
pastoral workindustrial labor
Work in manufacturing sectors
office work · commercial enterprise · manual labor · profiteering
pastoral workurban life
Metropolitan way of living
city living · cosmopolitan lifestyle · factory work · rat race
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