pastoral

seelsorgerisch

Mit der Betreuung und Unterstützung von Gemeindemitgliedern durch einen religiösen Leiter verbunden.

In einfachem Englisch: Related to a religious leader’s care and support for members of their community.

• The priest provides pastoral care.
• Her pastoral duties include visiting sick members.
• The bishop discussed pastoral support for grieving families.

Synonyme: cleric, clerical, black-collar, cleric

Häufige Wendungen: pastoral care, pastoral duties, pastoral visits

ländlich, bukolisch

Das friedliche Leben auf dem Land darstellend, besonders in Literatur oder Kunst.

In einfachem Englisch: Showing peaceful country life, especially in writing or art.

• The painting shows a pastoral scene.
• She writes pastoral poetry about village life.
• Green fields give the valley a pastoral charm.

Synonyme: bucolic, rural

Häufige Wendungen: pastoral scene, pastoral poetry, pastoral landscape

viehwirtschaftlich

Mit der Haltung und dem Umhertreiben von Schaf-, Rinder- oder anderen Nutztierherden verbunden.

In einfachem Englisch: Related to people who keep and move groups of sheep, cattle, or other farm animals.

• The region depends on pastoral farming.
• Pastoral communities move their animals to fresh grass.
• Drought threatens the traditional pastoral economy.

Synonyme: shepherdish, shepherdly

Häufige Wendungen: pastoral farming, pastoral communities, pastoral economy

Hirtenbrief

Brief eines religiösen Leiters an die Menschen, für die er verantwortlich ist.

In einfachem Englisch: A letter from a religious leader to the people in their care.

• The bishop issued a pastoral.
• His pastoral asked the diocese to support local families.
• The priest read the pastoral to the congregation.

Synonyme: pastoral letter

Häufige Wendungen: issue a pastoral, a bishop’s pastoral, read a pastoral

Hirtengedicht, Pastorale

Gedicht über friedliches Landleben, in dem häufig Hirten zu Wort kommen.

In einfachem Englisch: A poem about peaceful country life, often with people who look after sheep as its speakers.

• She wrote a short pastoral.
• The pastoral describes shepherds resting beside a stream.
• We studied several pastorals in our poetry class.

Synonyme: eclogue, idyll

Häufige Wendungen: write a pastoral, a short pastoral, a classical pastoral

Pastorale

Musikstück, das mit sanften, einfachen Klängen friedliches Landleben vermittelt.

In einfachem Englisch: A piece of music suggesting peaceful country life through gentle, simple sounds.

• The orchestra played a pastoral.
• He composed a gentle pastoral for flute.
• The concert ended with a pastoral suggesting a quiet summer evening.

Synonyme: pastorale

Häufige Wendungen: a gentle pastoral, compose a pastoral, perform a pastoral

gemeinsamer Hirtenbrief

Brief der Bischöfe einer Kirche, der in allen örtlichen Kirchen vorgelesen werden soll.

In einfachem Englisch: A letter from a church’s group of bishops, intended to be read in every local church.

• The bishops issued a pastoral.
• The pastoral was read in every parish on Sunday.
• Their joint pastoral called on congregations to help refugees.

Häufige Wendungen: a joint pastoral, read the pastoral, issue a pastoral