Word: sacramentalism
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...similarity to Christian sacrament won't carry you to the core of Oedipus, either, for Sophocles' drama is above all else a pagan rite of purification. It is a religious outlook worthy of general reconsideration, and the present film will show you not only what the Athenians saw on stage twenty-five centuries ago but what they saw in the world and the cosmos as well. The masks of the actors bear a bizarre and wholly appropriate resemblance to the grotesque faces of the magnified reptiles and insects seen in the Brattle's introductory short subject. Tanya Moiseiwitsch has provided...
...pursuit of what B.B. calls "IT". "IT", he explains, "comes to mean taking life ritually as something holy, of mystical import and in one's thought ideatedly--if not in realizable actuality as a sacred performance. From childhood I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. With the years it merged into the wish that it could be lived with the significance of a work...
...Polygamy. Though diminishing, it still too often makes a wife "no more than the mother of her husband's children." But while polygamy is unChristian, one delegate warned, "Catholic women should not leave husbands who take another wife. Under the sacrament of marriage, there can be no second wife. She must be considered a concubine...
...catechism on the Eucharist: "What is the Eucharist? The Eucharist is a sacrament which contains the actual body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine." New version...
...therefore to the unmarried and widows. It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." Argued St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theological: A second marriage is "a somewhat defective sacrament, because it has not its full signification, since there is not a union of only one woman with only one man as in the marriage of Christ with the Church. And on account of this defect the blessing is [usually] omitted...