Word: sacramentalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Presbyterians and the Methodists love their churches. It is, I think, not possible yet nor desirable that any church should merge its identity in a newly constituted union. What I desire is that I should be able freely to enter their churches and they mine in the sacrament of the Lord, that His life may freely circulate between us. Cannot we grow to full communion with each other before we start to write a constitution? Have we the wisdom, the humility, the love and the spirit of Christ sufficient for such a venture...
...word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body. At the supreme moment, the sacrament, the consecrated wafer . . . is debased instead of elevated, and subsequently defiled." (Witchcraft; Harcourt Brace...
...Supreme Legislative Council. Jinnah rose steadily in the councils of the nationalists and in the courtrooms of India. He revisited England and there, in 1913, enrolled in the Moslem League. "Typical of his sense of honor," wrote his rhapsodic biographer Naidu,* "he partook of it something like a sacrament . . . made his two sponsors take a solemn preliminary covenant that loyalty to the Moslem League . . . would in no way and at no time imply even the shadow of disloyalty to the larger national cause to which his life was dedicated...
...Glennon had been a priest for 61 years, a bishop for six days short of 50 years, archbishop of St. Louis for 42 years. He had ordained some 4,700 young men to the priesthood and consecrated seven bishops, celebrated mass more than 22,000 times and administered the sacrament of confirmation to 225,000. He had established 93 parishes and built his own $3,800,000 Byzantine cathedral in St. Louis...
...never in danger of mistaking his rank," said a friend; "and those who do know him are never reminded of it." In press and pulpit, he was an outspoken opponent of coeducation, woman suffrage, British rule in Ireland, divorce ("the modern attitude makes a joke of the sacrament of matrimony"), sexy and brutal movies. He once denied a murdered gangster a Christian burial...