Word: sacramentally
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...waves broke down divisions built by religion and a 22-year civil war, and disaster brought people closer to their gods. "The church is packed," he says, beaming, "and I'm building a new one to the south. The youth are with me. To feel closer to the sacrament, people have been leaving personal things--glasses, handkerchiefs--on the altar." Father Ranjeevan is unimpressed by the notion that that might have more to do with him than with his god. He tells the story of how, on the evening after the tsunami, he came across a girl kneeling...
Though immortalized by writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, the hallucinogenic cactus peyote may not have discernible long-term consequences on the people who regularly consume it for religious sacrament, according to a recent study. A report released on Friday by the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital indicates that the mescaline-containing plant leaves users psychologically unscathed and may even contribute to an increase in certain types of mental performance.In 1994, peyote was declared legal for consumption in the rituals of the Native American Church, although it is still classified by the U.S. government as a controlled substance whose non-religious...
...Alito, 55, a white male, does nothing for Bush's onetime goal of diversity in the seat of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He was born in the Trenton area, and attends Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Roseland, N.J. His hobby is baseball: He's a Phillies fan, and coached youth league baseball from 1994 to 2000. He also was mock trial coach at a local high school from 2001 to 2003. He heads for confirmation a strong favorite, but with Republicans recognizing he will have to survive a bruising partisan fight to get there, and that some...
...mature. From the beginning in movies she was the older woman, setting the rules of romance. She would initiate a kiss. She would be on top, leaning down to clutch a man's head as if it were a child's, needing guidance, or a chalice in the private sacrament of her passion...
...mitzvahs as well as Native American vision quests and African rites of passage. The program began in the early 1990s at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Durham, N.C. Parishioners there were worried that their confirmation ceremonies were functioning more as exit interviews, one last sacrament before 13-year-olds inevitably succumbed to secularism and left the church. The solution, they decided, was a two-year program welcoming adolescents into the community with equal doses of mentorship, Scripture and recreation...