Word: sancti
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sunday, April 6, 2003, I was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Nervous but happy, I assembled with my sponsors, Frank and Gladden, and about twenty friends. Shortly after 4 p.m., the service started: Father greeted us with In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti and we began the prayers of the Mass. Our contemplation of the holy sacrifice was beautifully assisted by the performance of Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua and some other pieces of Renaissance polyphony by friends from school. After the homily, Father invited me forward...
...Sancti Spiritus. Carlos, about 30, and Armena, 25, get in just outside Trinidad, where three dozen others are waiting with them. Carlos works in construction now, after a five-year stint as a policeman in Havana. Armena has been in Trinidad looking for work...
Fourteen years before Columbus sighted America-in 1478, to be precise -the first book cranked off the press of a printer named Theodoric Rood in Oxford, England. Its title was Expositio Sancti Hieronymi in Symbolum Apostulorum. Its subject was the Apostles' Creed, and it marked the birth of what would become the oldest and most venerable publishing house in the English-speaking world: the Oxford University Press...
...words revert to a 4th century Byzantine formula, still used by most Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches, that emphasizes the Holy Spirit. The bishop will simply say, "Receive the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit," or some similar translation from the prescribed Latin: Accipe signaculum doni Spiritus Sancti. As for the holy oils, they will now be perfumed, said a Vatican spokesman, as a reminder that Christians are "the good scent of Christ everywhere...
...dealers promptly called in a neighbor priest, who identified the box as a reliquary and the inscription as meaning Caput Sancti Felicis Martyr (the head of St. Felix, Martyr). When church officials cut the ribbons and opened the box, a yellow skull wrapped in red silk stared out at them...