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sacrament

[sak-ruh-muhnt] / ˈsæk rə mənt /


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The Vatican said on Thursday: "The sacred ministers of the Society of St Pius X administer the sacraments illicitly, while the sacrament of penance they administer and the marriages they witness are invalid."

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Perhaps he didn’t understand the new Protestant Communion—rather than at an altar, the sacrament now took place over a table covered with a simple cloth—and he was pleading that someone explain it to him.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Catholicism also makes a ceremony of transubstantiating flesh into a sacrament to feed the soul.

From Salon Oct. 4, 2024

The sacrament is often associated with end-of-life care, but in the circus, it can also occur in the context of accidents.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2024

Because we have not tasted the sacrament of palm nuts?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

First Holy Communion is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic faith and is usually celebrated when children are between the ages of seven and eight.

From BBC Jan. 22, 2026

More food, more money, and the symbolic pull of seven — sacraments, days of creation, virtues — turned a humble pre-Mass meal into a celebratory Italian-American blowout.

From Salon Dec. 14, 2025

A metaphysical reality thick with angels and sacraments.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

Amid the chirping of birds, she talked about receiving the sacraments there, and celebrating her quinceañera.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2023

I had seen evil, and so I carried the evil within me, and the holy sacraments of confession and the holy eucharist were far away.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya




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