sacrament
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The Inuit, Mitt says, use every part of a whale as food, tools and cultural sacrament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
He wanted to offer Holy Communion, the central sacrament of Roman Catholic faith, not only to the detainees inside the facility, but also to the federal agents stationed there.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
He had come to sponsor my teenage son Finn as he received the sacrament of Confirmation, a Catholic rite of adolescence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Which is why it must forever remain a secret sacrament.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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
A simple bronze altar has been created, with new chalices for the sacraments.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
For the past 15 years, he’s been going on the road with circuses to preside over Mass, perform sacraments and provide pastoral care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
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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