sacrament
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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
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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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