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
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
He describes a large rustic loaf “held close to the heart,” sliced toward the body in a communal sacrament, representing an elemental and ancient loaf unsullied by ultra-processing or bleached flour.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025
Catholicism also makes a ceremony of transubstantiating flesh into a sacrament to feed the soul.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
At the same time the sacrament of the Mass affirms ‘the perpetual contemporaneity of The Passion’ and celebrates the ‘marriage of time present with time past’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It means a baptised follower is "out of communion" with the Church - meaning they cannot receive the sacraments, for example going to confession, or get married within the Roman Catholic Church.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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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