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Sentence Examples Once we were word perfect we were taught what we had to do whilst on the altar. My favorite Olympic torch lighting ceremony was in Barcelona, 1992, when an archer shot a flaming arrow over the altar to set it afire. The stained glass windows behind the altar in Glann Church are in need of repair. My mother keeps me well in stock of incense, candles, charcoal blocks, and altar covers. At the centre you see two large, flat-topped boulders which look like an altar in a cathedral nave. To replace the fine organ with an electronic keyboard is bad enough, but to move the altar and remove the pews is quite unthinkable. But we must recall that in approaching the altar we receive our Lord, body and blood, soul and divinity. The revolt was successful, with the altar reconsecrated and worship restored under a high priest of undoubted Aaronic descent. Inside, a vast, vibrant circular room contains a central altar with a three-dimensional yantra. Sixteen kneelers are lined up along the front of the altar, one for each nun that resided at the convent in 1962 when the church was built. It could have been commissioned by a religious house, dedicated to the Virgin, for use as the reredos of a high altar. Stain-glass windows and reliefs on the column close to the altar add beauty to the atmosphere. On the altar wall, itself, the symbolic right and left are evident in the frescoes of the bottom register. Philip lays it on thick, telling her that he forgives her for faking the pregnancy, and that he is sorry for leaving her at the altar. In addition, above the altar in the side chapel, the church has placed a large painting by Mr Willson. The room widens almost imperceptibly, then narrows again as the adobe walls converge on either side of the altar. Ideally, the altar would be built in a walled garden where rites could be conducted in privacy. Incense burned near the altar, and pilgrims were deeply absorbed in their prayers in front of the statue. The altar of his church in Bridgewater Street is adorned with the national flag. I want to see William standing by the altar of the church that I've attended since I was a child. Show More Sentences I began by celebrating my first Full Moon, in August of 2002, by creating my first wand and formal altar before ritual. While most of the people praying at the Sam Poo Thay Jien altar are ethnic Chinese, most of the people at the Anchor Temple are Javanese. Then of course, there was the task of cleaning up all of the candle wax and wine-soaked altar cloth. A gurgling well sprang from the foot of the altar, saving the townspeople from dying of thirst. I then spent a sufficient amount of time in the cathedral admiring the altar and ceiling. The models, dressed in traditional habits, approached a makeshift altar where two square-jawed faux priests helped them disrobe. Over the altar, he installed a baldachino as well as an imposing crucifix by a prominent sculpture from Lyon. Such remains as could be found were buried under the altar of Evesham Abbey by the canons. A representative of each family is invited to place a candle on the altar during the service. In one of the more poignant scenes in the movie, the Hurons are brought to the mission chapel where they sit down patiently, turn away from the altar, and face the clock. When Jack was lying on the altar with the stones, that was really hard for me because I got a bit giggly. He embraces her and, in a fit of demented anger and frustration, sexually assaults her against the altar of their dead son. The Kingslayer shoves her against the altar of their dead son, and then to the ground beside it. They would make Willie Horton look like an altar boy compared to Maurice Clemmons. Going up towards the altar, on the north side standing room is railed off for the rest of the Council who are not lords, and on the south side for the ambassadors. These days, the university operates a system of selection that is the envy of Oxbridge and many raw-boned cartilaginous youths are broken on the altar of inaccessibility. Lovers come and go, often as far as the altar, but there is little indication of an addictive womaniser. In fact, even today, decades away from childhood, I can think of quite a few people whom I wouldn't mind sacrificing at the altar of wizardry and magic. The critical reason for this is likely to be missed by those who worship at the altar of density and contemporary planning dogma. However, they call them Artotyrites because they set bread and cheese on the altar in their mysteries and celebrate their mysteries with them. Show More Sentences The first strike destroyed the high altar, while the second strike on the north transept left a hole in the floor above the crypt. A legend says St Govan's hand prints are imprinted on the floor of his cave and his body is buried under the chapel's altar. His body was escorted south by a company of mercenaries and he was buried in Worcester Cathedral in front of the altar of St Wulfstan. And when the bell strikes midnight, Columba goes to the church and kneels beside the altar. She was buried before the high altar in Dunfermline Abbey in Fife, Scotland. Gregory is shown saying Mass when Christ as the Man of Sorrows appears on the altar. An inscription found on an altar in Augsburg, a Roman monument from 260 AD, states that the Semnones were also called Juthungi. In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight Holy Roman emperors and German kings. The hearth participates in the symbolism of the altar and a central garden participates in the symbolism of primordial paradise. This section of the main front altar of the church of Miraflores Charterhouse in Burgos portrays Isabella at prayer. In other congregations, communicants may proceed to the altar to receive the elements, then return to their seats. Also inside was an embossed silver covered travelling altar. Previously it had not been clear when and how bread and wine got onto the altar. When the Eucharist was over, bishops and others came to pray in front of the small altar in the chapel. He was buried in the nave of Exeter Cathedral, in front of an altar bearing his name. The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings. He died at the base of the main altar 10 July 1086, where he was buried by the Benedictines. I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon. The altar boys were sacked after they were caught sampling the sacramental wine instead of just passing it to the priest before communion. A plethora of sub-superstitions thus accumulated around the sacrament of the altar. Show More Sentences And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. Touching wood possibly has reference to the cross, or the altar rails in days when criminals could take sanctuary in churches. By this reversed direction of the high altars in the two churches each altar was, through the transenna, in view of the other. He retained the elevation of the host and chalice, while trappings such as the Mass vestments, altar, and candles were made optional, allowing freedom of ceremony. They might be surprised how much money they would save on altar bread. Here alone was her sacred space, her place at the altar, the open Aharon Hakodesh', where she walked the unfootprinted paths of imaginings. A dazzling light filled the church, blotting the altar from my eyes. The 70-year-old, who was in an isolation ward at University College Hospital in Galway, was given an small altar bell from the chapel. A FORMER boss of dead paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth has been quizzed by gardai about the abuse of an altar girl. As a girl I was prohibited from doing a lot of things because of my gender, including being an altar girl. He gestured towards a line of icons that decorated the altar screen, the focus of the church. The New York Times reports in its health section that anything from altar wine to beer pong can get you the flu. I was an altar boy but I rebelled against it and we often stole the altar wine to drink at the back of the church. Peter's Church that are used to hold the water and altar wine at Mass are stained and cracked. His image can be found in both their Holy See and on the home altar. Does this mean wiping the chalice or arranging flowers on the altar? When it was time for the children to present flowers to their mothers, Father Pacheco asked 14-year-old altar girl Emily Seromenho to hand a bunch of five roses to Kate. In an emotional mass, Madeleine's mother was quietly presented with a bunch of five roses by 14-year-old altar girl Emily Seromenho, whose own mother is English. I was told I couldn't be an altar girl, because only boys were allowed. Altar boys took the occasional hit from the altar wine and used their cassocks for Halloween costumes. Show More Sentences William and a bed-headed Harry were joshing around at the altar like Luke and Han. The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees. He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as a boatbearer, the evening of the procession to the little altar in the wood. Tradition has it that as the reliquary was carried to the high altar of Dunfermline Abbey, past Malcolm's grave, it became too heavy to move. As a result, Malcolm's remains were also disinterred, and buried next to Margaret beside the altar. The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake. Prisoners dug across the width of the altar area in order to dispose of rubble left at the dissolution. It is said that the Speaker's chair was placed in front of the chapel's altar. Animal bones and a knife found behind a removable altar stone suggest that temple rituals included animal sacrifice. The transepts are in line with the high altar and serve to throw light onto it. In 1104 Cuthbert's tomb was opened again and his relics translated to a new shrine behind the altar of the recently completed Cathedral. In a chapel east of the crossing and high altar, there are remains of the fourteenth century marble shrine of St Alban. A stern and austere man, Fisher was known to place a human skull on the altar during mass and on the table during meals. An altar is usually present in the circle, on which ritual tools are placed and representations of the God and the Goddess may be displayed. Most Druids perform ceremonies within a circle around an altar or central fire. In, and often also in front of, the apse was a raised platform, where the altar was placed, and from where the clergy officiated. Putting an altar instead of the throne, as was done at Trier, made a church. In, and often also in front of, the apse was a raised platform, where the altar was placed and the clergy officiated. The vault in front of the altar houses the remains of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour and Charles I, with Edward IV buried nearby. The bishop's throne is located towards the eastern end of the cathedral, near the high altar, which is main focus of worship. Show More Sentences In the early Medieval period, the altar always contained, or was associated with, the relics of a saint. It housed the archbishop's throne, with the altar of St Mary just to the east. The relics, believed at the time to be those of St Edmund, were intended for the high altar of London's Westminster Cathedral, which was then under construction. In some locations it also had to be on the altar of a church for three consecutive Sundays. While Adam attempts to build an altar to God, critics note Eve is similarly guilty of idolatry, but in a different manner. Margaret Wooler showed fondness towards the sisters and she accompanied Charlotte to the altar at her marriage. In 2015 Richard III was reburied in pride of place near the high altar in Leicester Cathedral. The altar is called the communion table and the altar area is called the Chancel by Presbyterians. The bishop will also often present a small relic of a saint to place in or on the altar as part of the consecration of a new church. The priest and altar boys enter and exit through these doors during appropriate parts of the Divine Liturgy. On the appointed day of his baptism, Father Bowden received a bunch of altar lilies instead. He is best known for having been stabbed to death by Robert the Bruce before the altar at the church of the Greyfriars at Dumfries. On 10 February 1306 Robert the Bruce participated in the killing of John Comyn before the high altar of the Greyfriars Church in Dumfries. In a ceremony at the altar of Glasgow Cathedral on 10 December 1502, James confirmed the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with Henry VII of England. One Sunday, returning from the altar rail, the old, partially blind man stumbled at the chancel step. William founded a monastery at the site of the battle, the high altar of the abbey church supposedly placed at the spot where Harold died. At his request, Henry was buried in Westminster Abbey in front of the church's high altar, in the former resting place of Edward the Confessor. A Roman altar was found in one of the walls during 19th century restoration work. This is a Roman period altar that was hidden for centuries, being used as a stone block in the rebuilding of the medieval church. They were rediscovered in June 1885 when workmen, carrying out alterations to the high altar, found a battered lead casket immured in a niche in the north wall of the chancel. Show More Sentences We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity. Sometimes the relics were held in a separate shrine, near the high altar. The subject of the painting, the Blessed Virgin, is sewing a red cloth, a significant part of the Oxford Movement that emphasized the embroidering of altar cloths by women. The most famous of such examples in Canada is the altar area of the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec, which was carved by peasant habitant labourers. Churches designated as papal basilicas, in particular, possess a papal throne and a papal high altar, at which no one may celebrate Mass without the pope's permission. A stone immediately to the left of the altar marks the sealed Roper family vault beneath the Nicholas Chapel, itself to the right of the church's sanctuary or main altar. The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar, and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets. Full rubrics regarding matters such as vesture, appearance of the altar, timing of specific liturgies, and similar matters still may be published separately. Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. In an emotional mass, Madeleines mother was quietly presented with a bunch of five roses by 14-year-old altar girl Emily Seromenho, whose own mother is English. They emphasised the preaching of the word over the sacrament of the altar, holding the latter to be but a memorial, but they were not party to the actions of the government. We could just catch a glimpse of the haloed warriors and elders in the frescoes, the shine of the ikons, and the heavily armed forescreen of the altar. I don't want America's recovery and security to be sacrificed on an altar of discredited hand-me-down theories. And if you'll help us, they won't be. The rebuilding work was completed in time for last Christmas, but the church had not become fully functional without its altar, lecturn, font and processional cross. These include a strikingly elegant music stand, a very attractive set of tall candelabra and the wooden reredos and altar cross in the Lady Chapel. The altar of St Anthony came from St Maria del Priorato, an 18th-century church belonging to the Knights of Malta at the foot of the Aventine Hill in Rome. It supplies De Muller Altar Wine, which originates from Tarragona, Spain, and it remains one of the few firms in the country to specialise in altar wine. Altar girl Emily Seromenho, 14, presented Kate with the roses and told her to walk with the Portuguese mothers and lay them at the feet of the Virgin Mary by the altar. The building experienced extensive damage during World War II, and was partially rebuilt, although much of the old altar and furnishings were not replaced. In the cemetery, the ostensorium, also known as a monstrance, will mark the grave of a member of the clergy. This medieval device is an altar vessel of the Eucharist. Show More Sentences The white banner with the golden lilies of France has been unfurled. The oriflamme has been presented to the virginal bride who stands before the altar in the forest chapel. The altar has four carved sides and a decorative depression at the top, used for the placement of offerings to the goddess Nemesis depicted on one side. Other great seal charters mentioned an altar dedicated for remembrance at St Giles', Edinburgh and the effect of the battle on Selkirk, a border town. As they stood before the high altar, Bruce struck Comyn with a dagger. Examples from Classical Literature He was of the first that were baptized by Father Letrado, and served the altar. In each of these the old piscina and aumbry remain near where the altar had been placed. In their preparations the small acolytes had found the supply of altar wine somewhat short, so more was sent for. Shall we suffer the Prelatist altar to be preserved by these sons of Amalek? There are six steps up from the nave to the altar, and there is an ambon on each side of them entered from the altar side. Betty Lamb found the ambry niche in the wall of the ruin at the side of the place where the altar had been. The furniture and accessories of the altar in pre-Reformation times were numerous. She is likewise called adrastea, because Adrastus, king of Argos, first raised an altar to her. Note the one candle on the altar, the bishops chair, the piscina with its cruet, and the triptych. I've laid all my frankincense and myrrh on the altar of Anteros, I've nothing to offer the true god. It was a slight, because expected, surprise to see Captain campion at the altar rails. Prepare the catafalque in St. Martin's church, and place it before the altar! Toward the center back portion of the alcove is another low square masonry structure which may have been an altar. It has an altar and an apsis, but it is adapted to preaching rather than to singing. The altar was wholly of gold, and its ciborium and the iconastasis were of silver. Must the ciborium containing particles to be consecrated, be placed not merely on the corporal, but also on the altar stone? In the floor in front of the altar are also several pieces of ninth-century ciborium heads, and bits of twelfth-century carving. Over the altar you may see his bust in marble, and over it a figure of Genius with a cogwheel in her hand. Between the apsis and the nave stood the altar, or rather the common table, canopied by a baldachin supported by columns. The priest was at the evening office, the stone lid of a martyr's tomb placed under an arched vault serving as altar. Show More Sentences Part of an Ashtoreth figure and fragments of another altar were found near. In the midst of the barrier stood an altar, on the top of which was a brazen eagle. And so the altar on the shore of the modern Aulis reeked with no sacrifice. The sedilia are Perpendicular, and an Early English piscina and aumbry are observable behind the altar. It is probable that these columns belonged originally to the baldachin over the high altar. The most striking object in the interior is the magnificent Romanesque baldachin above the high altar. Guido was then called to Pisa, to sculpture the altar and font in the baptistery there. Besides the peal of eight the sacring bell which once hung near the high altar is now hung in the tower. The service for him was Sidney, rather awed and very serious, beside the altar. He found that the altar was placed at the end opposite the apse on a kind of platform or bma attached to the wall. Mass had been said not long since, and the chalice covered with the veil and burse was still on the altar. There are three sedilia, and the high altar seems to have been of marble. The abbe Cornille, having mounted to the altar, had just come down again. Yet God has even cast off His altar, abhorring His very sanctuary. They signed some papers, there by the light of the altar candles. Her head began to ache, and the lights on the altar swayed before her eyes. In the small chapel of the annunciation is an altar piece by Guido Reni. Men have placed Agni on the altar as the augmenter of strength. Never had Captain Wragge burned his adulterated incense on the flimsy altar of human vanity to better purpose than he was burning it now. Going to the butsudan, or house altar, at once he lit the lamps. Show More Sentences When I was a little boy like this one, I begin to help the priest at the altar. Elton, but as the clergyman whose blessing at the altar might next fall on herself. If you were to see them at the altar, you would suppose they were going to be married. He went back to his place, and after that a priest and two altar boys came in and began to say mass. I used to be an altar boy and when he came in he used to pick the altar boys. As well as being a star in the village Under-8s team, coached by the local priest, Mancini was also an altar boy. A PERVERT priest who was yesterday jailed for three years for sexually assaulting altar boys said he was abused as a child. A RETIRED priest charged with sexually abusing altar boys was remanded on bail yesterday. The altar was protected by a canopy or ciborium resting on pillars. On board, priests celebrated Mass at a makeshift altar in the restaurant car as the faithful prayed in the aisles. The altar was most holy, that it might sanctify the gifts laid on it. At san juan bautista the old reredos remains, though the altar is new. The bones of the canonised were immured in the wall over the altar. You see his offense was that he used the gold from the altar to rescue people taken prisoner after the battle of Adrianople where the barbarian tribes defeated the Roman army. When the father leads his son, thus prepared, to the parish church for inclusion among the altar boys, the sacristan in charge of the servers curtly dismisses them. She will be rejoiced, Copperfield, to renew her acquaintance with one who has proved himself in all respects a worthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship. Through winding corridors she led, farther and farther into the remoter precincts of the temple, until they came to a great chamber in the center of which stood an altar. Two of the brothers led Pierre up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple. Find more words! 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