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  • Then she performs the sacrament, swiping the card through its electromagnetic silot with a carefully modulated sweep of the ann, as though teariing back a veil, handing over the slip, mumbling that she needls a signature and daytime phone number.†   (source)
  • Although at my mother's heeding I had gone through all the required Sacraments, some years back I stopped religious instruction,making confession or attending Mass.†   (source)
  • Roman Catholics practice confession as a sacrament, sharing their sins and shortcomings with a priest.†   (source)
  • Thinking that no land needed the seed of God so much, he decided to stay on for another week to Christianize both circumcised and gentile, legalize concubinage, and give the sacraments to the dying.†   (source)
  • As I sat through that sacrament meeting, observing those women smile and nod and kowtow, my warped little mind wondered if any of them ever dreamed about really hot guys.†   (source)
  • Her presence is a verifying force—a figure from a universal church with sacraments and secret bank accounts and a fabulous art collection.†   (source)
  • Pip, why don't you administer the sacrament?"†   (source)
  • Well, the sacraments of the Church are reserved for—†   (source)
  • The sacraments marked births and adulthood and death.†   (source)
  • I was to hear the confessions of the silent people of the valley, and I was to administer the holy Sacrament to them.†   (source)
  • For this very reason, from this point on in the Mass, my fingers and thumb would be kept pinched together until washed after the Sacrament of the Eucharist.†   (source)
  • "The Church of the Blessed Sacrament?" he asked quietly.†   (source)
  • As Christ's servants we offer a refuge for people in need and a promise of atonement through prayer and the sacrament of baptism.†   (source)
  • The father crossed himself, nodded a scared-rabbit kind of thank you, and hurried out to report the sacrament to his wife.†   (source)
  • He attends Mass and takes the sacrament regularly, although Kennedy bridles when photographers shoot pictures of him leaving confession.†   (source)
  • "As you can see, Tradd," I said, "sex is a sacrament to our Italian roommates."†   (source)
  • They were thwarted primarily by the strong sense of religion among the soldiers in the underground barracks, who believed mystically and prayed openly, and whose memories of home and peace were intertwined with the Church and its sacraments.†   (source)
  • The Sacrament of Extreme Unction.†   (source)
  • Stephen teaches that physical birth is a sacrament; many of the women are experienced midwives, and the Farm became so serious about childbirth that it put an ad in the New York Times: "Hey LADIES ….†   (source)
  • John studied the label with the devout attention a good Christian might give to the holy sacrament.†   (source)
  • She had not asked to be instructed but he instructed anyway, forcing a little definition of one of the sacraments or of some dogma into each conversation he had, no matter with whom.†   (source)
  • They wanted to give me the last sacraments.†   (source)
  • What stands between them is a sacrament of the Church.†   (source)
  • He was sure at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • They approached the final corner before the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • Sacrament services were obviously not high on the list.†   (source)
  • The next morning, we ate breakfast, went to sacrament meeting.†   (source)
  • Bourne broke into a run again, back toward the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • They entered a small paneled room where supposed prelates prepared the sacraments.†   (source)
  • Call the rectory at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Neuilly-sur-Seine.†   (source)
  • I could picture Jackie, going to sacrament meeting wearing sunglasses.†   (source)
  • With the pull of a 10mm hairtrigger, their lives will end at sacrament meeting.†   (source)
  • Don't you ever go to sacrament meetings?†   (source)
  • I told her I didn't go to one sacrament meeting all summer.†   (source)
  • No one can tell me that confession is not just as important a sacrament as communion.†   (source)
  • MARGARET All the world knows Your Grace's book, asserting the seven sacraments of the Church.†   (source)
  • It was called A Defence of the Seven Sacraments.†   (source)
  • The Fifth Libation, Langdon realized, having read firsthand accounts of this sacrament in John Quincy Adams's Letters on the Masonic Institution.†   (source)
  • We have to know the Ten Commandments, the Seven Virtues, Divine and Moral, the Seven Sacraments, the Seven Deadly Sins.†   (source)
  • Mr. Smith was greatly distressed by the ignorance which many of his flock showed even in such things as the Trinity and the Sacraments.†   (source)
  • I recite the Periodic Table of Elements like a prayer; I take my examinations as Holy Communion, and the pass of the first semester was a sacrament.†   (source)
  • That her friend insisted on seeing a priest in Neuilly-sur-Seine, at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • It's really structured and you learn things like the Sacraments, the Creed, the Rosary, the Lord's Prayer.†   (source)
  • By then we would be ready for confession Saturday and then the receiving of the sacrament on the most holy of days, Easter Sunday.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The hairless old man with a wrinkled face struggled to his feet in a pew of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Neuilly-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris.†   (source)
  • Across the Atlantic, in the old Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, an old man in a dark threadbare suit trudged up the concrete path toward the entrance of the sixteenth-century cathedral known as the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • The Church of the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • "The first telephone booth you see, pull over," he said to the driver, who was still shaken by the chaos at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • "There are the spires of the Blessed Sacrament, monsieur," said the victorious driver, twelve minutes later, pointing at three soaring towers of stone through the windshield.†   (source)
  • And that's why the next day at sacrament meeting everyone made it a point to stare when I walked through the door.†   (source)
  • "There is the Blessed Sacrament," said the driver, entering the street where the church rose in minor medieval splendor in the center of a manicured lawn, crisscrossed by stone paths and dotted with statuary.†   (source)
  • Three solid hours of crying babies and uninspired testimony, all orchestrated by bishops, presidents, prophets, and priests, each bearing a masculine moniker, specialized "hardware," and "God-given" attitude; of taking the sacrament, bread and water, served up by young deacons, all boys.†   (source)
  • Several hundred feet to the west in the huge square was a gray automobile, the car that had followed Jacqueline Lavier and Villiers' wife to the Church of the Blessed Sacrament and sped the latter away from Neuilly-sur-Seine after she had escorted Lavier to her final confession.†   (source)
  • Sacrament meetings.†   (source)
  • A couple of the kids watched movies as if they were partaking of a sacrament, completely enthralled and religiously attentive.†   (source)
  • Abra was a straight, strong, fine-breasted woman, developed and ready and waiting to take her sacrament--but waiting.†   (source)
  • "We must have the Blessed Sacrament here," said Cordelia.†   (source)
  • One of the Guild of the Blessed Sacrament had wept.†   (source)
  • Ah just come from taking sacrament at the church house.†   (source)
  • Y'see,—some churches say that marriage is a sacrament.†   (source)
  • Then Pablo ordered the priest to confess the fascists and give them the necessary sacraments.†   (source)
  • ' "I wish someone would explain to me," I said, "quite what the significance of these sacraments is.†   (source)
  • Treasurer of the Guild of the Blessed Sacrament - just like I was in this place in the good days.†   (source)
  • On the third night, Esteban sent for the priest and amidst the enormous shadows Manuel received the sacrament, and died.†   (source)
  • His brothers and cousins, discouraged by his experience, had taken wives without the marriage sacrament.†   (source)
  • It is their extra sacrament.†   (source)
  • For the real presence of the Enemy, otherwise experienced by men in prayer and sacrament, we substitute a merely probable, remote, shadowy, and uncouth figure, one who spoke a strange language and died a long time ago.†   (source)
  • It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it.†   (source)
  • But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millennia.†   (source)
  • Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours--and the more "religious" (on those terms) the more securely ours.†   (source)
  • Dat's de reason Ah got mah letter fum de church an' moved mah membership tuh Woodbridge—so Ah don't haf tuh take no sacrament wid yuh.†   (source)
  • Father Lucero made his confession, renouncing his heresy and expressing contrition, after which he received the Sacrament.†   (source)
  • He looked as if he did not know that they took his public immolation as their rightful due, that they considered their presence as the indispensable seal of sacrament upon the occasion, that of all the hundreds he and his bride were the only ones to whom the performance was hideous.†   (source)
  • The magic of the sacraments (made effective through the passion of Jesus Christ, or by virtue of the meditations of the Buddha), the protective power of primitive amulets and charms, and the supernatural helpers of the myths and fairy tales of the world, are mankind's assurances that the arrow, the flames, and the flood are not as brutal as they seem.†   (source)
  • He said, 'In the old days, when the church was open, I was treasurer to the Guild of the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • Unless you compose yourself, Father Lucero, and fix your thoughts upon Heaven, I shall refuse to administer the Sacrament.†   (source)
  • I really can't quite see why you've taken it so much to heart that my father shall not have the last sacraments."†   (source)
  • Then one morning, after one of his drinking bouts, he'll be picked up at the gate dying, and show by a mere flicker of the eyelid that he is conscious when they give him the last sacraments.†   (source)
  • The Children of Mary have increased their membership by nine - and the Guild of the Blessed Sacrament last autumn made our annual retreat more than usually successful.†   (source)
  • Señor Lujon himself went out toward the servants' quarters to hurry the candidates for the marriage sacrament.†   (source)
  • He meant that he had not been accustomed regularly to receive the sacraments, and since he was not at the moment dying, he did not mean to change his ways—yet.†   (source)
  • The sick man wished to see Father Vaillant, and begged that he would come to him and give him the Sacrament.†   (source)
  • … The priest held the paper close to it and read the words Altar Society, Guild of the Blessed Sacrament, Children of Mary, and then looked up again and across the dark hut saw the yellow malarial eyes of the mestizo watching him.†   (source)
  • He had no vestments, but the Masses in this village were nearer to the old parish days than any he had known in the last eight years - there was no fear of interruption, no hurried taking of the sacraments as the police approached.†   (source)
  • Father Vaillant assured him that all his wishes should be scrupulously carried out, and now it was time for him to dismiss the cares of this world and prepare his mind to receive the Sacrament.†   (source)
  • The Padre, he said, had stopped at his village in the Pecos mountains where black measles had broken out, to give the sacrament to the dying, and had fallen ill of the sickness.†   (source)
  • I stop a few hours in a village, I administer the sacraments and hear confessions, I leave in every house some little token, a rosary or a religious picture, and I go away feeling that I have conferred immeasurable happiness, and have released faithful souls that were shut away from God by neglect.†   (source)
  • He received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.†   (source)
  • No; she had died for love of him, and love would always be a sacrament to him now.†   (source)
  • And I would go back to Richard without repeating the sacrament, if he asked me.†   (source)
  • But it didn't help, she had to be given the sacrament of the dying.†   (source)
  • You had the sacraments and grace and indulgences of the church to aid you.†   (source)
  • That is—those are—it just goes to show—the sacrament of lust, you understand—†   (source)
  • Then, too, thou honorest not the Holy Sacraments.†   (source)
  • He remained there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, exhorting.†   (source)
  • And if we're mistaken, well! they give the sacrament to men who're unconscious, you know.'†   (source)
  • He intends to take the sacrament again in the morning.†   (source)
  • The next day the sick man received the sacrament and extreme unction.†   (source)
  • When they meet, one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!"†   (source)
  • "But, Prince," said Anna Mikhaylovna, "after such a solemn sacrament, allow him a moment's peace!†   (source)
  • The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy Sacrament.†   (source)
  • I knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.†   (source)
  • Then he desired to confess and take the sacrament at once.†   (source)
  • During the sacrament Levin did what he, an unbeliever, had done a thousand times.†   (source)
  • "Why, I believe it's nine years since I've taken the sacrament!†   (source)
  • They wished to administer the sacrament of unction.†   (source)
  • To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, truth is nourishment as well as grain.†   (source)
  • Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy Sacrament.†   (source)
  • Now if I had done such a thing it would have been different, and not remarkable, for I at least don't regard marriage as a sacrament.†   (source)
  • All day long our priest go about there to give the Sacrament to dying men, and I go with him to carry the vessels with the Holy Sacrament.†   (source)
  • Then their sister, with much augmented confidence in the efficacy of the sacrament, poured forth from the bottom of her heart the thanksgiving that follows, uttering it boldly and triumphantly in the stopt-diapason note which her voice acquired when her heart was in her speech, and which will never be forgotten by those who knew her.†   (source)
  • But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.†   (source)
  • He was not even a Catholic, yet that was the only ghost of a code that he had, the gaudy, ritualistic, paradoxical Catholicism whose prophet was Chesterton, whose claqueurs were such reformed rakes of literature as Huysmans and Bourget, whose American sponsor was Ralph Adams Cram, with his adulation of thirteenth-century cathedrals—a Catholicism which Amory found convenient and ready-made, without priest or sacraments or sacrifice.†   (source)
  • They even, almost, said that marriage was a sacrament; but neither Miss Florence nor Miss Emily could quite bring herself to utter the word.†   (source)
  • She believed steadily in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions and approved of the sacraments.†   (source)
  • …preparations as these meant additional delay and expense, or that Clyde might not marry her after all, or that this proposed marriage from the point of view of both was the tarnished and discolored thing that it was, was still not sufficient to take from the thought of marriage as an event, or sacrament even, that proper color and romance with which it was invested in her eyes and from which, even under such an unsatisfactory set of circumstances as these, it could not be divorced.†   (source)
  • The Blessed Sacrament had been removed from the tabernacle and the first benches had been driven back so as to leave the dais of the altar and the space before it free.†   (source)
  • It was the little Hujus girl, Barbara Hujus—she was Catholic—when they brought her the viaticum, the sacrament for the dying, you know, extreme unction.†   (source)
  • So I feel very bad for my kawntree-man to die without the Sacrament, and to die in a bad way for his soul, and I feel sad for his family.'†   (source)
  • Aren't marriages sacraments?†   (source)
  • Why was the sacrament of the eucharist instituted under the two species of bread and wine if Jesus Christ be present body and blood, soul and divinity, in the bread alone and in the wine alone?†   (source)
  • Your catechism tells you that the sacrament of Holy Orders is one of those which can be received only once because it imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark which can never be effaced.†   (source)
  • The priest was carrying the sacrament against his chest, it had a cover over it, and holding his head very devoutly to one side—it's their holy of holies, after all.†   (source)
  • His actual reception of the eucharist did not bring him the same dissolving moments of virginal self-surrender as did those spiritual communions made by him sometimes at the close of some visit to the Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • What a strange feeling to watch this ambiguity coming from a king when the disputants began to speak of marriage and sin, the sacrament of indulgence, the guilt and innocence of lust.†   (source)
  • Chapter 4 Sunday was dedicated to the mystery of the Holy Trinity, Monday to the Holy Ghost, Tuesday to the Guardian Angels, Wednesday to saint Joseph, Thursday to the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, Friday to the Suffering Jesus, Saturday to the Blessed Virgin Mary.†   (source)
  • And so he had never heard of the refined priestly concept of indulgence, under which even a sacrament was included—marriage, to be precise, which unlike the other sacraments was not a positive good, but a defense against sin, conferred solely to limit sensual desire and to instill moderation, so that the ascetic principle, the ideal of chastity, might be affirmed without defying the flesh with unpolitic severity?†   (source)
  • Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path, fulfilling the duties of his station in life, attending to his morning and evening prayers, approaching the holy sacrament frequently and performing good and merciful works.†   (source)
  • But we had warmed it first, so that you wouldn't be frightened and start crying, and you didn't, either, quite the contrary, you had been bawling beforehand, making it difficult for Bugenhagen to give his homily, but then came the water, and you fell silent, and that was out of respect for the holy sacrament, let us hope.†   (source)
  • And so he had never heard of the refined priestly concept of indulgence, under which even a sacrament was included—marriage, to be precise, which unlike the other sacraments was not a positive good, but a defense against sin, conferred solely to limit sensual desire and to instill moderation, so that the ascetic principle, the ideal of chastity, might be affirmed without defying the flesh with unpolitic severity?†   (source)
  • His soul traversed a period of desolation in which the sacraments themselves seemed to have turned into dried-up sources.†   (source)
  • Meek and abased by this consciousness of the one eternal omnipresent perfect reality his soul took up again her burden of pieties, masses and prayers and sacraments and mortifications, and only then for the first time since he had brooded on the great mystery of love did he feel within him a warm movement like that of some newly born life or virtue of the soul itself.†   (source)
  • However, she was not quite so pale, and her face had an expression of serenity as if the sacrament had cured her.†   (source)
  • These two are to be sold tomorrow, in the same lot with the St. Clare servants; and the gentleman to whom they belong, and to whom the money for their sale is to be transmitted, is a member of a Christian church in New York, who will receive the money, and go thereafter to the sacrament of his Lord and theirs, and think no more of it.†   (source)
  • It would have wearied a new congregation; but to-morrow I purpose administering the sacrament, Do you commune, my young friend?†   (source)
  • On the Sunday in St. Peter's week Darya Alexandrovna drove to mass for all her children to take the sacrament.†   (source)
  • At that moment other steps were heard; the crowd in the passage parted, and the priest, a little, grey old man, appeared in the doorway bearing the sacrament.†   (source)
  • I have scarcely heard of a truer sacrament, that is, as the dictionary defines it, "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace," than this, and I have no doubt that they were originally inspired directly from Heaven to do thus, though they have no Biblical record of the revelation.†   (source)
  • There was a little tremor in Tom's voice as he uttered the last words, and Maggie's ready affection came back with as sudden a glow as when they were children, and bit their cake together as a sacrament of conciliation.†   (source)
  • A person who had not taken the Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a candidate for sheriff of London.†   (source)
  • "Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament," replied the priest, passing his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his bald head.†   (source)
  • He always went to church on Sacrament Sundays, but not very regularly at other times; on wet Sundays, or whenever he had a touch of rheumatism, he used to read the three first chapters of Genesis instead.†   (source)
  • At the same time, it was understood to be requisite for all who were not household servants, or young men, to take the sacrament at one of the great festivals: Squire Cass himself took it on Christmas-day; while those who were held to be "good livers" went to church with greater, though still with moderate, frequency.†   (source)
  • But when the sacrament was carried in and they were led up to it, at once the "possession" ceased, and the sick women were always soothed for a time.†   (source)
  • One day, when at the height of her illness, she had thought herself dying, and had asked for the communion; and, while they were making the preparations in her room for the sacrament, while they were turning the night table covered with syrups into an altar, and while Felicite was strewing dahlia flowers on the floor, Emma felt some power passing over her that freed her from her pains, from all perception, from all feeling.†   (source)
  • The religion of the Dodsons consisted in revering whatever was customary and respectable; it was necessary to be baptized, else one could not be buried in the church-yard, and to take the sacrament before death, as a security against more dimly understood perils; but it was of equal necessity to have the proper pall-bearers and well-cured hams at one's funeral, and to leave an unimpeachable will.†   (source)
  • …sir, and it is to me dole and sorrow that I fail, albeit sith I am but a simple damsel and taught of none, being from the cradle unbaptized in those deep waters of learning that do anoint with a sovereignty him that partaketh of that most noble sacrament, investing him with reverend state to the mental eye of the humble mortal who, by bar and lack of that great consecration seeth in his own unlearned estate but a symbol of that other sort of lack and loss which men do publish to the…†   (source)
  • …image was presently taken for a vivid recollection, so that the glazier's wife, a well-intentioned woman, not given to lying, and whose house was among the cleanest in the village, was ready to declare, as sure as ever she meant to take the sacrament the very next Christmas that was ever coming, that she had seen big ear-rings, in the shape of the young moon, in the pedlar's two ears; while Jinny Oates, the cobbler's daughter, being a more imaginative person, stated not only that she…†   (source)
  • This mockery of the first of the sacraments made the Abbe Bournisien angry; old Bovary replied by a quotation from "La Guerre des Dieux"; the cure wanted to leave; the ladies implored, Homais interfered; and they succeeded in making the priest sit down again, and he quietly went on with the half-finished coffee in his saucer.†   (source)
  • "He abused the sacrament of confession," the fiercest opponents of the institution of elders added in a malicious whisper.†   (source)
  • The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the sacrament.†   (source)
  • Confession is a great sacrament, before which I am ready to bow down reverently; but there in the cell, they all kneel down and confess aloud.†   (source)
  • Katya in just the same way, besides all her care about linen, bedsores, drink, found time the very first day to persuade the sick man of the necessity of taking the sacrament and receiving absolution.†   (source)
  • At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress.†   (source)
  • But he was not able to go to church long, he took to his bed, so he had to confess and take the sacrament at home.†   (source)
  • Just at Christmastime I was deemed worthy to partake of the holy and heavenly sacrament at the shrine of the saint.†   (source)
  • Agafea Mihalovna, speaking of the man just dead, had said: "Well, thank God, he took the sacrament and received absolution; God grant each one of us such a death."†   (source)
  • After a mute confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle and thrill of suspense usual at such moments.†   (source)
  • She admits him to church services, to the holy sacrament, gives him alms, and treats him more as a captive than as a convict.†   (source)
  • Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris.†   (source)
  • And the smallest, Lily, was bewitching in her naive astonishment at everything, and it was difficult not to smile when, after taking the sacrament, she said in English, "Please, some more."†   (source)
  • There were, it is true, some rigid individuals unable to rise to the height of such a question, who saw in the project a desecration of the sacrament of marriage, but there were not many such and they remained silent, while the majority were interested in Helene's good fortune and in the question which match would be the more advantageous.†   (source)
  • He grew thoughtful, however; he guessed at once that he was seriously ill, and that that was why his mother was begging him to confess and take the sacrament.†   (source)
  • At Ecouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, a distinction was made between virgins and florists.†   (source)
  • The fact that the children had not been at the sacrament for nearly a year worried her extremely, and with the full approval and sympathy of Marya Philimonovna she decided that this should take place now in the summer.†   (source)
  • My mother began weeping, and, careful not to alarm my brother, she entreated him to go to church, to confess and take the sacrament, as he was still able to move about.†   (source)
  • Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul.†   (source)
  • Despite the doctor's orders that she should not go out early in the morning, Natasha insisted on fasting and preparing for the sacrament, not as they generally prepared for it in the Rostov family by attending three services in their own house, but as Agrafena Ivanovna did, by going to church every day for a week and not once missing Vespers, Matins, or Mass.†   (source)
  • Took the sacrament and all.†   (source)
  • The four pounds of bread, together with the sacrament bread, regularly sent him on Sundays after the late mass by the Father Superior, made up his weekly rations.†   (source)
  • Levin gave him the bottle, and the same look of passionate hope with which he had taken the sacrament was now fastened on his brother, demanding from him the confirmation of the doctor's words that inhaling iodine worked wonders.†   (source)
  • In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the Holy Sacrament.†   (source)
  • The strange and instant healing of the frantic and struggling woman as soon as she was led up to the holy sacrament, which had been explained to me as due to malingering and the trickery of the "clericals," arose probably in the most natural manner.†   (source)
  • There were also the "dais" and the "censors,"—the first who held the cords of the dais, and the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament.†   (source)
  • You must take the sacrament.†   (source)
  • And consequently, not being able to believe in the significance of what he was doing nor to regard it with indifference as an empty formality, during the whole period of preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame at doing what he did not himself understand, and what, as an inner voice told him, was therefore false and wrong.†   (source)
  • Seeing this, the opponents of the elders declared that the sacrament of confession was being arbitrarily and frivolously degraded, though the continual opening of the heart to the elder by the monk or the layman had nothing of the character of the sacrament.†   (source)
  • The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve wore a white one, and had, besides, on their breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or gilded copper.†   (source)
  • Both the women who supported her and the invalid herself fully believed as a truth beyond question that the evil spirit in possession of her could not hold out if the sick woman were brought to the sacrament and made to bow down before it.†   (source)
  • In 1649 the holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Greve, a rare and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar.†   (source)
  • This outrage committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some female monastery.†   (source)
  • It was against this general "confession" that the opponents of "elders" protested, maintaining that it was a profanation of the sacrament of confession, almost a sacrilege, though this was quite a different thing.†   (source)
  • Like all practices, this becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says forever before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar."†   (source)
  • And so, with a nervous and psychically deranged woman, a sort of convulsion of the whole organism always took place, and was bound to take place, at the moment of bowing down to the sacrament, aroused by the expectation of the miracle of healing and the implicit belief that it would come to pass; and it did come to pass, though only for a moment.†   (source)
  • However, the Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, cloistered in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve and at the Temple.†   (source)
  • There had been at one time malicious rumors which had even reached the Archbishop (not only regarding our monastery, but in others where the institution of elders existed) that too much respect was paid to the elders, even to the detriment of the authority of the Superior, that the elders abused the sacrament of confession and so on and so on—absurd charges which had died away of themselves everywhere.†   (source)
  • The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga practise the Perpetual Adoration, like the Benedictines called Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,— one at the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve.†   (source)
  • Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoit; the first permission for this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbe of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six thousand…†   (source)
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