An
altar is a special table or platform used in religious ceremonies where offerings or sacrifices are made to a deity or higher power.
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This is also true of
altar boys and other children, some of who are killed.
I was especially taken by the antique breakfast bar, it was surely a church
altar in its previous life!
You can also create a kitchen
altar with crystals that inspire creativity and innovation.
That was the year that the boys started to get training
as altar boys.
It made the marble everywhere say no,
From altar stone and column clear to vault.
The content of the plays was overtly religious, and the stage was inevitably in the church itself before the
high altar.
But when he designed a stainless - steel
altar rail all the people on the building committee became upset.
This hard, white - plastic
church altar has gold and red detailing.
People were standing on every available surface, including the
main altar.
How about the white witch who had a
little altar in her room?
I am still in the midst of creating a
new altar here, and the tray will really add to it.
When you see home yoga rooms in magazines, there always seems to be some kind of
altar set up.
The colourful
Christian altar hidden behind the ruins of a villa, sheltered from the public eye.
What greater glory to his god than to make everyone worship at the
same altar?
A pair of Italian 19th century carved wood
altar sticks made into table lamps.
The pipe is prepared and laid gently against the small
earth altar in front of the lodge; the tobacco is blessed and lit.
Visitors are allowed to climb to the top of this pyramid, where they will find a large,
round altar.
Clearly, that is better than just going through the
original altar call, and ideally even more could be done.
The southern part of the palace featured elaborate wall niches and
altar platforms.
The new
altar blends traditional Celtic symbols in a fresh way.
They consider their lives too busy for long revival services and
extended altar calls.
But as you recognize, the context of the text and even the translation one uses can
significantly altar the meaning of the text.
Weren't they the insurance policy we bought and paid for with our sacrifices on the
sexual altar?
Its most striking features are two side towers of different heights and a beautifully carved
wooden altar.
Here you'll find 14 structures with a main temple and an elaborate double -
staircase altar in the middle of the city's central square.
Wouldn't want to waste all those lovely delicious innocent little
altar boys, after all.
I see that yesterday's flower offering is no longer there and the stones of the
little altar have been scattered.
Fact is after being a
catholic altar boy you will realize religion is all man made as you get the holy water from the city tap.
Do you run around in one of those point German helmets and goose step in front of your
church altar?
That honor is reserved for deliberately placing your next child on the
same altar and trusting that the goddess who killed your last baby won't kill this one, too.
I have been able to celebrate Holy Mass in chapels built along mountain paths, on lakeshores and seacoasts; I have celebrated it
on altars built in stadiums and in city squares... This varied scenario of celebrations of the Eucharist has given me a powerful experience of its universal and, so to speak, cosmic character.
Salvo is the author of Home
Altars of Mexico.
Marriage covenants, often begun
at altars where this passage from John is heard, are broken in divorce.
Organized by Senior Curator France Morin and designed by Massimo Vignelli, the exhibition featured the New York premiere of Death in the Seine, a film by Peter Greenaway (whose most recent film is Prospero's Books), and The Living Altar, an installation drawn from the Chicano tradition of
altars for the dead, created in collaboration with Amalia Mesa - Bains.»
To set the fairies free you must restore their devastated
altars by completing a hidden object, puzzle mini-game.
Through a linked game, Link can go to a secret
altar where they will fight Ganon.
It amazes me (and probably the nuns) that the Vatican is putting so much energy into this issue when they just rolled their eyes at the scandalous behavior of their priests
toward altar boys.
While Rothko's colossal canvasses express basic human emotions and
like altar pieces, compel their viewers to step past the boundaries of materiality and into what Robert Rosenblum calls «a quasi-religious state of awe», Pintelon invests heavily in the power of language which contrasts, or reinforces the inner - worldly and the imagination.