Sentences with phrase «as altar»

Ofili, 30, said: «As an altar boy, I was confused by the idea of a holy Virgin Mary giving birth to a young boy.

The lantern, whose interior contains a photo and candelabrum, is a variation on the object as altar to memory, another recurring theme.

Organized by curator Susanne Gaensheimer, who completed the exhibition after Schlingensief's death, [19] the German pavilion was transformed into a replica of the church where the artist spent his teenage years as an altar boy in order to present «Fluxus Oratorio,» the second of his three - part final work, created after he had undergone surgery to remove a lung.

Torreano grew up in a large Catholic family and spent much of his youth as an altar boy.

Ofili has described his confusion, as an altar boy, at the idea the Virgin Mary giving birth, and has described his painting as a hip hop version of traditional Old Master paintings of the Virgin Mary.

A surprise in LACMA's at times haphazard exhibition were Mapplethorpe's early works, including his first experiments with photography as well as an altar from 1970 that harked back to the artist's Roman Catholic upbringing.

Just as the figurative paintings of Giorgio Morandi, whom he admires, are not about merely depicting vessels, so Sean Scully's definitive abstract works have narrative structures when they evoke associations of figure and landscape, of window and mirror, or of religious forms and themes such as altar or resurrection.

«As an altar boy, I was confused by the idea of a holy Virgin Mary giving birth to a young boy,» Ofili once said.

Ofili, who was 30 at the time of the controversy and raised Catholic, told the Guardian of the piece, «As an altar boy, I was confused by the idea of a holy Virgin Mary giving birth to a young boy.

The site also contains a sacred well, the astronomical Observatory, the imposing Temple of Warriors, the reclining Chac Mool figure, a form of classic Maya sculpture believed to have served as an altar for sacrifices, and the Nunnery.

Archaeologists have found many Late Classic ceramics, as well as an altar inside the cave, leading them to theorize that the Hokeb Ha Cave was used specifically for ceremonial purposes.

Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri discusses his experience breaking into comics, his time as an altar boy and his upcoming series «Rise of the Magi.»

I - 1240 is about as radical as an altar guild coffee hour.

Parents encourage their children to become involved in liturgical ministries as altar servers, Eucharistic ministers, lectors and cantors.

is how its presentation of a thief as an altar boy flies in the face of Dr. Martin Luther King's appeal that black people be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

The parishioner, unrecognized, explains that as an altar boy he was sexually abused.

The school's first and only black student has been successfully attending and enjoying his position as an altar boy.

Look at the way, for example, Richard Gere's high - end sex worker, Julian Kaye, in American Gigolo organizes his California apartment as if it were a sun - dappled monk's cell, with Armani suits as his chaplain's wardrobe and a luxury - linened bed as his altar.

It also helps to dedicate a specific space to your sadhana, such as an altar or room in your home that you decorate with meaningful things that act as reminders to your greater purpose.

As an altar boy given the task of carrying the thurible filled with burning incense during Catholic services, Duesberg discovered the fun of swinging it faster than necessary, creating plumes of smoke that caused parishioners to cough and choke.

The Catholic Church represented the first institution in his life that offered some rigor and discipline when he was being groomed as an altar boy in Burma Camp, where he grew up.

He talked about his time as an altar boy and said he had even worked on Sabbaths at a synagogue.

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The first to mention the table as an altar seems to be the apocryphal Acts of John.

Santorum was born into a Catholic family and served as an altar boy.

As long as the altar stood, it was a reminder to all who saw and knew what it meant that God spoke to Abram and promised this land to him.

She wanted their involvement to be holy — As sacred as the altar's golden cup... Momentously transcendent, and not solely A bloody splotch on bedclothes.

I alsoremember being slagged off when I started working a part time weekend job as I told them I couldn't work on a Sunday morning due to my commitment as an altar server.

Following my time as an altar server I was asked by my parish priest to become an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion and felt honoured to be asked as I did not feel myself worthy of distributing the body and blood of our Lord at such a young age.

He has many fond memories of those times, not least serving as the altar boy for his parish, the Church of the Ascension, and attending basketball games with his father and brother.

I found secondary school the worst as I was and altar server from when I was 9 up until I was 18.1 really enjoyed my time as an altar server but during those 9 years I took some amount of criticism especially from friends who no longer went to Mass..

As someone who served as an altar boy and attended mass religiously (not just on Christmas and Easter) I'm done.

Fred Viarrial, 59, grew up as an altar boy at St. Leo's in Denver.

In a way, too, so does Scorsese's entire calling — one that started off in the streets of New York as an altar boy searching for his purpose.

Ezekiel refers to the table as an altar.

When I last visited New Orleans, the Robert E. Lee Monument was being used as an altar.

Having reignited his faith in God — Shawn was brought up as a Catholic and had served as an altar boy — the wrestler was faced with a dilemma.

The grand jury report says that on October 15, 2007, Neill reported to an archdiocese victim assistance coordinator that Rev. Joseph J. Gallagher had repeatedly fondled him when he was a minor and served as an altar boy at St. Mark Parish in Bristol, Pennsylvania.

I heard a rumor, that the Vatican thought a better punishment for Aziz, would be to dress him as an altar boy and leave him with a group of priests...

The site also contains three large and mysterious stones believed to have been used as altars.

According to FWM, his «theological concepts, at times rendered through text, diagrams, and architectural elements — such as altars, church pews, and in this exhibition, a pulpit — create unexpected encounters through his use of unique materials.»

Not exact matches

He would make the altar call in his powerful baritone, asking the multitudes to stand, come down the aisles and publicly make «decisions for Christ,» as a choir crooned the hymn «Just As I Am.&raquas a choir crooned the hymn «Just As I Am.&raquAs I Am.»

But, as an Austrian economist I am going to be fascinated to watch how a digital version of the new economy evolves in an environment where property rights and consumer sovereignty are maintained versus sacrificed on the altar of liquidity.

Still, the most compelling reason to argue against expensive weddings is that while many things needed for a memorable wedding cost money, the most important ones — a kiss at the altar, a mother's tear as she sees her son make a lifelong commitment — are free.

We have learned to think of continuing medical progress as sacred and are prepared to offer quite a few sacrifices on its altar.

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

In his renovation, a striking baldacchino of copper, brass, aluminum, and steel rods over the altar serves the same purpose as does the light shaft in the Grailville Oratory.

One regrets that in the interview Percy did not underline more firmly the relation of this fascination with the unreal as if real, this malaise of the modern mind, by turning to that other hero, who once for all rescued sign in relation to place, the Christ on the altar, in Whom the Word is a presence orienting time and place, the abiding Signpost in the desert.

I know that in my case the word «god» is as empty a word as «whiskey» or «rainbow», They are words that have a meaning, and a place but is that place at an altar?

Denominations / buildings / altars are just place believers continue to «meet together» as the book of Hebrews puts it.