Sentences with phrase «blessed by a priest»

But as Catholic theology progressed, it was decided that the power of the meal was not in what happened during the meal, or in the gathering of people for the meal, or really in the food itself, but in the bread and the wine after it had been blessed by the priest.

It was thought that the significance of baptism was not in the symbol of going under the water and then rising back up as though from the dead, but in the power of the water itself after it had been blessed by a priest.

I understand holy water is plain water blessed by a priest.

«Everyone at St David's and the parish of Neath send their very best wishes to Katherine and Andrew and it was important to them both that their wedding was blessed by the priest from her home parish in Wales.»

As for the frozen wine, Errazuriz said, he concealed it in a cooler and took it into a church, where it was «inadvertently blessed by the priest while turning wine into the blood of Christ during the Eucharist.»

The baby is dressed in ceremonial clothes, blessed by a priest, and takes a first bite of rice pudding.

This importance means you'll often see Balinese families from around the island visiting in full ceremonial attire balancing large baskets of food atop their heads, with the purpose of getting it blessed by the priest at the temple at the top of the mountain.

Not exact matches

I wish religious would bless the very foundation of the buildings that surfboards are built, maybe then the teen of the coasts would not get up to surf and get high (not all surfers get high) but, this act by the priest is a act of recognition to God that if a wave should crash let it crash not on a tweeked melon.

The Church's official witness to this covenant - making, the ordained priest, exercises his unique form of priesthood by offering the Church's recognition of, and blessing on, what the couple, in their exercise of the priesthood of the baptized, have covenanted together.

The hunger of our first parents was for God, who made Adam and Eve priests and told them to bless all creation by acknowledging the Creator.

So lets not kid ourselves that Jesus wants us to believe that when the bread and wine are blessed by the human priest it is changed literally into Jesus body and blood.

Indeed there has been lots of issues with pedophile priests they should be judged by the justice system accordingly but God will call them into account and that I guarantee you will be even worse... God Bless everyone here...!

Vast processions of the Blessed Sacrament with an altar server giving out incense and girls strewing rose petals before the monstrance carried by a priest under a canopy held by four reverent men, weekly benediction with our heads bent low; «Truly this is the Son of God» we could say since we all lived this belief.

It was thought that if the water was blessed in a particular way by a priest, it had healing powers which could wash away the sickness or evil spirit.

Another matter in which the men differed from the nairs was that when they come to battlefield, they do not smear their heads nor do they paint their bodies with the ashes of cow - dung blessed by the cursed jogues.ie, the yogis or the Hindu priests, which the nairs make very much of.

At the Easter Vigil, the priest blesses the water in the baptismal font, lowering the lighted Pascal candle into it three times while saying: «May the power of the Holy Spirit, O Lord we pray, come down through your Son into the fullness of this font...» He then holds the candle in the water while continuing ``... so that all who have been buried with Christ by baptism and death may rise again to life with him.»

By the end of Genesis 47 Pharaoh has all the land except that belonging to the priests, which he never touches because he needs somebody to bless him.

Significantly, the bishop retained his unique baptismal role in the regenerative act of baptism somewhat longer than his eucharistic pre-eminence; and even after finally giving up the baptizing of all catechumens outside his own parish, he preserved, at least in the West, the confirmation thereof as a distinct and essential ceremony, while in the East it was he alone who could bless the oils used by priests in baptism and confirmation.

The parents are blessed by the family priest and purified with holy water.

Capable of unspeakable evil, the actual doll exists locked up in an occult museum in Connecticut — visited only by a priest who blesses her twice a month.

The masks of Barong and Rangda are considered sacred items, and before they are brought out, a priest must be present to offer blessings by sprinkling them with holy water taken from Mount Agung, and offerrings must be presented.

The opening party will include traditional customs, such as a blessing by a Hawaiian Kahu (priest), as well as entertaining performances by hula dancers and fire eaters on the expansive pool deck on the third floor.

Dressed in Balinese sarongs, guests will receive a traditional Sanskrit blessing for health and prosperity from a Pemangku (Hindu priest), accompanied by flower offerings.

Balinese Weddings will be arranged at our wedding villa by the priest and doesn't require legal procedure with the Balinese wedding's customs and Balinese wedding blessing.

When Justice Abella blessed, as a priest would, the constitutional right to strike, she undermined the rule of law and the separation of powers by going well beyond the original meaning of the constitutional provision at issue.