Sentences with phrase «expiation offering»

In 1959, Rothko, who was of Russian Jewish descent, invited to participate in the Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany, proposed the creation of a chapel of expiation offering to paint works for it for free, but an agreement with the organizers was never achieved.

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Two new kinds of sacrifice of major importance were added after the Exile the trespass - offering, a sacrifice of restitution either for wrong done to man or as tribute due to Yahweh, and the sin - offering, an expiation for the unwitting guilt of the people.

It is characteristic of the worship of the post-Exilic temple, therefore, that the two forms of sacrifice added to the rubric were the trespass - and the guilt - offerings, both expiations of sin, and that, in general, the sense of public guilt in the later Old Testament is poignant and profound.

The old Roman Rite, which emerged from a long tradition, was understood as the sacramental offering by the priest, acting in the Person of Christ, which He offered on the Cross to his Father in expiation for the sins of the world.

The priest acts in the Person of Christ in so far as He exercises His Mercy towards men by offering Himself to the Father in sacrifice for the expiation for their sins.