Sentences with phrase «high altar of»

On February 7, 1993, the architect William McDonough, a prophet of the sustainability and clean - technology movements, which set in motion many of the green design practices that are commonplace today, delivered a centennial sermon from the high altar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York City.

Houses destroyed, and in the village of Hickling the water was so deep that it overflowed the high altar of the priory by a foot or more.

- A double - sided drawing after Donatello's «Miracle of Miser's Heart,» (1505 - 1520) from the workshop of Raphael, reproduces figurative groups from Donatello's bronze reliefs for the high altar of Sant» Antonio, Padua.

Fine, they can do those things if they want, but doing their stupid stunts on the high altar of the cathedral is just plain offensive.

From the three - legged dining table on which St. Peter was supposed to have celebrated his first mass in Rome, to the monolithic high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, to the «convenient wooden communion table» prescribed by Archbishop William Laud, the church has wrestled with the alternatives: altar or table?

Not exact matches

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

There is a rough - hewn cross, 12 feet high, at the front of the church and we all flood to the altar, covering it with sunshine coloured daffodils and pink hued tulips until the entire cross is covered in a bower of spring flowers and I can't even look at it without wanting to shout out loud words like «Hallelujah!»

Some express their search in their automobile shrines, while others kneel at the altar of Superlative Experience: they're seeking the highest high, the biggest vehicle, the most extreme sport, the most sordid confession on a reality show.

A woman doing needlework on an altar cloth does not want the work admired or criticized, but rather that the intent of the work is that it be seen for its higher purpose.

Hence the frequent prophetic diatribes against altars in high places, the Canaanite cult of Baal, and «whoring after other gods.»

The still life of Bible and candle is «a high altar» on which «books... are not mere heaps of parchment and paper.

And the faithful remnant scattered in the pews were too poor, too old, and too few to think of bringing back the statues and the high altar for which their parents had sacrificed countless ginger drops and ice cream sodas so many years ago.

Electric lights are dimmed, and the primary light in the building comes from hundreds of candles on the high altar and the chancel rail, around the lectern and pulpit.

Leviticus 26:27 - 31The Crystal Cathedral, being a high place built for the worship of Self, is being destroyed, its blasphemous altars where the incense is burned to the god of Flesh are being cut down, and the sanctuary set aside to glorify the idol of Self - Esteem is being brought to desolation.

And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk conartry to Me, then I also will walk conartry to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.

The High Priest exits the Holy of Holies, and sprinkles blood from both the bull and the goat on the altar to purify it (Lev 16:18 - 19).

You know, High Priestly stuff like sprinkling blood on the altar in heaven, defeating sin, death, and the devil, preaching to spirits in prison, that sort of thing (Hebrews 9; 1 Pet 3:19).

He used a high brick wall in the back of the altar that doesn't look like just any brick wall.

In fact, when I was in junior high, I remember being at a Christian youth conference where the speaker did an altar call of sorts for «young men called to be pastors» and «young women called to be pastors» wives.»

In Israel, the fathers of our faith were very careful not to build altars or high places carelessly.

From the article linked below: «A 13th century gothic church, it offers its visitors a breathtaking high ceiling, a majestic nave, grand ornamentation, and an opportunity to worship: not at the great altar of God, but at the many altars of literature.».

This is the Book of Hebrews» theology of the altar: «For when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come... he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption» (Heb.

Francis Bernadone wanders into a church in Assisi, stands under the crucifix over the high altar, looks upon that body impaled, cadaver - like, before him — stark, simple, demanding — thinks he hears it speak, and feels his very soul pierced by the force of it all.

The content of the plays was overtly religious, and the stage was inevitably in the church itself before the high altar.

Between the epiclesis and the consecration, the Holy Spirit comes on the altar and the priest, and the power of the Most High comes down.

The same Holy Spirit and power of the Most High come upon the altar at every Mass..

that's why iam not going to church anymore AND BRING BACK THE LATIN MASS.... GET RID OF THE NEW ALTARS AND USE THE OLD HIGH ALTARS AGAIN...

The most well known of all Christian symbols, the cross has for centuries marked the graves of Christians, perched high on steeples, inspired soldiers to wage holy war, or rested silently on altars between two candles.

And yet, in the church of each monastery and convent, there was to be found the same high altar dedicated to the Holy Trinity, the same Lady Chapel for the Blessed Mother, and altars and shrines to saints of both sexes.

10 Journal of the Proceedings of the 55th Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York, 1839, 31, 33, 4344, this was Bishop B. T. Onderdonk whose predecessor, the High Churchman John Henry Hobart, had promoted the arrangement of churches with the pulpit behind the Holy Table, as at least making the altar visible — it is occasionally found in the eighteenth century, as in the Wesley Chapel at Bristol or Bishop Seabury's church at New London, built in 1784 - 86 (Robert A. Haliam, Annals of St. James's Church [New London, 1873], 89 - 90).

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

It turns out that sacrificing your baby on the altar of «Birth» isn't the highest form of devotion.

A few hundred yards from the cliffs, piles of crumbled stone and conch shells a few feet high are evidence of altars the seafarers built north of the harbor entrance.

For how long are we going to sacrifice our high - achieving students to the altar of political correctness?

See for yourself the exuberant Rococo style in the engraving on the high altar, followed by a view of the cross vaulting and the Chapel of the Santíssimo Sacramento.

Most people visit the church to see the body of St Francis of Assisi, which is stored in a casket on a high - rise altar.

The largest of Altun Ha's temple - pyramids, the «Temple of the Masonry Altars», is 54 feet (16 m) high.

This deconstruction can be seen in his painting «The Faithful» depicting a girl jumping rope high above an altar in front of a cathedral rose window.