Sentences with phrase «of sacred places»

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Held on the day the earth is the farthest from the sun, Aymara New Year features ceremonies in the Valle de la Luna and Tiawanaku, which the Aymara consider one of their sacred places.

The gathering at Limuw reaffirmed and celebrated the relationship of all people to our Mother Earth and reminded all gathered of the sacred places on this earth and of our responsibilities as caretakers of this land.

This monument displays important constructions, with huge polyhedrons, forming the walls and trapezoidal portals of its sacred places and Temple, where one can appreciate the stone façade composed of 6 perfectly fit red porphyre monoliths.

There's hollowness to their time together, a revelatory sadness hiding beneath the façade of sacred places and objects that hold no spiritual value over them.

These containers are only the hardware of a sacred place.

But for some Hawaiians, it represents the ongoing desecration of a sacred place.

We start the tour of Machu Picchu by visiting the most important buildings of this city with a professional tour guide, who is going to help us to properly explore and better understand the mystery of this sacred place.

You are visiting one of the new seven wonders in the world and you really need a professional tour Guide to explore properly and enjoy the beauty of this sacred place, it takes 3 hours.

Teuscher's stunning photography showcases the extraordinary architecture of the temples but also the serenity and beauty of this sacred place.

«We stand with the Gwich «in Nation in defense of this sacred place.

From a small Saxon church to a great Cathedral, the long history of this sacred place stretches back over 15 centuries.

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«This act of evil occurred as the victims and their families were in their place of sacred worship,» President Donald Trump said in a statement.

When three parents realize their teenage daughters have made a #SexPact to lose their virginity the night of senior prom, the adults set out to prevent any coitus from taking place on this sacred coming - of - age evening.

If you could see — and I believe you can — what all of us here can see, in this sacred place — the sea of people here to pay their respects from all walks of your life.

Asserting that all innocence has been lost, Zizek claims that an object is no longer considered art «simply [on] its direct material properties, but [by] the place it occupies, the (sacred) Place of the Void of the Thing.&rplace it occupies, the (sacred) Place of the Void of the Thing.&rPlace of the Void of the Thing.»

Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred place or shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith.

The greatness of Abraham is not that he takes his son to Mount Moriah, the Temple mount (the place where today stand both the Western Wall sacred to Jews and the Dome of the Rock sacred to Islam), so that he can sacrifice his son.

The famous church of Mont Saint Michel in France was a sacred place for female druids who sacrified young men from the height of the hill and now it is one of the most important Church in France.

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the preacher the symbolic head and heart of his people.

In short, dwelling in the land should be — must be — an act of imitatio dei, and, as the Hebrew prophets taught, to fail to embody that religious precept is to forfeit the right to dwell in that sacred place.

For a long time the Temple in Jerusalem was actually a sacred place, it even was the most sacred place on earth, because the God of Israel had promised, to be present at the Temple (1 Kings 8, 29: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.).

Third, even when traditionally religious forms of human life seem to fade in some contexts, new and alternative forms of life often appear in their place that engage the sacred, spiritual, transcendent, and liturgical needs of human beings.

In Dear James, the catalyst is not only the teachings of the Church but its sacred places as well.

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

Let's tell them about our sacred places: the side yard in Texas, perhaps, the parking lot of the Mabee Centre, the little booth in the Earl's near our Vancouver apartment.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

It is sorely tempting to arbitrate over this sacred interplay, to treat it in such a way as to refuse God the opportunity to make use of His special place, to place God outside of the conjugal relationship which then becomes the couple's own territory over which they alone arbitrate.

We could say the world would be a better place if we were all following the sacred teachings of any of the sacred teachings.

Two locations on the western slope of the hill are revered by different groups as the sacred place.

The Reformation had called into question the place of art in sacred spaces, and the political and ecclesiastical future of the region was up for grabs.

It is desirable to have a little table in one's room or one's home dedicated to sacred things — a place for the Bible, a cross, a picture of Christ — and not let it get cluttered with other things.

Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.

The animistic habit of ascribing to a god a local dwelling - place and of going to the sacred spot if one wished to deal with the god persisted in manifold forms long after animism itself had been left behind.

A comparable humanization of the sacred was taking place throughout the Christian West during the Middle Ages, but Malraux insists that it was not the human but the sacred that «disappeared» in Gothic art.

1 If it can be demonstrated that world affirmation is implicit within the way of identity, the Eastern approach need no longer place a negative value on change but can learn from the West that there is no necessary conflict between change and the divine, nor is there any need to view the dimension of the sacred as antagonistic to the phenomenon of change.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

place, at sacred times, through sacred persons as distinct from a profane, «unholy» people, and the adoration of God in spirit and in truth is not, indeed abolished, but radically relativized.

Thank you so much for this website, O most sacred heart of Jesus I place all my trust in you, I have been praying to cast away these evil spirits from me, they are the ones who cause bad thoughts to enter your spiritual body.

Offering itself as the ultimate basis of reality and salvation, the sacred may either arouse a defiant emptying of the heavens and a repudiation of all sacrality in favor of secularity in a death of the gods, or become the place of evasion and retreat, a refuge from life rather than a response to it.

Doubtless many of their «sacred places» were adopted by the Hebrews from tribes whom they dispossessed.

There are plenty of other places they could build a new Mosque in Manhattan and the site of the former World Trade Center buildings is sacred.

Though there may be areas of his life or his world which take on special sanctity for cultic purposes, these sacred acts and places only represent the whole of life, the whole of his world.

If Rome is not, as it was called in the days of the Caesars, the caput mundi, it is nonetheless a place of sacred memory made such by the dual apostolic martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the many others who followed their example.

The report highlights cathedrals as diverse churches that are not only important sacred centres of worship but also places of valued social support and community and interfaith engagement.

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

Though, Islam is generally understood to be anti-incarnational the ideas of the imam in the Shia sects, the idea of the Mahdi in Mahdawism, the ideas of sainthood, poles, pirs, mujawirs and murshids, and places such as tombs of the saints and dargahs are deemed to be infused with certain amount of the sacred.

This phrase is found on the eastern gate of the Muslim shrine called the Dome of the Bock, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a place sacred to all three faiths.

Bartholomew argues to the contrary, claiming that Christ's teaching redeems all places precisely by extending sacred space beyond Israel» beyond the limited space inhabited by any particular nation or people» to the whole of creation.

But place is of fundamental importance in virtually all indigenous religions, with their sacred mountains and rivers and caves.