Sentences with phrase «sacrificial altars»

What about sacrificial altars?

Edward Sövik's remarks in Architecture for Worship are representative: «[The eucharistic table] ought to be distinguished (as it was by the early Christians) from the sacrificial altars of other religions.

I'll see you at the sacrificial altar though.

The Lion of Judah (PG for mature themes) Faith - based animated adventure about the attempt of a brave lamb (Georgina Cordova) along with his stable mates to avoid the sacrificial altar at Easter time.

The condor's head and neck feathers are carved into the temple's floor to complete the image and these features may have been used as a sacrificial altar.

There is then a fascinating sacrificial altar at its centre.

You will also see Qenqo with its sacrificial altar and the famous pre-Incan fortress of Sacsayhuaman.

Not only are the posters (or vast majority of them) on this site entirely genuine, they are the people who are expected to make the (immense) sacrifices and dig (deeply) into thier pockets should political governace force through a policy of (attempted) mitigation to the (percieved) threat of manmade global warming such that it is necessary that the scientific community carries these people with them on the journey to the sacrificial altar.

Not exact matches

(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

To the prophet, therefore, prayer was no appendage to a sacrificial system and required no smoking altar for its support.

With the ancient altars no longer standing, with the sacrificial cultus interpreted as a mere foreshadowing of the access to God that Christians spiritually enjoyed, with the growing rituals of the new churches still plastic and unformed, personal prayer became the typical method of divine fellowship.

Historians of religion in the nineteenth century referred to the sacrificial system of ancient Israel as a form of do ut des, which could be paraphrased: «I am putting this small animal I have reared on an altar as a gift for you in hopes that you will bestow your blessing on me.»

To be sure, it may have been only a painted stick, a hideous idol, an altar red with sacrificial blood.

What the Roman mass has been saying in glorious drama through the centuries is that in the sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection of Christ, ever repeated through the most solemn rites of the Church, the God who has acted in him for our redemption is here at the altar and will act again and now for those who seek him in true penitence and faith.

Here is the sacrificial lamb offered daily on the altar of the Temple.

Or rather, we are like water spilt on an altar stone, like a sacrificial libation poured into God's hands.

We have sacrificed the truth of the gospel on the altar of political influence, and have traded the power of sacrificial service in the name of Jesus Christ for the power of being the moral majority and voting in the candidates whom we think will champion our political cause.

For months now we've speculated that Adem Ljajic would be the sacrificial lamb, his blood offered as a sacrifice on the altar of Gervinho, Garcia's favorite player / demigod.

-- but may feel differently about in 10 years, having left their social lives on the sacrificial Ph.D. altar and wasted time they may never recover?

Actun Tunichil Muknal is one of the most impressive and artefact - rich Maya ceremonial caves ever found containing rare bloodletting altars used in sacrifices by Maya royalty and over 1400 catalogued artefacts as well as sacrificial human remains.

It's impossible not to be affected by the sheer physical beauty, the ancient Maya altars and the number of ancient Maya artefacts such as jade axe heads, pottery and sacrificial instruments scattered around.

Archeologists have found altars, religious carvings, and the remains of sacrificial victims in some of these caves.

A day before Galungan — Penampahan, or slaughter day — Balinese slaughter the sacrificial animals that will go into the temple or altar offerings.

Two identical bronze figures, one standing, the other lying across an altar or table, suggest a sacrificial tableau against which is set a large wooden figure and carved head.

He demands sacrificial female victims brought to an altar behind the church in Taborov.