Sentences with phrase «sacrificial virgins»

There is a notable lack of wailing sacrificial virgins, which I assumed were an important part of the process, but I'm no expert.

Francis Maude was thrown to the Commons» wolves like a sacrificial virgin, albeit one which could not please the eyes.

Growing up, Perseus would learn the ways of the warrior, and would soon vie for the hand of the beautiful princess Andromeda (Judi Bowker, Brother Sun Sister Moon), but she is slated to be the sacrificial virgin to appease the last of the Titans, the sea - monster known as the Kraken.

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In societies in which violence is rampant on the street and in the media, the nursing Virgin can perhaps communicate God's love to people in a way that a violent image, the image of one more sacrificial victim, can not.

who came up with the concepts of virgin birth, sacrificial death, making man god?

He needed his self - sacrificial love of his virgin wife, he needed his tender care for the infant Jesus, and, most of all, he needed his decisiveness and holy fear of God for prompt and courageous action.

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

What On Chesil Beach gets right is the sheer silly, tragic pointlessness of the virgin - wedding - night business and how disturbing sex was for a generation whose hypocritical elders had withheld information about it — a bizarrely sacrificial ceremony which probably had its last gasp with our own Lady Diana Spencer.