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"sacrament" Definitions
  1. [countable] (in Christianity) an important religious ceremony such as marriage, baptism or Communion
  2. the sacrament [singular] the bread and wine that are eaten and drunk during the Christian service of Communion

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" Ciuffardi told reporters that the Pope told them, "This is the sacrament that is missing in the world, the sacrament of marriage.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
But other people have their own forms of the sacrament.
It was the Blessed Sacrament, not a statue of Jesus.
It leads me to my thoughts on the sacrament of Reconciliation.
This is the sacrament: twist and crack, the slither of extraction.
Giving thanks makes it a sacrament that is holy to all.
Callimachi: They were treating the rape as a kind of sacrament.
Bearing witness to someone else's tragedy has an air of sacrament about it.
They also say the government should not meddle with the sacrament of marriage.
So with cannabis, I just told my truth: I'm a cannabis sacrament minister.
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When Wells wasn't sermonizing, he was shooting video, a sacrament no one dared interrupt.
I received the cup gingerly, like a sacrament, and passed up my credit card.
I put that right on my application—"Cannabis Sacrament Minister"—and they approved it!
They accepted my cannabis sacrament ministry as a legitimate way to legally marry people.
He called cannabis his sacrament, and that was a brand new thing for me.
"Sacrament of Blood" premieres Sunday, August 20 at 8p ET/PT only on HLN.
Upstairs in a different room, dozens of Greek Orthodox worshipers receive the holy sacrament.
Fly and Brent were smoking up every Sunday before church now, like a regular sacrament.
The Roman Catholic sacrament of penance and reconciliation, commonly called confession, is a perfect response.
Marriage is the sacrament of Christian love, reminding us how Jesus Christ loved his church.
" Sitting down, Sharon explains, "This is a sacrament and no, I ain't lost my mind.
Her mother retired as a fourth-grade teacher at the Blessed Sacrament School in Washington.
She had attended a retreat for students preparing for the sacrament of confirmation on Feb.
At one service, somber boys in crisp white shirts circled the pews with the sacrament.
As for Father Fournier, he said he hoped to hold that Blessed Sacrament again soon.
John P. Duffell performed the ceremony at the Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Sacrament.
Under current church law, priests who violate the secrecy of the sacrament can face excommunication.
When the Spanish arrived in Mexico they found peyote being traded and used as a sacrament.
We had the sacrament smoke, of course, but we also had an anointment with holy oil.
It has been offered as a sacrament in rural Brazil and Peru for thousands of years.
A judge ruled that Indiana's First Church of Cannabis cannot use marijuana as a holy sacrament.
In carefully rhythmic, halting steps, he danced across the stage, sprinkling grits as if in sacrament.
Starting in the 1930s, Brazilian religions were founded around the use of ayahuasca as a sacrament.
Other dioceses are encouraging older Catholics to stay home or to forgo the sacrament of Communion.
Chris, just waking, is told to take his sacrament because a miracle is about to happen.
Happily, "The Bad Batch" is much more than a sacrament for devotees of the Higher Keanuism.
In April 239, the county raided the church, confiscating the congregation's sacrament in all its forms.
Thus, any change in who's able to receive the sacrament is up to the individual parishes.
But this is not merely a public relations exercise designed to promote the sacrament of marriage.
But this could happen only, he stressed, within the sacrament of a fully blessed Catholic marriage.
Last week a Catholic pastor ruled on a request by a Catholic layman for a Catholic sacrament.
None of Mormonism's 30,000 congregations will gather for sacrament meetings this Sunday, or for the near future.
Other parishes are more accepting of gay people and would not hold back this sacrament, Smolenski said.
No word if Middleton, who was baptized as a child, also received a bracelet after receiving the sacrament.
The Sacrament is, admittedly, writer/director Ti West's worst movie, but that doesn't mean it's a bad one!
Despite some of its people observing a religion in which marijuana is a sacrament, the government backed off.
A funeral for Howe will be held Wednesday at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit.
He knelt in front of the tomb, his eyes closed, like a choirboy about to receive the Sacrament.
What kind of faith community denies a sacrament to parishioners who don't happen to have been born heterosexual?
Well, marijuana is beyond legitimate—it's an amazing medicine, and it's a sacrament to a lot of people.
It shows that Quevedo's intricate artistic abstractions constitute a form of play that is equally a form of sacrament.
For people who can't drink wine, a thick non-fermented grape juice is considered "valid matter" for the sacrament.
John O'Kane, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Bolton Landing, N.Y. Mrs.
The same document accuses Father Salinas of "simulating the sacrament and marriage" at the later ceremony at the beach.
If the sacrament of cannabis helps people build that connection, she and her church want to facilitate that connection.
"In the city's opinion this isn't a sacrament of the church, this is clearly a marijuana dispensary," she said.
Pat O'Connor, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit.
They pass blunts like communion bread — a sacrament binding them to each other and to a certain system of beliefs.
Curious eyes wander the pews, scoping out the well-groomed singles while hymns are sung and the sacrament is passed.
Kavanaugh included his membership at Catholic Charities as well as his coaching his daughter's basketball team at Blessed Sacrament School.
This narrative about yoga's ancient roots has become a sacrament for Hindu nationalists, and it is echoed in the West.
As the chaplain began removing the Blessed Sacrament, he said, his colleagues were fighting the fire from the cathedral's towers.
With the Blessed Sacrament in hand, Father Fournier, alone in the nave, gave a benediction to the cathedral, he said.
But their existence, based on their vows as Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, is centered on a life of prayer.
If "The Sacrament" is ostensibly a novel about a woman with secrets, it is more profoundly a consideration of silence.
Will they endure the limbless torments of eternal purgatory, like those god-forsaken babies who pass before receiving their first sacrament?
Catholics believe these become the body and blood of Christ; some Protestants, notably Lutherans, say Christ is present in the sacrament.
Second, and more significantly, the pastor's ruling on Biden's request for the sacrament, specifically a request for holy communion, was negative.
Cobo Hall was being remade, a light rail was being installed on Woodward Avenue from downtown to Blessed Sacrament and beyond.
Her son was preparing to receive his first holy communion just a few weeks after she took part in the sacrament.
In his sermon last Sunday at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, D'Silva called on his boss to step down.
In London back then, if you could score a few buds of some hippie's homegrown, it was equivalent to some holy sacrament.
But others feel cut adrift because of their sexual orientation, or because their divorce bars them from receiving the sacrament of communion.
Marriage can be a sacrament and a union of mutual service, or it can be a prison of abuse and spiritual death.
INDIANAPOLIS – A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a pot-smoking Indianapolis church that wants marijuana to be recognized as a sacrament.
The First Church of Cannabis filed the lawsuit on grounds that pot was considered a sacrament under Indiana&aposs Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Cover: Pope Francis Leads The Celebration Of The Sacrament Of Penance at St. Peter's Basilica on March 29, 2019 in Vatican City, Vatican.
Saint Augustine says that a sacrament is the visible form of an invisible grace, which is a really beautiful way to describe cannabis.
Ayahuasca is considered the group's central sacrament, along with rapé, a tobacco, and kambo, a pain remedy derived from frogs in the rainforest.
It's been used for centuries as a sacrament, with users often reporting transcendent, mystical visions that lead them to greater insight about themselves.
In Portland, Oregon, Archbishop Alexander K. Sample urged priests to "be creative" in making the sacrament of Communion accessible while abiding by Gov.
This is not to say that people entering into Catholic marriage shouldn't fully grasp the church's understanding of the sacrament and its obligations.
He said reactions have been predominantly positive and that amid the pandemic, he intends to perform the sacrament at regularly scheduled Mass times.
I believe that cannabis is a sacrament to heal, and I use it as a tool to connect me with my higher power.
The girls on the team call me Coach K. [Laughter] I am proud of our bless sacrament team that just won the city championship.
Deanna Hollas -- was ordained by the Presbyterian Church USA, the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States, as a minister of word and sacrament.
Undeniably, this will be interpreted by some as creating an opening for divorced Catholics to receive the sacrament of communion, but it need not.
The secrecy of the confessional, a centuries-old sacrament, is taken so seriously that some priests would die before disclosing what has been shared.
Born out of poor and black Jamaicans, they worship inner divinity, hold ganja smoking as a sacrament, and are as essentially Jamaican as reggae.
Shannon April Vonk and Kevin Mackenzie Foote were married July 29 at Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church in Bolton Landing, N.Y. The Very Rev.
Through this sacrament, Catholics unite with Christ and symbolically form a single body, according to Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Vatican's website.
To protect themselves, peyote worshippers in Oklahoma incorporated the Native American Church, to give their sacrament legal status under the First Amendment's freedom of worship.
Indie horror auteur Ti West (The Sacrament, The Innkeepers) takes on the classic Western this time, adding some splashes of Tarantino-esque humor and gore.
It is "the body of Christ, the Blessed Sacrament, this crumb of bread that gives all meaning to the life of this splendid building," Aupetit said.
Mr. Kramer said the church sold jars of honey after Sunday Mass and used it to sweeten the sacrament it bakes to use for the host.
In the city from which hotel residents are exiled, marriage (straight or gay) is not just a sacrament but also an obligation enforced by the police.
The Catholic Church considers soliciting sex during confession a particularly serious offense as the penitent is in a vulnerable state and participating in a Catholic sacrament.
Ms. Risch and Mr. Sutter chose the liturgy because they wanted to affirm the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples in the marriage sacrament.
Mr. Pappas has also served as legal counsel to the Oklevueha Native American Church, which asserts that cannabis is a Native American sacrament, similar to peyote.
"If 'The Sacrament' is ostensibly a novel about a woman with secrets, it is more profoundly a consideration of silence," Hannah Kent writes in her review.
Tonight, on an all-new episode of Weediquette, Krishna heads to Providence, Rhode Island, to go to a service for a church that considers weed a sacrament.
It refers to when a priest uses the pretext of the sacrament of confession to commit an immoral act with a penitent or seeks to commit one.
"I had two priorities: to save the crown of thorns and the Blessed Sacrament," Father Fournier said, referring to the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist.
In a reversal of the joke that if men gave birth, abortion would be a sacrament, the Big Brother-ish World Power Authority still outlaws pregnancy termination.
Percival L. D'Silva, at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, a Washington parish, called on the cardinal to resign for his role in overseeing abusive priests.
" Mr. Pappas said his work with Oklevueha also represented a transition: "I started reading the laws, and I started seeing that people believed in cannabis as sacrament.
"Father Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, went with the firefighters into Notre Dame Cathedral to save the Crown of Thorns and the Blessed Sacrament," Loraillère said.
That's why Easter celebrations are preceded by Lent (a time of abstinence and penance), the Easter Vigil (when new believers are baptised), and, sometimes, the sacrament of confession.
Luther was intractable in his position concerning the sacrament of Communion, but this would not have been so important if the other side had not been equally intractable.
A small chapel behind the main sanctuary sustained the heaviest fire; rounds pierced a painting of Jesus Christ and ricocheted off the gold-plated box holding the sacrament.
At some point, the sixth graders were supposed to go through the sacrament of confirmation, where you re-affirm your belief in God and your commitment to Catholicism.
About half of the churchgoers left the black-and-gold worship room immediately after receiving their sacrament, with some heading straight to the gift shop to stock up.
"Bishops should counsel with their stake president to determine how to make the sacrament available to members at least once a month," the Latter-day Saints leaders added.
Cannabis has gone from being a sacrament in John Sinclair's eyes to a medicine under the law to a valuable commodity, if one with sometimes uncertain legal status.
Although her father had been a "terrible alcoholic," she said, Ms. Somers got into tequila recently and considers her nightly cocktails with her husband a form of sacrament.
Because in the diocese of San Diego, there may be something called the sacrament of matrimony, but the church itself plainly does not believe in Catholic marriage anymore.
Bishops in Argentina and Malta subsequently adopted guidelines allowing divorced Catholics to receive the sacrament of communion; Germany has now become the most populous country to do so.
Touch can sometimes be sated with replicas, but in "A Feast for the Senses," taste was invoked only in labels about festivals and the sacrament of the Eucharist.
Not LSD, obviously, but other psychoactive plants and fungi have been used by cultures for a very long time in their healing, in their divination, and as a sacrament.
But it is still the home church of Paris' Archbishop Michel Aupetit and draws Catholics for vespers (evening prayers) Masses and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, also known as Penance.
In a ritual such as the Sacrament for Hekate Triodia, the priestesses set out to provide an experience authentic to their tradition within the set and setting of PantheaCon.
In 22008, after applying for and receiving a license to perform marriages with a "cannabis sacrament," he started the Hawaii Cannabis Ministry, or THC Ministry, where weed is god.
Perhaps, as Bloch suggests, such a "harmony of words and things" recalls us to St. Augustine and the Holy Sacrament, where language and object merge and past becomes present.
Marley certainly used marijuana as a sacrament, but he also happens to be one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, helping make reggae a cultural force.
An earlier version of an entry in these listings about the magic show "The Amazing Max," playing through May 1 at the Theater at Blessed Sacrament, misstated the address.
The ritual of the Eucharist became a cornerstone of early Christianity, and with it the doctrine of transubstantiation—that a literal, not just figurative, transformation occurred during the sacrament.
"This is starting to get ridiculous," he said of the illegal pot shops, including nearby businesses that list themselves as churches and advertise marijuana as a kind of sacrament.
That means he cannot hear confessions or, more importantly, say Mass, the key sacrament that villagers in Wijint must go many months without because of a lack of priests.
Solicitation is a separate crime under canon law and refers to when a priest uses the pretext of the sacrament of confession to commit an immoral act with a penitent.
Today is the one Sunday a month when members of the congregation are invited to share their testimony in an "open-pulpit" format, after we take sacrament (the Lord's Supper).
On Sunday, the jewel-box-like sanctuary of Our Lady of Peace was opened for a Divine Liturgy service, a weekly sacrament of communion, but not a Roman Catholic one.
"Human passion is the reflection of divine passion," said Andrew Greeley, the Catholic priest who often wrote about sex as a sacrament and an expression of communion with the lord.
Drinking culture has long existed around the globe, with different civilizations all developing versions of beer and wine, in many cases, elevating these beverages to to the level of a sacrament.
He&aposs accused of abusing two underage siblings from 1995 to 1998, while he was assigned to the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church and St. Mary&aposs Cathedral in the Fargo area.
Missing, however, is his typically skillful manipulation of tension, partly because his tone veers so often from jokey to reverential, from winking at the western to making a sacrament of it.
Films like Ti West's "The Sacrament" (2014), a fictional take on the Jonestown massacre, or Kevin Smith's "Red State" (2011), about evangelicals with cruel intentions, feature characters trapped among religious extremes.
In 2011, the Catholic Church endorsed an app called Confession, which included tools for tracking sins users commit, a step-by-step guide to the sacrament, and seven options for contrition.
Marion County Superior Court Jude Sheryl Lynch rejected the church's case that marijuana smoking should be protected as a religious sacrament under Indiana's Religious of Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), NBC4i reported Sunday.
For example, A.L.T. contributor Archi's more recent combat-oriented mapset "Rush" is far different from his more abstract, experimental maps in Sacrament and A.L.T. Lainos seems to have noticed this shift happening.
In the years before many pro franchises in football or any other sport opened in the Sun Belt, college football was the Saturday sacrament, a regional religion second only to evangelical Christianity.
Lawyers for cannabis churches are arguing that marijuana is a sacrament that must be dispensed by religious institutions to ensure that the sourcing and the blessing of the product meets their standards.
Others have chosen to take more unique routes to exploiting the law, like the members of the First Church of Cannabis, which claimed its choice of holy sacrament was protected by the law.
In the Bible, this is the day when the Last Supper takes place, and it marks the moment that Jesus established the sacrament of the Eucharist, which is now part of every mass.
Foster and the alleged victim had started the previous night to argue, during which Foster allegedly threw the woman's dog across a room, according to a police report obtained by The Sacrament Bee.
At the Black Rose Witchcraft coven's "Sacrament of Hekate Triodia"—a ritual for the Greek goddess of sorcery who moves between the underworld, Olympus, and the mortal realm—this was certainly the case.
The first two sections of "A Love Supreme" were played with a slashing focus largely unchecked by deferential care — a refreshing situation, for a work typically handled in the manner of a sacrament.
It was as if the high priest of the Lakers church were offering the sacrament to the team's newest marquee star, and it went a long way toward softening some fans' hard feelings.
McCarrick was also found guilty of the separate crime of solicitation, which refers to when a priest uses the pretext of the sacrament of confession to commit an immoral act with a penitent.
If you really want to cause maximum offense in French-speaking Canada, you go with religious swearing—on the tabernacle or the holy sacrament—whereas, in France, that same swearing is not remotely offensive.
As more states ease access to marijuana, churches that offer pot as a sacrament are proliferating, competing with medical marijuana dispensaries and even pot shops in the few states that have legalized recreational weed.
"The act of a penitent confessing sins to a priest in the sacrament of reconciliation forms a sacred trust," a British religious legal academic, Helen Costigane, wrote in an American Jesuit publication in 2013.
The conservatives' biggest gripe is with Amoris Laetitia, which in a footnote opened the way for some remarried Catholics to receive the sacrament of the Eucharist, which Catholics believe is the very body of Christ.
As a millennial who has spent more on this dubious sacrament than I could count without vomiting, I can report that the greatest gift of modern bachelor parties is where they begin and never end.
"Father Fournier, [the] chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, went with the firefighters into Notre Dame Cathedral to save the Crown of Thorns and the Blessed Sacrament," Loraillère tweeted, in a translation by BuzzFeed News.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament, but they can't, so unless a digital rectal exam sounds like a reasonable step to a Viagra prescription, maybe—just maybe—they should consider butting out.
A powerful image of Fournier, tweeted by reporter Etienne Loraillère of the country's KTO Catholic television network, showed him working into the night to save artifacts such as the Crown of Thorns and the Blessed Sacrament.
Meanwhile in California, a state senator introduced a bill on Wednesday that would force priests to report suspected child abuse, even if that meant violating the seal of the Sacrament of Penance, widely known as Confession.
The event culminated just before 4:20pm — a time closely associated with cannabis culture — when the protesters staged a mass smokeout after a prayer by a church group that considers marijuana to be a holy sacrament.
Looking to reverse dwindling membership, Church leaders are launching a new outreach to other Christian congregations, in a move that could bring some Holy Rolling, New World preaching styles to its venerable halls of stone and sacrament.
But if the sacrament has the power it's supposed to have, then even a miserable marriage between two awful human beings could be equal in validity and dignity to the marriage of two near-perfect Christian saints.
When she was older she learned these meetings were religious ceremonies of the Native American Church (NAC), a syncretic religion that blends elements of Christianity and American Indian ritual, including the use of peyote as a sacrament.
A more significant clash occurred in 1997, when Mother Angelica criticized Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles for proposing changes in the sacrament of holy communion that she viewed as a breach of core church doctrine.
"Desperate" to find solutions for his intractable condition, Leon decided to take part in an ayahuasca ceremony at a Santo Daime church in Rio de Janeiro, one of several Brazilian religions that use ayahuasca as a sacrament.
The Gay Fellowship at Blessed Sacrament Church presents a staged reading of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play, about eight gay friends vacationing in upstate New York, to benefit the anti-bullying organization the Tyler Clementi Foundation.
Bishops could, for example, recognize that the call for leadership might flow as much from the sacrament of baptism as from that of ordination, and appoint more women to leadership positions at all levels of church governance.
Carol Bullock, the executive director of the Pride Center of Staten Island, was hopeful when she went to the Church of the Blessed Sacrament earlier this month to sign up for the local St. Patrick's Day Parade.
The founder of the MMS "cure" Jim Humble has also claimed to be a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda Galaxy, and founded a church to sell MMS as a religious sacrament to avoid legal scrutiny.
While recent reforms decriminalized small quantities of the plant and effectively legalized it for Rastafarians to use as a sacrament, Chronixx thinks it's high time that the government goes a step further and lifts the prohibition all together.
In 2014, appearing on the BBC radio show "Desert Island Discs," she chose an Anglo-Catholic hymn, "Therefore We Before Him Bending This Great Sacrament Revere," which she used to sing with her parents in an empty church.
Being convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a murder I did not commit, completely and totally eradicated any faith in a Christian God that I may have had, confirmed and sacrament-observing Catholic that I was.
Father Patrick W. Quigley served Immaculate Conception R.C. Church in Stony Point, New York, and a short time after performing the sacrament for my family, was arrested for propositioning young boys for sex in nearby Nyack, New York.
"I was coming in the same door as he was going out, we called that the backhand of grace," the Sallot said, adding that they chatted about how someday Bryant wanted to receive the Catholic sacrament of confirmation.
No one that I saw at the "Sacrament to Hekate Triodia" was weeping uncontrollably, but more than a few people were wiping back tears as they gazed at the altars and considered how they wanted to change their lives.
The language in the document left plenty of room for people to draw their own conclusions on the hot-button question of whether divorced and remarried Catholics can receive the sacrament of communion without having their first marriages annulled.
The Oklevueha church is not tied to a federally recognized tribe, and is at odds with Native American religious leaders, including the National Council of Native American Churches, which rejects the idea that cannabis is a Native American sacrament.
Jim Nantz, the longtime host of the CBS broadcast and of the Butler Cabin sacrament, has perfected an air of unctuous self-satisfaction that signals even to the casual viewer that there is something batty about the whole enterprise.
Among them will be a work reflecting on the sacrament of marriage, written by Pope John Paul II when he was a bishop in Poland; a new staging of Handel's "Messiah"; and an evening of works inspired by gospel music.
Mr. Leventhal said the defendant had conducted 137 web searches on his phone after the police approached him and requested a sample of his DNA, including queries for the phrases "Miranda rights" and "sacrament of penance," a Christian rite of atonement.
Kobe Bryant, 23, an 18-time All Star who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, shook hands with Father Steve Sallot and asked about making his confirmation, a sacrament that would solidify his commitment to the Catholic Church.
Blessed Sacrament School is where the insanely popular video -- amassing 244 million views on YouTube -- was filmed, but there was a huge problem ... the school never told its bosses at the Archdiocese about the video or what would be in it.
"The vote represents that sacred sacrament of democracy and any attempts to manipulate, suppress or otherwise reduce the integrity of the vote – whether abroad or domestically – represents a direct threat to our democracy," Brooks said in a statement after the meeting.
The Crown of Thorns is a Catholic relic believed to be a piece of the item worn by Jesus when he was crucified, while the Blessed Sacrament represents the body and blood of Christ in the form of blessed bread and wine.
For example, Emmanuel Macron, France's economy minister, once suggested that the Catholic (and Orthodox) belief in a sacrament of forgiveness helped to explain the happy-go-lucky attitude of the European south to profligacy and debt which the Protestant north found so exasperating.
He didn't make any of A.L.T.'s maps, but his influence is felt strongly over its narrative structure and especially the inspiration it takes from Clan B0S's previous set Sacrament, which A.L.T. expands on many of the ideas of and Lainos contributed to.
Just because they did so in a country where dress is not deemed an unseemly consideration for serious people, and self-expression through fashion is practically a sacrament, does not make her tactical use of her wardrobe any less resonant for us all.
I smiled in response, and if I had been a better parent, I might have said that this is already the case, at least in a church built around the sacrament of the Eucharist: the consecration and consumption of bread and wine.
He pointed out that Francis is not seeking to allow divorce — something that would be a striking change in church teaching — but only advocating that divorced and remarried couples be allowed to receive the sacrament of communion — and thus participate fully in church life.
"The reason we're here is because of the eucharist, the Body of Christ, which is all important to us," she said, referring to the Catholic belief that during the sacrament of holy communion, unleavened bread is transformed into an actual embodiment of Jesus Christ.
KURTZ: Just briefly, Gillian, there have been other stories including The Washington Post about Brett Kavanaugh coaching his daughter&aposs basketball team at Blessed Sacrament, a Catholic school, having a beer at the Chevy Chase Lounge but not telling the bartender what he does for a living.
Earlier this year, in a move that seemed to many non-Catholics like a concession to humanity and common sense, Pope Francis cautiously opened the window to the possibility of people who divorce and remarry being admitted to the Eucharist, the church's most important rite or sacrament.
As such, a few groups do have protection, including the Brazil-based Santo Daime and União de Vegetal ("union of the plant") churches (with outposts in Portland, Ashland, Bend, Los Angeles, Seattle, and western Massachusetts) which enjoy religious exemption to consume the brew as a sacrament.
Playlist: "Gethsemane" / "Bare Grace Misery" / "Elvenpath" / "Crownless" / "Wishmaster" / "The Pharaoh" / "Nymphomanic Fantasia" / "Sacrament of Wilderness" Spotify | Apple Music It seems strange that a band as theatrical as Nightwish could have gone even bigger, but they absolutely pulled it off, and they did it in two ways.
On this episode of Daily VICE, we meet up with Ed "NJ Weedman" Forchion to talk about his cannabis temple where people smoke weed under religious freedom and what it's like facing over a decade behind bars for possession of what he believes is a sacrament.
On Friday, the 16-year-old daughter of Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice took in the sacrament of Confirmation — the final of the three entry rights for Catholics, marking the seal of the Holy Spirit and completing the process of initiation into the Christian community.
On the one hand, as Greeley points out, Catholicism treats marriage as a sacrament: Sexual love between a married couple is treated as a kind of mirror image of the love between Christ and his church, a love that is often described in Scripture and poetry alike in deeply erotic terms.
" After a prelude about Albert Hofmann's synthesis of LSD in Switzerland in 1943, Boyle's account covers the years 1962-64, a period in which Leary and retinue — grad students, minor celebrities, independently wealthy dilettantes and a monkey — retreat from authority in order to establish a community around LSD, or "the sacrament.

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