Sentence examples for altar from inspiring English sources

The church, home to an altar where the Jesuit founder Saint Ignatius of Loyola celebrated his first mass in 1538, had played host to Francis when he was a mere cardinal and archbishop.

Over the altar is the rubric "Pray for us and the Muslims".

Those seeking to sacrifice the NHS at the altar of the free market, take heed.

It would be equally nice if the media didn't portray unmarried men as naughty schoolboys, terrified of those crazed women lurking around every corner waiting to kidnap them and take them to the altar.

I was brought up a Catholic and an altar boy, but it's recently dawned on me that the Christian story is about human sacrifice.

Don't miss the beautiful sailors' church with its collection of model ships and port and starboard lights above the altar.

David Cameron will use the balm of marriage to placate Tory rebels later, promising a marriage tax-break designed to bribe co-habitees to the altar with £150 a year.

As a child I didn't really comprehend my father's affection for the land, nor for the steep-sided alp to which he returns as to an altar: Avalanche Peak, a six-hour ascent above the cloud-filled valley of the pass.

The runaway winner (52%) was almost inevitably Blair's sacrifice of good taste on the altar of spin when he called the election at St Olave's against a backdrop of stained glass windows and bored schoolgirls.

"Reviving it as a policy priority is a clear sign both of an insatiable appetite for spying powers, and intentions to continue to sacrifice the civil liberties of Britons everywhere on the altar of national security".

As SDLP members – moderate nationalists who consistently outpolled Sinn Féin until the Troubles ended – gather for their 2009 conference in Armagh this weekend, those who were so keen to rush into a marriage with Fianna Fáil might be forgiven for feeling like a bride jilted at the altar.