Sentence examples for can be altar from inspiring English sources

(RNS) A Catholic priest who recently took charge of a San Francisco parish has said only boys can be altar servers, a move that is sparking both criticism and praise and comes amid a wider debate over conservative concerns that the Catholic Church has become too "feminized".

We talk about whether they can be this or that, can they be altar boys, can they be lectors, about a woman as president of Caritas [Catholic charities].

Being jilted at the altar can be lucrative.

George Osborne thinks these principles can be sacrificed at the altar of economic competitiveness.

Be prepared, too, for a little hike; the four-floor climb to the plain black door, flanked by a small Chinese altar, can be an invigorating predinner exercise.

The Buddha statues can be switched with an altar of the indigenous Japanese Shinto religion for followers of that faith, he said.

"The idea that subjects like astronomy and particle physics do not provide immediate economic returns and therefore can be sacrificed at the altar of cutbacks is nonsense," says Andrew Miller, chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committeee, which produced the report.

Healthy brands can be sacrificed on the altars of corporate takeovers and restructurings: Brim Coffee bit the dust when a succession of mergers and acquisitions left it sharing a stable with Maxwell House Procter && Gamble abandoned White Cloud toilet paper to focus on its Charmin brand.

Of course if you are sharing your altar, beds can be customized to make each side right for its sleeper.

Through this latter ritual, observant Jews understand themselves to consume all food as though it were in the sanctified status of a Temple offering, so that their home table can be imagined as the Temple altar itself, a locus of the divine presence.

Keep in mind that altar servers can be trained as young as third grade, and you can become one as late as sixteen years old.