Sentence examples for common meal from inspiring English sources

Contract and sacrifice are connected, since treaties in ancient times were sanctioned by a common meal.

After marrying such improbable flavours, perhaps they'll find a way to unite his picky eaters around a common meal.

"In many cases, parents come home exhausted, not wanting to talk, and many families no longer even share a common meal," Francis wrote.

11 17 29, written about ce 55, suggests that some abuses had arisen in conjunction with the common meal, or agapē, with which it was combined.

While it is unlikely that the ceremony of the bull's sacrifice was frequently performed, the common meal of the initiates was a regular feature of Mithraic worship.

Originally, the Eucharist was a repetition of the common meal of the local group of disciples with the addition of the bread and the cup signifying the presence of Jesus.

The constitutive features of a mystery society were common meals, dances, and ceremonies, especially initiation rites.

The meat is oily and somewhat bland, but fritada remains one of Ecuador's most common meals on the go.

Adult residents make monthly labor contributions to the development, for instance, and small teams prepare weekly common meals for the whole community.

After a year's probation, proselytes received their Essenian emblems but could not participate in common meals for two more years.

But because secrecy, common meals, and common drinking were implied, the Greeks and Romans regarded such clubs as mystery societies; they did not differentiate between religious associations and private clubs.