Sentence examples for holy vessels from inspiring English sources

They had been to the site of the mission house in the city and had retrieved some suitcases that had been stored in the air-raid shelter and had also picked up the remains of melted holy vessels in the ashes of the chapel.

Judah Maccabee captured Jerusalem and the Temple in Jerusalem was freed and reconsecrated: "After having recovered Jerusalem, Judah ordered the Temple to be cleansed, a new altar to be built in place of the desecrated one, and new holy vessels to be made".

The purificator is the linen used to dry the holy vessels during Holy Communion.

Ozick, at times, has more trouble in this regard, though her essays can be clear and telling, too, colored by an autumnal sense of loss over the novel's marginalization as "the holy vessel of imagination".

Modesty in all things was required, especially for girls, and a flash of colour on the skin was a desecration of a holy vessel made in God's image.

A Critic's Critic Paul Thomas Anderson, apart from being the holy vessel of hope and aspiration for critics and cineastes, is known in the industry as both a straight shooter and a barrel of monkeys — someone who takes the work seriously, but not himself.

For example, 19th-century copper alloy niche lamps and holy water vessels are isolated in vitrines; nearly identical contemporary versions are integrated into the facsimile shrines, and others are shown being used during videotaped ceremonies.

Religious observance demanded many objects decorated with Christian symbols baptismal scoops, altar cloths, pilgrimage bottles, lavabos (holy-water vessels).

So, make sure you print a: None of your fucking business and b: Does anyone out there know someone who would be perfect for me?" His flat is crammed full of religious paraphernalia, from beautiful icons to plastic tat such as "Virgin Mary" holy-water vessels.

"Hammered" by "Woman Before an Aquarium," Hampl undertook a quest for what immediately became her personal holy grail, a vessel bearing not the blood of Christ but its secular equivalent, as ineffable, mystical and impossible as transubstantiated wine.

The Holy Ghost  was a vessel that had seen action in the years immediately after Henry V defeated France at Agincourt.