Sentence examples for sacred gathering from inspiring English sources

"God is here in the midst of this sacred gathering in this sanctuary and beyond," she said.

In 2011, IPOC led the 109-day occupation of Glen Cove, a sacred gathering place and burial ground known as Sogorea Te in Karkin Ohlone language, slated for redevelopment.

It is like a sacred tribal gathering — primal and powerful.

It is probable that in this practice there was also a vital believed link between the living and the dead, and that occasionally sacred areas and gathering places were connected with such graves.

In Arizona, construction of a $60 million telescope atop Mount Graham started last year after a 12-year delay caused in part by traditionalist Apaches who argued that the mountain was a sacred place for gathering rare herbs used in medicinal ceremonies.

Powwows Experience a sacred powwow: traditional gatherings of aboriginal peoples open to visitors, where dancers in full regalia perform traditional dances, complete with drumming and singing.

Her vision of the springtime ritual seems informed by sacred and secular gatherings, from James Ensor's "Christ's Entry into Brussels" to George Grosz's "Eclipse of the Sun" to Norman Rockwell's "Saying Grace".

"We had to get a permit from the Forest Service to hold this gathering at sacred Red Butte," said Colleen Kaska, a US army veteran and tribal council member.

More than 400 Aboriginal women artists from 28 remote communities collect desert grasses and seeds, while at the same time visiting sacred sites, hunting and gathering food for their families and teaching children about country.

A group of Wixarika pilgrims encounters a double rainbow while gathering their sacred hikuri.

"So when I say they've destroyed New York's old stores, bars, restaurants, hangouts, I'm saying the real estate market has destroyed the sacred watering holes and gathering places of the 20th century".