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Once we were word perfect we were taught what we had to do whilst on the altar.
My favorite Olympic torch lighting ceremony was in Barcelona, 1992, when an archer shot a flaming arrow over the altar to set it afire.
At the centre you see two large, flat-topped boulders which look like an altar in a cathedral nave.
My mother keeps me well in stock of incense, candles, charcoal blocks, and altar covers.
Incense burned near the altar, and pilgrims were deeply absorbed in their prayers in front of the statue.
To replace the fine organ with an electronic keyboard is bad enough, but to move the altar and remove the pews is quite unthinkable.
But we must recall that in approaching the altar we receive our Lord, body and blood, soul and divinity.
The revolt was successful, with the altar reconsecrated and worship restored under a high priest of undoubted Aaronic descent.
Inside, a vast, vibrant circular room contains a central altar with a three-dimensional yantra.
Sixteen kneelers are lined up along the front of the altar, one for each nun that resided at the convent in 1962 when the church was built.
It could have been commissioned by a religious house, dedicated to the Virgin, for use as the reredos of a high altar.
Stain-glass windows and reliefs on the column close to the altar add beauty to the atmosphere.
On the altar wall, itself, the symbolic right and left are evident in the frescoes of the bottom register.
Philip lays it on thick, telling her that he forgives her for faking the pregnancy, and that he is sorry for leaving her at the altar.
In addition, above the altar in the side chapel, the church has placed a large painting by Mr Willson.
The room widens almost imperceptibly, then narrows again as the adobe walls converge on either side of the altar.
Ideally, the altar would be built in a walled garden where rites could be conducted in privacy.
The altar of his church in Bridgewater Street is adorned with the national flag.
I want to see William standing by the altar of the church that I've attended since I was a child.
The stained glass windows behind the altar in Glann Church are in need of repair.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He was of the first that were baptized by Father Letrado, and served the altar.
In each of these the old piscina and aumbry remain near where the altar had been placed.
In their preparations the small acolytes had found the supply of altar wine somewhat short, so more was sent for.
Shall we suffer the Prelatist altar to be preserved by these sons of Amalek?
There are six steps up from the nave to the altar, and there is an ambon on each side of them entered from the altar side.
Betty Lamb found the ambry niche in the wall of the ruin at the side of the place where the altar had been.
The furniture and accessories of the altar in pre-Reformation times were numerous.
She is likewise called adrastea, because Adrastus, king of Argos, first raised an altar to her.
Note the one candle on the altar, the bishops chair, the piscina with its cruet, and the triptych.
I've laid all my frankincense and myrrh on the altar of Anteros, I've nothing to offer the true god.
It was a slight, because expected, surprise to see Captain campion at the altar rails.
Prepare the catafalque in St. Martin's church, and place it before the altar!
Toward the center back portion of the alcove is another low square masonry structure which may have been an altar.
It has an altar and an apsis, but it is adapted to preaching rather than to singing.
The altar was wholly of gold, and its ciborium and the iconastasis were of silver.
Must the ciborium containing particles to be consecrated, be placed not merely on the corporal, but also on the altar stone?
In the floor in front of the altar are also several pieces of ninth-century ciborium heads, and bits of twelfth-century carving.
Over the altar you may see his bust in marble, and over it a figure of Genius with a cogwheel in her hand.
Between the apsis and the nave stood the altar, or rather the common table, canopied by a baldachin supported by columns.
The priest was at the evening office, the stone lid of a martyr's tomb placed under an arched vault serving as altar.
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