Having been anointed with chrism, they would put their clothes back on and enter the church to participate in the Eucharist for the first time. |
In many religions priests are inducted into their sacred office with a holy chrism. |
The child is then anointed with chrism, a consecrated oil, and placed in a white baptismal garment. |
I had no right, as I told her, to suffer the innocence of her chrism to be soiled with the evil passions which were sin in me. |
Straightway there descends a dove white as snow, bearing in its beak an ampulla full of chrism sent from heaven. |
Anoint me with the chrism of spontaneity that I may be ever worthy of thee. |