10 sentences with 'ritual'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ritual and other words derived from it.
• « 2. Communion - following the example of Christ at the Last Supper, the ritual by which medieval Christians connected spiritually with God. A significant element of this was the belief in transubstantiation: the idea that the wine and sacred host were literally transformed into the blood and body of Christ at the moment of consumption. »
• « 7. Anointing of the sick - a final ritual performed at the moment of death to send the soul to purgatory, the spiritual realm between earth and heaven where the sins of the soul will be burned away during years of atonement and purification. »
• « This concept was potentially revolutionary because in one fell swoop it removed the whole edifice of church ritual. »
• « Among Catholics at all levels of the social hierarchy, Catholic rituals were comforting, and while the rejection of the excesses of Catholic ritual had been part of the appeal of Protestantism for some, for many others it was precisely those familiar rituals that made Catholicism attractive. »
• « The Catholic Reformation is often associated with the 'baroque' style of art and music that fostered an emotional connection with Catholic ritual and, potentially, with the experience of faith itself. »
• « At the same time, the Church was divided between a 'High Church' faction that favoured all the trappings of Catholic ritual, and a 'Puritan' faction that wanted a moralistic and austere approach to Christianity, more akin to Calvinism than Catholicism. »
• « There stood grandfather, as he did every summer of my childhood, engrossed in the ritual of watering his mighty kingdom of ferns. »
• « Every summer, when the ferns in my garden open and multiply, I often slip into the garden for a silent evening ritual. »
• « These are vessels of exceptional technical perfection and elegant carving, which must have been used for ritual ceremonies. »
• « Breakfast was a complex and unchanging ritual: orange juice, two slices of buttered toast, a warm egg and a cup of coffee (mine contained almost only milk). It was certainly not a normal breakfast for a child, but Uncle Ben made it look like a king's feast. »