How To Use intercessor In A Sentence
- Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable. Creative Control - Part 4
- An "intercessor" is a person who prays on behalf of another. Pastor Steven Furtick
- This pattern is repeated in time: in the cult of Christ as the "son'' he is the "intercessor" and savior juxtaposed to the avenging, punishing father.'' Indic Ideas in the Graeco-Roman World
- Favore apud nos et gratia plerumque res agitur; et qui commodum aliquem nacti sunt intercessorem, aditum fere habent ad omnes praefecturas. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Catholics pray to Mary as an intercessor.
- Indians in the Mexican states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, and Puebla practice a communal curing ceremony with a plant called Santa Rosa, identified as cannabis sativa, which is considered both a plant and a sacred intercessor with the Virgin. Cannabis Culture Magazine
- Instead of having a Sunday lecture, the goal of the ritual was to take the minds of the believers out of their daily routine and move their minds and spirits closer to the divine, with the priest acting as intercessor. The Crowd Rose As One | Heretical Ideas Magazine
- The reader will not fail to note that the terrace of the slothful is the only circle of Purgatory where there is no request for intercessory prayer and that Dante here never speaks to any of those souls. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
- The latter is rightly anathema since when one recites the Rosary one approaches God through our intercessor Mary, and not Mary in isolation, hence her role as Theotokos, or the ‘God Bearer’ is central.
- In the past, especially the distant past, the saints were venerated as prodigies, miracle-workers, intercessors, protectors.
