oblation

How To Use oblation In A Sentence

• From the repeated allusions to offering, oblation, and victim, it becomes clear that the action is a sacrifice.
• _I answer that, _ First-fruits are a kind of oblation, because they are offered to God with a certain profession (Deut. 26); where the same passage continues: "The priest taking the basket containing the first-fruits from the hand of him that bringeth the first-fruits, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God," and further on Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• Having done this, they were led to the altar, made oblations there, and ‘returned to themselves.’
• Only the one ‘full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world’ will do.
• These prophets relied upon the presence of a certain motivity, from which a definite response could be evoked by an appeal which they were peculiarly able to make; but though "they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening oblation," there was none that regarded. The Approach to Philosophy
• Finally oblations might be made in fulfilment of a vow; but then the matter was left to the choice of the vower. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
• The rites employed among the clam-diggers on the New York coast, the witch-charms they use, the incantations, cutting of flesh, fire-oblations, meaningless formulae, united with sacrosanct expressions of the church, are all on a par with the religion of the lower classes as depicted in Theocritus and the Atharvan. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
• The words of consecration are spoken consciously by him (in the name of the church) as an account of the foundation of what the church does in oblation, and of what the church prays the Holy Spirit to effect.
• The service takes place in the sanctuary, which contains an altar table and an oblation table.
• When these oblations are concluded, we will all flood the lake or the nearby ocean for our holy dip in the sanctified waters.