sacerdotal

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• He would immerse himself in the sacerdotal labor of translation. THE TATTOOED GIRL
• The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
• The sacerdotal role of the Christian laity, whose spiritual sacrifice and virtuous life makes a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, is placed in complete opposition to the formal procedures of the Roman clergy.
• Christ, a stranger to all religious practices, and breathing defiance against "sacerdotalism" and "theocracy". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under a rule sacerdotally vowed to austerity. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
• If anything, there was the feeling that there was something almost sacerdotal going on in the upper strata of the literary, and this could only be to the good.
• sacerdotal emphasis on the authority of priests
• Tertullian, for example, writing at the beginning of the third century says: "Among us the prescript is more fully and more carefully laid down, that they who are chosen into the sacerdotal order must be men of one marriage; which rule is so rigidly observed that I remember some removed from their office for digamy. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• His first work, Christianity not Mysterious, opposes sacerdotal authority and fideism.
• There is in them also something which recalls, not only by citations, but still more by the very inspiration of the thought, that which we call the sacerdotal prayer of Christ. Life of St. Francis of Assisi