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  • He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • The silver flask touched her lips as reverently as the Christian chalice of gold.
  • An updated report on the use of a common communion cup says people may have more to fear from people dipping the bread in the wine than from sipping from the same chalice used by other congregants.
  • Their haul included golden crowns, precious chalices, tabots, altar slabs, beautiful processional crosses, dozens of fine manuscripts and his hair.
  • She founded the palliative medical field of music -- thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project, which trains teachers in palliative music vigils with the dying. Alison Rose Levy: What Would You Do If You Did Not Fear Death?
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  • I found it especially heartbreaking to read these first-person accounts of the shootings at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville by LiveJournal users bekitty, writingjen, daughter of shooting victim John Worth, and her husband salvador-dalai via the UU LiveJournal group Chalice Circle. Philocrites: First-person accounts of Knoxville church shooting.
  • There is, however, one very basic problem with vin rouge - it stains the white linen cloths used to clean the chalices and drape the altars.
  • Without hesitating, she strode to the pillar supporting the glass chalice and firmly grasped the goblet by the stem.
  • He recited the words of institution in German but not the Canon and failed to elevate the host and chalice, distributing them in both species immediately after the consecratory words.
  • A handsome priest in a cream linen suit was moving among the men, distributing Communion wafers from a wooden chalice. DESPERADOES
  • He probably has a chalice with 'B-U-D' spelled out in jewels and diamonds. ESPN's Van Pelt slams Bud Selig about his salary
  • The latter, therefore, would be a more likely engagement than the former when leisure is chaliced be hostile economic forces that make it costly. On That ASAUK Paper
  • _fleurs de lys_; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • The entire rite of enclosing the second large Host in a chalice is omitted, and indeed, no large Host is consecrated for the celebrant of the rite of Holy Friday. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
  • He also knows that French revolutionary musician Chantal Orateur Deveau, who possesses the chalice is his soulmate; having seen her in a vision and kept that lovely sight in his dreams. Mystic Rider-Patricia Rice « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M.
  • The celebrant receives the chalice, places it on the altar, and incenses the host, while the Pope, remaining uncovered, puts incense into the thurible. More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M.
  • The very entrance of the priest, bearing the veiled chalice and paten and preceded by servers, announces that an action of extraordinary importance is about to be re-enacted.
  • If a layman or laywoman received Mass, it was in the form of the wafer of the host only, and as a result the chalice became an object of almost superstitious reverence.
  • On the south we see the piscina, which is contained in a beautifully carved niche -- a hollow basin with a stone drain, wherein the priest washed his hands before consecrating the elements, and poured the water from the rinsed chalice. English Villages
  • I called the chancery to see if a chalice had been stolen, and found it had. Scandal
  • As men, women and children lined up to have their moment with the coveted chalice, the man responsible for its safe keeping made sure everything ran smoothly.
  • Communion chalices can cost between £500 and £10,000, with candlesticks worth in excess of £500.
  • I brought my kit, which included a tiny paten and a screw-together chalice, a seminary graduation gift.
  • We were shown the great marble slab covering Arthur's coffin and the chalice well which provided water for the brothers.
  • In the 19th century, the temperance and sanitation movements led many Protestants to replace wine and chalice with individual communion cups and grape juice.
  • When he left the church, he gave away all his vestments to a Brazilian seminarian, but he's still got his first chalice and paten stored in a box in the back of a closet.
  • I poured some wine into my little chalice and set it before him, but when I reached farther into the kit I discovered to my horror that I had forgotten the wafers.
  • The hand-crafted wooden pews and pulpits, the hanging lamps and church bells, and the silver communion chalices and patens brought the material glory of Christianity home to the worshipers in the wilderness.
  • Chalicechick, maybe we are talking past each other — but it seems Jack is actually suggesting that UUism be defined as a conglomeration of all other religions. Philocrites: Guardian's religion reporter says farewell, faith shaken.
  • The next day he presented the Senate and plebs with a banquet, his pure, stainless, and holy body, the bread of angels, of which man has partaken, and he set chalices filled with wine before them.
  • He then arranges the veil, without removing it from the chalice, in the same way that a chalice is set upon the altar for the celebration of Mass: another clear sign of the connection between the Mass and the death of Christ upon the Cross. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
  • I say it with a chaliced grin; my daily grind is done before the dawn begins to smile its welcoming at break of day. Archive 2008-02-01
  • In the centre of the cavern is a small crystal column, on which a golden chalice stands.
  • Incense of sandalwood swung from the thurible in his hand, smoking blue over font, chalice, and paten.
  • Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case. Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress
  • By chaliced shell-holes stained with life's rich wine. The Great War As I Saw It
  • A great chest was filled with the ornaments of the churches -- sacred vessels, such as chalices, patens, monstrances, censers, chrismatories, etc. -- which we have now most carefully returned to their owners; so that your Reverence was enabled to fill four floats with these ornaments, in the solemn procession which his Lordship held in Manila on Trinity Sunday, in thanksgiving to God for the victory. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
  • Your athame is your own - you may let other people touch your tarot cards and drink from your ritual chalice, but your athame should only be touched by * you*. Witchvox - RSS Feed - New Articles This Week
  • The Ardagh Chalice and many other priceless objects in the National Museum are decorated with enamel.
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
  • Holding within their billowed masses the healing punishments of the rain, chaliced beakers of golden flame, lightnings instant and unbearable as the face of God -- dissolving into a crystal nothing, reborn from the viewless caverns of air -- here let us erect one enraptured altar to the bright mountains of the sky! Shandygaff
  • He or she may make use of a lavabo in preparation for the celebration, and the chalice and paten may be initially concealed by a burse and ornamental veil.
  • When Father arrives at the altar he removes the corporal from the burse and unfolds it on the mensa, placing the chalice which he has carried with him on top of the corporal. Ordinary Form in the Hermeneutic of Continuity - a Pictorial Guide by Fr Cusick
  • He does not regard his new job as a poisoned chalice.
  • On closer examination archaeologists from Sheffield University discovered it was the skeleton of a priest who had been buried holding a chalice and paten - vessels used for Holy Communion.
  • Or putting the adjectives in the genitive case, instead of the accusative, as in ‘I will take the chalice of salvation’?
  • I don't think you would get away with a ‘Jesus Bar’ advertised by a leering Christ holding a chalice of wine.
  • He held the Host and then the chalice high for a solid minute.
  • Other items stolen from the Holy Trinity Anglican Church included candlesticks, vases, antique tables, a communion vessel and a chalice.
  • Drink and drink - for were you to drink a whole ocean, the Chalice would still be full to the brim.
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. 
  • She is also unable to hold the chalice, which is used to give parishioners communion.
  • The Medieval section includes the famous Aby crucifix, golden altars, bejewelled illustrated manuscripts, triptychs, granite fonts, chalices, ivory and aquamaniles.
  • This custom of enclosing the Body of the Lord in a chalice is a sign of the Passion which He undergoes in His human body, the Passion which He Himself describes as a “chalice” when He goes to pray in the garden. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
  • In Taipei, for instance Cheng installed scrims overlain with drawings of architectural plans for historic mosques, cathedrals, temples, and synagogues, along with drawings of antique artifacts--chalices, pitchers, incense burners and other functional vessels that double today as the symbols of faiths. G. Roger Denson: In Taipei and Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science and Faith
  • CLVIII, 550); and a hundred years later we find Pope Innocent III stating, "there are two kinds of palls or corporals, as they are called [duplex est palla qu dicitur corporale] one which the deacon spreads out upon the altar, the other which he places folded upon the mouth of the chalice" (De Sacrif. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • Good points bought up in other comments but I enjoyed this anyway … since I have no idea how heavy gold can be; to me a chalice is a goblet and close enough to a mug to get the idea across; and know nothing about diaphragms, other than they prevent pregnancy. GOLD • by Michael McDonnell
  • And after, the priest taketh the precious body of our Lord Jesu Christ and parteth it over the chalice, and this may to us be signified that our Lord parted himself to his disciples upon Sherethursday as before is said, and is that holy hostie parted in three, which three parts may betoken three manners of folk. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • I had no guess; and I seized on the idea of that mystic shoe-horn with delight, even as, a little later, I should have written flagon, chalice, hanaper, beaker, or any word that might have appealed to me at the moment as least contaminate with mean associations. Essays of Travel
  • The Grail itself, which began as the dish from which Jesus are at the Last Supper, and in which his blood was collected at the Crucifixion, has become the chalice of the Last Supper, and by implication the forerunner of the chalice of the Mass.
  • The museum contains polyptychs, illuminated antiphonaries from the end of the fifteenth century, silverware, chalices, reliquaries, and a precious manuscript by Lotarius, king of Lorraine, dated 840.
  • He tried to enforce the wearing of dog collars but undermined his own argument somewhat when he confessed how he liked to wander incognito in Rome's flea markets in search of discarded chalices, crucifixes and holywater fonts.
  • A Byzantine chalice, Bible, or wood carving has a kind of heft, a hand-made brawniness.
  • Each cardinal votes in disguised handwriting on a preprinted Latin form, folds it, and walks individually to the Sistine Chapel's altar, where he places the ballot on a paten and slips it into a chalice so all can see that a vote was cast.
  • It stands about a foot and a half off the ground, and there are miniature implements to go with it - a chalice, a paten, cruets, candles, and an altar cloth.
  • Then he handed the altar cross, eternal light, altar service book, paten and chalice, baptismal bowl and lectern Bible to parishioners who removed them from the sanctuary.
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
  • The boy who had challenged him to the dare, Narayan, came forward and offered him a bowl of rice wine. Dhan touched the chalice to his lips, and handed it back to Narayan.
  • Golden chalices and great swords and weapons hung everywhere.
  • Without hesitating, she strode to the pillar supporting the glass chalice and firmly grasped the goblet by the stem.
  • Sure, the wand, chalice, dagger, and pentacle are fairly impressive allegorical objects, but frankly, they're quite outdated.
  • On the other hand, the synecdoche is plain in the case of the Chalice: ‘This is my blood’, i.e. the contents of the Chalice are my blood, and hence no longer wine.
  • He surprised even some of his closest colleagues by accepting the job many regard as a poisoned chalice.
  • When Father arrives at the altar he removes the corporal from the burse and unfolds it on the mensa, placing the chalice which he has carried with him on top of the corporal. Ordinary Form in the Hermeneutic of Continuity - a Pictorial Guide by Fr Cusick
  • What a story it will be when the bankrupt Senators, one of the league's least appreciated teams, take turns sipping from the famous silver chalice. ... USATODAY.com - With ice heating up, can't wait to sip from the Cup
  • The title of women's world 100 and 200 metres champion is turning out to be a poisoned chalice.
  • Notice what is in the center of the painting - a "grail" - i.e., chalice! Love and Sex in the Renaissance
  • Did ESPN's Scott Van Pelt say baseball Commissioner Bud Selig probably has a chalice with B-U-D spelled out in jewels and diamonds. Pencils ready? Let's get quizzical about TV
  • And the flowers their chaliced lamps for love illuming. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse
  • There esthetician Serena Licastro began the treatment by telling me to take a deep breath while she doused me in tepid water from nickel-plated chalices while calming music played. Glowing, if Roughed Up
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M.
  • In addition, he supplied a sceptre with cross, a sceptre with dove, an orb, a pair of spurs, a pair of armills, an ampulla, and a chalice and paten: all of which remain in the Tower of London today.
  • A prize portfolio could mean a head start in the race, but those overlooked or given poisoned chalices would be early casualties.
  • The Host thus enclosed in the chalice is left on the corporal, until the end of the Mass. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
  • Many brought their own chalices, athames and swords so that the altar represented each of us.
  • Chalice" (1942) is painted ghostly white within blackish wash. Taking Senses to the Extreme
  • A crozier for an English abbess and a chalice, both executed in ivory by Fernand Py and featured in Liturgical Arts Quarterly. The Other Modern: An Introduction
  • Afterwards, Coleman urged his new colleagues to reject this poisoned chalice, but only the Esseffs heeded his advice.
  • After all ballots have been cast, the first teller covers the chalice with the paten and shakes it a few times to mix the ballots.
  • Then I throw my summersault pen at you and you must continue my story before the bell chimes, before the chalice of God hits the cobble stone floor of my marigold mansion. Why I write
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M.
  • In country churches in Oxfordshire there were silver chalices and patens, pyxes, censers, candlesticks, chrismatories, crosses, sanctus bells, and other articles of plate. English Villages
  • For generations, parishioners have donated many items such as our beautiful stained glass windows, silver chalices, ciboria, monstrance, statues and crucifix.
  • Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case. Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
  • In addition, he supplied a sceptre with cross, a sceptre with dove, an orb, a pair of spurs, a pair of armills, an ampulla, and a chalice and paten: all of which remain in the Tower of London today.
  • To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our lips as well. Balkinization
  • When the altar boy poured water from a cruet into the chalice, it was over the joined fingers and thumbs of the priest — the so-called consecrating fingers which hold the eucharistic host when pronouncing the words that transform it into Christ's body. Scandal
  • But in the 14th century it quickly spread over western Europe and was freely used in the decoration of chalices, crosses, diptychs, and other objects of religious use as well as for domestic plate and jewellery.
  • After more prayers the priest takes and consumes, that is, swallows, the sacred Host and drinks the precious blood from the chalice. Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
  • On the entrance of His Holiness into the [Pauline] chapel, illuminated by 567 wax candles, the Verbum Caro is sung, and on arriving at the altar the Pope delivers the chalice containing the Sacrament to the Cardinal deacon who deposits it in the sepulchre where it is incensed by the Pope; Monsignor Sacrista locks the sepulchre and delivers the key to the Cardinal Penitentiary who is to officiate on the following day. Rare Images of Holy Thursday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel and a Description of the Papal Ceremonies of those Times
  • Incense of sandalwood swung from the thurible in his hand, smoking blue over font, chalice, and paten.
  • The ornate chalice glinted in the candlelight as the priest raised it high above his head. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • Faith, holding her chalice and Eucharistic wafer, stands to the right of Charity, while Hope, with her back turned to the viewer, looks to Charity from her left.
  • On the float were placed [the sacred things] which the Mindanaos had plundered: on each slope lay the chasuble, choristers 'mantles, frontals, and other sacred ornaments; on the ridge stood the chalices, monstrances and patens; and at the edge were hung the chrismatories and small bells. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
  • It stands about a foot and a half off the ground, and there are miniature implements to go with it - a chalice, a paten, cruets, candles, and an altar cloth.
  • Before that, ales, which were typically dark and cloudy with yeast, were served in everything from mugs and tankards to goat horns and the chalices of kings.
  • The leadership of the party turned out to be a poisoned chalice.
  • Within the Christian tradition it has generally been believed that the Grail was the actual chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper.
  • Immediately before the priest, who holds the chalice under the humeral veil, two acolytes take turns incensing the Blessed Sacrament. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
  • This can become a poisoned chalice in the case of a corporate merger or acquisition, in that the suitor may not be willing to take on the risk of off-loading inflexible leases.
  • She founded the palliative medical field of music -- thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project, which trains teachers in palliative music vigils with the dying. Alison Rose Levy: What Would You Do If You Did Not Fear Death?
  • There esthetician Serena Licastro began the treatment by telling me to take a deep breath while she doused me in tepid water from nickel-plated chalices while calming music played. Glowing, if Roughed Up
  • The Iberian goldsmiths and iron-workers still certainly produced their famous grilles, jewels, morses, chalices, and crucifixes while in needle-work the finest workers of Castile were elaborating some of the most perfect examples of church vestments that have ever been produced. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • Chaldean Uniat liturgies the words of institution are placed after the first part of this prayer), breaks the Host into two parts, one of which he places on the paten, while with the other he signs the chalice, and after dipping it into the chalice signs the other half of the Host, reciting meanwhile the proper prayers for the consignation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • During the mass, Fr. W skipped the confession (after preaching about sin) and Fr. M almost blessed the bread with the words of consecration for the wine ... that's easy to do when one is using a ciborium, which is a bread box that's shaped like a chalice. Trinityboy Diary Entry
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. 
  • Higher and higher wheels the great sun, driving the river mist before it and sending down through the softly whispering foliage a thousand shafts of burnished gold that seek out the violet, drain the nectareous dewdrop from its chalice and kiss the grape until its youthful sap changes to empurpled blood beneath the passionate caress. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
  • Eulogia is the term used by St. Paul (I Cor., x, 16) in references to the Eucharist: "the chalice of eulogia [benediction] which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • Doth the chalice, unspilt on the ground, not return to the hand? Lucretia — Complete
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. 
  • The kay of the safe is under the door of the linny [1] to de left, and the chalice is in the basket, wrapped in the handkercher. My New Curate
  • For example, in ritual, swords or knives or wands or candles are often symbolically plunged into chalices.
  • The Chalice Quilt was made by slaves on a Texas plantation in 1860 in anticipation of a visit from an itinerant bishop.
  • Finally, the chalice is designed to contain nourishment for mortals, and it is used by mortals to celebrate one another's company, and to worship the gods. The Fourfold Visions of William Blake and Martin Heidegger
  • He had chasubles, also, of amber-colored silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs de lys; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Then he dons a humeral veil, while the deacon ascends the altar, and brings him the Chalice with the large Host closed inside it. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
  • Deep within the farthest heart of each chaliced flower. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
  • For those who wish still to offer both bread and wine, the Archbishops have recommended use of "personal intinction by the presiding minister" allowing the priest to dip communion wafers in the chalice before handing them out to communicants. Guidance on communion during swine flu pandemic
  • The very entrance of the priest, bearing the veiled chalice and paten and preceded by servers, announces that an action of extraordinary importance is about to be re-enacted.
  • In the centre of the cavern is a small crystal column, on which a golden chalice stands.
  • Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M.
  • The space between the great arch and the groining of the Choir is filled with rich tracery, on the central panel of which is painted the Crucifixion, with angels holding the chalice and palm branch on the right and left. Ely Cathedral
  • Treasures and trophies lined the walls in large unruly piles: crowns of gold; glittering jewels; goblets and chalices; swords and shields; bronze helmets and greaves. THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
  • The Deacon pours wine, the subdeacon water, into the chalice, which is placed on the altar; the celebrant says "in Spiritu humilitatis" and turning to the people invites their prayers, "Orate fratres", recites the Pater noster and sings the "Libera nos quaesumus Domine. More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
  • Plates, chalices, candleholders, candle snuffers, bells, knives, incense burners, and such items are obviously made for more than just Circle use.
  • Venetian chalice-cover of the seventeenth century has a background of cut-work, the figures being worked in punto in aria. (iii) Needle lace made without any foundation at all, and hence called punto in aria. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • ‘Ductor’ Hitchcock hoisted his fezzy fuzz at bludgeon’s height signum to his companions of the chalice for the Loud Fellow, boys’ and silentium in curia! Finnegans Wake
  • They can never, of course, get very far away from the regions skirted by eternal frost, for their cup of joy must be chaliced by the snow-flake, or their beautiful life is soon ended. Life: Its True Genesis
  • We can only hope that he was not juggling ciboria and chalices. News from Anchorage
  • Chalices have been said to suddenly fill with sweet-scented oil. The Fiddler in the Subway
  • He thanked them for the beautiful chalice and paten they had donated.
  • Grape juice, when first expressed from its ruddy chalice, is impure and thick; it is left in vessels for a time till fermentation has done its work, and a thick sediment, called lees, has been precipitated to the bottom. GOD Will Make a Way
  • Walking immediately before the Priest as he holds the Chalice under the humeral veil, two acolytes take turns incensing the Blessed Sacrament. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
  • In the middle was an empty coffin, a cuboid altar, and a table decked with chalice, knife, and holy scourge.
  • It gave the altarpiece an appearance similar to other religious objects made from precious materials, such as reliquaries, censers, patens, and chalices, reminding us of a concept known in economics as ‘substitute acquisition.’
  • This chalice, enriched with enamels, is impossible to overpraise.
  • The infiltration of Manichee notions could be detected when Christians at the Eucharist accepted the host but not the chalice.
  • The Democratic nomination in 2012 was obviously a poisoned chalice, but a politician can't help thinking that a poisoned chalice is better than no chalice at all. Countdown to a Meltdown

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