laying on of hands

How To Use laying on of hands In A Sentence

• It recognizes the validity of all Evangelical orders, confirmed in the laying on of hands of the presbytery; and holds communion with, and exchanges pulpits with, all Evangelical Protestant Churches, and receives from them by letters dimissory, clergy and laity without reordination or reconfirmation, and dismisses to them, as to parishes in her own communion.
• It also lies behind such developments as the medieval conviction that a monarch could heal by the laying on of hands.
• I'm one of the few people I know who fixes hardware purely through the laying on of hands - sometimes I have a bit of a fiddle and pull things out before putting them back in, or generally twiddle knobs and such.
• D. 1204) is cited as requiring that if the laying on of hands in the subdeaconship be omitted, it must be afterwards supplied (cap. 1, x, de sacr. non interand, 1. 6), but there seems no doubt that the word "deaconship" was in the original text (Correct. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• In some cases the abjuration was the only ceremony required; in others abjuration was followed by the imposition of hands or by unction, or both by the laying on of hands and by unction. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• A second epiclesis for the Spirit is prayed during the laying on of hands.
• When, in the next years, the churches decided to retain the practice of confirmation, this blessing with the laying on of hands was retained only for the confirmands.
• We invite family, godparents and mentors to join in the laying on of hands on confirmation Sunday.
• There will be a solemn ordination service, with the taking of vows, the laying on of hands, and the giving of the right hand of fellowship.
• There will be a solemn ordination service, with the taking of vows, the laying on of hands, and the giving of the right hand of fellowship.