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Examples

  • I urge you to cut yourself off from the following ministries and their tainted "anointings" my friends.

    Cerulean Sanctum Dan Edelen 2010

  • For there are excessive banquetings, and subtle flutes which provoke to lustful movements, and useless and luxurious anointings, and crowning with garlands.

    A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006

  • Accounts of everyday life in a very busy suburban parish and hospital...it's all there, parish Masses and deathbed hospital anointings, baptisms of babies, First confessions and First Communions, a group meeting regularly to prepare for World Youth Day...and all with insights, thoughtful views, a glimpse of the inner man.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

  • Accounts of everyday life in a very busy suburban parish and hospital...it's all there, parish Masses and deathbed hospital anointings, baptisms of babies, First confessions and First Communions, a group meeting regularly to prepare for World Youth Day...and all with insights, thoughtful views, a glimpse of the inner man.

    Rain... Joanna Bogle 2008

  • I thought, and still think that the washings and anointings were beautiful.

    Temple Rites, Secrecy and Social Control. | Mind on Fire 2007

  • Naturally, those who have the most intense longing for a coloured skin, who persistently seek to acquire it by exposure to the sun seconded by anointings, will prevail.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Oh, I just would hope that this letter would open up the discussion between priests, and lay people and bishops and the pope, that we could talk about the future of the church so that we could continue to have sacraments for our people, that people could have mass anointings, their confessions could be heard, because it's not being done with the shortage of priests right now.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2003 2003

  • For there are excessive banquetings, and subtle flutes which provoke to lustful movements, and useless and luxurious anointings, and crowning with garlands.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.

    The Confessions 1999

  • A high mass was said that evening for the success of the endeavor; all the lords received the sacrament and special anointings and blessings from the religious community.

    Black Horses For The King McCaffrey, Anne 1996

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