sacraments
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The Vatican said on Thursday: "The sacred ministers of the Society of St Pius X administer the sacraments illicitly, while the sacrament of penance they administer and the marriages they witness are invalid."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In tracking our friendship over decades, we can also mark our way by the sacraments: marriages, baptisms, First Communions, etc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
More food, more money, and the symbolic pull of seven — sacraments, days of creation, virtues — turned a humble pre-Mass meal into a celebratory Italian-American blowout.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
For the past 15 years, he’s been going on the road with circuses to preside over Mass, perform sacraments and provide pastoral care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
I had seen evil, and so I carried the evil within me, and the holy sacraments of confession and the holy eucharist were far away.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
