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tabernacle

[tab-er-nak-uhl] / ˈtæb ərˌnæk əl /


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“The Los Angeles Public Library. The go-to tabernacle of literacy and lifesaving life hacks. A passport to wonder and whimsy and then some,” Bui says.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2024

Its location in the nation’s capital is no accident: On its website, the center boasts that it is the closest tabernacle to the White House.

From Salon Oct. 12, 2023

On a recent Sunday, he led chants in the tabernacle on the foundation’s farm located in Liberta’s lush agricultural district.

From Seattle Times Jun. 2, 2023

Beside the difference of language, in the Latin Mass the priest faces away from the congregation and instead faces the tabernacle at the front of the church where the Eucharist is kept.

From Washington Post Jul. 24, 2022

The music rose from the tabernacle once again.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Soon after, Romney immigrated to the U.S., eventually joining the Mormons in Utah, where he served as an architect, designing temples, tabernacles, and the homes of the church’s second prophet Brigham Young.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2023

The heavy concrete rooftops and domes of churches across the southern peninsula are now caved in, tabernacles crooked or buried under rubble, walls marbled with deep cracks.

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2021

This is a kind of perfection created under the auspices of the old model: high priests, secret tabernacles, inherited authorities, management by diktat.

From New York Times Apr. 30, 2015

May the heart of Jesus’s most Blessed Sacrament be praised, adored and loved with grateful affection in every moment in all the tabernacles in the world, even till the end of time.

From Washington Post Aug. 29, 2011

There was something solemn and reverent about the way they huddled within those shadowed niches, their voices soft enough to be indistinct, as though they were praying in tabernacles.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

But of this point no more can at present be said: our design being to speak of him only as he lived and conversed in his holy humanity, while he tabernacled upon the earth.

From True Christianity by Johann Arndt

We do not know whether the hawk which represented Horus, and in which the soul of the god tabernacled for a time, was distinguished from other hawks by special marks.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

Free from self-conceit or arrogance, a stranger to affectation or dissimulation, he was a pure, true man; the purest, loveliest spirit, ever tabernacled in the flesh.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg

The clouds of ignorance were dispelled; wisdom lifted up her voice in the street; knowledge tabernacled on earth. 

From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

"The Word was made flesh, and tabernacled among us, and we have seen His glory."

From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge

We found some inhabitants tabernacling in our bedstead that annoyed us more than the musquitoes.

From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark

It also makes Him God tabernacling in the flesh; it makes Him the Second Person of the Triune God; it declares in so many words that He is God.

From The Church, the Schools and Evolution by J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

The priesthood was the priesthood; the Blessed Sacrament was the God-Man tabernacling with men.

From Dawn of All by Robert Hugh Benson

So again and again Synoptic scenes are retouched and new scenes are added in a way to present a consistent picture of the "tabernacling" of the pre-existent Son of God in human flesh.

From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon

Ah, there is no tabernacling here with Jesus, nor yet with Moses or Elias!

From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod




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