tabernacle
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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
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
She’s said it on her knees before her church’s gold tabernacle and slumped in the embrace of her living room sofa.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
There were two giant fans at the front of the church, one by the tabernacle and one next to the statue of Saint Joseph.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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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
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Gorgeous and magnificent must have been the spectacle presented by that ancient multitude of Israel, as they tabernacled in the wilderness of Sinai.
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
For, as the context goes on to tell, the Word which tabernacled among us was 'full of grace and truth,' and therein is the glory most gloriously revealed.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander
Those hill-slopes had been covered with booths and tents, in which the mighty congregations tabernacled, whilst they waited on his words.
From John the Baptist by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)
Somehow, I always sympathize with one whose beautiful spirit is tabernacled in a plain body.
From Story of Chester Lawrence by Anderson, Nephi
He sees in part, and he knows in part; but never while tabernacled in mortal flesh will he fully awake to the intelligence of his former estate.
From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.
The priesthood was the priesthood; the Blessed Sacrament was the God-Man tabernacling with men.
From Dawn of All by Benson, Robert Hugh
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 Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
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 Conant, J. E. (Judson Eber)
Ah, there is no tabernacling here with Jesus, nor yet with Moses or Elias!
From Parish Papers by Macleod, Norman
Under the stands and around the booths, tabernacling beneath costermongers' barrows, and even lying out openly sub dio, were still the hundreds of human beings.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice