ministration

Fern whimpered at my every ministration, but Mattie didn’t say a word.

Each session was part ministration, part duel, part dance.

A hand seems to move above it, as if in ministration or blessing.

His group has about 100 retired ministers who have volunteered to man telephones around the clock, ready to give the ritual ministration of death from the Book of Common Prayer.

But how hard she worked at that one thing, and with what steely ministration!