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Real sacrilege is the contemptuous irreverence shown for sacred things, especially the Seven Sacraments or anything used for divine worship (altars, vestments, chalices, tabernacles, et al.). This can happen first of all by the administration or reception of the sacraments in the state of mortal sin , as such as receiving Communion , as also by ...
Reverence is "a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration". [1] Reverence involves a humbling of the self in respectful recognition of something perceived to be greater than the self.
In these actions they showed carelessness, irreverence, and a want of faith, lamentable especially for those in the priestly service. [29] A precedent of such evil tendency was dangerous, and it was imperatively necessary, therefore, as well for the priests themselves as well as for the sacred things, that God should give a punishment. [30]
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The word blasphemy came via Middle English blasfemen and Old French blasfemer and Late Latin blasphemare from Greek βλασφημέω, from βλασ, "injure" and φήμη, "utterance, talk, speech".
Great irreverence (大不敬): lèse-majesté; to show disrespect to the emperor or his family. Lack of filial piety (不孝): to maltreat one's parents or grandparents, or to procure entertainment during periods of mourning (up to three years after the death of one's parents). Discord (不睦): to harm or sue one's husband or elders.
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The phrase Reverence for Life is a translation of the German phrase: "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben."These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for our time.