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  2. Sacrilege - Wikipedia

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    The 1917 Code considered the burial of a publicly excommunicated person in a Catholic cemetery or hallowed ground to be sacrilege. The current 1983 Code makes no mention of it. Real sacrilege is the contemptuous irreverence shown for sacred things, especially the Seven Sacraments or anything used for divine worship (altars, vestments, chalices ...

  3. Allhallowtide - Wikipedia

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    The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella, c. 1365. Allhallowtide, [1] Hallowtide, [2] Allsaintstide, [3] or the Hallowmas season [4] [5] is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Saints' Eve (), All Saints' Day (All Hallows') and All Souls' Day, [6] [7] [8] as well as the International Day of Prayer for the ...

  4. Hallow (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    To hallow is to make sacred or holy; to sanctify, consecrate, or to venerate. Hallow, or variations, may refer to: Hallow, Worcestershire, a place in England; Hallows (surname), including a list of people with the name; Hallowes, a surname, including a list of people with the name; The Hallow, a 2015 horror film; Hallow, a 2017 album by Duke ...

  5. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    A name given to Catholics for their keeping so many holy days; marked in their almanacs with red-coloured letters. [39] Bead-rattler Anglophone countries; predominantly the United States, U.K., Canada, and Australia Roman Catholics Roman Catholic person, in reference to the Catholic ritual of praying with rosary beads. [40] [41] [42] Redneck ...

  6. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  7. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  8. Glossary of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Church of the Holy Sepulchre – traditionally believed to be the site of Golgatha and the Empty tomb. Circumcision controversy in early Christianity – Jesus and Paul and presumably the Jewish Christians were circumcised according to biblical tradition, the Council of Jerusalem made the practice optional for converts as is the case today ...

  9. Consecration in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    While the act of consecration depends wholly upon the individual, the scope of consecration must be dictated by the Holy Spirit (acts 5:32). In saying that consecration is the act of the creature, it must be understood that every step in grace is undertaken through the assistance of the Holy Spirit (1 Peter 1:22).