Claudius vows to give one or the other of two chalices he owns, but before he makes his choice one of the chalices is stolen), or if after his choice the thing chosen becomes impossible (e.
Church employs only chalices of precious metal); a vow to hear Mass daily does not mean that one must hear two Masses on Sunday, since the purpose of the vow is to let no day pass without assistance at Mass.
But, since vestments and chalices pertain directly to worship, a more serious reason is required for selling them than business gains.
In the primitive church there were wooden chalices and golden prelates; but now the church has golden chalices and wooden prelates.
They certainly had not so many golden miters, nor so many chalices; and they parted with those they had to relieve the necessities of the poor; our prelates get their chalices by taking that from the poor which is their support.
Glass chalicesare common, indeed it is said universal, at the present day in the Coptic churches of Egypt.
Tertullian, in the second century, speaks of chalices on which were paintings of the Good Shepherd and the lost sheep.
Some of the gilt glasses, before described, are thought to have been used as patens and chalices for the celebration of the eucharist.
Although it is impossible that all these vessels were designed for sacramental purposes, yet it is not improbable that some of them were used as patens and chalices in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
At the same time those about to celebrate their private Masses prepared their chalices and cruets in the sacristy; and, assisted by the junior monks not in priest's orders, went to the altars assigned to them.
Romans in triumphal songs proclaimed a second Mars, and who turned, as Michelangelo expressed it, the chalices of Rome into swords and helms.
His angels are genii disimprisoned from the perfumedchalices of flowers, houris of an erotic paradise, elemental spirits of nature wantoning in Eden in her prime.
Among the finer or most curious were chalices proceeding from the parish church of Jativa, Las Huelgas, and Seville cathedral, and the Plateresque chalices of Calatayud, Granada, and Alcala de Henares.
This people," says Fonseca, "respected not our temples or the holy images that in them were; nor yet the chalices and other objects they encountered in our sacristies.
They also commissioned him to make a handsome case to keep it in; but the case has disappeared, and the naked tenebrarium now stands in the Sacristy of Chalices of the cathedral.
No air blows from the rippling water, set with acres of lotus-beds, the fringedchalices of rose and azure swaying on their plate-like leaves of palest green.
Malay children, themselves unadorned, stand on wayside platforms, every brown hand filled with the rosy chalices of the sacred Buddhist emblem.
Now, if thou art a poet, tell me not That these bright chalices were tinted thus To hold the dew for fairies, when they meet On moonlight evenings in the hazel bowers, And dance till they are thirsty.
CV Of the Altar and the Four Chalices discovered under the Earth.
Of the Altar and the Four Chalices discovered under the Earth.
But by whom this altar was made, or with the chalices there deposited, to me is yet unknown.
The church possesses four chalices of silver-gilt of the fourteenth or early fifteenth century.
The early Christian engraved glass is of more importance, but it in no way differs in technique from that carved with pagan subjects; some of the vases may possibly have served as chalices for use in the service of the Eucharist.
There are others of these so-called chalices and patens of which the original use is very problematical.
In shape it would seem that these early chalices resembled the Greek cantharus.
Now, if thou art a poet, tell me not That these bright chalices were tinted thus To hold the dew for fairies, when they meet On moonlight evenings in the hazel-bowers, And dance till they are thirsty.
The halls of country-houses were hung with altar-cloths; tables and beds were quilted with copes; knights and squires drank their claret out of chalices and watered their horses in marble coffins.
Warren recently reported to the Suffolk Institute of Archæology that while he was dining at a friend's house he saw two chalices on the table.
In the primitive church, there were wooden chalices and golden prelates; but now the church has golden chalices and wooden prelates.
Drink from the chalices whence they drank the blood of the victims.
One of the pirates thrust the silver chalices into his hands: for the bottle had been passed from one man to another, and they were thirsty for more.
This opens the chest which, as a rule, contains the holy vessels; but it too, is useless, since the chest is empty of all but the silver chalices and a couple of patens.
Such chaliceswere undoubtedly sometimes used in the early Church.
St. Patrick is said to have discovered chalicesof glass or crystal in a cavern in the mountains of Breifney, after crossing the Shannon for the first time into Connaught.
The chaliceswere of simple workmanship--of metal, wood, or even sometimes of stone, if the vessel No.
St. Patrick's arrival, and being a skilful artisan in metal work, he made chalices and patens for the use of the new churches founded by St. Patrick.
Some of them, who are covetous of honour and promotion, and desirous therefore of pleasing your cupidity, have stolen and made away with the chalices and other jewels of the church.
Behind them is a row of bowls and chalices of solid gold and silver, donations of wealthy pilgrims.
The censer and the golden chalices Lay gleaming on the gravel.
Yes, The golden chalices in the church took fire And circled round the altar.
All the Pass was still Save through the night the golden chalices Clinking far down the scaur.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chalices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
