All 17 Uses of
sacrament
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Seeing this, the opponents of the elders declared that the sacrament of confession was being arbitrarily and frivolously degraded, though the continual opening of the heart to the elder by the monk or the layman had nothing of the character of the sacrament.†
Chpt 1
- Seeing this, the opponents of the elders declared that the sacrament of confession was being arbitrarily and frivolously degraded, though the continual opening of the heart to the elder by the monk or the layman had nothing of the character of the sacrament.†
Chpt 1
- But when the sacrament was carried in and they were led up to it, at once the "possession" ceased, and the sick women were always soothed for a time.†
Chpt 2 *
- The strange and instant healing of the frantic and struggling woman as soon as she was led up to the holy sacrament, which had been explained to me as due to malingering and the trickery of the "clericals," arose probably in the most natural manner.†
Chpt 2
- Both the women who supported her and the invalid herself fully believed as a truth beyond question that the evil spirit in possession of her could not hold out if the sick woman were brought to the sacrament and made to bow down before it.†
Chpt 2
- And so, with a nervous and psychically deranged woman, a sort of convulsion of the whole organism always took place, and was bound to take place, at the moment of bowing down to the sacrament, aroused by the expectation of the miracle of healing and the implicit belief that it would come to pass; and it did come to pass, though only for a moment.†
Chpt 2
- She admits him to church services, to the holy sacrament, gives him alms, and treats him more as a captive than as a convict.†
Chpt 2
- Confession is a great sacrament, before which I am ready to bow down reverently; but there in the cell, they all kneel down and confess aloud.†
Chpt 2
- There had been at one time malicious rumors which had even reached the Archbishop (not only regarding our monastery, but in others where the institution of elders existed) that too much respect was paid to the elders, even to the detriment of the authority of the Superior, that the elders abused the sacrament of confession and so on and so on—absurd charges which had died away of themselves everywhere.†
Chpt 2
- It was against this general "confession" that the opponents of "elders" protested, maintaining that it was a profanation of the sacrament of confession, almost a sacrilege, though this was quite a different thing.†
Chpt 3
- He intends to take the sacrament again in the morning.†
Chpt 3
- Then he desired to confess and take the sacrament at once.†
Chpt 4
- The four pounds of bread, together with the sacrament bread, regularly sent him on Sundays after the late mass by the Father Superior, made up his weekly rations.†
Chpt 4
- My mother began weeping, and, careful not to alarm my brother, she entreated him to go to church, to confess and take the sacrament, as he was still able to move about.†
Chpt 6
- He grew thoughtful, however; he guessed at once that he was seriously ill, and that that was why his mother was begging him to confess and take the sacrament.†
Chpt 6
- But he was not able to go to church long, he took to his bed, so he had to confess and take the sacrament at home.†
Chpt 6
- "He abused the sacrament of confession," the fiercest opponents of the institution of elders added in a malicious whisper.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(sacrament) an important Christian ceremony such as baptism or communion