When the Maccabees reconsecrated the ancient Temple (Chanukah means "reconsecration") they emptied it of all images -- in this case, the Hellenistic statues celebrating the "gods," who personified familiar human virtues -- warriors for justice, masters of the natural world, protecting fathers, fecund mothers. From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
And so the Ebenezer of the soul becomes both a thanksgiving and a reconsecration. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
In such legends may be recognised the propagation of Hinduism by the Rajput adventurers and the reconsecration of the aboriginal shrines to its deities. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Instead of taking them from the service for the visitation of the sick, the most logical source, he had borrowed most of the language from a prayer for the reconsecration of churches and objects inside churches. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
Whatever the reason he is silent, history will judge the President harshly for his failure unless he decides to act now and help inaugurate a reconsecration of the time-honored American values of thrift, saving, hard work, family, and high moral character. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Let's Talk About Values, Obama] Reference
Deeply touched by reconsecration and readiness to sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Citadel of Faith] Reference
A general repentance and reconsecration of all that are with him should accompany the outward act. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
What matters is that Jews have been celebrating the redemption and reconsecration of one of their temples for a very long time. From Wordnik.com. [Canada Free Press] Reference
Shall we find compensation in a new and grander outlook of national purpose, a reconsecration of all we have to the service of the world?. From Wordnik.com. [Sharing the Responsibilities of Empire] Reference
Gettysburg as models for the required reconsecration of Americans to their nation's principles, so Mr. Obama offered the victims of Tucson. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
The reconsecration took place with great solemnity in 1868, and since that date the work of restoration and decoration has continued steadily. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
It has no architectural pretensions and is not a centre round which shrines can grow for it requires reconsecration for each ceremony, and in many cases must not be used twice. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1] Reference
Isreli police were placed on high alert before the festival, which begins at sunset on Monday, amid heightened tensions with the Palestinians over settlement building and the reconsecration of a synagogue in East Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. [AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)] Reference
Richard himself found that, it was said, among other forgotten treasures, at the crisis of his changing fortunes, and vainly sought reconsecration therewith -- understood, wistfully, that it was reserved for his happier rival. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference
The character of these services has been of an unusually high order, and have from year to year been looked forward to as an occasion of inspiration and reconsecration to the high ideals of the men and women who have glorified American history. From Wordnik.com. [Ilinois.] Reference
Either we lay the emphasis on "Noah's sacrifice" of gratitude and reconsecration and let the last two verses constitute the divine reaction to Noah's attitude; or else we may stress such a thing as "God's Promise that there shall never again be a Flood" and all the auxiliary promises that go with it. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The philosophy of this whole period of ecclesiastical history may be summed up in a sentence: The numerous theological controversies, and the pastoral neglect of the people, before the war, had unfitted both the clergy and the masses for deriving from it that deep penitence and thorough reconsecration which a season of great national affliction should have engendered. From Wordnik.com. [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference
Suarez, and St. Alphonsus maintain the necessity of reconsecration? ". From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
"They held that there should be reconsecration?". From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
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