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  • noun The property of being sacral; sacredness.

Etymologies

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sacral +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • All of this is to tell you not to believe those who today write that nothing is happening, that the Pope and the Congregation for Worship are not thinking of anything, that the “reform of the reform” and its recovery of a greater sacrality of the liturgy is a piece of news falsely published by the undersigned.

    Andrea Tornielli Responds to His Critics 2009

  • The Cardinals and Bishops members of the Congregation voted almost unanimously in favor of a greater sacrality of the rite, of the recovery of the sense of eucharistic worship, of the recovery of the Latin language in the celebration, and of the remaking of the introductory parts of the Missal in order to put

    Liturgy 2009

  • As any Leading Father with Family Values knows, sperm, its production, possession and sacrality, is the only remaining lynchpin to patriarchal control of reproduction.

    Soraya Chemaly: Republican Candidates to Debate Whose Sperm Is Most Sacred Soraya Chemaly 2012

  • The Cardinals and Bishops members of the Congregation voted almost unanimously in favor of a greater sacrality of the rite, of the recovery of the sense of eucharistic worship, of the recovery of the Latin language in the celebration, and of the remaking of the introductory parts of the Missal in order to put a stop to abuses, wild experimentations, and inappropriate creativity.

    Tornielli: The "Reform of the Reform" Proposals Approved by the Pope 2009

  • My dear friends, I return to the subject matter of the post which, on 22 August last, I devoted to the questions discussed by the plenary session of the Congregation for Divine Worship regarding the recovery of a greater sense of sacrality in the liturgy.

    Andrea Tornielli Responds to His Critics 2009

  • The success of the mission in the entire world was owed to its sacrality in liturgical language and chant.

    Mosebach on Why the Pope Had to Do What He Did 2009

  • As any Leading Father with Family Values knows, sperm, its production, possession and sacrality, is the only remaining lynchpin to patriarchal control of reproduction.

    Soraya Chemaly: Republican Candidates to Debate Whose Sperm Is Most Sacred Soraya Chemaly 2012

  • The Cardinals and Bishops members of the Congregation voted almost unanimously in favor of a greater sacrality of the rite, of the recovery of the sense of eucharistic worship, of the recovery of the Latin language in the celebration, and of the remaking of the introductory parts of the Missal in order to put

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • It perhaps also fails to give sufficient weight to the principle of sacrality and "otherness," and the thirst for the transcendent.

    Cardinal DiNardo, the Book of Divine Worship, and Thoughts on Hieratic English in the Liturgy 2009

  • Remove this notion of sacrality, and there will be no limit to savagery and mayham.

    Well, at least Helen Thomas… 2010

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