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- adjective Of or pertaining to
oblation
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Examples
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It is simply ignored in a great many Catholic liturgies today, in which the idea of self-oblative love is obscured as people celebrate themselves, if anything at all.
Benedict's theology of charity Mike L 2007
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It is simply ignored in a great many Catholic liturgies today, in which the idea of self-oblative love is obscured as people celebrate themselves, if anything at all.
Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007
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Perhaps the great suffering of Iraq's Christians can be oblative for Iraq and beyond.
Archive 2007-06-01 Mike L 2007
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Perhaps the great suffering of Iraq's Christians can be oblative for Iraq and beyond.
The plight of Iraq's Christians Mike L 2007
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This talk will review Benedict XVI's vision, especially concerning love as both erotic (ascending) and oblative (descending) and show how Dante's Divine Comedy informs that vision.
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He had the oblative concept of priesthood, a giving of the self, "he explained.
The Daily Register NCRegister 2010
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