Cenacle

And today, St. Peter's Square is like a "cenacle" open to heaven, filled with the faithful, many of whom are members of Italian Catholic Action, whom I will address after the Marian prayer of the Regina Caeli. ❋ Papabear (2008)

When only eighteen he was introduced into the Romantic 'cenacle' at Nodier's. ❋ Alfred De Musset (1833)

Several days before their wedding, Gianna wrote to Pietro, reflecting on their vocation to marriage: With God's help and blessing, we will do all we can to make our new family a little cenacle where Jesus will reign over all our affections, desires and actions .... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Standing in this hallowed place, alongside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which marks the site where our crucified Lord rose from the dead for all humanity, and near the cenacle, where on the day of Pentecost "they were all together in one place" Acts 2:1, who could not feel impelled to bring the fullness of goodwill, sound scholarship and spiritual desire to our ecumenical endeavors? ❋ Unknown (2009)

After the Ascension the first disciples remain together in the cenacle around the Mother of Jesus in fervent expectation of the gift of the Holy Spirit promised by Jesus cf. ❋ Papabear (2008)

This community found itself gathered together again in the same place, the cenacle, on the morning of the Jewish feast of Pentecost, a feast of the covenant, in which there was commemorated the event on Sinai where, through Moses, God proposed that Israel be his property among all the nations, to be a sign of his holiness cf. ❋ Papabear (2008)

It is a description that is rich in details: The place "where they lived" -- the cenacle -- is an environment "in the upper room"; the 11 apostles are listed by name, and the first three are Peter, John and James, the "pillars" of the community, already integrated into this new family, no longer based on family bonds but on faith in Christ. ❋ Papabear (2008)

The insistence on the chronological date of the two appearances shows the Evangelist John's intention to present Jesus' meeting with his followers in the cenacle as a prototype of the Church's Sunday assembly. ❋ Papabear (2008)

If a stranger is admitted to the/cenacle/, every member of it in turn will say (not without a trace of irony), “You will not find the brilliancy of your Parisian society here,” and proceed forthwith to criticise the life led by his neighbors, as if he himself were an exception who had striven, and vainly striven, to enlighten the rest. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He should meet with fellow-feeling, and something of the kindly and grateful affection which he found in the cenacle of the ❋ Unknown (2007)

Paris, for the life there had got into his bones, ruling a small cenacle with a savage tongue, at war with himself and the world, producing little in his increasing passion for a perfection he could not reach; and perhaps sinking at last into drunkenness. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Then this old man comforted them goodly, and brought them into a fair city where was a fair cenacle honestly arrayed with all manner of dainties, and when they had well refreshed them and rested there all night, on the morn this fair old man went with them, and brought them in the right way again. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

Chopin was surrounded, fawned upon, closely watched by a small cenacle of enthusiastic friends, who guarded him against importunate visitors and admirers of the second order. ❋ Niecks, Frederick (1888)

Our words sounding in the confessional are but the feeble echo of the voice of the Spirit of God that purified the Apostles in the cenacle of Jerusalem. ❋ James Gibbons (1877)

By the making ready of the Cenacle, by the institution of the most excellent Sacrament, wherein out of love unutterable Thou hast given Thyself for our food and drink, form within me by Thine own power, and fit up for Thyself a fitting place, and make in me Thy cenacle, adorning it with all kinds of spices and flowers of virtues, that it may be worthy to draw Thee within itself, and this by ❋ C. 1300-1361 (1875)

He should meet with fellow-feeling, and something of the kindly and grateful affection which he found in the _cenacle_ of the ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)