He went and put his hand on her shoulder, very gently, hesitating, in a great fear and self-offering.

It is the fruit of the cross, the fruit of the self-offering of Jesus.

"the spirit of self-offering in imitation of Mary," the Mother of Christ.

So, there are two grades of holiness in Christ: that given by the Father; that which comes from his self-offering on the cross.

Angels hovered around the eucharistic altar and carried the congregation's self-offering to the throne of God, bringing back his blessing.

Gesturally, it suggests 'affective outpouring', 'self-offering of the body', 'emptying and relaxation'.

Indeed, this Spirit is not only the fundamental instinct of the life of Jesus, but also the last breath of his final self-offering in death.

The self-offering was understood to be "our prayers and supplicacions"(Liturgies of the Western Church, p. 235).

In fact, Hebrews emphasises that Christ's self-offering at Golgotha was not only unique, but also a decisively completed action.

Massignon believes that the self-offering of Muslim saints in substitution for their brothers can make Islam go ahead on the way of revelation.

Every eucharistic celebration gradually leads us to Jesus' great self-offering to his Father: this is the summit of every eucharist, what we call the doxology.

It commends them to God, imparts a spiritual blessing on them and accompanies their self-offering by the Eucharistic sacrifice.

Her fingers closed tenderly around the soft grey feathers of the bird, the other hand found her own breast and covered it, in a gesture of self-offering.

Jesus' unreserved dedication to the Kingdom of his Father in solidarity with the poor and the lost leads him through many testings to a final point of self-offering.

And, like the 1962 BCP, the Church's self-offering is clearly expressed as a response to Christ's own sacrifice, called forth from the communicants by Christ.

At one point, Bhadra faces the dilemma of choosing between Ananthan's love and becoming a Devi (goddess) in a mystical ritual of self-offering.

As the altar it is the place to which we bring our offering, to which we bring ourselves, and unite it and us with the self-offering of Jesus.

As such, it demonstrates that the New Testament claims of His death being a priestly, sacrificial self-offering reflect the Old Testament and Jewish tradition.

In Vedic sources such as the Purusha sukta, Narayana is given as the name of the self-offering of the great cosmic sacrifice of the Rig Veda.

Christ is holy in part because he is God, in part because the Father makes him holy from the beginning and in part because of his self-offering on the cross.

Because we have offered our 'earthly' goods to God, He gives them back to us as heavenly goods, binding us into union with Christ in that self-offering which is His royalty....

Neither, as some have already claimed, can 'spiritual sacrifice' be a veiled reference to a Christian's self-offering as a 'spiritual (or more literally 'reasonable') sacrifice' of Romans 12:1 and 1 Peter 2:5.

And he roots this reconciliation in Christ, in the work that Christ has done on the cross making right once more the relationship between God and humankind through Jesus' own self-offering of his life.

St Paul was emphatic that by receiving the broken bread and poured out wine, the believer is participating in the self-offering of the Son to the Father in his broken body and shed blood.

She entered the Carmel of Lisieux at the age of fifteen.At that time the notion that God's anger on account of sin must be appeased by voluntary self-offering was prevalent in the Church.