…Dreaming of priests, especially if they are of a certain hierarchy, may mean that you’ll experience some setbacks in the near future that won’t allow you to possess the wealth, social prestige, honors, or the political and economic power that you want, and instead of that you may get ill. Dreaming of any priest indicates the opposite of selfishness. Dreaming of a priest officiating a mass suggests that you’re afraid of someone close to you is dying, so you’re in a state of restlessness perhaps without a real reason. A young single woman who dreams of a priest dressed in white and officiating a mass means, more than anything else, her desire to get married. An adult woman (especially if she has children) who dreams of a priest wearing white officiating a mass, announces that one of her daughters or another relative is soon to get married. Dreaming that…

…A priest is an augury of ill, if seen in dreams. If he is in the pulpit, it denotes sickness and trouble for the dreamer. If a woman dreams that she is in love with a priest, it warns her of deceptions and an unscrupulous lover. If the priest makes love to her, she will be reproached for her love of gaiety and practical joking. To confess to a priest, denotes that you will be subjected to humiliation and sorrow. These dreams imply that you have done, or will do, something which will bring discomfort to yourself or relatives. The priest or preacher is your spiritual adviser, and any dream of his professional presence is a warning against your own imperfections. Seen in social circles, unless they rise before you as spectres, the same rules will apply as to other friends. See Preacher….

(Clergyman | Conjecture | Monk | Prognosticator) A priest in a dream connotes faith, renouncing the world, staying away from suspicion, or he could represent an Imam, a guide, an example to be followed, or a wise man whose instructions people respect and obey. A priest in a dream also could represent someone who follows conjecture, or someone who does not see his own faults. If a regular person sees himself as a priest in a dream, it means benefits for others, rising in station and fame. If a layman sees himself speaking like a preacher, a soothsayer, a fortuneteller, an astrologer or a priest in a dream, it means that he lies and engages in falsehood.

…To dream that a priest offers you service, or visits you for any purpose, is a sign that you will be robbed; if you dream you go to one for advice, it foretells that some misfortune will overtake you: any dream about a priest is a bad one. Lucky lottery dream numbers – 39….

To see a priest in your dream denotes sickness; if the priest is clad in his robes, you will make confession of your faults.

This figure is often related to the kind of religious faith that we have, but even in cases of people that don’t have a religion, the priest symbolizes an intimate desire of spiritual peace or in some cases of mystical aspiration. It will be very important to consider the feelings that this dream provokes.

(see PRIEST).

If we are believers, it foretells providential help, comfort, increased material and spiritual goods. If we are not believers, it announces evils and calamities unless they speak to us, in which case the dream announces the end of our pains.

Sometimes it can indicate a true aspiration to mysticism and truth. Most of the time such dream means facing a problem or a moral concern, in the dream we remember those priests we have encountered in life. In this case the meaning is as follows: If we are believers it foretells a providential help, comfort, increased material and spiritual goods. If we are not believers, it announces evils and calamities unless we speak, in which case announces the end of our ills.

A bad omen, however the problems will be only for temporary period of time.

Confessing: vanity and pride. Officiating a Mass: joy and fidelity. Giving the Holly Oils with a cross, it means honor and reconciliation.

(See Church,)

…Dreaming of altars usually symbolizes repentance, contrition, need of sacrifice, and it is assumed that is the spirit that’s acting now, therefore, dreaming of being before an altar, with or without a priest present indicates certain self-reproaches that will be useful so you should review your behavior to ease your conscience. Dreaming of an altar, with or without a priest officiating, it is a warning that the behavior of the dreamer is not as good as it should, so you’re probably making serious errors. Dreaming of building an altar announces joys, successes and benefits in business, employment or social relationships. Dreaming of destroying an altar portends failures, pains, diseases, etc. Dreaming that you stare at an altar that has been partially or completely destroyed for any reason, indicates that you have or will soon have a reason to suffer sadness, nostalgia, memories, of something that is now lost and…

…To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes will fall into ignoble incompletion. Dreaming that a priest bars your entrance into an abbey, denotes that you will be saved from a ruinous state by enemies mistaking your embarrassment for progress. For a young woman to get into an abbey, foretells her violent illness. If she converses with a priest in an abbey, she will incur the censure of true friends for indiscretion….

Dreams in which priests are involved, no matter the religion they belong to, indicate our need to trust our problems to someone who understands us and help us fix it. It all depends on the attitude of the priest.

…Dreaming of seeking refuge in a convent, denotes that your future will be signally free from care and enemies, unless on entering the building you encounter a priest. If so, you will seek often and in vain for relief from worldly cares and mind worry. For a young girl Dreaming of seeing a convent, her virtue and honestly will be questioned….

If you dream about absolution, then it shows that you are able to make the plans for whole your future, especially if the priest is included in your dream.

To dream that a priest gives you absolution from your sins is a sign of good events surrounding you.

…Dreaming of seeing a minister, denotes unfortunate changes and unpleasant journeys. To hear a minister exhort, foretells that some designing person will influence you to evil. Dreaming that you are a minister, denotes that you will usurp another’s rights. See Preacher and Priest….

…Dreaming of seing{sic} a priest at the altar, denotes quarrels and unsatisfactory states in your business and home. To see a marriage, sorrow to friends, and death to old age. An altar would hardly be shown you in a dream, accept to warn you against the commission of error. Repentance is also implied….

…In the dream to see a cardinal in his robes, represents bad luck. You will meet such misfortunes as will necessitate your removal to distant or foreign lands to begin anew your ruined fortune. For a woman dreaming of cardinal is a sign of her downfall through false promises. If priest or preacher is a spiritual adviser and his services are supposed to be needed, especially in the hour of temptation, then we find ourselves dreaming of him as a warning against approaching evil….

Dreaming of being in a convent or monastery indicates that you can be calm and carefree, for all of the dreamer’s affairs or businesses are going well. Dreaming of entering a convent or monastery and having a priest block your way, hints that you will not enjoy rest nor tranquility because business affairs are not going well, and you have to devote more attention and effort. A young girl who dreams of being in a convent indicates that her personality and honesty are suffering due to malicious gossip and intrigues of other women.

Dreaming that you, or other people are praying, announces bad times, unpleasantness, failures and losses. Dreaming of a priest praying suggests that your behavior is not very good and it will bring you problems in the immediate future.

If you see an altar in your dream, it symbolizes your personal offers and dedications to someone very important in your life. The other meaning of this dream is your worries about your soul. If you see the priest standing next to the altar, it represents disagreements and rows in your personal life or work. There might be some financial problems, but as time goes by, everything will sort out by itself.

…(Band | Belt | Clerical garment | Rope) The priest’s cincture in a dream represents a son. A broken cincture in the dream means the death of one’s son. Wearing a cincture in a dream is also a sign of devotion, abstinence, ascetic detachment and a sign of obedience for Christians. As for a Muslim person, wearing a cincture in a dream is a sign of faith, certitude and determination, fulfilling God’s commands, goodwill or opposing fallacies. A cincture in a dream also means adultery, fornication or being a middle aged person. Whatever good or bad that may happen to one’s cincture in a dream will reflect in his life. If one wears a new cincture over his gown in a dream, it means begetting a son. If one wears his cincture under his gown in the dream, it means fallaciousness, dissent, heinous corruption in one’s spiritual life and…