Three times a day, Orthodox Jews pray the Amidah, which contains prayers for the Temple's restoration and for sacrificial worship's resumption, and every day there is a recitation of the order of the day's sacrifices and the psalms the Levites would have sung that day.

Thus, in the Eucharist, gone were the words Mass and altar ; the ' Lord have mercy ' was interleaved into a recitation of the Ten Commandments and the Gloria was removed to the end of the service.

Two highlights of the morning prayers in traditional synagogues are the recitation of Yizkor, the prayer of remembrance, and of liturgical poems ( piyyutim ) describing the temple service of Yom Kippur.

The first time in each service takes place during the personal recitation of the Amidah ( standing, silent prayer ), and the second time during the cantor's repetition of the Amidah, in a public recitation.

Some Conservative synagogues abridge the recitation of the Avodah service to varying degrees, and some omit it entirely.

The service includes the sounding of " Last Post ", two minutes of silence, the sounding of " Reveille ", the laying of wreaths, and prayers, and ends with a recitation of the " Ode of Remembrance ".

* Memorization-Due to the service examination system which involved the memorization and recitation of Confucian Texts, including the Great Learning, memorization remains a key element in Chinese learning.

Observant Jews consider the Shema to be the most important part of the prayer service in Judaism, and its twice-daily recitation as a mitzvah ( religious commandment ).

Ashkenazi Jews begin the recitation of selichot with a special service between solar mid-night ( not 12: 00 ) and morning light on the first day of Selichot.

A popular service at Hsi Lai, it involves the recitation of the Great Compassion Mantra, elaborate bowing, offering, and circumbulations.

The Ardās () is a Sikh prayer that is done before performing or after undertaking any significant task ; after reciting the daily Banis ( prayers ); or completion of a service like the Paath ( scripture reading / recitation ), kirtan ( hymn-singing ) program or any other religious program.

Weekly service were held consonant with the Trust directive, consisting of three successive parts: recitation of the Vedas by Telugu Brahmins in the closed apartment exclusively before the Brahmin members of the congregation, reading and exposition of the Upanishads for the general audience, and singing of hymns.

The service begins with the recitation of Ashrei ( Psalm 145 ), followed by the Half-Kaddish.

Each recitation of the sutra passages is followed three " prolonged daimoku " ( hiki-daimoku, wherein each syllable pronounced distinctly and drawn out: " Na-Mu, Myō-Hō – Ren-Ge – Kyō –") and the corresponding silent prayer, except for the final recitation of the service, which is followed by the chanting of 100 or more daimoku and the final silent prayer.

The difference between that and prayer is that the prayer is without melody and is read only by the person conducting the service, whereas in the recitation of the piyyut, the cantor is assisted by the congregation in chanting melodies.

combining the twelfth hour of the Divine Office ( that is, of the recitation of the Psalter with its accompaniments ) with a service for what, without any intention of levity, one may call " lighting-up time ".

After a drawn-out litigation process in state courts and lower federal courts, lawyers for Jehovah's Witnesses convinced the Supreme Court to issue a series of landmark First Amendment rulings that confirmed their right to be excused from military service and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Mishna connects the time of recitation with details of the rhythm of the life of the Temple in Jerusalem, saying that the Shema should be recited in the evening when the Kohanim ( Jewish priests ) who were Tamei ( ritually impure ) ( and had been unable to serve ) enter to eat their Terumah ( heave offerings ).

* The Amidah itself is said to represent liturgically the purpose of the daily Korban, while the recitation of the korbanot sections fulfill the formal responsibility to perform them, in the absence of the Temple.

It is invoked after the recitation or singing of the Canticles, and it is the only part of the services in which the congregation traditionally turns to face the altar, if they are seated transversely in the quire.

The Mishnah was and still is traditionally studied through recitation ( out loud ).

Spells traditionally were cast by many methods, such as by the inscription of runes or sigils on an object to give it magical powers ; by the immolation or binding of a wax or clay image ( poppet ) of a person to affect him or her magically ; by the recitation of incantations ; by the performance of physical rituals ; by the employment of magical herbs as amulets or potions ; by gazing at mirrors, swords or other specula ( scrying ) for purposes of divination ; and by many other means.

The third section of the Shema formally ends at Numbers 15: 41, but in fact traditionally Jews end the recitation of the Shema with the following word from the next verse, Emet, or " Truth ", as the end of the prayer.

Later, people traditionally gather to listen to the recitation of the religious Panchangam ( almanac ) of the new year, and the general forecast of the year to come.

Its recitation is traditionally preceded by and the formula, known as the (" great utterance ").

Japu ( recitation ) comprises an introductory sloka, 38 stanzas traditionally called pauris and a concluding sloka attributed by some to Guru Angad.

The Ōbaku Zen school retains many Chinese features such as mindfulness of Amitābha Buddha through recitation, and recitation of the Pure Land sūtras.

* The Jean-Luc Godard film Éloge de l ' amour features the recitation of Brasillach's " Testament ", written before his execution.

One of the main features of a Ladakh marriage is the recitation of lengthy narratives by singers in unusual costumes.

Other important features of the potlatch were the recitation of family histories and bloodlines, transfer of ceremonial titles and possessions, and offerings to ancestors.

In both versions of the comic film To Be or Not to Be the character " Greenberg ", specified as a Jew only in the later version, gives a recitation of the " Hath not a Jew Eyes?

According to the Mishnah and Talmud, the Men of the Great Assembly instituted the requirement that Jews both in Judea and in the diaspora pray three times a day ( morning, afternoon and evening ), and include in their prayers a recitation of these passages in the morning (" Shacharit ") and evening (" Ma ' ariv ") prayers.

* recitation of a part of the Qur ' an in the first part of the sermon or, according to some doctors, in both,

It may then be said that manthras are both an expression of being and " right working " and the recitation of them is crucial to the maintenance of order and being.

The court's finding of Constitutionality for the phrase, as well as the justifications noted above, have made it more difficult for US separationists to challenge other constitutionally questionable practices, such as tax exemption of churches, legislative and military chaplaincies, national holidays based on religious commemorations, the " Pray for Peace " postmark, and, in classrooms, required singing of the fourth stanza of America and the Star-Spangled Banner, both of which include religious phrases, and the required recitation at government events of the US Pledge of Allegiance, modified by an Act of Congress of June 14, 1954, to include the words " under God ", especially since each of these instances are regularly used by accommodationists to justify the other instances.

Most compositions also have ' bols ' ( rhythmic words ) which serve both as mnemonics to the composition and whose recitation also forms an integral part of the performance.

The signing and recitation of such rhymes were an important part of peasant popular culture both before and after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

The Sikhs practice both the quiet individual recitation of Naam in ones mind, commonly called Naam Simran, and the loud and communal recitation of Naam, called Naam Jaap.

The instrument had a strong connection to both shamanism and the recitation of oral poetry.

The similarity is that both speeches end with a recitation of the first verse of Samuel Francis Smith's popular patriotic hymn " America " (" My Country, ' Tis of Thee "), and the speeches share the name of one of several mountains.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas goes over both religious and civil laws such as the recitation of a daily obligatory prayer, the time of fasting, the laws of inheritance, the abolishment of priests, the prohibition of such things as slavery, asceticism, and gambling, the condemnation of such things as idleness and backbiting, the specification of punishments for such things as murder and arson, the stating of the requirement of each person to practice a profession, and the emphasis for the necessity of the education of children, as well as the need to strictly obey the government of one's country.