The author of this entry was evidently alluding to the custom of celebrating Mass privately at the altars near or over the tombs of the martyrs in the crypts of the catacombs ( missa ad corpus ), while the solemn celebration always took place in the basilicas built over the catacombs.

The Latin Rite ordinarily has no celebration of Mass between the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday evening and the Easter Vigil unless a special exemption is granted for rare solemn or grave occasions by the Vatican or the local bishop.

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

Their most important and solemn event is the celebration of the " Lord's Evening Meal ", or " Memorial of Christ's Death ".

Symbel involved a formulaic ritual which was more solemn and serious than mere drinking or celebration.

He put on all sorts of mystical events — e. g., the celebration of his marriage as the “ One Without End ” ( the Ein Sof ) with the Torah, preparing a solemn festival to which he invited his friends.

These are a solemn celebration of the Little Hours with added hymns and readings.

Gradually, however, it found more favor ; Hebrew school classes were confirmed together, and confirmation gradually became a solemn and celebration at the synagogue.

On all Sundays and holy days there was a solemn celebration of the Eucharist at the high altar ; on Sundays this was at 11 AM.

In the Tridentine Roman Liturgy this custom, so ancient and so solemn, was no longer represented but by the Homily ; but after the Second Vatican Council it has been restored for the celebration of vigils.

The present Catholic liturgical books exclude genuflecting to a bishop during the liturgy: " A genuflection, made by bending the right knee to the ground, signifies adoration, and therefore it is reserved for the Most Blessed Sacrament, as well as for the Holy Cross from the solemn adoration during the liturgical celebration on Good Friday until the beginning of the Easter Vigil.

A genuflection is made before the Holy Cross from the solemn adoration during the liturgical celebration on Good Friday until the beginning of the Easter Vigil.

The celebration of this feast features blessing of water and solemn processions with the sacred Tabot.

The celebration of this feast features blessing of water and solemn processions with the sacred Tabot.

If we rely on references, the first solemn celebrations of the Virgin of Health happened in 1724, so this is the earliest that the muixeranga could be linked to this celebration.

On 20 September 1956 a solemn Mass was sung in St Magnus to commence the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the restoration of the Holy House at Walsingham in 1931.

The image is also brought out on two other occasions, namely New Year's Day and Good Friday, the latter being markedly solemn and silent in contrast to the celebration found during the January 9 procession.

The empress reassured him by fresh honors and distinctions on the occasion of the solemn celebration of the peace of Jassy ( 2 September 1793 ), when she publicly presented him with a golden olive-branch encrusted with brilliants.

In this essay, Edmund Leach sought an explanation of why human societies have solemn or sacred occasions, such as the Christian celebration of Christmas, followed in a short time by their opposite: a taboo-breaking and " profane " celebration such as New Year's.

The cope and / or stole may be worn over choir dress when a cleric presides over a sacrament ( for instance, at matrimony, if not celebrated during Mass ), or by the cleric presiding over prayers ( for instance, the priest presiding at a solemn celebration of Vespers in the Liturgy of the Hours at a seminary might wear cope and stole over choir dress, while the priests of the faculty and seminarians would wear simple choir dress of cassock and surplice ).

The charism of the Institute is based on the example of its three patron saints: Saint Benedict, with his love for the solemn celebration of the liturgy, his emphasis on work and prayer, and his role in laying the groundwork for an integral Christian civilization in medieval Europe ; Saint Thomas Aquinas, with his emphasis on the harmony between faith and reason ; and Saint Francis de Sales, who emphasized teaching the Catholic faith with patience and charity, and encouraging all Catholics to seek a life of holiness through the ordinary means of the Church, such as devout attendance at Mass ( Eucharist ) and frequent confession.

In 2006 he sponsored and attended actively the solemn and sumptuous celebration of the 2550th birthday of the Buddha Shakyamuni, which took place in the office of the UNESCO in Paris, organized by the Venerable Tampalawela Dhammaratana, ex-president of the Buddhist Union of France, it was an event of international scale, that left a big influence in the Buddhist and not Buddhist world, by the distribution of its message of world peace and peace of mind in the heart of each.

In such instances, symbel involved a formulaic ritual which was more solemn and serious than mere drinking or celebration.

: This variation has become popular in its own right and is sometimes used at British funerals, memorial services, and other solemn occasions.

* Funeral tolling is the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals

" Another significant difference from so called " jazz funerals " is second line parades usually lack the slow hymns and dirges played at funerals ( although this is not a hard rule ; some organizations may have the band play something solemn towards the start of the parade in memory of members deceased since their last parade ).

The song is sung at momentous occasions such as graduation and even solemn occasions such as funerals.

It has been an inalienable part of Christian ( not restricted to Catholic ) life in Kerala since the time of its composition ; its paadhams are sung in a characteristic manner in Christian households on various solemn occasions, the most notable ones being Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and other days of Holy Week and Lent, and evenings preceding funerals.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

( Mussorgsky cleverly contrasts the two groups by their orchestral accompaniment, solemn chords or mocking staccatos.

Paintings such as Family ( 1955 ) show a woman seated and a man standing with two children – the parents seem almost solemn while the children are described as hopeful and with a use of color made famous by Cézanne.

Jim Henson produced two iconic fantasy films in the 80s, that being the solemn and grave The Dark Crystal and the more whimsical and lofty Labyrinth.

Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were " gloomy, solemn, and mournful ..." ( Isis and Osiris, 69 ) and that the great mystery festival, celebrated in two phases, began at Abydos on the 17th of Athyr ( November 13 ) commemorating the death of the god, which was also the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

The Dean of the College of Cardinals then asks two solemn questions of the cardinal who has been elected.

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Vatican II, in October 2011, the Vatican's website and many other Catholic news organizations announced that the Pope Benedict XVI, had made the period from October 2012 to the end of November 2013 ( the Solemnity of Christ the King ) a " Year Of Faith " in a solemn declaration, and ordered all parishes and religious institutions to find some manner during that Year of celebrating and reaffirming the Creed ( there are now two main Creeds-the shorter Apostle's Creed and the lengthier Niceno-Constantopolitan, or Nicene Creed.

However, in more recent times there has been an acknowledgement of the value of less solemn worship, and this is reflected in the two congregational services offered on Sunday mornings.

On other solemn holidays, fasts, and new moon celebrations, two silver trumpets were featured, with one shofar playing a lesser role.

The first grave gentleman shakes the box, puts in his hand, and takes out a card, from which he reads the number — then the other grave gentleman turns to that number in the book, and pronounces the name of the juror so numbered, whose name and address are then taken down as one of the forty-eight ; and this process is repeated forty-eight times ... it is said — I say nothing, but it is said — that those two gentlemen know each juror just as well by his number as by his name: and so, when the first takes out a card and finds 253, for example, written on it — if he knows that 253 would vote for the people, and against the Crown, it is said he gives out ( as solemn as he looks ), not 253, but, say, 255, or some loyal number ; and thus a safe man is put on the list.

In France, when a notarial act is passed before one notary subscribing, it is said to be ordinaire, or in simple form, and when before two notaries with the second attesting, then it is solennel, or in solemn form.

In Ardor's Account, the spirit former known as Lucifer, who has now returned to the Kingdom of God, in solemn and poetic language, tells the story of how time began, and about the two powers of the universe, the light and the darkness.

She also received an indemnity of two million Riksdaler and a solemn undertaking of non-interference in her domestic affairs.

After two weeks, the hungry Danes sued for peace, giving Alfred " preliminary hostages and solemn oaths that they would leave his kingdom immediately ", just as usual, but in addition promising that Guthrum would be baptized.

He reviewed a February 1831 performance in Florence of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, outlining in passing how he would compose music for the Roméo et Juliette story: it would feature, he says, the swordfight, a concert of love, Mercutio's piquant buffooning, the terrible catastrophe, and the solemn oath of the two rival families.

From 1771 to 1776 he acted as governor to two of the King's sons, a solemn phantom as Horace Walpole calls him.

After listening to the two commentaries, the judges would pronounce on solemn triple oath which one was superior and written " with Divine endorsement ".

At solemn papal liturgical occasions the Pope is assisted by two Cardinal-Deacons vested in a dalmatic and wearing a mitra simplex ( simple white mitre ).

At the end of the offertory at solemn Mass in this form, the offerings are incensed by forming over them with the thurible first three crosses and then three circles, the first two anticlockwise and last clockwise.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church the iconostasis is normally a flat wall or screen with three doors through it, the central Holy Doors used only for very solemn entrances, and the two side doors, by which the clergy and others enter and leave the sanctuary.

These were two of the nine juridical consequences ( apart from spiritual effects ) of the difference between solemn and simple vows.

Vows are of two varieties: simple vows and solemn vows.

It contains a few political remarks, showing general sympathy with an aristocratic form of government ; a self-congratulatory notice of the resolution, passed at the poets instigation, to arrange a solemn procession in honor of the two gods ; a paean ( no doubt for use in the procession ), chiefly occupied with the genealogical relations of Apollo and Asclepius ; a poem of thanks for the assistance rendered to Sparta by Asclepius against " Philip ", when he led an army against Sparta to put down the monarchy.

Of the novelists of the 16th century, the two most important were Grazzini, and Matteo Bandello ; the former as playful and bizarre as the latter is grave and solemn.