The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

Ceremonies are based on reference to God, and are frequently embodied into other church ceremonies such as Mass.

These are often supplemented in Anglo-Catholic parishes by books specifying ceremonial actions, such as A Priest's Handbook by Dennis G. Michno, Ceremonies of the Eucharist, by Howard E. Galley, and Ritual Notes by E. C. R.

Ceremonies are held at local war memorials, usually organized by local branches of the Royal British Legion, an association for ex-servicemen.

Ceremonies are held to bless the fields before seeds are planted.

The Top Ten Initiatives are: Star-Spangled Camporee at Ft. McHenry and surrounding City Parks, Scout Sunday And Sabbath, Anniversary Black Tie Gala, Gathering of Eagles, Flag Ceremonies, the 100 Great Moments in Baltimore Area Scouting History, Birthday Card Contest, Scouting Mural / Mosaic Project and the 100th Anniversary Service Project.

Roosevelt is situated in lands designated as the Ute Indian Reservation and there are many Pow-Wows and Indian Ceremonies held throughout the summer and falls months.

Ceremonies are conducted in the Long Hall, and receptions can be held in a marquee in the grounds.

Ceremonies usually have only male participants and are for a myriad of reasons including ; feeding a particular god, a fertility rite, to help with agriculture, and frequently in response to illness.

Ceremonies, which centre around the setting adrift of small boats similar to the Thai festival of Loi Krathong, are held at night and their purpose is to drive away evil and bring good luck.

" Ceremonies are held annually in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Garter's duties during the coronation ceremony are therefore not unlike those of a Master of Ceremonies.

Ceremonies and services are held each year on or around the Feb 3 " Four Chaplains Day " by numerous military and civilian groups and organizations.

Juniors and seniors who do not have military contracts to receive commissions, but who wish to remain members of the Cadet Corps, are classified as " Drill & Ceremonies " ( D & C ) cadets and are required to attend leadership classes taught by the Commandant's Office.

Besides their game-day duties, the Aggie Yell leaders are the Masters of Ceremonies at the Aggie pep-rally known as Midnight Yell.

Over Turin, where 20 people are killed and 79 injured, Group Captain John H. Searby serves as the first successful " Master of Ceremonies " – later known as " Master Bomber " – an experienced officer who circles over a bombing target throughout an attack to direct bombing crews by radio and improve their accuracy.

While jodies, strictly speaking, are folklore ( they are not taught institutionally, and do not appear, for example, in FM 3-21. 5, Drill and Ceremonies Field Manual ), some are tolerated and even encouraged by leadership, while others are subversive.

( In some churches these latter duties are handled by a Master of Ceremonies, while the verger functions as a sort of marshal in the procession.

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

He wrote, or had commissioned, the works De Ceremoniis (" On Ceremonies "), describing the kinds of court ceremonies ( also described later in a more negative light by Liutprand of Cremona ); De Administrando Imperio (" On the Administration of the Empire "), giving advice on running the Empire internally and on fighting external enemies ; and a history of the Empire covering events following the death of the chronographer Theophanes the Confessor in 817.

This new ordo is intended to be a permanent version of the rite of inauguration and, in a press conference held shortly before Pope Benedict's inauguration, Archbishop Piero Marini, the Papal Master of Ceremonies, described it as part of the application to papal rites of the liturgical reforms that followed the Second Vatican Council.

File: WhSouthLawn. JPEG | Marine One prepares for landing on the South Lawn where State Arrival Ceremonies for visiting heads of state take place

This policy has continued with the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, where Canadian Chantal Petitclerc became the first athlete with a disability to carry her country's flag in the Opening Ceremonies of an integrated games.

Milton Eisenhower, a former university president, once spoke at a convention in Pittsburgh where the Master of Ceremonies introduced him as " President of John

Ceremonies were planned in Beijing, where Hu died, in Hunan, where Hu was born, and in Jiangxi, where Hu was buried.

* The Choir performed over 20 times at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, including at the Opening Ceremonies, where they sang the national anthem and the Olympic Hymn under the direction of John Williams.

Stanshall collaborated on numerous musical projects including Robert Calvert's 1974 concept album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters, and Mike Oldfield's 1973 Tubular Bells where he played the Master of Ceremonies, breathily announcing the buildup of instruments in the finale of the first side of the album.

In forms of sound system based reggae, the performer using a microphone is referred to as the " DJ " or " deejay " ( where in other genres, this performer might be termed the " MC ", meaning " Master of Ceremonies ", or alternately, the later developed slang terms: " Microphone Commander " or " Mic Control "), and the person choosing the music and operating the turntables is called the " selector " ( sometimes referred to as the DJ in other genres ).

Powell moved to Pittsburgh, where he found great local success as the Master of Ceremonies at the Enright Theater and the Stanley Theater.

Regina is home to one of Canada's most significant attractions, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) Academy at Depot Division where visitors can view the Sergeant Major's Parade held weekdays and the seasonal Sunset Retreat Ceremonies.

Similar tributes have happened during the Opening Ceremonies, for example in the last Olympics before that, in Salt Lake City, where banners of the previous 18 Winter Olympics entered Rice-Eccles Stadium at the beginning of the ceremony.

The World Conference Opening Ceremonies traditionally include a ceremony featuring the flags of the nations where the church is organized and often include a welcome address by a featured speaker from another denomination, as well as welcomes by local elected officials.

Ceremonies were performed in earthen dance lodges where spirit impersonators would re-enact ancient mythological events.

He began his own nine-piece orchestra, known at various times as the Peninsula Band, the Super Soloists, and the Merrimakers, and appeared in San Mateo ( 1926 to June 1927 ), where he also owned a music store ; San José ( 1928 to January 1929 ), where he was Master of Ceremonies and wrote revues for the California Theatre before moving on to Fresno and Oakland.

Having served from 1986 through 1989 as Professor and Prefetto della Casa at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, where he also had been named Consultor to the Vatican's Office of Pontifical Ceremonies, Fr.

Indeed, Billingham has headlined at The Comedy Store on many occasions, where he also appears regularly as a Master of Ceremonies.

The location of these “ Rainbow Ceremonies ” would rotate according to the time of the year, the location to be travelled to, the groups arriving and a broader cycle that determined who would host the gathering, where and when.

Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, the Israeli team commemorated the massacre: when they entered the stadium at the Opening Ceremonies, their national flag was adorned with a black ribbon.

The Puritans ( whose phantasticall zeale I mislike ) though they differ in Ceremonies and accidentes, yet they agree with us in substance of religion, and I thinke all or the moste parte of them love his Majestie, and the presente state, and I hope will yield to conformitie.

* The Box Garden, 1977 ( Later published in a joint edition with Small Ceremonies as Duet )

" for being a " Master of Ceremonies " which he used when he began performing at various clubs while on the road with the A's, and eventually in the military.

Scholar Hilda Ellis-Davidson draws a parallel between berserkers and the mention by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( AD 905 – 959 ) in his book De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (" Book of Ceremonies of the Byzantine court ") of a " Gothic Dance " performed by members of his Varangian Guard ( Norse warriors working in the service of the Byzantine Empire ), who took part wearing animal skins and masks: she believes this may have been connected with berserker rites.

*" Biography: Pietre Metastasio ", The Every-day Book and Table Book ; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days, in Past and Present Times ; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac, Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature ; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communication, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion.

Gene Shay helped found the festival, along with George Britton and others, and has acted as Master of Ceremonies since its inception.

During the 1980s and early 90s, those of Harryhausen's growing legion of fans who had graduated into the professional film industry, started lobbying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to acknowledge Harryhausen's contribution to the film industry and he was finally awarded a Gordon E. Sawyer Award for " technological contributions have brought credit to the industry " in 1992, with Tom Hanks as the Master of Ceremonies and Bradbury, a friend from when they were both just out of high school, presenting the award.

Ceremonies with the black vessels and the white vessels, the former meant to bring misfortune to the aliens, the latter to avert it from the Iguvinians.

Master of Ceremonies, Crucifer and Thurifer, together with the 1st and 2nd Acolytes.

At the peaceful height of Middle Byzantium, court life " passed in a sort of ballet ", with precise ceremonies prescribed for every occasion, to show that " Imperial power could be exercised in harmony and order ", and " the Empire could thus reflect the motion of the Universe as it was made by the Creator ", according to the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who wrote a Book of Ceremonies describing in enormous detail the annual round of the Court.

During the summer of 2010 Kunis served with Randy Jackson as the Master of Ceremonies for the 9th Annual Chrysalis Foundation Benefit.

By 1665, he was collecting information for his county history, The Antiquities of Berkshire ; and in 1672 he published The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a lavish folio with illustrations by Wenceslaus Hollar, for which he had conducted years of research.

In February 1998, singing from the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, the chorus represented the Americas when Seiji Ozawa led the Winter Olympics Orchestra with six choruses on five continents, all linked by satellite, in the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to close the Opening Ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Olympics.

* ( August, 1896 New York Times ) " Turk is Buried with Odd Ceremonies "

The gala opening featured the UNCSA symphony orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, with Isaac Stern as soloist and Gregory Peck as the Master of Ceremonies.

Ceremonies began with Mayor David Miller, who proclaimed August 12 “ Ed Mirvish Day ” in the City of Toronto.

Connected with this belief is the traditional scattering of buns, biscuits and sweets at the top of the hill by the Master of Ceremonies.