* Euripides, Bacchae, a Greek tragedy, gives some insight as to what was involved in a Bacchanalian rite.

In Soul Music Ridcully improvises, at short notice and with minimal assistance, a slimmed-down version of the rite of AshkEnte for summoning Death ( though what he got was Susan, Death's grand-daughter-not because the Rite was less effective, however ; the plot of the novel was to do with Susan taking over Death's job ).

In the Sephardic world today, in particular in Israel, there are many popular prayer-books containing this Baghdadi rite, and this is what is currently known as Minhag Edot ha-Mizraḥ ( the custom of the Oriental congregations ).

Others again, following R. Ovadia Yosef, prefer a form shorn of some of the Kabbalistic additions and nearer to what would have been known to R. Joseph Caro, and seek to establish this as the standard " Israeli Sephardi " rite for use by all communities.

Some traditions withhold the rite of Holy Communion from those not yet at the age of accountability, on the grounds that children do not understand what the sacrament means.

Within Christianity, " rite " often refers to what is also called a sacrament or to the ceremonies associated with the sacraments.

Obsessed with wiping out what he considered the " Toledan heresy ", Pope Gregory VII called the council of Burgos in 1080, where it was agreed to unify the Latin rite in all Christian lands.

Either way, this assimilation, combined with the use of the Sephardic rite, led to the popular designation and conflation of most non-Ashkenazic Jewish communities from the Middle East and North Africa as " Sephardic ", whether or not they were descended from Spanish Jews, which is what the terms " Sephardic Jews " and " Sepharadim " properly implied when used in the ethnic as opposed to the religious sense.

The later Sephardic rite has been revised to bring it into closer conformity with the rulings of the halachic codes, which themselves often reflect the opinions of the Geonim, and is therefore of a more purely Babylonian character: thus, paradoxically, it has moved away from the current wording of the Seder Rav Amram and towards what was presumably its original wording.

" With regard to Boswell's central claim to have found evidence for the use of wedding crowns in the rite for making brothers, Ephrem notes that what the relevant text says, " somewhat literally translated ," is this: " It is inadmissible for a monk to receive is a standard Greek word for ' godparent ' children from holy baptism, or to hold marriage crowns or to make brother-makings.

( London, 1899 ), 73 .</ ref > also in a rarer episode in which Jesus raises a boy from the dead by breathing on him .< ref > Paris MS. of the Pseudo-Matthew, according to Tischendorf, < cite > Evangelia apocrypha ,</ cite > p. 178n .</ ref > Christianized healing magic, if that is what it is, appears also in Syria, where ceremonial breathing became formalized as part of the rite of visitation of the sick.

But the Iberian Mozarabic Rite has, like the allied Celtic Rite, enough of an independent history to require separate treatment, so that though it will be necessary to allude to both by way of illustration, this article will be devoted primarily to the rite once used in what is now France.

First, the rite “ must follow a strictly prescribed sequence, where everybody knows what to do and how ”.

The principal characters are: Ingrey, who received a wolf spirit in childhood and spends most of the story discovering how, why and to what effect ; Ijada, who receives a leopard spirit in a bungled rite ; and Wencel, who has extended his life for centuries by taking over the bodies of others, mainly his own descendants, for a purpose that is finally revealed.

During the Husking Bee, the villagers put on the Corn Play, a symbolic fertility rite that foreshadows what will happen at Harvest Home a few nights later.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

The chief Biblical text concerning the rite is: " Is any among you sick?

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

The rite of anointing is included in the Episcopal Church's " Ministration to the Sick "

The rite performed by them is thus seen as having the same by no means negligible value of any other form of prayer offered for the sick or dying.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

Baptism ( from the Greek noun Βάπτισμα baptisma ; itself derived from baptismos, washing ) is a Christian rite of admission ( or adoption ), almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church tradition.

In some Christian groups, wine is part of the rite of communion.

Eucharist: the Greek noun εὐχαριστία ( eucharistia ), meaning " thanksgiving ", is not used in the New Testament as a name for the rite ; however, the related verb is found in New Testament texts concerning the Last Supper, including the earliest:

It is the term by which the rite is referred to by the Didache ( late 1st or early 2nd century ), Ignatius of Antioch ( who died between 98 and 117 ) and Justin Martyr ( writing between 147 and 167 ).

Most Christians, even those who deny that there is any real change in the elements used, recognize a special presence of Christ in this rite.

The famed apologist St. Justin Martyr ( c. 150 ) wrote: " No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true ...." For the first several hundred years, non-members were forbidden even to be present at the sacramental ritual ; visitors and catechumens ( those still undergoing instruction ) were dismissed halfway through the Liturgy, after the Bible readings and sermon but before the Eucharistic rite.

The rite of her sacred fires is a modern festival held in honour of the Goddess Hekate all around the world at the Full Moon in May each year, with thousands participating in more than 18 languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Serbian, Welsh and Esperanto.

The Beneventan rite is more closely related to the liturgy of the Ambrosian rite than the Roman rite.

Beneventan chant is largely defined by its role in the liturgy of the Beneventan rite ; many Beneventan chants were assigned multiple roles when inserted into Gregorian chantbooks, appearing variously as antiphons, offertories, and communions, for example.

The rite is concluded by three prayers said by the priest, the last one being said " at the departure of the soul.

There is an alternative rite known as The Office at the Parting of the Soul from the Body When a Man has Suffered for a Long Time.

Because the poor people are upset by this, from now on, Musuluman Huihui and Zhuhu Huihui, no matter who kills animal will eat and must cease slaughtering sheep themselves, and cease the rite of circumcision.

Modern historians are sceptical of some of its claims: one of Rhygyfarch's aims was to establish some independence for the Welsh church, which had refused the Roman rite until the 8th century and now sought a metropolitan status equal to that of Canterbury.

However, he has become much more open about discussing the show and now recognizes it as a " rite of passage " for many young people.

A distinctive element in the Christian ritual was noted by Justin in the 2nd century, now referred to as the " kiss of peace ," and once part of the rite in the primitive Mass.

These communities, though they identify as Romaniotes, now use the Sephardic rite: the distinctive Romaniote rite does not survive except in the form of certain hymns used by communities such as Corfu.

In the NT washing also occurs in reference to rites of Judaism part of the action of a healing by Jesus, the preparation of a body for burial, the washing of nets by fishermen, a person's personal washing of the face to appear in public, the cleansing of an injured person's wounds, Pilate's washing of his hands as a symbolic claim of innocence and foot washing, now partly a symbolic rite within the Church.

For instance, one study by professors at Brigham Young University found that college students are more likely now to define " adult " based on certain personal abilities and characteristics rather than more traditional " rite of passage " events.

On semi-doubles and those of a lesser rite the suffrages are now reduced to a single antiphon and orison which is common to all the saints heretofore commemorated, whilst the preces (" Miserere " and versicles ) formerly imposed on the greater feriæ are now suppressed.

For his part the Duke of Kent, aged 50, already considering marriage and encouraged into this particular match with her sister-in-law by his now deceased niece Princess Charlotte, became engaged to Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( 17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861 ) and the couple married on 29 May 1818 at Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg, ( Lutheran rite ) and again on 11 July 1818 at Kew Palace, Kew, Surrey.

The use of the term " rite " to refer to the Eastern and Western Churches has now become rare.

A penitent confessing his sins in the former Latin rite | Latin rite Catholic, now Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | Ukrainian Byzantine Rite Greek-Catholic church of the Bernhardines in Lviv, Ukraine.

For professional field archaeologists the Shovelbum phase of a career is now considered a rite of passage.

Because the poor people are upset by this, from now on, Musuluman Huihui and Zhuhu Huihui, no matter who kills animal will eat and must cease slaughtering sheep themselves, and cease the rite of circumcision.

The rite developed in the city of Constantinople ( now Istanbul ).

* In the debut album of rapper Lil Zane, Young World: The Future, in the track " Ride On ' Em ", you can hear at the end O-Dog and his infamous quote before the shooting of the carjackers :" You act like a lil bitch rite now, you act all paranoid and shit ..."

The baby dragons are now preparing to receive their dragonflies, a rite of passage in any dragon's life ( although in the earlier games, none of the dragons besides Spyro have a dragonfly, though it is stated in the first game that Sparx's function to protect Spyro, so one might assume older dragons do not require protection ).

The rite of the sacred hoop and medicine wheel differed and differs amongst indigenous traditions, as it now does between non-indigenous peoples, and between traditional and modernist variations.

Over 100 medical schools in the USA now have a WCC, and many students now consider it a rite of passage in the journey toward a healthcare career.

In many cities, however, the service is conducted after 6: 00 p. m. on Saturday ; this is also the case for practical reasons in former Christian lands of the Oriental Orthodox rite which now have Muslim majorities.