As a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Colfax, along with Martin of Mississippi and Steel of Tennessee, were appointed to prepare a Ritual of ceremonies pertaining to the Rebekah Degree and report at the 1851 session.

( 1964 ) Ritual Notes: a comprehensive guide to the rites and ceremonies of the Book of Common Prayer of the English Church interpreted in accordance with the latest revisions of the Western Use ; 11th ed.

Having attained the first level, the member may now wear a Ritual stole during appropriate ceremonies

In the fall of 2000, the language of the ritual was updated and additional ceremonies and explanatory texts were added to create the current version of the Delta Upsilon Ritual Book.

( 1935 ) Ritual Notes: a comprehensive guide to the rites and ceremonies of the Book of Common Prayer of the English Church ; 8th ed.

Ritual duelling in Würzburg around 1900

All of the filming for the movie took place around the time of the recording sessions for Ritual de lo Habitual in 1990.

Ritual prayer in a circle around an altar is not unique to Christianity.

Ritual complexes dedicated to Isis were often built around a well or a spring, which was meant to represent the miraculous annual inundation of the Nile.

The Jatra for the Ritual Journey take two forms – one involving the short circumbulation around the temple and other involving a longer journey from the temple to some other destination.

Guest speakers in the past have included such industry professionals as Pixar animator Mark Walsh, Bob the Builder designer Curtis Jobling, Phil Tippett, Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, owner of Ritual Entertainment Richard Levelord Gray, Blitz Games, Ernest W. Adams, Chris Crawford, Professor Stuart Sumida and representatives from almost every major games and animation studio around the world.

The first album, called Ritual, sold over 200. 000 copies worldwide in the first year of its release and resulted in a tour with 150 concerts around the World and a DVD called Ritualive before an audience of more than 7. 000 Brazilians in São Paulo.

From 1909 until his death in 1917 he was a non-stipendiary Free Priest ( an independent priest without a parish, who did not receive any salary from the church because of suspension ), and who from 1910 celebrated the Catholic Ritual of the Mass in an altar constructed in a special conservatory by his Villa Bethania.

As they suppose that the celebrant is normally a bishop, they usually supply the texts for ordinations, at the consecration of a church and altar and many exorcisms, blessings, and consecrations that were later inserted in the Pontifical and Ritual.

Ritual items such as flowers or lamps may be placed on the altar.

Ritual baths are found near many Synagogues of the period.

Three types of fasting ( Sawm ) are recognized by the Qur ' an: Ritual fasting, fasting as compensation for repentance ( both from sura Al-Baqara ), and ascetic fasting ( from Al-Ahzab ).

Ritual dances are usually called " Religious dances " because of their purpose.

There are many banishing rituals, but most are some variation on two of the most common —" The Star Ruby " and the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

Members of the Ritual development team have contributed game assets to other titles such as American McGee's Alice, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Tomb Raider: Legend and 25 to Life and are also the creators of " Übertools " for id Tech 3, which has been licensed for a number of other games.

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.

Although he nearly succeeds in performing the ' Darkopolypse Ritual ', which would give a group of demons the power to rule Earth for the next ten thousand years, his plan is foiled and he and his minions are arrested because he underestimated the Mystery Inc. team, inviting them all to the theme park where he was conducting the ritual after they broke up years before simply to make them witness his triumph when he only needed Scooby present, intending to use Scooby's ' pure ' soul to complete his ritual.

Ritual killings perpetrated by individuals or small groups within a society that denounces them as simple murder are difficult to classify as either " human sacrifice " or mere pathological homicide because they lack the societal integration of sacrifice proper.

Ritual actions are not characteristic of human cultures only.

The immense awareness of Tradition in the novel, manifest in the Ritual that dominates and suffocates all life within its walls is personified by Sepulchrave, the 76th Earl of Groan and Titus's father, whose days are almost wholly consumed adhering to the obscure and esoteric tenets of Gormenghast tradition.

Ritual songs name various elements which contain " pajen " of the girl, which are the goods parents give to the daughter to wear, to furnish the house, gifts for her husband and the intimate cousins.

Other notable bands from the second half of the 1980s are The Gathering ( not to be confused with the Dutch Metal band ), The Death Flowers of No-cypher, The Attic Muse, The Autumn Ritual and Penguins in Bondage.

Ritual foods are used at funerals, at ancestral rites, shaman's offerings and as temple food.

The " Manual " often also contains occasional services such as are now usually found in a Ritual.

The editions of the Missals, 1475, 1751, and 1902 ; Breviaries, 1582 and 1902 ; Ritual, 1645 ; both Psalters, both Ceremonials, the Lectionary, and Litanies are in the British Museum.

Ritual specialists of these religions are very similar in social function to Taoist masters.

:# Ritual of the Law of Adoption: An ordinance whereby individuals are sealed by adoption to non-biological fathers.

Exorcisms are carried out through the use of various rituals of exorcism, such as the Roman Ritual, and often utilize attendant sacramentals such as holy water, while deliverance involves the ongoing counseling of the individual through various programs.

Ritual cheek piercings were and are common throughout the world in both primitive and modern cultures.

Jacob Copeman, a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, states in his article “ Blood Will Have Blood: A Study in Indian Political Ritual ,” that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi are the two politicians who are mainly “ remembered ” during the blood donations ( 131 ).

The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is the ceremony where Iron Rings are given to graduating engineers who choose to obligate themselves to the highest professionalism and humility of their profession.

Within Ritual settings, there are the Thegn, a type of sergeant at arms / guard / watchman, who can also be responsible for the Covenstead ( the meeting place of the Coven ), or guarding a ceremony being performed, and a Scribe / secretary, who keeps most, if not all of the Coven's records.

Ritual jesting and obscenity were common in the cults of Demeter and Dionysus, and figure in the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries associated with these divinities.

The cities of São Paulo, Porto Alegre and Florianópolis have a great number of followers, but in the South of Brazil the most common African influenced Ritual is Almas e Angola, which is an Umbanda like ritual.

It was inspired by the success of The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, a similar and much older Canadian ceremony, and is a common presence in American engineering schools.

The Water Communion ( Water Ritual ) is a ritual service common in Unitarian Universalist congregations.