The lower register of the central panel shows the adoration of the Lamb of God, with several groups in attendance and streaming in to worship, overseen by the dove representing the Holy Spirit.

She has a maid called Maria who prevents the public adoration from becoming too much of a burden on her employer, but does nothing to prevent her from becoming too much of a burden on others.

This represented a radical change from late medieval practice — whereby the primary focus of congregational worship was taken to be attendance at the consecration, and adoration of the elevated Consecrated Host.

* 1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.

In 1849 he started the nightly adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Tours, from where it spread within France.

Other guilds presented scenes appropriate to their trade: the building of the Ark from the carpenters ' guild ; the five loaves and fishes parable from the bakers and the adoration, with its offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh, from the goldsmiths.

According to Mark Miravalle the English word " worship " is equivocal, in that it has been used in Catholic writing, at any rate, to denote both adoration / latria and veneration / dulia, and in some cases even as a synonym for veneration as distinct from adoration:

In his writings regarding his wife, Whitman often praised her ; describing his adoration for her and — while separated from her during Marine Corps service — how much he yearned to be with her.

" The second relationship, with Edith Kathleen Bendall, took place from 1906 to 1908, and Mansfield also professed her adoration for her in her journals.

" As a man, he may not have deserved the adoration which he received from those who, bewitched by his fascinating society, and indebted for all the comforts of life to his generous and delicate friendship, worshipped him nightly, in his favourite temple at Button ’ s.

Aronson's judgement was based on Albert Victor's " adoration of his elegant and possessive mother ; his ' want of manliness '; his ' shrinking from horseplay '; his ' sweet, gentle, quiet and charming ' nature ", as well as the Cleveland Street rumours and his opinion that there is " a certain amount of homosexuality in all men ".

In Roman Catholic, and Orthodox theology, veneration is a type of honor distinct from the adoration due to God alone.

He defends external acts of honour towards icons, arguing that there are " different kinds of worship " and that the honour shown to icons differs entirely from the adoration of God.

As with the veneration of icons, the veneration ( Greek ; δουλια, dulia ) of relics in the Orthodox Church is clearly distinguished from adoration ( λατρεια, latria ); i. e., that worship which is due to God alone.

Titania was shown to be a jealous lover, demanding unconditional adoration from her lovers even though she rarely returned the feelings herself: her affair with Tamlin ended when he realised what she was truly like and she was noticeably annoyed when Dream sent no secret message for her with a servant who returned to Faerie from his realm.

Latrīa is a Latin term ( from the Greek λατρεία, latreia ) used in Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic theology to mean adoration, a reverence directed only to the Holy Trinity.

The external Eucharistic adoration is usually not practiced by most Lutherans except for bowing, genuflecting, and kneeling to receive the Eucharist from the Words of Institution and elevation to reception of the holy meal.

Anglicans generally and officially believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, but the specific form of that belief range from transubstantiation or metousiosis, sometimes even with Eucharistic adoration ( mainly high church Anglo-Catholics ), to belief in a " pneumatic " presence ( mainly low church Anglicans ).

Although the adoration of brand name clothing stems from the Northern Soul scene, it is generally regarded that the first scallies were supporters of Liverpool FC who stood on the Anfield Road terrace end of their football stadium.

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.

Many students participate in perpetual adoration at St. Benedict ’ s Parish on the edge of campus.

In the opening prayer of the Perpetual chapel in St. Peter Basilica Pope John Paul II prayed for a perpetual adoration chapel in every parish in the world.

One of the first possible references to reserving the Blessed Sacrament for adoration is found in a life of St.

In Eastern Christianity, the sort of extra-liturgical adoration which developed in the West has never been part of the Eastern liturgy which St.

" " The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works ," St. Pius X used to say.

The 19th century thus witnessed a rapid growth in perpetual adoration societies, and some existing orders ( e. g. the Dominicans and the Poor Clares ) e. g. Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration ( 1845 in Brittany ), Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration ( also in 1854 ), Religious of Perpetual Adoration ( Brussels, 1857 ), Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament ( 1858, Paris ), Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration ( 1863, Olpe, Germany ), Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters ( Holland, 1896 ),

* 3rd Gallery: St Jerome by Lotto ; Return of prodigal son by Guercino ; Madonna in adoration of the Child by Reni ; Crucifixion by Marcello Venusti ; Holy Family by Sassoferrato ; Landscape with hunting scene by Paul Brill.

This is also a reminder that St. Clement is only a servant of God which somehow does not need adoration of the people because our Lord has already given him the highest honor – a blessing of a Saint – Angono ’ s patron and inspiration.

The popular adoration of female goddesses decreased significantly during the rise of the Greek city states, a legacy which was passed on to the later Roman Empire.

This now declared that kneeling in order to receive the communion did not imply adoration of the species of the Eucharist nor ' to any Corporal Presence of Christ's natural Flesh and Blood '— which, said the rubric, were in heaven, not here.

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

The honor given to these beings is defined in Catholic theology as dulia, or veneration, whereas adoration or worship ( latria ) is reserved for the Trinity alone.

At the Spanish Synod of Elvira ( c. 305 ) bishops concluded, " Pictures are not to be placed in churches, so that they do not become objects of worship and adoration ".

Certainly this is not the full adoration in accordance with our faith, which is properly paid only to the divine nature, but it resembles that given to the figure of the honoured and life-giving cross, and also to the holy books of the gospels and to other sacred cult objects.

The significance is clear, however, of the manner in which Justin identifies the historical Christ with the rational force operative in the universe, which leads up to the claim of all truth and virtue for the Christians and to the demonstration of the adoration of Christ, which aroused so much opposition, as the only reasonable attitude.

The painting demonstrates an eerie beauty as the graceful figures kneel in adoration around the infant Christ in a wild landscape of tumbling rock and whirling water.

He is certainly known to have had a large collection of photographs and drawings of young girls, and those who knew him well ( such as the daughter of his publisher ) wrote of his adoration of young girls.

Therefore, it is proper to accord to them a fervent and reverent adoration, not, however, the veritable worship which, according to our faith, belongs to the Divine Being alone — for the honor accorded to the image passes over to its prototype, and whoever adores the image adores in it the reality of what is there represented.

The clear distinction between the adoration offered to God, and that accorded to the images may well be looked upon as a result of the iconoclastic reform.

In " On the Babylonian Captivity " Luther upheld belief in the Real Presence of Jesus and in his 1523 treatise The Adoration of the Sacrament defended adoration of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

Tours is a special place for Catholics who follow the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

The end result was a compromise in which the famous Black Rubric, which declared that no adoration is intended while kneeling, was included in the second edition.

Some historians have also conjectured that Alexander crucified Callisthenes, his official historian and biographer, for objecting to Alexander's adoption of the Persian ceremony of royal adoration.

* June 8 – Beatrice Portinari, object of Dante Alighieri's adoration ( b. 1266 )

However, it was thanks to Elizabeth ’ s incredible extravagance and adoration of exotic goods that ended up greatly benefiting the country ’ s infrastructure.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

Berlioz appears to have been innately Romantic, this characteristic manifesting itself in his love affairs, adoration of great romantic literature, and his weeping at passages by Virgil ( by age twelve he had learned to read Virgil in Latin and translate it into French under his father's tutelage ), Shakespeare, and Beethoven.

Many other traditional Catholic practices are observed within Anglo-Catholicism, including eucharistic adoration.