The religious symbolism, and especially the closely related rites and worship forms, constitute a powerful bond for the members of the particular faith.

Adhemar negotiated with Alexius I Comnenus at Constantinople, reestablished at Nicaea some discipline among the crusaders, fought a crucial role at the Battle of Dorylaeum and was largely responsible for sustaining morale during the siege of Antioch through various religious rites including fasting and special observances of holy days.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

Liturgical rites of the Catholic Church, both Western and Eastern, other than the Roman, have a variety of other forms for celebrating the sacrament.

) all have official yet often optional liturgical rites for the anointing of the sick partly on the model of Western pre-Reformation rites.

A Christian came to Abbahu with the quibbling question: " How could your God in His priestly holiness bury Moses without providing for purificatory rites, yet oceans are declared insufficient?

A breviary ( from Latin brevis, ' short ' or ' concise ') is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office ( i. e., at the canonical hours or Liturgy of the Hours, the Christians ' daily prayer ).

" he was suddenly surrounded by the barbarians, and slain, together with great part of his army ; nor could he be honoured with the rites of sepulture, but, stripped and naked, he lay to be devoured by wild beasts and birds, a fit end for the enemy of God.

In Confucianism, the term " li " (), sometimes translated into English as rituals, customs, rites, etiquette, or morals, refers to any of the secular social functions of daily life, akin to the Western term for culture.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

The rites for the Eucharist are found in the various prayer books of Anglican churches.

While an official movement exists in Lutheran congregations celebrate Eucharist weekly, using formal rites very similar to the Roman Catholic and " high " Anglican services, it was historically common for congregations to celebrate monthly or even quarterly.

Contains the liturgy for the Eucharist and other rites.

He served for a short time as both dancer and torch-bearer at the rites of Apollo Zosterius.

In his lifetime, as part of his missionary activity, Francis Xavier used to refer to pagans as devil-worshipers and spiritually blind, Hindu teachings as repulsive and grotesque, Vishnu's transformation as foulest shapes, Shiva as shameless, Kali as clamoring for sacrifices, many-headed and many-armed gods and goddesses in temples as hideous forms and temples and altars as place of degrading rites.

Achilles, moved by Priam's actions and following his mother's orders sent by Zeus, returns Hector's body, and promises Priam a truce of twelve days to allow the Trojans to perform funeral rites for Hector.

The Book of Common Prayer provides rites for ordination of bishops, priests and deacons.

In Wicca, Imbolc is commonly associated with the goddess Brighid and as such it is sometimes seen as a " women ’ s festival " with specific rites only for female members of a coven.

But at present Saint John is celebrated on a wide variety of dates in Eastern rites: 29 December for Armenians, 30 December for Copts, 7 May for Syrians and 26 September for Christians of Byzantine Rite.

Knife symbols can be found in various cultures to symbolize all stages of life ; for example, a knife placed under the bed while giving birth is said to ease the pain, or, stuck into the headboard of a cradle, to protect the baby ; knives were included in some Anglo-Saxon burial rites, so the dead would not be defenseless in the next world.

In 1955 Kaunda and Nkumbula were imprisoned for two months with hard labour for distributing subversive literature ; such imprisonment and other forms of harassment were normal rites of passage for African nationalist leaders.

The devil dances at the annual carnival of Oruro are among the great folkloric events of South America, as are the lesser known indigenous Anata Andina and the " carnival " at Tarabuco ( Pujllay ), or the Tinku-fertility rites held at Macha every 3rd of May.

Certain rites of pilgrimage may be performed any time, and although meritorious, these constitute a lesser pilgrimage, known as umrah.

Muslims include the practice to a certain degree, following the Biblical rites to a lesser extent.

Many of these poems have been incorporated into the Sephardic, and to a lesser extent the other, rites, and may be regarded as a second generation of piyyut.

The title read as follows: The Net of Gugamon — a grimoire: wherein is contained the proper rites for the Convocation of various Demonly Princes, the procurement of lesser spirits, together with sundry workings, conjurations, manifestations, symbols relating to all manner of Astral Phenomena and so on for several more pages, in the rather turgid style thought necessary for such books.

Category: Lutheran sacraments and rites

Category: Lutheran sacraments and rites

The 2, 834 sees are grouped into 23 particular rites, the largest being the Latin Rite, each with distinct traditions regarding the liturgy and the administering the sacraments.

The Anglican Articles of Religion hold that only Baptism and the Lord's Supper are to be counted as sacraments of the gospel, and assert that other rites considered to be sacraments by such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches were not ordained by Christ and do not have the nature of a sacrament in the absence of any physical matter such as the water in Baptism and the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist.

Thus in 1992, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, while affirming that " the Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude ", but also stating that " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ", stated: " As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them.

These are the sacraments of Anointing of the Sick ( which, in spite of not being reserved for the dying, is sometimes mistakenly supposed to be what is meant by " the last rites "), Penance and the Eucharist.

In the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Rite of Constantinople, the last rites consist of the Sacred Mysteries ( sacraments ) of Confession and the reception of Holy Communion.

Steiner offered counsel on renewing the sacraments of their various services, combining Catholicism's emphasis on the rites of a sacred tradition with the emphasis on freedom of thought and a personal relationship to religious life.

Other rites such as Confirmation, Ordination, Holy Matrimony, Funerals, and Anointing of the Sick are performed but are not considered sacraments.

ULC ministers are authorized by the church to officiate weddings and funerals, perform baptisms or verbal baby naming ceremonies, hold services ( also called meetings ), and other sacraments and rites regularly performed by ordained members of clergy and part of the particular belief system the minister represents.

They include not only the various worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also the rites of passage of certain societies, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages and funerals, school " rush " traditions and graduations, club meetings, sports events, Halloween parties, veterans parades, Christmas shopping and more.

It prescribed the form of public prayers, administration of sacraments, and other rites of the Established Church of England, following all the rites and ceremonies and doctrines prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer.

But it further holds that while the promise of the presence with individual believers is thus effective, Christ also appointed certain rites or sacraments, called ' mysteries ' in the Eastern Church, for the greater helping of his people, to be handed down in the church as special channels of power and blessing.

The language of the Articles has led some to deny that confirmation and the other rites are sacraments at all ; however, " commonly called Sacraments " does not mean " wrongly called Sacraments ".

Together with baptism, the Trinitarian formula is used in other prayers, rites, liturgies, and sacraments.

19 % of the national population attend mass and take the sacraments regularly ( although a larger number wish to be baptized, married in the church, and receive last rites ).

The sacramental index is a statistic sometimes used by Roman Catholic bishops as a rough approximation of how active a parish is, based on the occurrence of sacraments or rites of passage.

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When first ritual functions were written in books, the Sacramentary in the West, the Euchologion in the East contained all the priest's ( and bishop's ) part of whatever functions they performed, not only the holy Liturgy in the strict sense, but all other sacraments, blessings, sacramentals, and rites of every kind as well.

) " It remained ", the pope continues, " that the sacred and authentic rites of the Church, to be observed in the administration of sacraments and other ecclesiastical functions by those who have the care of souls, should also be included in one book and published by authority of the Apostolic See ; so that they should carry out their office according to a public and fixed standard, instead of following so great a multitude of Rituals ".