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.

Traditional English Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian prayer books have borrowed from the Book of Common Prayer, and the marriage and burial rites have found their way into those of other denominations and into the English language.

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.

Followers of Meher Baba have no obligatory rites, rituals or duties, as in most religions.

The mythologies of classicizing Roman poets were unlikely to have affected the rites and cult of individual nymphs venerated by country people in the springs and clefts of Latium.

They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites ; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities.

It is common for families to participate in ceremonies for children at a shrine, yet have a Buddhist funeral at the time of death mostly due to the negative Japanese conception of the afterlife and death as well as buddhism's historical monopoly on funeral rites.

A significant distinguishing feature of Vietnamese ancestor veneration is that women have traditionally been allowed to participate and co-officiate ancestral rites, unlike in Chinese Confucian doctrine, which allows only male descendants to perform such rites.

A number of Neopagans have introduced their own rites.

They also seem to have been allowed to practice religious rites and, according to Thucydides, own a limited amount of personal property.

In ancient India, secondary sonship, clearly denounced by the Rigveda, continued, in a limited and highly ritualistic form, so that an adopter might have the necessary funerary rites performed by a son.

We have only the names of some auguria ( augural rites ): e. g. the augurium salutis which took place once a year before the magistrates and the people, in which the gods were asked whether it was auspicious to ask to for the welfare of the Romans, the augurium canarium and the vernisera auguria.

Among the Azande, for example, in order to question an oracle a man must have both the physical oracle ( poison, or a washboard, for example ) and knowledge of the words and the rites needed to make the object function.

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, King Celeus is said to have been one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of her cult.

Even putting aside the many Eastern rites in use, the Latin liturgical rites alone include the Ambrosian Rite, the Mozarabic Rite, and the Cistercian Rite, as well as other forms that have been largely abandoned in favour of adopting the Roman Rite.

An understanding of the names of God derived from apocryphal texts and the Hebrew Torah required that the author of such rites have at least a casual familiarity with these sources.

In recent times revised editions of the Prayer Book and Common Worship have re-introduced pre-Reformation forms of observance of Good Friday corresponding to those in today's Roman Catholic Church, with special nods to the rites that had been observed in the Church of England prior to the Henrican, Edwardian and Elizabethan reforms, including Creeping to the Cross.

Suggestions by Livy that the Romans banned the rites because women occupied leadership positions in the cult have been dismissed by Celia Schultz, thus: In light of view of female religious activity ... and despite the claims of Livy's narrative, it is unlikely that the gender of worshippers involved was the primary motivation behind the Senate's action.

# the Ambrosian, now confined to Milan, where it owes its retention to the attachment of the clergy and people to their traditionary rites, which they derive from St Ambrose.

Stephen now anointed Pepin at Saint-Denis in a memorable ceremony that was recalled in coronation rites of French kings until the end of the ancien regime in 1789.

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 this purpose the rites are to be simplified, due care being taken to preserve their substance ; elements which, with the passage of time, came to be duplicated, or were added with but little advantage, are now to be discarded ; other elements which have suffered injury through accidents of history are now to be restored to the vigor which they had in the days of the holy Fathers, as may seem useful or necessary.

John Paul II's successor, Pope Benedict XVI, removed the custom of holding beatification rites in the Vatican with the Pope presiding ; they can now be held in the location where the subject lived with the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints designated to preside over the ceremony as Papal Delegate.

Rather, it is now considered to have originated from the Near East where one would once find Hittites and Babylonians performing similar rites with entrails and producing comparable stylized models of the sheep's liver.

The majority of the people in the country are Buddhists and Hindus, and as such, it is the Buddhist outlook that was predominant in transforming the New Year rites to what they are now.

H. P. Lovecraft was in constant fear of Asiatic culture engulfing the world and a few of his stories reflect this, such as The Horror At Red Hook, where " slant-eyed immigrants practice nameless rites in honor of heathen gods by the light of the moon ", and He, where the protagonist is given a glimpse of the future-the " yellow men " have conquered the world, and now dance to their drums over the ruins of the white man.

It is towards these daemones that we direct purifications and apotropaic rites, all kinds of divination, the art of reading chance utterances, and so on ’… This account differs from that of the early Academy in reaching back to the other, Archaic, view of daemones as souls, and thus anticipates the views of Plutarch and Apuleius in the Principate … It clearly implies that daemones can cause illness to livestock: this traditional dominated view has now reached the intellectuals ”.

Sveinbjörn can be heard performing Ásatrú marriage rites for Genesis and Paula P-Orridge ( now Alaura O ' Dell ) on Psychic TV's LP Live in Reykjavik and on the double LP entitled Those who do not.

Description of the now perverted rites of the Bona Dea ( Good Goddess ).

After the ascendency of Christianity in the Roman Empire, the consular processions in Constantinople retained their religious character, now proceeding to Hagia Sophia, where prayers and offerings were made ; but in Rome, where Christianity was not so widely spread among the upper classes, at first the tendency was to convert the procession into a purely civil function, omitting the pagan rites and prayers, without substituting Christian ones Only after Theodosius did the processions become a religious event, repeat with icons, crosses, and banners.

( May the catafalque now in use for pontifical funeral rites be substituted by a humble and decorous contrivance.

Even today, fertility rites are performed here every May, now shrouded as a popular practice, but really a 4, 000 year old celebration.

The rites can be considered part of what is now the Western branch of the Catholic Church.

Six months later, the jurors reunite for Elsie's funeral at which Charles, now a priest, reads the last rites.

Schooling was no longer just about rituals and rites of passage, school would now mean earning an education that would allow Africans to compete with countries such as the United States and those in Europe.

The Communion service of 1549 maintained the format of distinct rites of Consecration and Communion, that had been introduced the previous year ; but with the Latin rite of the Mass ( chiefly following the familiar structure in the Use of Sarum ), translated into English.

After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, see Edict of Thessalonica, the term came by extension to refer to a large and important church that has been given special ceremonial rites by the Pope.

A large 4th century cemetery at Poundbury with its east-west oriented burials and lack of grave goods has been interpreted as an early Christian burial ground, although such burial rites were also becoming increasingly common in pagan contexts during the period.

There and in Ireland, they had been celebrating Samhain and Halloween since the early Middle Ages, and the kirk took a more pragmatic approach towards Halloween, viewing it as important to the life cycle and rites of passage of local communities and thus ensuring its survival in the country.

By the 5th century, when the public performance of pagan rites had been outlawed, a nominally Christian Roman populace still clung to the Lupercalia in the time of Pope Gelasius I ( 494 – 96 ).

Cleopatra was allowed to conduct Antony's burial rites after she had been captured by Octavian.

This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.

" However, she had been baptised a Roman Catholic, and accepted the last rites shortly before her death.

In 1220 a second coronation was ordered by Pope Honorius III who did not consider that the first had been carried out in accordance with church rites.

Also in that year he and other young Welsh Liberals founded a monthly paper Udgorn Rhyddid ( Bugle of Freedom ) and won on appeal to the Divisional Court of Queen's Bench the Llanfrothen burial case ; this established the right of Nonconformists to be buried according to their own denominational rites in parish burial grounds, a right given by the Burial Act 1880 that had up to then been ignored by the Anglican clergy.

A common descent from pre-Hellenic fertility and burial rites has been suggested.

Livy, reporting the evidence given by a woman who had been involved in the rites to a Roman investigative consul, writes:

This may have been the source for the use of a tympanon in Cybele's rites ; in historical times, the resemblances between the two goddesses were so marked that some Greeks regarded Cybele as their own Rhea, who had deserted her original home on Mount Ida in Crete and fled to Mount Ida in the wilds of Phrygia to escape Cronus.

They shifted from been used in religious rites to more practical purposes.

The cult of Baal-peor or Peor seems to have been marked by sexual rites, though this may be exaggeration.

Nay, further, if one were to investigate, in a spirit of truth and impartiality, the stories relating to Antinous, he would find that it was due to the magical arts and rites of the Egyptians that there was even the appearance of his performing anything ( marvellous ) in the city which bears his name, and that too only after his decease ,-- an effect which is said to have been produced in other temples by the Egyptians, and those who are skilled in the arts which they practise.

After Hadrian attentively carries out his funeral rites ( diligenter sepeliens ) vehementer deperiens i. e., grieved vehemently-for the boy had been a favourite of his had been treated as a darling -, he declares him to be among the gods ; a city was also named after him.