Catholic theology divides the functions of the teaching office of the Church into two categories: the infallible sacred magisterium and the fallible ordinary magisterium.

The infallible sacred magisterium includes the extraordinary declarations of the pope speaking ex cathedra and of ecumenical councils ( traditionally expressed in conciliar creeds, canons, and decrees ), as well as of the ordinary and universal magisterium.

Despite its name, the " ordinary and universal magisterium " falls under the infallible sacred magisterium, and in fact is the usual manifestation of the infallibility of the Church, the decrees of popes and councils being " extraordinary ".

Examples of infallible extraordinary papal definitions ( and, hence, of teachings of the sacred magisterium ) are Pope Pius IX's definition of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and Pope Pius XII's definition of the Assumption of Mary.

Thus, some teachings move from the ordinary magisterium to the sacred magisterium.

Catholic theology divides the functions of the teaching office of the Church into two categories: the infallible sacred magisterium and the fallible ordinary magisterium.

The infallible sacred magisterium includes the extraordinary declarations of the pope speaking ex cathedra and of ecumenical councils ( traditionally expressed in conciliar creeds, canons, and decrees ), as well as of the ordinary and universal magisterium.

Despite its name, the " ordinary and universal magisterium " falls under the infallible sacred magisterium, and in fact is the usual manifestation of the infallibility of the Church, the decrees of popes and councils being " extraordinary ".

Examples of infallible extraordinary papal definitions ( and, hence, of teachings of the sacred magisterium ) are Pope Pius IX's definition of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, and Pope Pius XII's definition of the Assumption of Mary.

Thus, some teachings move from the ordinary magisterium to the sacred magisterium.

All teachings of the sacred magisterium are considered infallible in Catholic theology.

This type of infallibility falls under the authority of the sacred magisterium.

The magisterium has a role in deciding authoritatively which truths are a part of sacred tradition.

And these pentacles do consist either of Characters of the good spirits of the superiour order, or of sacred pictures of holy letters or revelations, with apt and fit versicles, which are composed either of Geometrical figures and holy names of God, according to the course and maner of many of them ; or they are compounded of all of them, or very many of them mixt.

On 6 May 1448 he obtained licence in mortmain and on 20 August, founded at Oxford for the extirpation of heresies and errors, the increase of the clerical order and the adornment of holy mother church, a perpetual hall, called Seint Marie Maudeleyn Halle, for study in the sciences of sacred theology and philosophy, to consist of a president and 50 scholars.

Eccard's works consist exclusively of vocal compositions, such as songs, sacred cantatas and chorales for four or five, and sometimes for seven, eight, or even nine voices.

She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??

The King was recognized as having the right to invest bishops with secular authority (" by the lance ") in the territories they governed, but not with sacred authority (" by ring and staff "); the result was that bishops owed allegiance in worldly matters both to the pope and to the king, for they were obligated to affirm the right of the sovereign to call upon them for military support, under his oath of fealty.

Neil Forsyth writes that " what distinguishes both Jewish and Christian religious systems [...] is that they elevate to the sacred status of myth narratives that are situated in historical time ".

Jacob Grimm noted that if, as Adam of Bremen states, Fosite's sacred island was Heligoland, that would make him an ideal candidate for a deity known to both Frisians and Scandinavians, but that it is surprising he is never mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus.

The study of Torah ( in its widest sense, to include both poetry, narrative, and law, and both the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud ) is in Judaism itself a sacred act of central importance.

Cassiodorus, minister to Theodoric, established a monastery at Vivarium in the heel of Italy with a library where he attempted to bring Greek learning to Latin readers and preserve texts both sacred and secular for future generations.

Mediaeval music was both sacred and secular.

He and J. G. Frazer both explain Pasiphaë's union with the bull as a sacred ceremony, at which the queen of Knossos was wedded to a bull-formed god, just as the wife of the Tyrant in Athens was wedded to Dionysus.

During the course of their journeys, the three encounter enemies and obstacles both sacred and profane, including: the Saint of Killers, an invincible, quick-drawing, perfect-aiming, come-lately Angel of Death answering only to " He who sits on the throne "; a disfigured suicide attempt survivor turned rock-star named Arseface ; a serial-killer called the ' Reaver-Cleaver '; The Grail, a secret organization controlling the governments of the world and protecting the bloodline of Jesus ; Herr Starr, ostensible Allfather of the Grail, a megalomaniac with a penchant for prostitutes, who wishes to use Custer for his own ends ; several fallen angels ; and Jesse's own redneck ' family ' — particularly his nasty Cajun grandmother, her mighty bodyguard Jody, and the ' animal-loving ' T. C.

From the Renaissance era both secular and sacred music survives in quantity, and both vocal and instrumental.

As a family strings were used in many circumstances, both sacred and secular.

In a 2010 trial of a Sheboygan Wisconsin Hmong that was charged with staging a cockfight, it was stated that the roosters were “ kept for both food and religious purposes ” resulted in an acquittal .” In Viet Nam fighting roosters or fighting cocks are colloquially called " sacred chickens ".

" Goldstein and other religious settlers at Beit Hadassah ( both Kahanist and Gush Emunim ) believe that the biblical lands on the West Bank are sacred, that Jews are required by God to occupy them, and that the presence of Muslims desecrates the holy land.

Hinduism sees marriage as a sacred duty that entails both religious and social obligations.

Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a gift of a white elephant from a monarch was simultaneously both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because the animal was sacred and a sign of the monarch's favour, and a curse because the animal had to be retained and could not be put to much practical use, but cost a significant amount to maintain.

The productions of this period of his life are very numerous, consisting of operas ( both comic and serious ), cantatas, and various sacred compositions.

The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of South Asia ; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in both Hinduism and Buddhism.

Therefore both sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture are to be accepted and venerated with the same sense of loyalty and reverence.

3: 16 ; 2 Peter 1: 19 – 20, 3: 15 – 16 ), holds that the books of both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety, with all their parts, are sacred and canonical because written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.

Ralph Vaughan Williams composed both kinds: " festival " cantatas such as Toward the Unknown Region ( 1907 ), Five Mystical Songs ( 1911 ), and Five Tudor Portraits ( 1936 ), and sacred cantatas including Sancta civitas ( 1926 ), Benedicite ( 1930 ), Dona nobis pacem ( 1936 ), and Hodie ( 1954 ).

The swastika is a historical sacred symbol both to evoke ' Shakti ' in tantric rituals and evoke the gods for blessings in Indian religions.

According to Ovid, Vesta is indeed the Earth itself, the sacred sphere ( orbs ) that makes life possible as we know it: " Vesta is the Earth itself, both have the perennial fire, the Earth and the sacred Fire show their see.

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

Contemporary sacred sexual rituals have been tagged as ' structured, symbolic, manifestation, ceremonies, tradition, everyday, habit, grounding, magic, solemn '.

After the crucifixion, the statue is taken for its “ sacred interment ” which is a very solemn procession through the streets.

And when the judiciary mediates to allocate constitutional boundaries, it does not assert any superiority over the other departments ; it does not in reality nullify or invalidate an act of the legislature, but only asserts the solemn and sacred obligation assigned to it by the Constitution to determine conflicting claims of authority under the Constitution and to establish for the parties in an actual controversy the rights which that instrument secures and guarantees to them.

He also enjoyed exploring his father's library, writing later in life that " it was very largely theological, so that I was walled in by solemn folios making the shelves bend under the load of sacred learning.

The celebration of this feast features blessing of water and solemn processions with the sacred Tabot.

The celebration of this feast features blessing of water and solemn processions with the sacred Tabot.

All solemn rites and ceremonies commence with the performance of Homa ( sacred fire ceremony ) among the followers of Vedic religion.

In this essay, Edmund Leach sought an explanation of why human societies have solemn or sacred occasions, such as the Christian celebration of Christmas, followed in a short time by their opposite: a taboo-breaking and " profane " celebration such as New Year's.

The two sides had even got so far as agreeing to go outside the sanctuary of the sacred area in order to battle it out, when a compromise was at last reached, feeling rose so high that the women of the clan of ' Abd Manaf brought a bowl of rich perfume with nutmeg powder and placed it beside the Ka ' aba ; and Hashim and his brothers and all their allies dipped their hands in it and swore a solemn oath of allegiance that they would never abandon one another, rubbing their scented hands over the stone of the Ka ' aba in confirmation of their pact.

The two sides had even got so far as agreeing to go outside the sanctuary of the sacred area in order to battle it out, when a compromise was at last reached, feeling rose so high that the women of the clan of ' Abd Manaf brought a bowl of rich perfume with nutmeg powder and placed it beside the Ka ' aba ; and Hashim ibn ' Abd Manaf and his brothers and all their allies dipped their hands in it and swore a solemn oath of allegiance that they would never abandon one another, rubbing their scented hands over the stone of the Ka ' aba in confirmation of their pact.

: Moreover, a sung Mass, when celebrated with the assistance of sacred ministers, is called a solemn or High Mass ( Missa solemnis ); when celebrated without sacred ministers, it is called a Missa cantata.