Quotes About Religious Ceremony

When religious ritual is not perfumed By the incense of burning flesh

I had a Hebraic wedding in New York, so I'm definitely Jewish.

Human sacrifice empowered the gods with the spiritual life source of their victims.

This is all a little theatrical, don't you think?" Greyson commented. "Ah, but theater is the hallmark of ritual, and ritual is the touchstone of religion," Mendoza responded.

and, holy Mary Mother of Christ, he became as gentle as a lamb. The Pope is coming next week to give him first communion and confirmation.' The guru spoke next. He was in a wheelchair with an IV drip and both legs in casts.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

Why bother to have a technical term for a religious ritual?

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.

Dans les églises, à la clarté des cierges, un homme boit du vin devant des femmes à genoux.

Inside the church, her coffin was placed so that Jackie Puller would be facing the altar, in accordance with Catholic tradition. A priest's funeral would have had him facing the congregation, as he would have done in life.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.

she finished, kissing the crucifix and making the sign of the cross in the Catholic way.

and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.