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We can now offer both Latin rites in both forms at our center.

Reform of the Reform Parish of St. Willibrord, Utretcht, Reportedly Adds Usus Antiquior to Offerings 2009

Returning to the 1962 rites is costing a good deal of money, particularly in buying expensive liturgical books.

More Encouraging News from the Franciscans of the Immaculate: Their House in Lanherne, England 2009

Understanding the underlying histories of initiation rites is important because those histories help us to understand how far back in the past antecedent generations of people began to recognize particular life stages in their communities as well as how the strategies they used to guide people through life stages have changed or remained steadfast over time.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

"When certain rites had to be performed," she writes, "the guardian [of the pot] came from town to officiate."

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

While this approach to understanding initiation rites is useful for learning about the details pertinent to successful life stage transitions, it often falls short of recovering deep-seated histories that underpinned their initial development in earlier times.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

The job of the popularizer of science, trying to get across some idea of quantum mechanics to a general audience that has not gone through these initiation rites, is daunting.

On Quantum Theory And Parapsychology 2008

But the activity of processing and actively participating in rites such as that of burial, would have required smaller, moveable texts presumably in greater numbers.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

The reason was, because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies, than in any constant belief: for you may imagine what kind of faith theirs was, when the chief doctors and fathers of their church were the poets.

Be reasonable; do things my way. God does 2006

They had no difficulty accepting gods/rites from the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians and just about everyone with whom they had contact.

The Problem With Faith « Lean Left 2008

The next day being Friday, some of our catholic comrades conscientiously kept lent, having eaten so much the day before, as to be utterly unable to violate this custom of the church, had they even felt so disposed; they are however, by and by, not often so forcibly reminded of the propriety of compliance with religious observances, though the expediency of those rites is often illustrated in a similar manner.

Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844