Many religions go through ceremonies or observances of rituals to become pure or to be healed. |
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Do we pay close attention to our religious observances to the exclusion of the inner life of our hearts? |
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Each of these nuclei soon gathers a cultus, with the neighbourhood devising elaborate festivities and observances around it. |
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The one and only issue for the Church in all the observances of the ceremonial laws of Moses is that they not be regarded as binding. |
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Jesus lived under the Mosaic Law, with its rich layers of observances and rules. |
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Why were the prayers, sacrifices and observances of these ancient Israelites not pleasing to God? |
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Burial practices vary by religious group, but for the most part funeral and burial observances are the responsibility of the deceased's family. |
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The Christmas season, with its worship, observances, solemnities, and inhibitions, ends at sunset on Twelfth Night. |
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As a teenager he was not particularly punctilious in following the observances of his religion. |
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Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin. |
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Only one girl's testimony strayed from the area of religious observances and liturgical practices. |
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Many new religious observances were designed by the feminist movement in the Church. |
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Particular emphasis is placed on not recognizing the holy days or national observances of the infidels. |
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The most important rituals revolve around the cycle of ancestral and royal observances. |
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This provides for all religious observances including fasting and Hajj to occur in all seasons during a person's life. |
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This does not mean we should reject the specificity of our traditions, our religious texts, holidays, observances or prayers. |
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While headhunting no longer exists, a blending of Amerindian and European beliefs often persists in festivals and other observances. |
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What did Woodsmall think about this denial of basic human rights on the basis of religious observances? |
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Hearing the Lord's voice takes us beyond mere religious profession or formal observances. |
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Reform has also given prominence to the moral commands over the ritual observances. |
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By observances I mean the tiny perceptible changes in the season, the shadows and mist, the leaves and air. |
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Embrace religious vows, rules and observances and never waver in fulfilling them. |
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They had some institutions of religious observances, including public prayers and fasts. |
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One of the saddest casualties of that process was the effective abolition of the Church's ancient observances of fasting and abstinence. |
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He preached the worship of the One Supreme Being, deprecating idolatry and superstitious beliefs and observances. |
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Paul also showed the folly of hoping to find some saving power in religious observances. |
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Guyanese American cultural traditions have been preserved by the religious observances of weddings, baptisms, and funerals. |
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Most people could name only a few of the Pimbwe gods, clan observances, or customary procedures. |
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In 1919 major campaigns were undertaken to discredit church observances by staging mock Christmas holidays and exposing the remains of saints. |
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I could write about Luke's infrequent and reluctant observances of personal hygiene, or his frequent and enthusiastic attempts at cornball humour. |
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The participation of the V-12's at Harvard in the Armistice Day observances in Boston was, of course, throughly covered by naval orders. |
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The observances are cleanliness, contentment, purificatory actions, study, and surrender of the fruits of one's actions to God. |
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More than 15 hours of observances are planned Friday, the invasion's 70th anniversary. |
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Equally important were mourning ceremonies, a series of funerary observances and anniversary commemorations of the dead. |
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The aim of all our observances is that the Word of God may dwell abundantly in the monastery. |
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It is recognized that an employee may require different religious observances. |
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Prize ceremonies should usefully be linked to other official events, international days or other observances. |
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The traditional lifestyle was one of pluralism and community living characterized by strong social norms and observances. |
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His arrest triggered numerous international protests and solidarity day observances and solidarity gatherings in addition to support campaigns. |
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However, many people rely on this kind of certification as a critical element of their religious and cultural observances. |
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These observances offer the last chance for units to say goodbye to their friend in the warzone. |
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Actually there was a body of popular superstitions and observances which came from a deeper and older source than Druidism, and was destined to long outlive it. |
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Lamas skilled in rituals perform the necessary religious observances. |
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The influence of royal wives on their husbands' religious observances suggests the power that women exercised, even within the context of arranged political marriages. |
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The frugal virtues of Buddhism and Jainism were rejected and followers were encouraged to reject all religious observances and make the most of life's pleasures! |
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Nevertheless, during a period of religious persecution, most authorities agree that one should not abandon one's religious observances or studies out of fear of detection. |
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The observances recognise that the island was peopled by different groups of Indians who had settled here over the 7000 years before the European encounter. |
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Each year, the organisation marks World Health Day and other observances focusing on a specific health promotion topic. |
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Public holidays celebrated in Italy include religious, national and regional observances. |
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Slaves also created their own religious observances, meeting alone without the supervision of their white masters or ministers. |
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Let us collectively ensure that this year's Day of Mourning observances sends a strong message to all governments of their obligation and responsibility to strongly enforce health and safety laws and regulations. |
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Across the country flags are flown at half-mast and a moment of silence is observed at 11 a.m. as part of the many ceremonies and observances that are conducted. |
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The fixed annual cycle begins 1 September, and establishes the times for all annual observances that are fixed by date, such as Christmas. |
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That reasonable accommodation be made to allow detainees out of their cells to participate in bona fide religious observances, and that the families of detainees be allowed to join them for such observances. |
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Therefore, a board has to facilitate the practice of religious observances and allow its employees and students freedom to practise their religion while at school. |
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Some of yesterday's observances had a more artsy-craftsy feel. |
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In schools where religious instruction or observances are compulsory, regardless of religious belief or preference, issues concerning the right to freedom of religious expression are raised. |
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This category refers to promoting the spiritual teachings of a religious body, and maintaining the doctrines and spiritual observances on which those teachings are based. |
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At a time when religious observances were considered not only important but mandatory, regardless of one's depth of conviction, ceremonies were held before battles to maintain the morale of the troops. |
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Furthermore, there are official flag day observances and a Namesdays in Sweden calendar. |
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In fact, Syrians are free to engage or refrain from engaging in their religious observances since there is no authority empowered to compel them to perform such observances. |
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But he has also been provocative at home, seeking to allow religious observances in government offices and proposing that large mosques be built in places long associated with secularism. |
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Hence, there were numerous specific prohibitions on acts believed to offend them and a number of observances designed to propitiate them, chief of which was the first-salmon ceremony. |
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President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day just a year later, setting the characteristic tone of the U. S. observances in years to come. |
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Instead of being obedient to God, they turned to other religious observances and began to worship Baal, a sun god, but they did so in the pretense of serving Jehovah-the Eternal God. |
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The calendar not only incorporates various cultural and religious festivals and observances, but also provides key contact information for the Detachment and other local crime and public safety resources. |
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The modern world is overrun with all kinds of competing propaganda and counterpropaganda and a vast variety of other symbolic activities, such as education, publishing, newscasting, and patriotic and religious observances. |
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They follow several different observances and are organized into federations. |
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The Roman calendar was structured around religious observances. |
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The observances over the linguistic behavior of bilinguals and polyglots, suffering with brain focal lesion, provide an important material for neurolinguistics. |
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Hinduism is a zigsaw puzzle in that it contains every philosophy and most religions and outlooks, practices and observances, innumerable gods one fighting the other. |
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In North America, observances of Thanksgiving Day are increasing. |
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The term was used prominently during Plymouth's next Forefather's Day celebration in 1800, and was used in Forefathers' Day observances thereafter. |
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The presence of external laws, claims and cultural mores either potentially or actually act to variously constrain the practices and observances of an indigenous society. |
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Heathen groups assemble for rituals in order to mark rites of passage, seasonal observances, oath takings, rites devoted to a specific deity, and for rites of need. |
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