Sentence examples for church rites from inspiring English sources

CASSIAN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH "Rites of Spring," an a cappella concert by The Madrigal Singers.

"They can ban us from receiving a Catholic burial, or receiving the eucharist, but we are strong because we have each other and between us we can perform all these church rites," Ms Lumetzberger said.

In this compromise, the Church would not allow the performance of public rites joining homosexual couples, as in the blessing of a union; local priests would, however, be allowed to offer blessings to gay couples not based on the official church rites.

The coronation drove the pope to allow Becket to lay an interdict, or decree prohibiting church rites, on England as punishment, and the threat of an interdict forced Henry to negotiate with Becket in July 1170.

Sarum chant, liturgical chant of the Sarum Use, the medieval church rite centred at Salisbury, Eng.

The Armenian church's rites date back to the fourth century, and this was like a glimpse of Byzantium in its glorious heyday.

Half of its residents attend weekly mass and most of the remainder look to the church for rites of passage, from first communion to anniversary masses for the dead.

The responsibilities of parents and godparents have received great emphasis in the church's rite of baptism for children, which was first promulgated in 1969 and subsequently revised.

The position of Christianity (as measured by church-going, rites of passage and answers to opinion polls) has suffered steady though not yet catastrophic decline in its presumed strongholds: rural areas with a settled population, schools favoured by the middle class, and so on.

Like Eastern Orthodox churches, Eastern rite Catholics tend to have more local autonomy than their Roman Catholic counterparts, and they have particular liturgies and customs that date back to their origins in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

The Syrian church follows Eastern rites but is loyal to Rome.