When a chorus recitation is demanded, it is recited (by John Hurt) over footage of a ship at sea, embarked on a cross-channel invasion.
It is recited three times daily, about 6 00 am, noon, and 6 00 pm.
The prayer (tefilla) is often called the shemone ʿesre, the "Eighteen Benedictions"—though it actually has 19 or the ʿamida, "standing," because it is recited in that position.
It is recited once a year in the Longhouse, in three or four installments,' which occupy successive mornings, it has retained the authority of Scripture for those Indians who are seriously religious but have not accepted Christianity.
The epic itself, a short paean to Ike, is meaningless, but like any good epic it must get embellished, and each time it is recited, by "nameless, typically blind men high on Ecstasy" who constantly get it wrong, "every new improvisational flourish, every editorial interpolation and aside... is officially subsumed into the story, and is then required in each subsequent performance".
This is a mix of textual scholarship, early Christian history and theological reflection that should prove invigorating not only to the devout but also to the many Christians who, as Professor Johnson realizes, either sleepwalk their way through the creed when it is recited in their churches or puzzle over it or even privately edit out the parts that seem discomforting.
It is recited every year on Jan . 25at ceremonies marking his birthday, with the haggis being ushered into the room on a silver platter by a kilted bagpiper and toasted with whiskey once the dinner chairman has stabbed it with his dagger.
Traditionally, it is recited by a shaman during the Sen Huen ritual.
This shows a notion that ideally there should be a match between the contents of a ritual formula and the ritual action in which it is recited, further suggesting a notion that language mirrors the external world in some way.
