Sentence examples for solemn service from inspiring English sources

On the day of Rodin's burial a solemn service was celebrated in his honour at Westminster Abbey in London.

The contrast between that event and the solemn service in the city's austere medieval cathedral could not have been more stark.

The scenes followed Sunday's solemn service of compline at the cathedral, where cardinal Vincent Nichols, the archbishop of Westminster, described Richard as a man born of his own time – "a child of war".

The coffin will lie in the cathedral, guarded night and day but open to the public to come and pay their respects, until the last solemn service of an extraordinary week, his reinterment on Thursday.

Instead he retreated to the cathedral of Antioch, where he observed a solemn service of intercession.

A new tomb will be erected in the heart of the church, replacing the existing memorial marker, and planning is underway on a solemn service befitting a man who was England's "anointed king".

Jews encounter an unusually complete catalog like this during the solemn services on Yom Kippur.

He need not say that on such occasions the solemn services of the Church were performed in a slovenly, irregular and indecent manner … The owners of private grounds closed by the government were not inclined to go quietly; they were, after all, losing the entirety of their business.

The US President-elect Barack Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery in a solemn morning service yesterday.

The piece is a collection more or less in keeping with the liturgy of a solemn vespers service for a Marian feast.

That wasn't, in truth, much of a gag, but it worked as effectively as a rude noise at a solemn church service.