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Recent Examples of liturgical
The Boise Oñati Dancers will perform a sacred liturgical dance.
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Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 1 Aug. 2025
Lehrer's tune suggested that the best way for the Vatican to sell a product in this secular age would be to redo some of the liturgical music in popular song forms.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 27 July 2025
Lent is the 46-day liturgical season that precedes the holiday of Easter, which commemorates the life, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Traditionalists and conservatives, many of whom felt alienated by Pope Francis’ reforms and loose liturgical style, have been looking for gestures hinting at Leo’s priorities.
—Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025
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The Bible And Armenia’s Wine History The winemaking apparatus was found next to what amounts to a cemetery, likely for sacramental or religious purposes.—
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Either way, the installation was not meant to replace sacramental confession.—
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After a couple witness two men swimming across the river, a corpse appears during the island’s ritual transfer of sovereignty between France and Spain.—
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Digging deeper, Georgia unravels a complex case entangled in mania, ritual and the occult, and her obsessive quest for the truth spirals into a nightmare that will put her family, career and sanity on the line.—
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Both novels take on the spiritual hollowness that can accompany a life built on material aspirations.—
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The spiritual experience here, these days, happens when Joyce clocks in.—
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The fire ignited first on the property of the Twelve Tribes religious cult, which has a compound on Eldorado Drive, near the Marshall Mesa Open Space.—
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Mandato cited writings of several founding fathers, including John Adams, Daniel Webster and John Witherspoon, who argued the country's constitutional system cannot endure without a moral and religious population, and Christian principals are conducive to good citizenship.—
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William Howard Taft was the first president to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game in 1910 and, as legend had it, helped popularize the seventh-inning stretch.—
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The concierge staff welcomed us with a smile, walked us over to a large ceremonial gong, and invited us to strike it three times.—
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Archbishop Shawn McKnight has launched a preliminary canonical investigation into the issue as well, the archdiocese said, and Storey has been temporarily suspended from priestly ministry, including celebrating Mass and performing pastoral duties.—
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The text records royal decrees including tax relief during poor Nile floods; donations to temples; the creation of a new priestly office; a festival tied to the heliacal rising of Sirius; and a calendar reform introducing a leap day every four years.—
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“Liturgical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liturgical. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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