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  2. Collect for Purity - Wikipedia

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    The Collect for Purity is the name traditionally given to the collect prayed near the beginning of the Eucharist in most Anglican rites. Its oldest known sources are Continental, where it appears in Latin in the 10th century Sacramentarium Fuldense Saeculi X.

  3. Ablution in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In the Roman Catholic Church, the Absoute (or absolution of the dead) is a symbolic ablution of the deceased's body following the Requiem Mass. While specific prayers are said, the coffin is incensed and sprinkled with holy water. The absolution of the dead is only performed in context of the Tridentine Mass.

  4. Spiritual communion - Wikipedia

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    Prayers taken from the A Form of Spiritual Communion of the Diocese of Malaita of the Anglican Communion are as follows: [13] In union, O Dear Lord, with the faithful at every Altar of Thy Church, where Thy blessed Body and Blood are being offered to the Father, I desire to offer Thee praise and thanksgiving.

  5. Eucharist in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Eucharist (Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: eucharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving') [1] is the name that Catholic Christians give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass. [2]

  6. Anaphora (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    The Anaphora, [a] Eucharistic Prayer, [b] or Great Thanksgiving, [1] [c] is a portion of the Christian liturgy of the Eucharist in which, through a prayer of thanksgiving, the elements of bread and wine are consecrated. The prevalent historical Roman Rite form is called the "Canon of the Mass".

  7. Blessed salt - Wikipedia

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    Blessing holy water: Salt is added to water in silence after a prayer in which God is asked to bless the salt, recalling the blessed salt “scattered over the water by the prophet Elisha” and invoking the protective powers of salt and water, that they may “drive away the power of evil”.

  8. On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis appeals for courage to better ...

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    At the papal Mass for an estimated 6,000 people in St. Peter's Basilica and 25,000 more watching on screens in the square outside, the pope also repeated an earlier call for developed nations to ...

  9. Ritual purification - Wikipedia

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    Taking the bride to the bath house, Shalom Koboshvili, 1939. Male Wudu Facility at University of Toronto's Multifaith Centre.. Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness.