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  2. Offertory - Wikipedia

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    The 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England includes "offertory sentences" which are to be read at this point. Current practice in Anglican churches favours the singing of a congregational hymn (the "offertory hymn") or an anthem sung by the choir, and often both. In some churches music at the offertory is provided by an organist.

  3. Secret (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    In the Roman Rite the secreta is said by the celebrant at the end of the Offertory in the Mass. [1] It is the original and for a long time was the only offertory prayer.It is said in a low voice merely because it was said at the same time the choir sang the Offertory, and it has inherited the special name of Secret as being the only prayer said in that way at the beginning.

  4. Pastor column: Love is a commitment, decision, choice to ...

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    But in the Bible love is much more than that. Love is a commitment, a decision, a choice. It's not just about how you feel but about how you live. It's about what you do. Loving God means to obey Him.

  5. Postcommunion - Wikipedia

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    The first "Roman Ordo" calls the prayer Oratio ad complendum (xxi); Rupert of Deutz calls it Ad complendum. [4] [1] But others give it the modern name, [5] [1] and so do many medieval missals (e.g. the Sarum). The Postcommunion has lost much of its original character as a thanksgiving prayer and has absorbed the idea of the old Oratio ad populum.

  6. List of excommunicable offences in the Catholic Church

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    All temporal rulers who do not expel heretics from their lands after they have been instructed by the church to do so. Catholics who receive, defend or support heretics. Any who refuse to avoid contact with heretics pointed out by the church and branded as infamous. All who become preachers of the gospel without church approval.

  7. Canonical digits - Wikipedia

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    Canonical digits, also referred to as liturgical digits, are a posture or bodily attitude of prayer used during the celebration of the rite of the Holy Mass. This gesture is performed by any Catholic priest after consecration and before ablutions, standing and joining his thumb and index finger in a circle, and holding the other fingers ...

  8. Spiritual communion - Wikipedia

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    The Methodist Church in Great Britain teaches that "Spiritual Communion is a practice where we entrust ourselves to God in prayer, pledging ourselves to God once more as disciples and praying that God might give us spiritually the same grace we share when we physically receive Holy Communion."

  9. Embolism (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    The embolism in Christian liturgy (from Greek ἐμβολισμός (embolismos) 'an interpolation') is a short prayer said or sung after the Lord's Prayer.It functions "like a marginal gloss" upon the final petition of the Lord's Prayer (". . . deliver us from evil"), amplifying and elaborating on "the many implications" of that prayer. [1]