When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Religious initiation rites - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_initiation_rites

    The initiation was preceded by a normal bathing in the public baths and a ceremonial sprinkling by the priest, after which the candidate was given secret instructions in the temple of Isis. The candidate then fasted for ten days from meat and wine, after which he was dressed in linen and led at night into the innermost part of the sanctuary ...

  3. Order of Christian Initiation of Adults - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Christian...

    Suitable liturgical rites, which purify the Catechumens little by little and strengthen them with God's blessing; including celebrations of the Word. Learning to work actively with others to spread the Gospel. From the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. The period of the Catechumenate is a time for: Continuing to build community within ...

  4. Initiation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiation

    A spiritual initiation rite normally implies a shepherding process where those who are at a higher level guide the initiate through a process of greater exposure of knowledge. This may include the revelation of secrets, hence the term secret society for such organizations, usually reserved for those at the higher level of understanding.

  5. Neocatechumenal Way - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocatechumenal_Way

    This itinerary of formation adapts the rites of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) for those that have already been baptized, without repeating the sacrament of baptism. [9] The Neocatechumenate began in Madrid in 1964 by Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernández. [10] It is implemented in small, parish-based communities of up to 50 ...

  6. Sacraments of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacraments_of_the_Catholic...

    [26] The Catechism of the Catholic Church says, "In the Eastern rites the Christian initiation of infants also begins with Baptism followed immediately by Confirmation (Chrismation) and the Eucharist, while in the Roman rite it is followed by years of catechesis before being completed later by Confirmation and the Eucharist, the summit of their ...

  7. Rite (Christianity) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_(Christianity)

    This Lutheran pastor administers the rite of confirmation on youth confirmands after instructing them in Luther's Small Catechism.. In Christianity, a rite can refer to a sacred ceremony (such as anointing of the sick), which may or may not carry the status of a sacrament depending on the Christian denomination (in Roman Catholicism, anointing of the sick is a sacrament while in Lutheranism it ...

  8. Amrit Sanskar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrit_Sanskar

    The Amrit Sanskar is the initiation rite introduced by Guru Gobind Singh when he founded the Khalsa in 1699. [2] [3] A Sikh who has been initiated into the Khalsa ('pure'; the Sikh brotherhood) is considered to be Amritdhari (baptised) (lit. ' amrit taker ') or Khalsa ('pure').

  9. Ndut initiation rite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndut_initiation_rite

    Symbol of the Ndut initiation rite. The Ndut is a rite of passage as well as a religious education commanded by Serer religion that every Serer (an ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania) must go through once in their lifetime. The Serer people being an ethnoreligious group, [2] the Ndut initiation rite is also linked to Serer ...