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Washing and anointing is a Latter-day Saint practice of ritual purification. It is a key part of the temple endowment ceremony as well as the controversial Second Anointing ceremony practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Mormon fundamentalists. It was also part of the female-only healing rituals among ...
The first two lines of this stanza refer to ordinances of washing and anointing (which continues today in LDS temple ordinances), and the washing of feet. The phrase "PENNY appointed" is a reference to the parable of the laborer in the vineyard (Matt 20:1–16). In this parable, laborers who start working during the eleventh hour receive the ...
Symbolic washing and anointing ordinances; Being clothed in the temple garment; Receiving a "new name" in preparation for the endowment. [6] Preceded only by sealings in 1831, washing and anointing ceremonies are perhaps the earliest practiced temple ordinances for the living since the organization of the LDS Church.
The "first anointing" refers to the washing and anointing part of the endowment ceremony, in which a person is anointed to become a king and priest or a queen and priestess unto God. In the second anointing, on the other hand, participants are anointed as a king and priest, or queen and priestess. When the anointing is given, according to ...
Full washing and anointing ceremonies in a bathtub like this one in the Salt Lake Temple were discontinued in the 1920s. [ 33 ] : 1, 6 1920s – A shield begins to be used to partially cover the participants during parts of the washing and anointing previously involving nudity, and the actual washing in a bath tub was discontinued in favor of a ...
The garment is given as part of the washing and anointing portion of the endowment. Today, the temple garment is worn primarily by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and by members of some Mormon fundamentalist churches. [8] [9] Adherents consider them to be sacred and not suitable for public display.
In the LDS Church's modern practices, the endowment ceremony directs new participants to take a number of solemn oaths or covenants such as an oath of consecration to the LDS Church. Also in the LDS Church's modern practices, completing the endowment ceremony is a prerequisite to both full-time missionary service and temple marriage.
The ceremony includes a symbolic washing and anointing, and receipt of a "new name" which they are not to reveal to others except at a certain part in the ceremony, and the receipt of the temple garment. Participants are taught symbolic gestures and passwords considered necessary to pass by angels guarding the way to heaven, and are instructed ...