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Religious symbols of death and depictions of the afterlife will vary with the religion practiced by the people who use them. Tombs, tombstones, and other items of funeral architecture are obvious candidates for symbols of death. [3] In ancient Egypt, the gods Osiris and Ptah were typically depicted as mummies; these gods governed the Egyptian ...
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, UK. A Christian burial is the burial of a deceased person with specifically Christian rites; typically, in consecrated ground. Until recent times Christians generally objected to cremation because it interfered with the concept of the resurrection of a corpse, and practiced inhumation almost exclusively.
Thurible. A single chain thurible, as used by some Western churches. Stained glass window depiction of a thurible, St. Ignatius Church, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Clockwise from upper left: Thurible, cup from inside thurible, incense boat, charcoal holder, and tongs. A thurible (via Old French from Medieval Latin turibulum) is a metal censer ...
e. Christian symbolism is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork or events, by Christianity. It invests objects or actions with an inner meaning expressing Christian ideas. The symbolism of the early Church was characterized by being understood by initiates only, while after the legalization of Christianity in the Roman Empire ...
Requiem. A Requiem ( Latin: rest) or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( Latin: Missa defunctorum ), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal.
Pages in category "Religious objects" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Altar cloth; Ancile;
In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, the primary liturgical books are the Roman Missal, which contains the texts of the Mass, and the Roman Breviary, which contains the text of the Liturgy of the Hours. With the 1969 reform of the Roman Missal by Pope Paul VI, now called the "Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite", the selection of Scriptural ...
Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term Mass is commonly used in the Catholic Church, [ 1] Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism, and Independent Catholicism. The term is also used in some Lutheran churches, [ 2][ 3] as well as in some Anglican churches, [ 4] and on rare occasion by ...