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  2. Christian burial - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Marriage in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity ...

  4. Marriage officiant - Wikipedia

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    A marriage officiant or marriage celebrant is a person who officiates at a wedding ceremony . Religious weddings, such as Christian ones, are officiated by a pastor, such as a priest or vicar. [1] Similarly, Jewish weddings are presided over by a rabbi, and in Islamic weddings, an imam is the marriage officiant.

  5. Handfasting - Wikipedia

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    Betrothed by Richard Dudensing (1833–1899). Handfasting is a traditional practice that, depending on the term's usage, may define an unofficiated wedding (in which a couple marries without an officiant, usually with the intent of later undergoing a second wedding with an officiant), a betrothal (an engagement in which a couple has formally promised to wed, and which can be broken only ...

  6. Marriage in the Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    Wedding in the Church of ss. Cyril and Methodius in Prague, Czechia. Marriage in the Eastern Orthodox Church is a holy mystery (sacrament) in the Eastern Orthodox Church in which a priest officiates a marriage between a man and a woman. The typical Byzantine Rite liturgy for marriage is called the Mystery of Crowning, where the couple is crowned.

  7. Kiss of peace - Wikipedia

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    The holy kiss is an ancient traditional Christian greeting, also called the kiss of peace or kiss of charity, and sometimes the "brother kiss" (among men), or the "sister kiss" (among women). Such greetings signify a wish and blessing that peace be with the recipient, and besides their spontaneous uses they have certain ritualized or formalized ...

  8. Prayer of Saint Francis - Wikipedia

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    A modified version of the prayer appears in the song "Prayer" in the musical Come From Away. [53] Beanie Feldstein sings the prayer in the 2017 movie Lady Bird, set at a Catholic girls' school. [54] A shortened version appears in the HBO show Deadwood, episode 11, season one, and in the Showtime series The Affair, episode 8, season one.

  9. Marriage vows - Wikipedia

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    The wedding vows used in the Lutheran Churches are as follows: [ 8] I, [name], take you, [name of bride/groom], to be my wedded [wife/husband], to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,