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An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly constructed location or the start of an event. [1] Opening ceremonies at significant events such as the Olympic Games , FIFA World Cup , and the Rugby World Cup might involve thousands of participants and be watched worldwide.
Freemasons conduct their degree work, often from memory, following a preset script and ritualised format. There are a variety of different Masonic rites for Craft Freemasonry. Each Masonic jurisdiction is free to standardize (or not standardize) its own ritual. However, there are similarities that exist among jurisdictions.
The cake-cutting ceremony takes place; the bride and groom jointly hold a cake cutter and cut the first pieces of the wedding cake. Gifts are not opened at the reception; they are either opened ahead of time and sometimes displayed at the reception, or if guests could not deliver gifts ahead of time, they are placed on a table at the reception ...
1908 launch of the Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes The U.S. Navy's future USS Billings is launched sideways into the Menominee River in Marinette, Wisconsin. Ceremonial ship launching involves the performing of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water.
Seven blessings are recited, blessing the bride and groom and their new home. The couple sip a glass of wine from a Kiddush cup. The groom will smash a wine glass with his right foot, ostensibly in remembrance of the destruction of the Second Temple. The shattered cup also symbolizes the 'broken' world, and the lifelong process of finding the ...
A Catholic priest blesses the Boston Marathon Bombing Memorials on Boylston Street. In the Catholic Church, a blessing is a rite consisting of a ceremony and prayers performed in the name and with the authority of the Church by a duly qualified minister by which persons or things are sanctified as dedicated to divine service or by which certain marks of divine favour are invoked upon them.
Coimbra's Queima das Fitas Parade (image depicting nearly-graduated students of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra and their decorated float). The Queima das Fitas (Portuguese for Ribbon Burning) is a traditional festivity of the students of some Portuguese universities, organized originally by the students of the University of Coimbra.
Charles then received a blessing read by the following: Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York; Nikitas Loulias, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain; the Moderator of the Free Churches; the Secretary General of Churches Together in England; His Eminence Vincent Cardinal Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster; and the ...