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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 ...
Symbolic washing and anointing ordinances; Being clothed in the temple garment; Receiving a "new name" in preparation for the endowment. [6] Washing and anointing are perhaps the earliest practiced temple ordinances for the living since the organization of the LDS Church.
One of ten washing and anointing rooms of the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints circa 1911. Washing and anointing (also called the initiatory) is a temple ordinance practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mormon fundamentalists as part of the faith's endowment ceremony.
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 ...
Within temples, members of the church make covenants, receive instructions, and perform sacred ordinances, such as: baptism for the dead, washing and anointing (or "initiatory"), the endowment, and eternal marriage, also referred to as sealings.
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 ...
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practice anointing with pure, consecrated olive oil [66] in two ways: 1) as a priesthood ordinance in preparation for the administration of a priesthood blessing, and 2) in conjunction with washing as part of the endowment. [67]
These temple ordinances are performed by a living church member for themself and "on behalf of the dead" or "by proxy". [4] [5] Ordinances performed in the temple include: Baptism for the dead; Confirmation on behalf of the dead; Ordination to the Melchizedek priesthood on behalf of deceased men; Washing and anointing (also known as the ...