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The ripidion, or hexapterygon is a ceremonial fan used in Eastern Christian [note 1] worship. [1] [2]Eastern Christian ripidion, 19th century (Pskov museum).. In the Eastern Churches, liturgical fans have been used from the first centuries to the present day.
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Liturgy in the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church. Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. [1] As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication, or repentance.
It links the seven daytime offices with Psalm 118/119:164 ("Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules"), [34] and the one nighttime office with Psalm 118/119:62 ("At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules").
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Outside Italy, Mass in cities around the world were suspended in the days that followed. [4] [5] At the height of the outbreak in Italy, [6] on 27 March, Pope Francis imparted the Urbi et Orbi blessing, normally reserved for Christmas and Easter, from an empty Saint Peter's Square following a prayer for the health of all the world.
The holding of church services pertains to the observance of the Lord's Day in Christianity. [2] The Bible has a precedent for a pattern of morning and evening worship that has given rise to Sunday morning and Sunday evening services of worship held in the churches of many Christian denominations today, a "structure to help families sanctify the Lord's Day."