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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.
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 ...
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 ...
In a later revelation the Lord indicated that the elders were to be "endowed with power from on high; for [he had] prepared a greater endowment" than the 1831 endowment. [18] Upon the completion of the Kirtland Temple after three years of construction (1833–36), the elders of the church gathered for this second promised endowment in early 1836.
In the LDS Church, temples are not only a House of the Lord, but are also where members of the church make covenants and perform sacred ordinances, such as baptism for the dead, washing and anointing (or "initiatory" ordinances), the endowment, and eternal marriage sealings. [12]
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 two lines of this stanza refer to ordinances of washing and anointing (which continues today in LDS temple ordinances), and the washing of feet. The phrase "PENNY appointed" is a reference to the parable of the laborer in the vineyard (Matt 20:1–16). In this parable, laborers who start working during the eleventh hour receive the ...