ritual

Paul taught his followers that obedience to the ritual law of Moses was no longer necessary -- indeed it was a "curse" (Galatians 3: 10-13).

This holiday is both an ancient ritual and a moment of renewal, and I hope that you enjoy this special time of year with friends and family.

For me the practice of a Nourishing Morning Ritual has been a GREAT enhancement to my personal life.

Small children are comforted by having a certain amount of ritual about going to bed.

The best man is often the assistant in the wedding ritual.

Unwrapping a stick of gum can even turn out to be a substitute ritual for lighting up a cigarette as a conditioned response to stress.

Plus, this ritual gives me a reason to get out of bed and get my day started.

One evening a week, a group of CEOs meets in a Manhattan psychiatrist's office and engages in an ancient ritual.

But she did not rest until this ritual had been completed and everydark nook had been searched.

It tends to assume the form of a pagan religious ceremony, adapting itself to the forms and the ritual of the local Church.

It is not at all in effect, far from it, limited to this little bit of flesh which constitutes the object of the ritual.

Meditation is often misunderstood as some difficult, mysterious ritual practiced by isolated monks and mystics.

The ritual of a greeting between two people should be an uncomplicated, stress-free expression of acknowledging one another, should it not?

Make it a ritual to warm up and stretch in practice just as you would for a meet.

Then I usually go back to bed. This is something of a ritual: At the time of writing, I've composed 2, 006 posts.

Forced to bow his head in the ritual kowtow, he kept trying to raise it.

In both Mexican and Peruvian ancient religion, the Sun occupied an important place in myth and ritual.

it obliged him to pause and think about drinking the tea, making it a little ritual.

On her body are scars left by family members who tried to turn her straight in a ritual "cleansing" .

This most visceral and ritual of actions tends to be mediated through a flimsy, poorly conceived amalgam of shapes.

McKinney denied the ritual was an exorcism, describing it instead as a casting out of spirits.

This nightly ritual was just as it had always been with the exception that their mother was now missing.

This ritual was not an intellectual exercise. Nor was it about a vote among the blues for who they thought would be the best candidate.

According to tradition, the ritual marks the point when the sun is in the same position in the sky as it was when God created the world.

The ritual of my conversion may have taken only minutes, but it was the culmination of a lifetime's quest.

It was very early in the morning, and there was a thick fog that added an even greater sense of magic and mystery to this ritual.

Although origin in ritual has long been the most popular, it is by no means the only theory about how the theater came into being.

An important football game is often played in the midst of an immense ritual.

The only clear advances have been the ritual punishments of Miro, who was stripped of her party membership, and of Mikhalkov.

Fred Landis has a Valentine's Day ritual. Sometime, somewhere, he'll lean over to his wife, Gwen, and say, "I love you. "

This was more of a ritual, a recognition of survival rather than of our bodies inclinations.

In 2005 a Pakistani lawyer contended in a Lahore court that Basant was not just a Hindu ritual but a lethal game.

That of course doesn't answer your question of light, but it does say something about the ritual of looking.

Commit to a productivity ritual and practice it for at least 30 days in a row, as it takes that long for a practice to become a habit.

He had schooled himself to be able to postpone the ritual for as long as a whole day, while hiding all outward signs of his inner torment.

For many of us today, taking a bath retains something of a sense of ritual.

Most Wiccans do not ask the God or Goddess energy to leave unless the ritual calls for the departure of these spiritual energies.

She lets him approach. He gets ready to mate. Apparently, what he's doing here is an erotic ritual.

a land founded on extraordinary customs and ritual, celebrated in monuments without equal, preserved in thousands of years of learning.

This event, known under the name of the Great Shedding, gave birth to a traditional ritual still performed today by the Nagas.

"Purity" is an Orphic conception, having primarily a ritual meaning, but for Plato it means freedom from slavery to the body and its needs.

Make both going to bed and getting up a calm and pleasant ritual .

"I do not read the newspapers much, " he said when asked about the reports of this latest good luck ritual.

But a monk watching the ritual on Wednesday morning made it clear: This was a ceremony of mourning, not celebration.

Rather was it a complicated structure of traditions, ritual and folkways that dictated to men their behaviors.

In this situation, he possibly was entangled in the snare of a secret Satanic cult and went through the ritual of dedication.

Louisiana authorities say a woman recruited for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she tried to back out .

Summoning executives of companies caught up in financial or legal trouble to receive televised scoldings is a ritual of U. S. politics.

Fans chanting "MVP" while Dwight Howard shoots free throws is becoming a ritual at the Amway Center, but the volume is usually pretty weak.

It would be contiguous with the theater, or with makeup, the ritual and burlesque ostentation of a sex whose own pleasure is absent.

The young woman buried beneath debris looked as if she performing an ancient ritual.

They enter the church, where Self claims to be part of a Homeland Security investigation of the ritual slaughter of chickens.

Our ancestors from pre-Homo Sapiens times seem to have given fire a ritual significance.

" Meanwhile, enjoy the name written on the paper seal of the money into paper, when the ritual burning, saying " burn bag.

My fear that the ritual may be discovered by the children seems unfounded.

Pilgrims perform a series of rituals including walking around the Kaaba, standing vigil on Mount Arafat and a ritual Stoning of the Devil.

The thesis will try to discuss how the ritual or the sense of ritual existing in drama influence the psychological isolation in tragedies.

She looks upon this recurring ritual in her domestic life as a form of federal taxation.

The war was over, and Memorial Day had been founded by African-Americans in a ritual of remembrance and consecration.

Since the founding, the countless times significant activity, mao tai is considered to be the country ritual, presented to foreign leaders.

Hold your most sacred idea of life within your mind and heart as you take the ritual steps forward through the gates.

The gentle soul of the unfortunate girl was already far removed beyond the errors or deception of any human ritual.

Driven by the need for enlightenment, Dazzle was the youngest of his tribe to ever request the sacred ritual.

I start to read English aloud the first thing after I get up in the morning, and that has become a ritual.

This may be one of the strangest looking birds ever. This male bird spreads his wings in a mating ritual, hope to attract a female.

Don't be discouraged if your pet scampers away -- just keep trying to establish the ritual.

The meaning of his suffering and death on the cross is symbolized by the innocent lamb sacrificed as part of the Jewish ritual of Passover.

There was now no more to be done, or said. I had come to get fit, do some proper walking and learn about an ancient ritual.

Lining up bets on a revaluation of the renminbi used to be a weekly ritual for many.

It was a very old ritual that seemed symbolic of the political struggle that was changing the face of South Africa.

Religious leaders opposed this Lenten ritual near Manila, but it has become one of the Philippine's top seasonal attractions.

On Sunday night, deprived of my ritual week-ahead review, I had nothing to worry about except what I didn't know I should be worrying about.

I proceeded with my morning ritual as if nothing were happening.

What you are seeing is Kapala. It is the Tibet Buddhist ritual apparatus made of good Buddhist's skulls.

Over the sound of deep and ancient ritual, the wind's cry could still be heard. The dancer, a shaman.

The soft tissue was removed and probably consumed, leaving a well-shaped cup, perhaps made for use in some sort of ritual.

The policy of ritual manifested the harmony of community, which had historical and class limits.

Spring has arrived, and with it the hallowed ritual of the backyard barbecue.

Something was not designed to tell you further contacts, is a living ritual forms.

Yet books had practical as well as ritual purposes: they were intended to be read aloud in church or at monastic dinner-tables.

Sharing meals has always been an important courtship ritual and a metaphor for love.

The ritual for conjuration and teleportation was taxing and such a long teleportation would drain strength and endurance from the travelers.

It's easier than you think to make Meatless Monday a weekly ritual. . . even for the biggest carnivores out there.

They could only be the product of some sort of ancient summoning ritual. What horrible death have I doomed myself to?

and whose fulfillment of his Presidential office is not limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual, or obligation.

apparently there's some unusual tribal ritual taking place on the other side of the world. . . I think its referred to as#Superbowl.

The ritual was as complicated as the one for a funeral.

In Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars had a special liking on making ritual and continuously stirred up the wave of making ritual.

Zhou Dynasty ritual music culture begin from "beauting music" and concluding in the time of the court music secularization.

Kids love to hear bedtime stories again and again. Adults may become bored with this ritual, but kids enjoy it.

The main ritual on this day centres around a bonfire ceremoniously kindled at the time of the rising moon.

but one has to look for the reason of inception of these social & emotional phenomenon called religion , faith, sect , ritual. etc. . .

Bringing one of the great stones to Stonehenge is itself a religious ritual for these ancient Britons.

Gold Teeth saw God as a Power, and religious ritual as a means of harnessing that Power for great practical good, her good.

Guests attending a tea ceremony today go through a ritual that would be entirely familiar to Rikyu.

A high school football player bows his head while linking arms with his teammates during a pre-game ritual.

Actually, not only the females of my generation did not have this coming of age ritual, the girls in China today also do not have it.

Much of this display is certainly ritual, enacted for the camera and for watching comrades and informers.

Ritual exchange of gifts is a way of living for the Buyi people and a mode of altruistic behavior.

Pope Benedict XVI washes the feet of a layman at a Cathedral in Rome, part of a ritual symbolizing humility observed on Holy Thursday.

If growth of a beard could be slowed, the daily ritual of shaving would be unnecessary for men.

And he viewed proto-shamanism as a kind of original attempt, through ritual, to rekindle a connection that had been irrevocably lost.

During the traditional pre-match ritual of the crowd singing " Abide With Me " , John burst into tears.

He awoke from his ritual immortal and rejuvenated, but soon discovered he had lost a lifetime of knowledge and power.

With this ritual, the necromancer revives a Mound King and binds him to his service.

Create a daily ritual (see my creating daily habits post) of going to bed and getting up at the same time, each day of the week.

When the 'Mengshan' Ritual was about to start, Buddhi sweet dew was sprinkled from the sky, making everyone feel cool and happy.

Thank God, otherwise this exorcism ritual between a child and a canine would have been really weird.

The best thing is if you can establish some kind of ritual, like regularly sitting down at a table to talk about your issues.

The wig men, as they're known, pay for their wives in pigs and save the dress-up for a ritual dance celebrating clan pride.

In an annual ritual, the Japanese emperor makes an offering of rice harvested from paddies within the palace grounds to Shinto deities.

He would repeat this ritual every morning until I would finally hurt his feelings by refusing to set the alarm clock.

A common ritual calls for writing down weaknesses on a piece of paper or parchment, and tossing it into the fire.

In this case it seems that the ritual took place before they laid down the next floor above this one.

Ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect.

This can be a simple dinner date or an elaborate ritual, depending upon what works best for us at the time.

Years and years ago this part of the ritual had been allowed to lapse.

His soul is ripped apart in a terrible ritual to share his body, and his memories, with a powerful Demon.

After these historical events, this ritual became a convivial dish, which French people used to enjoy with family and with friends.

This ritual prefigured the vicarious execution of Jesus for the blood- guiltiness and defilement of His people.

He gave two bows and clapped twice, then declared the ritual complete.

As I mentioned in the fire puja report yesterday that I will add the explanation to the end of the ritual, I had done so.

They will miss the ritual interaction that goes with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee that may be a convention in their own country .

Now, why doesn't another dolphin try to grab it? This might be a ritual to establish trust. . .

Some of the differences between Protestant denominations have to do with ritual.

She went through her usual ritual of making sure all the doors were locked before she went to bed.

The mandala may have derived from the circular stupa and the ritual of walking around the stupa in a circle.

The traditional lifestyle of an ethnic group consists of many elements, but among them life cycle ritual events have primary status.

Each ritual competition would begin with the boys each wearing an oversized robe , one of the color rouge and one of blue.

Sometimes, I'd find myself pretending I'd been hurt just to have that ritual with her.

From Wang Bin Speech and Oracle-week festival two aspects Chapter two reviews common divination ritual speech in terms of Ho Group.

Ding as an important ritual symbol, unity, unity and authority, is representative of peace, development and prosperity of the mascot.

This ritual can be used to conjure Celestial , Demonic , Elemental, or Angelic entities to do your bidding .

The haircut was then a simple ritual to be performed every two months or so to avoid a barbarous appearance.

The danger lies in that the Kalachakra Tantra ritual subtlety builds an ideological foundation for a future "war of religions . "

Practical Confucianism, which depended so much on ritual, was designed to preserve society, not free the individual.

Usually people fall in love and everything revolves around the ritual of marriage, and children are an afterthought.

We figured there was some kind of autonomic nervous system measure that could capture the emotional effects of the ritual.

For many buyers, the ritual of bargaining at a flea market is as much fun as the bargain itself.

The bronze collection includes statues representing religious characters, ritual objects and tools used in everyday life.

Sometimes, I even knew their own right, ritual and should not be stretched to say the tone so high.

In the depths of the demonic castle you find that dark ritual has been started, perhaps to open a second rift into our world.

Sensing some sort of power to the mineral, the goblins hoarded it and shaped it into ritual objects.

There's this feeling in your mind like some terrible fate is going to meet you if you don't perform a certain ritual or task.

One might imagine a culture where mysticism and ritual encourage subjugating entire planets in a missionary conquest of the galaxy.

To develop a non stimulating evening ritual, you might recall what your parents did when you were young to get you in sleep mode.

At last, his collective trainings form the ritual surroundings, promoting the "wholeness" of an actor and a theater.

Consequently, Jiao Festival as a collective ritual, shows both local cultural demand and the identification of the whole Chinese culture.

Exomologesis was a ritual of recognizing oneself as a sinner and a penitent.

the ritual celebration of the company launched a grand theme wedding!

This practice transformed into a ritual for rich yam harvest and also for proving manhood.

The act is part of an ancient ritual that is believed to ensure good health for the children and prosperity for their families.

The ritual of the party conference is acted out in the same way every year.

This ritual requires a lit stick of incense. Step 1. Begin at the southeast corner of your ritual area and face the corner.

Finally, with the sun at a satisfactory angle, he signaled the ritual's start.

The Athey ritual and Charles took in the conscription the front.

They believe the simple "medical ritual" encourages the brain into activating the healing process in the body.

Having discovered the unholy Ritual Chamber, you now have a way to enter the dark and dangerous dungeons beneath the city.

And new research suggests the traditional tea and coffee run has become an office ritual employers would do well to crack down on.

Some suggested it may have had a ritual use.

Much of their culture has been shaped by this disparity between genders, and has resulted in a strange mating ritual.

It is one of a series of ritual acts that must be performed in the Hajj.

A hand-cut rock crystal ball encircled by a metal ring dates back to the Bronze Age and served as a ritual object.

My favorite sci-fi visual is the scene at end of Avatar where the Na'vi are performing the ritual at the Tree of Souls.

Instead, the court appearance is part of the ritual required to implement a restructuring plan.

The building in Nanjing where the China Life insurance agents performed their morning ritual is itself an example of this process.

The belief and practice of using body parts for magical ritual or benefit is called muti.

This is a simplified ritual, so it had simplified the returning to Blank Essence through visualization.

In early civilizations, belly dancing was part of a spiritual ritual for healing or as part of a blessing ceremony.

Abel: One little Satanic ritual. Is that too much to ask?

Chung Yeung Festival is one of the prototype of the ancient ritual fire ceremony.

Many ritual bath forms survive today. They may have undergone changes over the years, but generally they retain their basic meanings.

Which is to say that that ostentatious flag-raising ritual was not entirely useless.

Nearly three million Muslim pilgrims have been performing a ritual of forgiveness on a rocky desert hill outside Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

With this enchantment, the necromancer has mastered a dark ritual enabling him to reanimate the largest of all animals.

Ditch the restricting notion that sex is a bedtime ritual, and suddenly you'll discover lots of little daily openings to do it in.

Each year the city must be held to this ritual activities (entertainment gods activities).

There is no ritual other than marriage to mark the beginning of adulthood.

Wherever you plunge your hand in to the waters of the Nile, you'll be reenacting a ritual that goes back to the very dawn of civilization.

The feast is an ancient ritual, in fact in the modern civilization give us a little memory of manual time reason, is a beautiful thing.

The tassels or fringes of thread on the corners of a garment, especially a prayer shawl, worn by men as prescribed by ritual law.

His short ritual is also attached for your references. He will include it in his coming new book on Vaishravana practices.

They added this song to their ritual and now "saying their thank-yous" and singing together has become one of the highlights of their day.

After they were seated, a delegation of the city's most senior officials entered to ritual applause and took their seats.

The sky and people (as a mating ritual) are bioluminescent.

Scorpios understand that great lovemaking is both a ritual of holy purity and wanton abandon in the heat of love.

He thinks by forcing us into the same pathetic ritual he undertook as a young man, we will magically turn into responsible adults.

Indian law does not recognize weddings between people and animals, but the ritual survives in rural and tribal areas of the country.

The most elaborate ritual he performed during this election involved 350 priests from Kerala and cost more than $300, 000, he said.

Erving Goffman's interaction ritual theory and Randall Collins' sociology of emotion provide the theoretical framework for this analysis.

Two ivory cattle egrets flex their wings in an age-old ritual of courtship in which potential mates mirror each other's movements.

Through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance these were ritual fetishes which spoke of the grandeur of the contents, teasing and delighting.

The Nazi party never experienced the ritual purges that were a habitual feature of Soviet Communist Party life under Stalin.

On the day of the ceremony , the emperor would don his ritual costume and be ushered in by the official in charge of religious affairs.

In addition, Kosher meat and fowl must be slaughtered by a specially trained expert in a painless ritual fashion in order to be acceptable.

This is the best practice for your own longevity, And the greatest ritual for the living or deceased.

Harley not too determined Deng Buli are many whether really can come Germany to think the ritual.

A man at the meeting on June 28th suggested that the board take responsibility by committing seppuku, or ritual suicide.

Be wary of using the TV or other electronic devices as part of your bedtime ritual.

Religion came into being: a ritual of longing for lost memories.

He sodomizes the princess, cuts her throat with a dagger and drinks her blood in a ritual.

Cyclical change as an erotic dance of life, death and rebirth is a popular theme in Wiccan imagery, ritual and liturgy.

China may be changing at head-twirling speed, but the ritual of the gao kao (pronounced gow kow) remains as immutable as chopsticks.

In the final steps of the Hajj , pilgrims will have their heads shaved, before the final ritual slaughter of a lamb.

The northern cluster is centered on X13, which is not a town so much as a ritual center, rather like a fairground.

Three of his wealthy friends now regularly practice the ancient, complex ritual.

The concentration of religious ritual at the Temple made Jerusalem a place of pilgrimage and an important commercial center.

Chances are that you already have a well-established wake-up ritual, but it may not be the one you want.

Unfortunately, every time he did the ritual again to get back what he had lost, he was reborn anew.

You're watching the spawning ritual of the dog snapper. The dog snappers parade up the water.

But Jesus says don't get caught up in ritual prayer.

Nepalese Hindu women take a ritual bath in the Bagmati River during the Rishi Panchami festival in Kathmandu.

Drugs, but rather as an anesthetic or religious ritual supplies is seen as the "happy plant. "

His magic or illusionary practices are done symbolically and in keeping with a strict code and well-established ritual.

A man broke through dangerous reached an end point, but that ends with a ritual, when everybody was going to heaven together.

is responsible for the ritual services, shopping malls, front desk reception, consulting, shopping guide services.

Other branches of occultism are: yoga, astrology, ritual magic, tarot cards, as well as other systems of magic and divination.

Jesus was taken to the temple in Jerusalem for a Jewish religious ritual when he was 40 days old.

The bronze decoration is mostly excavated from ritual sites of Jinsha. They should be specific ritual implements in the ancient Shu Culture.

There was probably a courtship ritual among dinosaurs, involving signature body features.

With this ritual, the necromancer enchants his own body to protect himself from death.

The Qidan people bury vulgarly use mask complex plane this custom, should be only then produces under Shamanism's religious custom ritual.

If the name is spoken in a theater, there is a cleansing ritual one can do to rectify the mistake.

People started by sharing their stories, a little ritual Gardner calls, "The Telling of the Soup" .

"Ritual invitation" , or abbreviated cremation of Hindu railroad workers, invited scavenging by the lions.

Many adult believers also need to be reminded that their prayers should be more than a mumbled ritual before eating or falling asleep.

Some of the visitors quietly take pictures, leave ritual offerings of food and bow in respect to the dead.

The crafty sons of darkness shall squirm in discomfort as their ritual of lies fall in shambles in a pile around their deadened feet.

After eating, she and I go through the daily ritual of getting dressed, which she must do by herself.

The haka has been adopted as a pre-game ritual by the silky short-wearing national basketball side, and wheelchair rugby team.

What is the ritual weapon of the Dark Elf Witches?

A good rice harvest depends on an established ritual to worship them.

The Oxford-educated bachelor was sworn in during an ancient Buddhist ritual in a palace overlooking the Thimphu Valley.

Clearly, though, ritual is not the exclusive preserve of religion.

Numerous religious festivals break up the daily ritual of prayer and meditation.

Done mindfully, a ritual can remind you to be conscious.

First, our recognition of history requires some degree of knowledge about ritual and ceremony which is an important kind of cultural medium.

After our ritual breakfast at Giraffe with Andy, I made a run to my agent's house to pick up our Adidas distribution bags.

Chapter three shows circulation of such music-dance and ritual in another region within Tianshui------Wushan County.

Embalming was a common death ritual for 3, 000 years, when some cultures believed it was necessary preparation for the afterlife.

During the Satyr Narnia celebrations, holly and other greens were hung over doorways as part of the pagan ritual to ward off evil.

The only ritual we have is that Tom, Bill and I meet in the greenroom a half hour before the show and are nervous together.

There is not a human culture in existence now or in antiquity that has not had music as part of religious ritual.

Laying their katana swords at the gate, through the tea ceremony ritual they allayed worries of impending war and death.

America's wealthiest are subject to a ritual public purge whenever hard times hit and excesses come to light.

I had taken this supplication from the short ritual composed a while ago, and translated it into English.

You can come up with a generic ritual for all birthdays or you may prefer to tailor the ritual to the person.

Ritual for ancestor worship as a part of the Chinese traditional culture is under constant onslaught of modernization in the countryside.

I don't do any worship, any ritual, and yet that which is eternal is eluding me.

Nowadays, most couple don't go through this ritual, and consider the cutting of the cake more as good luck for the marriage.