A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Applied by Hindu priests using sandalwood paste ... He then uses a steel stamp to mark them with a symbol of the Hindu god they prefer — from Lord Shiva, the powerful Hindu god of destruction ...

Pope Francis offered that reminder on Thursday as he met with a delegation of Orthodox clergy taking part in a study visit to ...

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The two priests assigned to Corpus Christi were taken ... “The tabernacle stands as a symbol of hope that Christ’s presence endures, despite the great destruction,” he added.

These symbols were deeply embedded in the temple’s spiritual essence. Priests used them to calculate auspicious timings for rituals, aligning human actions with celestial rhythms. Each zodiac ...

created by Aztec priests before the Spanish conquest, conveying religious, calendrical and ritualistic information. Like the Aztec and early Egyptian pictographs, the symbols on message sticks ...

Around the world, Bishops and priests come together at their local ... and the need for cleansing with water, a symbol of baptism. Also emphasized are the critical importance of the Eucharist ...