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  • Burkhart notes that in doing so, the friars not only fomented an identification, in form and function, between the Nahua and the Christian rite, thus aiding in the new rite's acceptance, but also implicitly accepted Nahua concepts of the body and its relationship to morality.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Archbishop Cranmer was of a similar mind to Archbishop Bugnini and tried to improve on the old Sarum rite's collects.

    29 December -- St Thomas of Canterbury John 2008

  • The prayer in the rite's Good Friday liturgy reads: "Almightly and everlasting God, you do not refuse your mercy even to the Jews; hear the prayers which we offer for the blindness of that people so that they may acknowledge the light of your truth, which is Christ, and be delivered from their darkness."

    Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • But as governments ban the practice and people become more educated about the risks involved -- including possible HIV infection from contaminated cutting instruments and even death from excessive bleeding -- communities are starting to question the rite's continued value in a changing world.

    Catholic Relief Services: Saying 'No' to 'The Cut' in Kenya 2009

  • I hope this liturgy will have some impact on those attending WYD, so that they might come to appreciate the Roman rite's traditions and sacred music, and an excellent ars celebrandi.

    Archive 2008-07-13 papabear 2008

  • The trek up the mountain is the annual rite's climax.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2006 2006

  • Bad Clams had a mole inside Marga - rite's outfit.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • The long-legged, coltish body trembled like a fawn's in Marga - rite's embrace.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • "Shouldn't you be back in NYC, trying to get into Marga - rite's panties?"

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • I cannot say how long the rite's mode had been set when first the adventurers from Spain beheld it with their keen wondering eyes and fixed it for ever in their memories.

    Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

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