cense

The sacred ministers ascend the steps to the altar to cense it.

When the priest and deacon cense the temple, the deacon will walk with a lighted candle.

The celebrant places incense into the thurible, blesses it and then proceeds to cense the altar, accompanied by the other ministers.

During the Paschal Canon, the priests cense the church, continually exchanging the Paschal greeting with the faithful.

During the Liturgy of Preparation, after the priest has prepared the bread and the wine, he will cense the asterisk by holding it over the open censer.

The Bishop will remove the Aër from his head and place it over the Gifts and cense them, after which the Ordination takes place.

Then Joram was returning to Alister and giving the thurible into his priestly hands, that the bishop might cense him, in turn.

Somehow it did not seem odd that Queron then gave the censer to him, so that he might cense Queron in turn.

Her brother now brought forward the silver coronet on a cushion of royal blue, kneeling before Hubert so that he might cense and asperse it in blessing.

It was customary to visit in procession all the altars of the church and cense them, ending at the great rood screen, where antiphons and collects would be sung.

The Egyptian language verb form, "to cense, to pour out a libation", spelled as id, idy, has three hieroglyph spellings in the Budge two-volume dictionary.

Sometimes, at the end of the prayers, the head of the household will take the hand censer and cense the icons and all of the members of the household.

Behind him, Tavis was finishing his circuit with the aspergillum and came to asperse Javan as Queron went on to cense Joram.

The Dogmaticon is often chanted in a solemn manner, and while the choir is singing it the Deacon or Priest will cense the icon of the Theotokos on the Iconostasis.

Should the Regina Coeli (during Easter) or the Angelus be said or sung, then the celebrant or other appropriate person may cense the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the following form:

The Salii sing, and cense his altars round With Saban smoke, their heads with poplar bound-- One choir of old, another of the young, To dance, and bear the burthen of the song.

The priest will then cense the aër and place it over both the diskos and chalice, where it will remain until just prior to the Great Entrance, when the bread and wine are carried to the Holy Table for the consecration.

Finally, on the leave-taking (apodosis) of the feast, the priest and deacon will cense around the cross, there will be a final veneration of the cross, and then they will solemnly bring the cross back into the sanctuary through the Holy Doors.