Both deities were decorated with gold jewellery and flowers.Two priests enacted ... temple changed their ‘thali' (sacred marriage thread) during the wedding ceremony. "I was thankfully able ...

Priti Agrawal discovers in Varanasi that the Tulsi plant and Vishnu get married after chaturmas marking the start of the wedding seasonHindus venerate the Tulsi or the Holy Basil plant as a goddess an ...

Edward Town of St. Denis Parish in Havertown looks forward to his day of priestly ordination, May 17, as one of joy. He’s ...

Spokane, Washington, Bishop Thomas Daly released a statement in response to the law in which he said that he and his priests "are committed ... of Penance is sacred and will remain that way ...

It was Virat’s first tour down under with the senior team. And at Perth in January 2012 the Australians, as they often do, had managed to get under Virat’s skin. Not able to handle the ...

As an angry and impatient young man SHANTUM SETH admits he suffered existential angst But once he began treading the Buddhapath a slow transformation came about he tells NARAYANI GANESH As a young man ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Man makes movements with a candle holder with lit candles on the Ganga Maha Aarti ceremony begins. Brahman priest wearing red and yellow dress doing traditional ganga ...

He said he plans to go to confession at the Sanctae Marthae residence, where confessional booths and priests have been set up for the occasion. “I’m about to vote for the pope. I need to get ...

In this ritual, the auspicious wedding day is finalised by the priests in the presence of the elderly family ... In this, he is made to wear the holy silver thread. This is a mark that he is now ready ...

The deity is offered traditional items such as vermilion, jasmine oil, red flowers, jaggery and roasted gram, sacred thread (janeu), and tulsi leaves. Special offerings include boondi laddoo, seasonal ...