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  • A solemn vow is a certain vow ("a deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good") taken by an at least 18 year old person individual...
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  • "I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when music by Gustav Holst had a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to it. The...
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    living. A person who lives a religious life according to vows they have made is called a votary or a votarist. The religious vow, being a public vow, is binding...
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    vows are promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony based upon Western Christian norms. They are not universal to...
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  • A vow (Lat. votum, vow, promise; see vote) is a promise or oath. A vow is used as a promise that is solemn rather than casual. Marriage vows are binding...
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    The Day of the Vow (Afrikaans: Geloftedag) is a religious public holiday in South Africa. It is an important day for Afrikaners, originating from the Battle...
    20 KB (2,975 words) - 15:05, 26 October 2024
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    The Bodhisattva vow is a vow (Sanskrit: praṇidhāna, lit. aspiration or resolution) taken by some Mahāyāna Buddhists to achieve full buddhahood for the...
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  • Nazirite (redirect from Nazirite vow)
    the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or a nazarite (Hebrew: נָזִיר Nāzīr) is an Israelite (i.e. Jewish) man or woman who voluntarily took a vow which is described...
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    Discovery episode "What's Past Is Prologue" has Gabriel Lorca vowing in one scene to "Make the Empire glorious again." In the South Park episode "Where...
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  • mountains, while others practice for years at time or even vow to do so for life. Those who make the vow take mokujiki as part of their religious name. It was...
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  • A vow of silence is a vow taken to avoid the use of speech. Although the concept is commonly associated with monasticism, no religious order takes such...
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    Catholic Church, a religious order is a community of consecrated life with members that profess solemn vows. They are classed as a type of religious...
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  • The Vow is a 2012 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Sucsy and written by Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, and Jason Katims, inspired by the...
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  • The Vow is an American true crime documentary series directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer that revolves around the cult NXIVM and its leader Keith...
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  • happen to pass by a sacred grove (lucus) or a cult place on their way, they are used to make a vow (votum), or a fruit offering, or to sit down for a while...
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    drunk this, he was to make a vow, to be also sworn by those present with him, and only then to sit himself on throne of the deceased. A prose passage inserted...
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    Sarel Cilliers (section Vow)
    the Voortrekkers in a vow which promised that if God would protect them and deliver the enemy into their hands, they would build a church and commemorate...
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    Benedictines (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    solemn vows candidates joining a Benedictine community are required to make: a vow of stability, to remain in the same community), and to adopt a "conversion...
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    Monk (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    the novice may profess first vows, if he is accepted to do so. After a few years (usually three) the monk makes solemn vows, which are binding for life...
    46 KB (6,340 words) - 01:33, 18 November 2024
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    Saptapadi (section Vows)
    India, the seven stops are completed with the recitation of vows: Now let us make a vow together. We shall share love, share the same food, share our...
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