Catholic Word of the Day: PROSTRATION, 03-07-12

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PROSTRATION

To cast oneself down in front of anyone in adoration or contrition, petition or submission. At the services on Good Friday the ministers lie prostrate before the altar. It is also part of the ordination service for bishops, priests, and deacons. Prostration may also be required during the final profession of vows in some religious orders. Kneeling on both knees with head bowed is a form of prostration.

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A question for the children: "When does a priest lie in prostration before the altar?"

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Capital Virtues	Gelasian Sacramentary	Sodom
Natural Religion	Montanism	Ex Voto
Immanentist Apologetics	Credo Quia Absurdum	Purgatory
Beguines	Christe Eleison	Easter Controversy
Cheating	Apodictic	Confessions of St. Augustine
Coterie	Rome	Impetration
Archepiscopal Cross	Chamberlain	Herrenmoral
Our Lady of Einsiedeln	Maltese Cross	Sacred
Manifestation of Conscience	Anagogical Sense	A Posteriori
Sequence	Thomism	Obedience
Angels (Symbols)	Mechitarists or Mekhitarists	Epistles to the Thessalonians
Limbo	Divine Generation	Prostration

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Could someone please post a picture of the transitional deacons in prostration at their ordination Mass?