He might have been a priest at a sacred rite.
Or are my hands too foul to perform so sacred a rite?
Go with them, and burst out laughing in the middle of the sacred rites?
There a shrine was created for him, and sacred rites were held every year on his birthday.
At Rome he was recognized as having a most accurate knowledge of the sacred rites.
He is here above all in the action of the Mass, the most sacred rite of our faith.
All the sacred rites here had become like play, or mere court trappings.
And let this be the simple form of the law:-No man shall have sacred rites in a private house.
For them lovemaking is a sacred rite of mutual worship.
A sacrament is a sacred rite recognized as of particular importance and significance.