| 1. | Individual sticks of incense are then vertically placed into individual censers.
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| 2. | The priest blesses the incense saying the Prayer of the Censer.
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| 3. | Meanwhile the Protodeacon, swinging the censer says the following prayer:
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| 4. | A Censer is any type of vessel made for burning incense.
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| 5. | The aloes-wood will be used in their censers.
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| 6. | The censers are shaped like mountains and were used for religious rituals.
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| 7. | Hill censers often include carvings of wilds animals and birds.
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| 8. | Behind the two raised hands of Christ are two angels bearing censers.
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| 9. | In Japan a similar censer called a is used by several Buddhist sects.
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| 10. | Beginning around the 4th century, Taoist texts mentioned using cannabis in censers.
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