PROCESSION:
Sacred functions in which clergy and people parade from one place to another. They may be held within a church, between churches, or outside a church or shrine. Processions are public act of homage to God, to give honor to him or his saints, and to ask pardon for sins committed. Their practices goes back to Old Testament times to express the faith of the people, as distinct from the worship of a single individual, and of a people who symbolize their co-operative action, as distinct from merely their common expression of faith.