censing
suffumigation

Then follows the censing and wiping of the altar as in the Sarum order.

At the beginning of each stásis, the priest or deacon will perform a censing.

During this chanting the senior priest and deacon perform a full censing of the church.

The thurible has no top cover, and is swung clockwise before the censing of a person or object.

Here follow a Prayer for Peace, a second Lavabo and a censing.

When a deacon or priest performs a full censing of the temple (church building), he will often say Psalm 51 quietly to himself.

At the beginning of the First Hour, the deacon performs a full censing of the church, clergy and faithful.

Psalms 19 and 20, during which the priest performs a full censing of the temple (church building and worshippers).

At a solemn Mass the blessing of the Incense, and censing of the altar follow.

Then the Third and Sixth Hours begin and the protodeacon begins a censing of the entire temple.

In some traditions, the ecclesiarch (sacristan) and his assistant (paraecclesiarch) will perform the censing at specific moments of the service.

Before a deacon begins a censing, he will take the censer to the priest (or the bishop, if he is present) for a blessing.

If a deacon is present, he typically does much of the censing; otherwise, the priest will perform the censing.

During the Alleluia, the deacon (or priest) will perform a brief censing, and the priest says the silent prayer before the Gospel:

While the Introit fills in the time that the celebrant processes to the altar, the Ingressa is sung during the censing of the altar.

During some censings, especially the Greater Censing, the clergyman who is performing the censing will often carry a candle in his left hand.

Then the chanters begin "Lord, I Have Cried" with eight stichera (ten on Sundays), while the deacon performs a censing of the entire church.

After the Little Ektenia the chanters begin "Lord, I Have Cried" with six or eight stichera, while the priest performs the censing.

At vigils, it accompanies the opening of the Royal Doors and a great censing of the nave by the Priest(s) or Deacon(s).

One commonly sung psalm during the censing is "Let my prayer arise in Thy sight as incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice."

The censing and asperging of the chapel was the final touch, done as much to center and steady the two participants as to cleanse a room long sanctified by its sacred use.

This invocation, plus the ritual censing of the sanctuary later in the ceremony, would ensure that the actual sacring of the king took place within a consecrated circle, guarded from potentially hostile forces.

After the first censing, the cardinal deacons kissed the pope on cheek and breast, and the Pontiff retired to the throne before the Chair of Saint Peter in the apse.

He followed numbly through the censing, the lavabo, and the prayers that followed, reciting all the proper words and making all the proper physical responses, but setting his heart on but one plea.

During Bright Week (the week which begins on Easter Sunday) the priest and the deacon will carry special Paschal candles at every censing, even the Lesser Censing.