There's a parish in my former diocesan seat which concludes Sunday Benediction with this 'ceremony': the parishioners are handed a rose, which they place before the closed tabernacle, as they sang "Good Night, Sweet Jesus". To call it maudlin would be a rather modest assessment.
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