There are also formal ceremonial practices normally performed by the monastics (prostrations, recitations, chanting). Members of the Karaite denomination practice full prostrations during prayers. The prayer is accompanied by bows and prostrations. Roman Catholics also employ prostrations on Good Friday and at ordinations. Then they said the prayer of Ephrem the Syrian with prostrations. Near the end of the Hour, the Prayer of St. Ephraim is said, with prostrations. An important element in Zen ritual practice is the performance of ritual prostrations (Jp. Oriental Catholic rites also use prostrations in a similar way as the Oriental Orthodox Churches. However, prostrations to the lord are not made at the namaskara mandapam. His face, they say, was never defiled by prostrations before the idols. Tablets were clutched and prostrations were conducted by clerics. This Greek soldiers resisted, as such prostrations were reserved for honoring the gods. Men perform a specified number of prostrations. The making of prostrations during the services increases as well. Men do a specified number of prostrations (as decided by themselves).