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On the Church: Select Treatises: St. Cyprian of Carthage: Allen Brent: 33 On the Church: Select Letters : St. Cyprian of Carthage: Allen Brent: 34 The Book of Pastoral Rule: St. Gregory the Great: George E. Demacopoulos: 35 Wider Than Heaven: Eighth-century Homilies on the Mother of God: Mary B. Cunningham: 36 Festal Orations: St. Gregory of ...
The Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church, is composed of 24 autonomous sui iuris particular churches: the Latin Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches. It considers itself the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that Christ founded, [ 64 ] and which Saint Peter initiated along with the missionary work of Saint Paul and others.
Only in 1955 did the church set up the Liturgical Commission and ten years later the Church Assembly passed the Prayer Book (Alternative and Other Services) Measure 1965. A series of books followed, most becoming authorised for use in 1966 or 1967: the Series 1 (formally "Alternative Services Series 1") communion book scarcely differed from the 1928 book (as was the case with its wedding service).
It is an Ancient Church Order, a collection of ancient ecclesiastical canons concerning the government and discipline of the Early Christian Church, allegedly written by the Apostles. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This text is an appendix to the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions .
Robert's Rules of Order Revised. New York: William Morrow and Company. 323 pages. (This book was the official re-printing of the 1915 4th ed. in paperback format with a new foreword by Henry M. Robert III.) Robert, Henry M. (1893). Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies ("Robert's Rules of Order") (3rd ed.).
Books 1 to 6 are a free re-wording of the Didascalia Apostolorum, an earlier work of the same genre. Book 7 is partially based on the Didache. Chapters 33-45 of book 7 contain prayers similar to Jewish prayers used in synagogues. Book 8 is a more complex section composed as follows: chapters 1-2 contain an extract of a lost treatise on the ...
A Book of Discipline (or in its shortened form Discipline) [1] is a book detailing the beliefs, standards, doctrines, canon law, and polity of a particular Christian denomination. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are often re-written by the governing body of the church concerned due to changes in society and in the denomination itself. [ 4 ]
A religious order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order's dependent communities. An exception is the Order of Saint Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of independent houses, meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the ...