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The Text This Week is a Web site devoted to the study of the Christian Bible and the conduct of Christian worship.. The site is organised in terms of the passages of scripture recommended for reading each Sunday (and on other days) in the lectionaries of the major Christian denominations, and in particular in the Revised Common Lectionary, which is widely used in many denominations and countries.
The Rev. Brian Dominic Frederick Titus Brindley (3 August 1931 – 1 August 2001) was a prominent Anglican priest who later became a Roman Catholic layman. He was Vicar of Holy Trinity in Reading until a scandal about homosexuality forced his resignation.
In 2020, 100 years after Joey Deacon's birth, a charity called the Deacon Centre was established in his adopted home town of Caterham to recognise and continue his legacy. The centre provides 'creativity spaces' for people with mental and communication disabilities in the local area with a programme of activities including creative writing ...
The deacon's ministry of the Word includes proclaiming the Gospel during the Mass, preaching and teaching. The deacon's liturgical ministry includes various parts of the Mass proper to the deacon, including being an ordinary minister of Holy Communion and the proper minister of the chalice when Holy Communion is administered under both kinds.
The full second series of twenty-one homilies, entitled The Second Tome of Homilees, was published in 1571. [10] The reinstatement of the Thirty-ninth Article, and the publication of the Second Book of Homilies containing the final, twenty-first homily ( against Disobedience and wilful Rebellion ), followed the excommunication of Queen ...
The following is an example of an Anglican text of the Exsultet, taken from the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the United States. [6] The paschal candle is placed in its stand. Then the deacon, or other person appointed, standing near the candle, sings or says the Exsultet as follows (the sections in brackets may be omitted):
The ordination of a deacon occurs after the Anaphora (Eucharistic Prayer) since his role is not in performing the Holy Mystery but consists only in serving; [11] the ceremony is much the same as at the ordination of a priest, but the deacon-elect is presented to the people and escorted to the holy doors by two sub-deacons (his peers, analogous ...
When a man is accepted to join the clergy, either as a deacon or a pastor (etc.), he is brought before the altar and prayed over by either the sitting pastor or a senior deacon. Each previously ordained, former or current, clergyman of any rank then line up and lay their hands upon the new clergyman, one at a time, and pray over him.