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[6] [7] Pope Benedict XVI spoke of Saint Tarcisius as "presumably an acolyte, that is, an altar server". [8] However, within the Latin Church, the term "acolyte" is also used in a more restricted sense, often specified as "instituted acolyte", [ 9 ] to mean an adult woman or man who has received the instituted ministry of that name.
Altar servers are a substitute for an instituted acolyte. In several Christian Churches , women have traditionally been excluded from approaching the altar during the liturgy . Thus The Service Book of the Orthodox Church (English translation by Isabel Florence Hapgood ) states that "no woman may enter the Sanctuary at any time". [ 2 ]
An Armenian acolyte holding a ripida (a liturgical fan). In the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Churches, the nearest equivalent of acolyte is the altar server. At one time there was a rank of minor clergy called the taper-bearer (κηροφόρος) responsible for bearing lights during processions and liturgical entrances.
'The Acolyte's' cancellation — though not quite unexpected — is still a blow for 'Star Wars' that dampens hopes for the franchise's future. Commentary: 'The Acolyte' broke new ground.
Credit - Getty Images (2); HBO (3); Warner Bros. Pictures. I n the fifth episode of The Acolyte, the latest Star Wars series on Disney+, the villain known as simply "The Stranger" finally reveals ...
Disney+’s Star Wars series The Acolyte has been cancelled and will not return for Season 2, a source confirms to TVLine. (Our sister site Deadline first reported the news.) Set during the final ...
The Acolyte, also known as Star Wars: The Acolyte, [2] [3] is an American science fiction television series created by Leslye Headland for the streaming service Disney+.It is part of the Star Wars franchise, set at the end of the High Republic era before the events of the Skywalker Saga, and follows a Jedi investigation into a series of crimes.
Two of what were called minor orders, those of reader and acolyte, are kept throughout the Latin Church, and national episcopal conferences are free to use the term "subdeacon" in place of that of "acolyte". [15] The motu proprio specified the functions of each of these two ministries. [16]