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The Seokjeon Daeje (Korean: 석전대제), also sometimes called Seokjeonje, is a ceremonial rite performed twice annually to honor Confucius. [1] [2] It is held at Confucian sites across South Korea including hyanggyos [3] and the Confucian temple Munmyo located at Sungkyunkwan, [4] on Confucius' birthday in fall and the anniversary of his death in spring. [5]
Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933–1986) was an African-American musician, civil rights activist, and minister from Haynesville, Louisiana. In late 1964 he was a co-founder of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed black self-defense group, in the small industrial mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana, to protect the black community against white violence. [1]
A deacon or lay ecclesial minister may serve in this role, but is given a different title (e.g., Pastoral Life Director, Pastoral Coordinator, etc.) Parochial Vicar A presbyter assigned to assist at a parish, under the authority of the pastor. Deacon (Permanent/Vocational) Referred to as Reverend Deacon, or Deacon.
The Deacons were not the first champions of armed-defense during the civil rights movement, but in November 1964, they were the first to organize as a force. According to historian Annelieke Dirks, Even Martin Luther King Jr.—the icon of nonviolence—employed armed bodyguards and had guns in his house during the early stages of the ...
Ordination of a Catholic deacon, 1520 AD: the bishop bestows vestments.. Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. [1]
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 ...
The deacon (or, if there is no deacon, the priest) swings the censer throughout almost the entire service, while all stand holding lighted candles. Near the end of the service, during the final troparia , all either extinguish their candles, or place them in a candle holder by the memorial table.
Protodeacon is an honorific rank given to certain married deacons in Eastern Christian churches. In the Russian Orthodox Church it is an honorary title given to married deacons, as a mark of which, the clergyman is entitled to wear a burgundy-colored skufia. The equivalent rank for hierodeacons—i.e., monastic deacons—is archdeacon.