The liturgical class-book; lessons on the Book of common prayer - Softcover

Jones, John

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ISBN 10: 1130781283 ISBN 13: 9781130781281

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...spent amongst men previous to his ascension into heaven. The first Sunday after Easter, the Octave, was anciently called "Low Sunday," being celebrated as a feast, though of a lower degree than Easter Day itself. CHAP. XXIV. ROGATION SUNDAY AND ASCENSION DAY. Parishes, a parish is that circuit of ground, which is committed to the charge of a clergyman, having the cure of souls therein. There are nearly ten thousand of them. Camden says England was divided into parishes by Archbishop Honorius, about A. d. 630. Doles; in the lesson this evidently means, the boundaries of another man's territory. Homilies, two books of plain discourses, composed soon after the Reformation, and appointed to be read in churches, on any Sunday or Holyday, when there is no sermon. Orleans, Council of. A. d. 611. The fifth Sunday after Easter is called Rogation Sunday, from the Latin verb "rogo," i" ask, because during the three days intervening between it and Ascension Day (that is on the following Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) certain rogations or extraordinary prayers, with supplication and fasting, were observed at this season during the earlier ages of the Church, not only to prepare the minds of her people to celebrate with lowliness the coming festival of the Ascension, but also to implore God's favour upon the fruits of the earth now springing up. They were established about the middle of the fifth century, by Mamercus, Bishop of Vienne; and in the beginning of the sixth century the first Council of Orleans appointed that they should be annually observed. At the Keformation, when all processions were abolished, by reason of the abuse of them, yet, for retaining the perambulation of the circuits of parishes, it was ordered, "that the people sh...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1130781283
• ISBN 13: 9781130781281
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 34