Part 5 (2/2)

Coadjutor--(See BISHOP COADJUTOR)

Collect--The naiven to the prayers set forth in the Prayer Book and especially to the short prayers used in connection with Epistles and Gospels The origin of the naiven to it Some have connected it with the _collected_ assembly of the people; others have interpreted the naether the topics of previous prayers or else those of the Epistle and Gospel for the day Another interpretation is that which distinguishes the Collect as the prayer offered by the Priest _alone_ on behalf of the people, while in the Litanies and Versicles the Priest and people pray alternately As of Coeneral, so it may be concluded especially of the Collect in particular, ”that it is the supplications of athered into one by the voice of the Priest and offered up by hih our Lord and Mediator Jesus Christ” {65}

Coes of Scripture read after the Absolution in the Communion service It has been pointed out that these are peculiar to our Liturgy and that ”perhaps the object of their introduction was the obvious one suggested in the title of _Co the words of Absolution with those of Christ and His Apostles; and of holding forth our Lord and Saviour before the communicants, in the words of Holy Scripture to prepare the' His Body in the Sacrament”

Commendatory Prayer--A beautiful and impressive prayer added to the Prayer Book in 1661, and which is to be said over a dying person This prayer ought to be ency for, as Bishop coxe suggests in ”Thoughts on the Services,” ”whether a Clergy to die, or be permitted to die, without the _Commendatory Prayer_ said by some one present at or near the moment of departure Church people are not heathen, that they should neglect this bounden duty to one who is passing away

'Father into Thy hands I co breath So should the sick person in his own behalf; or those who love him in his behalf, if because of the pain or unconsciousness of death, he cannot frame the petition for himself”

Commandments, The Ten--(See DECALOGUE)

Co explanation of this term: ”Common Prayer is so called in distinction from private or {66} special prayer It cos which are coether to worshi+p So we make our common supplications, confess our comiving, of alms and devotion” (See WORshi+P, also PRAYER BOOK)

Communion, Holy--(See HOLY COMMUNION)

Communion of Saints--An article of the Creed by which is meant the fellowshi+p with, or union in Christ of all who are one with Hi in the Church on earth or the departed in Paradise The Communion of Saints is specially realized in the Holy Eucharist This spiritual food is our Lord's own divine substance and life, by participation in which the faithful Christian enters into a communion with his Lord which death cannot end or even interrupt All who enter, whether in the present or in the past, into this coether in holy fellowshi+p one with another also It is this holy fellowshi+p of those whom the Spirit has sanctified, one with another and with their Lord, that we call the Communion of Saints

(See ALL SAINTS' DAY)

Compline--One of the seven CANONICAL HOURS (which see)

Confirmation--An ordinance of the Church, sacra It is administered to those who have been baptized and is effected by prayer and the Laying on of Hands by the Bishop Hence the Scriptural narace is the seven-fold {67} gift of the Holy Ghost by , and equipped ”ainst sin, the world and the devil” Confirmation is a further advance in the Christian Life and entitles the recipient to be admitted to the Holy Communion

The Scriptural authority for Confirmation is very manifest Thus in Acts 8:5-17, we have the first recorded Confirmation, and in the 19th chapter we find another account of the same administration In Hebrews 6:1, 2, we find Confir on of Hands mentioned as a first or foundation principle of the Doctrine of Christ, as necessary to the health of the soul as Repentance, Faith, Baptis,” and hteousness of life: and in the fourth chapter, verse 30, it is spoken of in the saht be cited

Confir such Scriptural authority, it is to be noted that it has always and in all places been practiced by the Historic Church and that even at this present time nine-tenths of all Christian people still hold to Confirious life While the above Scriptural authority and universal practice are sufficient evidence that the use of Confir to theto know the estimate of this holy ordinance by those who have departed froiven as follows:

Methodist Testimony--”I was determined {68} not to be without it, and therefore went and received Confirmation, even since I became a Methodist preacher”--_Dr Ada on of Hands, with prayer, upon baptized believers as such, is an ordinance of Christ, and ought to be submitted unto by all persons to partake of the Lord's Supper”--_Baptist association, Septeational Testimony--”The confession of the Name of Christ is, after all, very lame, and will be so till the discipline which Christ ordained be restored, and the Rite of Confirmation be recovered in its full use and solemnity”--_Dr Coleman, Boston_

Presbyterian Testimony--”The Rite of Confirmation thus administered to baptized children, when arrived at competent years, shows clearly that the Primitive Church in her purest days, exercised the authority of a Mother over her baptized children”--_Committee of the General assembly_

Consecrate--To make sacred; to set apart for sacred use, as the eles, etc A Bishop is said to be consecrated to his office by the act of Laying on of Hands by other Bishops

Consecration, Prayer of--That portion of the Colory be to Thee, Alhty God,”

etc, and by which the Bread and the Wine become the Body and the Blood of Christ This is the most solemn act of the whole service and comprises (1) the words of Institution, (2) the Oblation and (3) the Invocation, followed by the Intercessions {69}

Consecration of Church Buildings--The service provided in the Prayer Book whereby a church building erected and paid for is separated, by the administration of the Bishop from all unhallowed, ordinary and co His Holy Word, for celebrating His Holy Sacralorious Majesty the sacrifices of prayer and thanksgiving, for blessing His people in His Na thus set apart becomes God's House and not man's, and as such calls for acts of reverence on man's part as he enters it to meet God where He has thus caused His Naenerally used in the United States for a Council of the Church (See GENERAL CONVENTION, DIOCESAN CONVENTION, also COUNCIL)

Convocation--The term ”Convocation” as used in the American Church has reference to certain territorial divisions in a Diocese, or the grouping together of the Clergy and Laity of certain districts of a Diocese, for the more efficient and systematic work of missions

Usually each Diocese is divided into two or more Convocational Districts, each one presided over by a Priest, either elected by the Clergy of the Convocation or appointed by the Bishop, and usually called the ”Dean of Convocation” This arrangereater interest in the work of Diocesan Missions and in pro Church extension within the Convocational limits