Part 6 (2/2)

Feast of the Epiphany 6th January

Annunciation Day 25th March

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Ascension Day Movable

Whitsun Day Movable

All Saints' day 1st November

Deacon--One who has been ordained to the lowest order of the Ministry The account of the institution of the order of Deacons is found in the Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7 We here learn that the first Deacons were ordained to attend especially to the benevolent work of the Church in caring for the poor, but they were also preachers of the Word The Office of Deacon is still retained in the Church as an order of the Ministry, for ”it is evident unto allHoly Scripture and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church,--Bishops, Priests and Deacons” A Deacon may assist the Priest at the Altar and administer the cup

He may baptize, say all choir offices, and if he is learned and {76} is licensed thereto by the Bishop, he may preach, but he cannot administer the Holy Communion, or pronounce the Absolution and the Benediction He wears his stole over the left shoulder and fastened under his right arm If a Candidate for Priest's Orders and can pass the required examination, he may after a year's service as a Deacon be advanced to the Priesthood

Deaconess--In the Apostles' time there were holy women set apart for the work of the Church, for example Phoebe, the servant or deaconess, as commended by St Paul This order of Deaconesses continued until about the seventh century, when the changed conditions of the Church interfered with its usefulness In many places the order has of late years been revived and is deinal usefulness The Anized the need of such an order of woeneral canons provision isthe order and for its continuance and regulation According to these, a woman to be admitted to the office of Deaconess e, a coe the duties of the office Before she can act as a Deaconess she ious service

When thus set apart she shall be under the direct oversight of the Bishop of the Diocese, to whoned her office she is not privileged to be reappointed thereto unless the Bishop shall see ”weighty cause for such reappoint Schools for Deaconesses have been established in various parts of the country where candidates for this office receive special instruction and are trained for their work

Dean--An Ecclesiastical title; the presiding officer of a Cathedral

The word is derived fro over ten In England the Dean is a Church dignitary and ranks next to the Bishop The word is used in the American Church, but with a considerableThe Cathedral in the A becohts of the Dean as the presiding officer of the Cathedral have not been fully determined, or at all events not made a reality So that for the most part the title as used in this country is siiven to the Ten Coos_,the Ten Words or discourses

They are divided into two tables; the first four commandments set forth our duty towards God, and the last six our duty towardsof the Ten Coy and were added in the year 1552, together with the response after each commandment, ”Lord, have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law” While the coy as a warning and safeguard against the lawlessness of extreme Puritans, they are, nevertheless, helpful to all as a preparation for the right reception of the Holy Coation to an examination of their ”lives and {78} conversation by the rule of God's coue used in the Communion Office is not that of the present Authorized version, but that of the ”Great Bible” of 1539-40, which was retained because the people had grown familiar with it To the Commandments is added our Lord's Summary of the Lahich may be read at the discretion of the Minister

Decani--A terht side as we face the Altar) that being the side where the Dean sits

Dedication, Feast of--The annual co is so called From ancient authors we learn that when Christianity beca, churches were everywhere erected and were solereat festivities and rejoicing The rites and cere of Bishops and others fro of hy the Holy Scriptures, ser the Blessed Sacras, liberal alifts to the Church; and, in short, hty expressions ofwith one another These dedications from that time forere always coreat po of the people, the soleht days

The Feast of the Dedication is frequently kept in many parishes now and its observance has been found {79} to beto ladness of the day of the Consecration of their Church and being the ties, and consequently of renewed interest in the Church, its work and its worshi+p

Deposition--The naradation from the office of the Ministry, as the penalty for offenses therein enumerated Deposition can only be performed by a Bishop after sufficient evidence When a Bishop thus deposes any one, he is required to send ”notice of such deposition from the Ministry to the Ecclesiastical Authority of every Diocese and Missionary Jurisdiction of this Church, in the form in which the same is recorded” The object of this is to prevent any one thus deposed fro anywhere in the Church He has been cut off fro that office

Deprecations--The naiven to certain petitions in the LITANY (which see)

Descent into hell--An article of the Creed in which we confess our belief that our Lord while His Body lay in the grave, descended into the place of departed spirits The word ”hell” as here used is the English translation of the Greek word _Hades_, which means not the place of torment, (for which another Greek word is used, viz, Gehenna) but that covered, hidden place where the soul awaits the General Resurrection The Rubric before the Creed gives this interpretation of the word, and periven to churches to use instead of it, the words ”place of departed spirits,” ”which are considered as words of {80} the sa in the Creed” (See INTERMEDIATE STATE)

Diaconate--The office of a Deacon, or the order of Deacons collectively

Dies Irae--The first tords of a Latin hy the 36th of the Hymnal It is supposed to have been written in the Twelfth Century by Thomas of Celano The translation of this hymn used in the Hymnal was made by the Rev W J Irons, in 1869 It seems to be a poetic and devotional embodiment of the words to be found in Hebrews 10:27, ”a certain fearful looking for of judg Advent

Theritten by the Rev John B dykes in 1861, and is aof this ancient and subliiven to the collection of the laws or canons of the American Church enacted and set forth by the General Convention The word ”Digest” is derived fro carried apart, resolved, digested, and is applied to a body of laws arranged under their proper heads or titles The Canons set forth by the General Convention as thus arranged come under four titles, viz:

titLE I--Of the Orders of the Ministry and of the Doctrine and Worshi+p of this Church Under this head there are Twenty-six Canons

titLE II--Of Discipline, Thirteen Canons