Part 14 (1/2)
TABLE SHOWING THE DESCENT OF PRINcipaL LITURGIES ------------------------------------------------
OUR LORD'S WORDS OF INStitUTION | APOSTOLIC NUCLEUS OF A LITURGY | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | Liturgy of St Jay of St John, Antioch, or Jerusalem or Alexandria St Peter, St Paul, or Ephesus | | or Roy of Lyons Liturgy of Syriac of Egypt | | St Basil Liturgy of | --------------------- | St Jay St Chrysostoies | Liturgy | | Present Liturgy -------------- ------------- of Oriental or | | | Russian Church Ay of St Leo Liturgy of Britain | | | Present Sacralish Liturgies of Milan | | Sacraland | | Present Liturgy -------------------- of Roy of Scottish Church American Church
{174} parts are common to them all and are found without substantial variation, thus pointing to one co at the present tih four y of St James, composed in the first instance for the Churches of Palestine
II The Liturgy of St Mark, for the Church in Alexandria
III The Liturgy of St Peter, for the Church in Roy is derived
IV The Liturgy of St John, for the Church in Ephesus
It is froy is derived This Ephesine Liturgy was introduced into France at a very early age by missionaries who caland and there preached Christ and introduced the Liturgy which they were accustoland, AD 596, expecting to find it a heathen land, he found Christians already there and using a Liturgy somewhat different froy showed an eastern origin, thus confiry did not co introduced into England did, indeed, lish Liturgy never lost its distinctive Eastern characteristics which remain to this day At the tiy after e on Whitsun Day, 1549 It was again revised in 1552, and again other changes were ht changes have been y was for adopted froreement made with the Scottish Bishops who consecrated our first Bishop, the Rt Rev Samuel Seabury, DD, for the Diocese of Connecticut (See article entitled PRAYER BOOK)
Lord's Day--The first day of the week is not the Sabbath, but the _Lord's Day_, and as such has been observed since the Resurrection of our Lord, of which it is the weekly commemoration From the New Testament itself we learn that the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, has always been the day which Christians have consecrated to God's service The Rt Rev F W Taylor, DD, has given us the following clear state the first day of the week observed as the Lord's Day: ”Our Saviour Jesus Christ, in the exercise of this His Lordshi+p over the day, has first of all abolished the ordinance of the Seventh Day, and substituted, by the Holy Spirit guiding His Church into all Truth, the ordinance of the First Day, as that one day in seven which the Fourth Coation Then our Lord has e, by uniting it to His own Person and work as the Day of His Resurrection, the weekly recurrence of the {176} Christian Passover, a perpetual Easter; and also as the weekly memorial of His supreme Gift of the Holy Ghost upon the Feast of Pentecost, to abide with His Church forever It is preeladness before the Lord, and should first of all be observed to the Lord, in the asseether for worshi+p and communion with God and for spiritual instruction and profit Hence the Prayer Book prescribes a Collect, Epistle and Gospel for every Sunday in the year, and its rubrics plainly teach us that according to the mind of the Church the principal service of every Lord's Day should be the celebration of the Holy Eucharist Our Lord has also taught us by His example as well as by precept, that works of mercy, both spiritual and corporal, are lawful to be done on this day, and are peculiarly appropriate to it”
Lord's Prayer, The--The prayer which our Blessed Lord taught His disciples when He said, ”After this iven in another place, ”When ye pray, say Our Father,” etc The Church has always taken these words literally, so that in all her services--Daily Prayer, Litany, Baptise, Visitation of the Sick, etc, the Lord's Prayer is always an integral part In the Communion Office the Lord's Prayer occurs twice, but it is to be noted that the rubric directs the first to be said by the _Priest alone_, as a part of his private preparation With regard to the second there is the following rubric: ”Then shall the Minister say the Lord's Prayer, _the people repeating after him every petition_” {177} These last words (in italics) are o a difference of use
Lord's Supper, The--(See HOLY COMMUNION) In regard to the use of the words ”Lord's Supper” as a na fro: ”The term (the Lord's Supper) is borrowed froape or love-feasts which then accoular and inexact use of it which is handed down in our Prayer Book arose, it is difficult to say; and it is a transference of a Scriptural ter to another which cannot be wholly justified The naiven to the Holy Sacrament has led many to confuse the Lord's Last Supper with the institution of the Sacrament itself, which it is expressly said took place '_after_ supper' (St Luke 22:20) and '_when_ He had supped'” (1 Cor 11:25)
Lord's Table, The--A Prayer Book nae the words ”Altar” and ”Table” are synony in different aspects or as respects different uses of it The word ”Altar” is also used in the Prayer Book, in the Office of Institution for the inducting of a Priest to the charge of a Parish, in which he is described as ”one who serves at the Altar”; is directed to be ”received within the rails of the Altar,” and again, to ”kneel at the Altar to present his supplication for himself”
Low Celebration--This is a term commonly used to describe a celebration of the Holy Eucharist on {178} ordinary week-days and in the earlyon Sundays and Feasts At these the celebrant is unassisted except by a server and there is no choir All parts of the Office are consequently said, not sung
Low Sunday--The first Sunday after Easter is the Octave of the Queen of Festivals and is commonly called ”Low Sunday” It is so called froh Festival of Easter Day The same note of holy joy is struck, but lower down on the scale
Luke, Festival of Saint--A Holy Day of the Church observed on October 18 Of the life of St Luke the Evangelist very little is known, but uniting tradition and the referencesparticulars: St Luke was not one of the Apostles and was probably not converted until after the Ascension of our Lord, although one tradition has it that he was one of the two disciples hom our Lord conversed on the road to Einning an eye-witness and minister of the Word He appears to have studied medicine at Antioch, and St Paul, in one of his Epistles, refers to him as ”Luke, the beloved Physician” A late tradition represents him to have been a painter as well as a physician, and he is said to have painted a picture of the Blessed Virgin He was undoubtedly a scholarly and accomplished man To him we are indebted for two of the canonical books--the Gospel which bears his naives more incidents in our Lord's Life than any of the others, and the beauty and {179} exceeding sweetness of his story of the Great Life are enriched with those Gospel hymns which have characterized the Church's worshi+p ever since, viz: Gloria in Excelsis, Benedictus, Magnificat and Nunc Dih Priest, winning by His Sacrifice on the Cross, mercy and pardon for sinners It is for this reason that in ecclesiastical art, St Luke is represented by the winged Ox as setting forth Christ's Atoneh sacrifice
Lych Gate--The word ”lych,” derived frolo-Saxon _lie_, or the German _leiche_, means a body, especially a dead body, a corpse
The terate with a porch or covering, under which a bier may be rested while the introductory portion of the Burial Service is being read Such gates are quite frequently found in England, and occasionally in this country
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Magna Charta--The great doculand at Runnylish liberty and English freedoes of the people were clearly defined and guaranteed In this doculand's Church, and from it we learn how untrue is the popular belief that the Church of England was founded by Henry VIII, {180} for a words are these (in Latin): ”The _Church of England_ shall be free and her liberties unimpaired” We here see The CHURCH OF ENGLAND referred to as a body already existing, in a _State document_ nearly two hundred years before Henry VIII was born, which is truly a suggestive fact to all thoughtful people
Magnificat--The Latin title,after the First Lesson at Daily Evening Prayer It is found in the Gospel of St Luke I:46-56, and is the song of praise which the Blessed Virgin Mary gave utterance to ”at the very season when the Divine overshadowing brought about the Incarnation of the Word”
This beautiful hy service as the daily conificat can be traced as far back as the Fifth Century and it has been used in the English Church at Vespers for over 800 years For sonificat was omitted from the first American Prayer Book set forth in 1789, but at the last revision in 1892 it was restored