Encyclopedia - Monk: Encyclopedia - Monk
A monk is a person who practices monasticism, adopting a strict religious and ascetic lifestyle, usually in community with others followi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monk: Encyclopedia Ii - Monk - Anglican Monks
A small but hugely influential aspect of Anglicanism is its religious orders of monks. Shortly after the beginning of the revival of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monk: Encyclopedia Ii - Monk - Vaishnava Monks
Similar in appearance to Buddhist monks, monks from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), or Hare Krishnas as the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Priest: Encyclopedia - Priest
A priest or priestess is a holy man or woman who takes an officiating role in worship of any religion, with the distinguishing characteri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chad Of Mercia: Encyclopedia - Chad Of Mercia
Chad of Mercia (Anglo-Saxon: Ceadda, pronounced "chadda") (died March 2, 672) was a monk and priest in 7th century England. As a youth he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious: Encyclopedia - Religious
There is also a general article on Religion In the lexicon of the Church, especially the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox, religiou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nun: Encyclopedia - Nun
In general, a nun is a female ascetic who chooses to voluntarily leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benedictine: Encyclopedia - Benedictine
A Benedictine is a person who follows the Rule of St Benedict. Such a person may live the Consecrated Life (that is, as a monk or nun acc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clerical Clothing: Encyclopedia - Clerical Clothing
Clerical clothing is non-liturgical clothing worn exclusively by clergy. It is distinct from vestments in that it is not reserved specifi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Monasticism: Encyclopedia - Christian Monasticism
Monasticism in Christianity is a family of similar traditions that began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, modeled...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rule Of St Benedict: Encyclopedia - Rule Of St Benedict
The Rule of St Benedict by Benedict of Nursia (fl. 6th century) is a book of precepts written for monks living in community under the aut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicanism: Encyclopedia - Anglicanism
History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Choir Dress: Encyclopedia - Choir Dress
Choir dress is the vestiture of the clerics, seminarians and religous of traditional churches worn for public prayer apart from the eucha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prayer Beads: Encyclopedia - Prayer Beads
Prayer beads are traditionally used to keep count of the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions. They are used by followers of four ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vestment: Encyclopedia - Vestment
Vestments are liturgical garments and articles associated primarily with the Christian religions, especially the Catholic, Eastern Orthod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosary: Encyclopedia - Rosary
The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, "crown of roses"), an important and traditional devotion of the Catholic Church consisting of a set of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Priest: Encyclopedia Ii - Priest - In Judaism
In Judaism, the Kohanim (singular Kohan or Kohen, whence the family name Cohen) are hereditary priests through paternal descent. These fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Priest: Encyclopedia Ii - Priest - In Christianity
In the Christian context, some confusion is caused for English speakers by two different Greek words traditionally translated as priest. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Priest: Encyclopedia Ii - Priest - Dress
In most Christian traditions, priests wear clerical clothing— a distinctive form of street dress. In form it varies considerably–even...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicanism - Religious Life
A small but hugely influential aspect of Anglicanism is its religious orders of monks and nuns. Shortly after the beginning of the reviva...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Defrocking: Encyclopedia Ii - Defrocking - Eastern Orthodoxy
In Eastern Orthodoxy, the laicization of a clergyman or monk, tied to the infringement of a sacred vow or unrepentant heresy, goes hand i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Defrocking: Encyclopedia Ii - Defrocking - Eastern Orthodoxy
In Eastern Orthodoxy, the laicization of a clergyman or monk, tied to the infringement of a sacred vow or unrepentant heresy, goes hand-i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Morning Prayer: Encyclopedia Ii - Morning Prayer - Origins Of Liturgical Shape
The Breviary in its original monastic context contemplated recitation by two alternating groups of monks or nuns. This evolved into a rec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Monasticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Monasticism - Protestant Monasticism
The tradition of monasticism in the Protestant tradition remotes from John Wyclif who organized the Lollard Preacher Order (the "Poor Pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosary: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosary - Rosaries In Other Faiths
Eastern Christians use similar strings of beads, called "chotki," to pray, although among the Orthodox their use is mainly restricted to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosary: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosary - Rosaries In Other Faiths
Eastern Christians use similar strings of beads, called "chotki," to pray, although among the Orthodox their use is mainly restricted to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ordination Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Ordination Of Women - Buddhism
This ordination of women is currently and historically practised in some Buddhist regions and not in others. The tradition of the ordaine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - My Name Is Legion Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - My Name Is Legion Novel - The Main Characters
The central character of My Name Is Legion is Peter d'Abo, a black youth from (the fictitious area of) Crickleden in South London. 16 yea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures - Buddhism
List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Mahayana. Inei Hōzōin (Zen) - Vagabond Genjyo Sanzo - Saiyuki Mikihisa Asakura ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures - Fictional Religions
List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Yevonism from Final Fantasy X. Maesters are considered equivalent of cardinals, with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures - Shinto
List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Priests. Rei Hino's grandfather ("Jī-chan") - Sailor Moon Kagome's grandfather ("Jī...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures - Christianity
List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Roman Catholic Church. Adso of Melk (Benedictine)- The Name of the Rose novel & ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Monasticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Monasticism - Nature Of Monasticism
Christian monasticism was and continued to be a lay condition—monks depended on a local parish church for the sacraments. However, if t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oblate Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Oblate Religion - Origins
Oblate has had various particular uses at different periods in the history of the Church. The children vowed and given by their parents t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicanism - Churchmanship
Anglicanism has always been characterised by diversity in theology and the ceremonial (or lack thereof) of the liturgy. Different individ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culdee: Encyclopedia Ii - Culdee - Early Beginnings
It was long fondly imagined by Protestant and especially by Presbyterian writers that they had preserved primitive Christianity free from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicanism - Churches
Anglicanism is most commonly identified with the established Church of England, but Anglican churches exist in most parts of the world. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicanism - Doctrine
Anglicans look for authority (in the formula of Richard Hooker) in Scripture, Tradition (the practices and writings of the historical chu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicanism - Social Issues
A question of whether or not Christianity is a pacifist religion has remained a matter of debate for Anglicans. In 1937, the Anglican Pac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rule Of St Benedict: Encyclopedia Ii - Rule Of St Benedict - Origins
Christian monasticism first appeared in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire a few generations before Benedict, in the Egyptian desert. U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - The Synod Of Whitby
King Oswiu chose Hilda's monastery as the venue for the Synod of Whitby, the first synod of the Church in his kingdom. He invited churchm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rule Of St Benedict: Encyclopedia Ii - Rule Of St Benedict - Outline Of The Benedictine Life
St Benedict's model for the monastic life was the family, with the abbot as father and all the monks as brothers. Priesthood was not init...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hairshirt: Encyclopedia Ii - Hairshirt - History
The Latin word for hairshirt is cilicium, and the reputed first Scriptural use of the term in the Latin scriptures is in the Vulgate of P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosary: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosary - Rosary Beads
A set of Rosary beads usually contains 50 beads in groups of ten (a decade), with an additional large bead before each decade. Some beads...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prayer Beads: Encyclopedia Ii - Prayer Beads - Christianity
The Desert Fathers (third-fifth century) used knotted ropes to count prayers, typically the Jesus Prayer ("Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosary: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosary - Origins Of The Rosary
It is said that when Roman explorers came into India and encountered the Japa mala, they heard jap mala instead of japa mala. Jap means "...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicanism - Leadership
The Archbishop of Canterbury has a precedence of honour over the other archbishops of the Anglican Communion. He is recognised as primus ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosary: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosary - Days Of Recitation
For groups who say the Luminous Mysteries The Joyful Mysteries are recited on Mondays and Saturdays. The Luminous are recited on Thursda...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ordination Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Ordination Of Women - Judaism
Jewish tradition and law does not presume that women have more or less of an aptitude or moral standing required of rabbis. However, it h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ordination Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Ordination Of Women - Islam
Although Muslims do not formally ordain religious leaders, the imam serves as a spiritual leader and religious authority. There is a curr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clerical Celibacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Clerical Celibacy - Background
In some Christian churches, priests and/or bishops must remain unmarried, while in others, married men may be ordained as deacons or prie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rule Of St Benedict: Encyclopedia Ii - Rule Of St Benedict - Intended Readership
The Prologue of St Benedict's Rule opens with the words: "Listen [carefully], o son" (Obsculta/Ausculta, o fili), an allusion to an impor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - Sources Of Information
Our only source of information about Hilda is The Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and People, written by the Venerable Bede ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - St Hilda's Baptism
In 627 King Edwin was baptised on Easter Day, 12th April, along with his court, which included Hilda, in a small wooden church hastily co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - Monastic Life At Whitby
On the east cliff at Whitby stands the impressive remains of a 12th century Benedictine abbey. This is not, of course, the building which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - Sources Of Information
Image:Wood-carving-of-saint-hilda.jpg Our only source of information about Hilda is The Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oblate Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Oblate Religion - Oblates Today
Oblate religion - Oblates secular. In modern practice, many Benedictine communities have a greater or smaller number of Oblates (secula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dissolution Of The Monasteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissolution Of The Monasteries - Process
Henry had himself declared Supreme Head of the Church of England in February 1531. In April 1533 an Act in Restraint of Appeals, eliminat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dissolution Of The Monasteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissolution Of The Monasteries - Process
Henry had himself declared Supreme Head of the Church of England in February 1531. In April 1533 an Act in Restraint of Appeals eliminate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Clergy - Christian Clergy
Clergy - Catholic clergy. Ordained Catholic clergymen are deacons, priests, or bishops, i.e., they belong to the diaconate, the presbyt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Holy Orders: Encyclopedia Ii - Holy Orders - Episcopal Concept Of Ordination
The episcopal (from the Greek episkopos, meaning "overseer" and from which we get the word "bishop") form of church government is followe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Holy Orders: Encyclopedia Ii - Holy Orders - Episcopal Concept Of Ordination
The episcopal (from the Greek episkopos, meaning "overseer" and from which we get the word "bishop") form of church government is followe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shirley London: Encyclopedia Ii - Shirley London - Description
Until the 1930s Shirley consisted of a few hamlets between farms and the estates of large houses. These included Spring Park, Monks Orcha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vestment: Encyclopedia Ii - Vestment - Roman Catholic, Anglican, And Protestant Vestments
For the Eucharist, each vestment symbolizes a spiritual dimension of the priesthood, with roots in the very origins of the Church. In som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vestment: Encyclopedia Ii - Vestment - Roman Catholic Anglican And Protestant Vestments
For the Eucharist, each vestment symbolizes a spiritual dimension of the priesthood, with roots in the very origins of the Church. In som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosary: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosary - The Mysteries
The recitation of the Rosary is traditionally dedicated to one of three sets of "Mysteries" to be said in sequence, one per night: the Jo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Choir Dress: Encyclopedia Ii - Choir Dress - Roman Catholic Choir Dress
Choir dress in the Roman Catholic Church is worn when attending a liturgy that is not the Mass, especially the liturgy of the hours, or, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culdee: Encyclopedia Ii - Culdee - Culdee In Fiction
Culdee is the name of a locomotive on the fictional Culdee Fell Mountain Railway in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry. The railway and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Susan Howatch: Encyclopedia Ii - Susan Howatch - The Starbridge Series
Howatch's most popular work is the Starbridge series. This series of six books sets out to tell the history of the Church of England thro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infant Communion: Encyclopedia Ii - Infant Communion - History
In the Early Church, everyone who attended the full Mass was expected to receive the Eucharist; catechumens and penitents were not presen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop Of Chester: Encyclopedia Ii - Bishop Of Chester - Earliest Times
Chester at various periods in its history had a bishop and a cathedral, though till the early sixteenth century only intermittently. Even...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westminster School: Encyclopedia Ii - Westminster School - History
The School originally became a public school (and so available to all members of the public, provided that they could pay for tuition cos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Holy Orders: Encyclopedia Ii - Holy Orders - Ordination Of Women
Many, but not all, denominations in Christendom allow the ordination of women. Notable denominations who ordain women in the USA include ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dissolution Of The Monasteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissolution Of The Monasteries - Process
Henry had himself declared Supreme Head of the Church of England in February 1531. In April 1533 an Act in Restraint of Appeals eliminate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosary: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosary - Types Of Rosaries
Some national variations in terms of prayers used and structure occur in the form of the recitation of the Rosary. Rosary - One frequent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ordination Of Women: Encyclopedia Ii - Ordination Of Women - Christianity
Ordination of women - Roman Catholic Church. The ordination of women is much discussed in the Roman Catholic Church today, as vocations...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicanism - Origins
See also: History of the Church of England While Anglicans acknowledge that the schism from papal authority under Henry VIII of England l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clerical Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Clerical Clothing - Catholicism
Cassock: A long-sleeved, hoodless garment most often made of lightweight black fabric. Cassocks are generally ankle-length. Clergy Shirt:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infant Communion: Encyclopedia Ii - Infant Communion - Protestant Denominations
Many Mainline Protestants practice open communion, in which the Eucharist is offered to people without discrimination of age or denominat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Clergy - Christian Clergy
Clergy - Catholic clergy. Ordained Catholic clergymen are deacons, priests, or bishops, i.e., they belong to the diaconate, the presbyt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clerical Celibacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Clerical Celibacy - Celibacy In The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), pastors, or "ordained ministers," must live in either opposite-sex marriage or celi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hilda Of Whitby: Encyclopedia Ii - Hilda Of Whitby - St Hilda's Three Monasteries
We do not know where Hilda began her life as a nun, except that is was on the north bank of the River Wear. Here, with a few companions s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infant Communion: Encyclopedia Ii - Infant Communion - Eastern Orthodoxy
In the Orthodox Church, any person of any age receives the Eucharist as soon as possible after their baptism and chrismation, usually at ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Pinkie Cleugh: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Pinkie Cleugh - Aftermath
Although they had suffered a resounding defeat, the Scottish government refused to come to terms. The infant Queen Mary was smuggled out ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - My Name Is Legion Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - My Name Is Legion Novel - The Title Of The Novel
"My name is Legion" is a quotation from the Gospel according to Mark. In Chapter 5, we are told that Jesus and his disciples encounter a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Catholic Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Catholic Church - The Consecrated Life
Consecrated Life, referred to also as Religious Life, is a way of Christian living within the Catholic Church that, publicly professed, i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Execution By Burning: Encyclopedia Ii - Execution By Burning - Historical Usage
Burning was used as a means of execution in many ancient societies. According to ancient reports, Roman authorities executed many of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Total Depravity: Encyclopedia Ii - Total Depravity - Objections To The Doctrine
There are many Christian groups that disagree with this interpretation of the Bible and of Augustine. Writing against the monk Pelagius, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dissolution Of The Monasteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissolution Of The Monasteries - Consequences
The abbeys of England, Wales and Ireland had been among the greatest land-owners and the largest institutions in the kingdom. Particularl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dissolution Of The Monasteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissolution Of The Monasteries - Consequences
The abbeys of England, Wales and Ireland had been among the greatest landowners and the largest institutions in the kingdom. Particularly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dissolution Of The Monasteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissolution Of The Monasteries - Consequences
The abbeys of England, Wales and Ireland had been among the greatest landowners and the largest institutions in the kingdom. Particularly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culdee: Encyclopedia Ii - Culdee - High Middle Ages
The features of their life in Scotland, which is the most important epoch in the history of the order, seem to resemble closely those of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Holy Orders: Encyclopedia Ii - Holy Orders - Ordination Of Homosexuals
Holy Orders - Judaism. The ordination of homosexuals as Rabbis is an issue being dealt with in nearly all sects of Judaism. Often this ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dissolution Of The Monasteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissolution Of The Monasteries - Context
These processes should be seen against the larger background of the Protestant Reformation taking place in continental Europe, with a sin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dissolution Of The Monasteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dissolution Of The Monasteries - Context
These processes should be seen against the larger background of the Protestant Reformation taking place in continental Europe, with a sin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Holy Orders: Encyclopedia Ii - Holy Orders - Ordination Of Women
Many, but not all, denominations in Christendom allow the ordination of women. Notable denominations who ordain women in the USA include ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Holy Orders: Encyclopedia Ii - Holy Orders - Ordination Of Homosexuals
Holy Orders - Judaism. The ordination of homosexuals as Rabbis is an issue being dealt with in nearly all sects of Judaism. Often this ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monk: Encyclopedia Ii - Monk - Eastern Orthodox Monks
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, monasticism holds a very special and important place. Far more common than in the Roman Catholic Church, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monk: Encyclopedia Ii - Monk - Roman Catholic Monks
In the Roman Catholic Church the process of becoming a monk is marked by several distinct stages, which may vary depending on the particu...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Iv - M
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages IV - M . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. ...   » Read the article