Word: priestes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...church--not, now, as men of lofty spirituality alone--but as those clothed with the dignity of established rank. Men followed the clerical claim of apostolic succession and the corollary claims of especial spiritual grace; then came, too, the increased importance of the eucharist as a sacrament and the priest as the only one competent to administer it, and in these claims lay the seeds of clerical supremacy and sacerdotalism, that afterwards bore the full fruit of the exclusive "high church" ideas. The Roman church adopted these ideas and fully expressed them in the Council of Trent; in Germany...
...would be a great boon if a Pastoral History of the Church could be written. It would exhibit the Church in its most attractive and beneficent light, engaged in doing good instead of being a scene of conflict. Chaucer's description of the Parish Priest, supposed to be modelled on Wycliffe, may be taken as a kind of type of the Pastor...
...also in the document called the Didache. Later on we find that what is now the offertory, was a contribution in kind by the wealthier members to a feast of which all partook. This was gradually set aside, until it became a sacrifice offered by a Priest on behalf of the rest. At the Reformation the true idea was only partially restored. We must try to restore the social idea: and the Sacrament should be the centre of an influence which vivifies and sanctifies all our meals and all our social life...
...received four cases of books as a gift from the J. C. Ayer Company of Lowell. These books formed the library of the late Professor Marsigny, a linguist who had been in their employ for about twenty-five years. Professor Marsigny, who was a Belgian, served as a Catholic priest, first in Antwerp and afterwards in England, and was at one time a reader in the Vatican. Soon after coming to the United States, in 1872, he left the priesthood and married. While he was employed by the Ayer Company his principal work was that of translating their almanac...