Word: subdeacon
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Piecing together the accompanying profiles on the country's leading TV pastors was Staff Writer Sara Medina who, like Ostling, plays an active role in her New York City church. She serves regularly as a subdeacon at Calvary/ St. George's Episcopal Church, which she has attended since 1982. It is not the first time she has collaborated with Ostling. In 1977-78, years that saw a dramatic upsurge in U.S. Evangelical Protestantism and the death of two Popes, she was the reporter-researcher in the Religion section...
...Bring out whatever scriptures you have got," commanded Felix, after his men had collected all the evidence they could find. A subdeacon brought only one large book, explaining that the lectors kept the rest. Felix . . . said to them: "Identify the lectors." They said: "We do not know where they are." Felix said to them: ". . . Tell us their names." [The sub-deacons'] said: "We are not informers. Here we stand. Command us to be executed." Felix said: "Put them under arrest...
...will lose their military rank. German citizens living in foreign countries are still liable for conscription. Pure-blooded Jews, criminals and the morally unfit are excluded from active service. The only ones exempted from military service are candidates for the Catholic priesthood who have already received at least a subdeacon's ordination. Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have an equal chance at an officer's commission. Thus a new order of self-made soldiers will be introduced into the old Army setup of Kaiser Wilhelm...
...burning- the Bishops. Each was vested in a magnificent cope secured with a jewel-crusted clasp and held open, on the right and left, by two deacons of honor. Each Bishop wore a mitre. The celebrant passed in a rich red damask chasuble, followed by a deacon and a subdeacon in dalmatic and tunic. Last of all came the bishop of the diocese, the Right Reverend Chauncey B. Brewster, preceded by cross and candles and by his chaplain bearing the golden pastoral staff, emblem of his tenure. They proceeded between the lines of people up to the high altar, which...
There was a long procession. Censers swung continually. The celebrant of the mass was censed. So was the 'deacon and the subdeacon. The Gospel was held by the subdeacon, with two taper bearers on either hand, and was read by the deacon, first on one side of the altar and then on the other. The Bishop's ring was kissed. The Bishop and sacred ministers were censed. The sacred host and chalice were raised high at the sound of the sacring bell. Before the altar the ministers were prostrate, while kneeling acolytes elevated waxen tapers that flamed. Then...
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