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... Roman Catho- lic it occasionally shows , as might be expected , some marked leanings . For the rest , the writer was com- pelled to search in encyclopædias , and books on liturgics , most of which , however , contain only dry - as ...
... Roman Catho- lic it occasionally shows , as might be expected , some marked leanings . For the rest , the writer was com- pelled to search in encyclopædias , and books on liturgics , most of which , however , contain only dry - as ...
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... Roman Calendars - Anno Domini , or the Year of Our Lord - Why not adopted till the Year 541 - Dionysius Exiguus - What we owe to Julius Cæsar - Error of the Cal- endar in A. D. 1582- " New Style " adopted by Churches in Communion with ...
... Roman Calendars - Anno Domini , or the Year of Our Lord - Why not adopted till the Year 541 - Dionysius Exiguus - What we owe to Julius Cæsar - Error of the Cal- endar in A. D. 1582- " New Style " adopted by Churches in Communion with ...
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... - Some Peculiarities of the Roman and Oriental Calendars .. 124 APPENDIX THE LITURGICAL COLORS . 131 LEADING QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW OR EXAMINATION ... 133 INDEX ... 137 THE CHRISTIAN YEAR ITS PURPOSE AND ITS HISTORY CHAPTER I xiv CONTENTS.
... - Some Peculiarities of the Roman and Oriental Calendars .. 124 APPENDIX THE LITURGICAL COLORS . 131 LEADING QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW OR EXAMINATION ... 133 INDEX ... 137 THE CHRISTIAN YEAR ITS PURPOSE AND ITS HISTORY CHAPTER I xiv CONTENTS.
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... Romans , all had their festivals and fasts . The people of Israel had a ritual year by divine direction and particular ordinances . Nor are such observances confined to religious systems . Even civil governments , modern as well as ...
... Romans , all had their festivals and fasts . The people of Israel had a ritual year by divine direction and particular ordinances . Nor are such observances confined to religious systems . Even civil governments , modern as well as ...
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... Romans do . " 3 Another fact to be borne in mind in regard to the observance of Sunday as well as other festivals of ... Roman law recog- nized no weekly rest day for other nations . Gentile Christians therefore would naturally feel it ...
... Romans do . " 3 Another fact to be borne in mind in regard to the observance of Sunday as well as other festivals of ... Roman law recog- nized no weekly rest day for other nations . Gentile Christians therefore would naturally feel it ...
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Page 82 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name ; evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory : Glory be to thee, 0 Lord Most High.
Page 86 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward: O ! why should heavenly God to men have such regard?
Page 124 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 39 - It is evident unto all men, diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Page 70 - WHEN God of old came down from Heaven, In power and wrath He came ; Before His feet the clouds were riven, Half darkness and half flame. Around the trembling mountain's base The prostrate people lay ; A day of wrath, and not of grace ; A dim and dreadful day.
Page 38 - Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the holy Scripture we do understand those canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church.
Page 118 - AT length the worst is o'er, and Thou art laid Deep in Thy darksome bed ; All still and cold beneath yon dreary stone Thy sacred form is gone ; Around those lips where power and mercy hung, The dews of death have clung ; The dull earth o'er Thee, and Thy foes around, Thou sleep'st a silent corse, in funeral fetters wound.
Page 122 - O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.
Page 22 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 115 - Lamb's high feast we sing Praise to our victorious King, Who hath washed us in the tide Flowing from His pierced side ; Praise we Him, Whose love divine Gives His sacred blood for wine, Gives His body for the feast, Christ the victim, Christ the priest.