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Catechise. Ministers of the Church of England, by Canon 59, headed 'Ministers to catechise every Sunday,' are directed 'upon every Sunday and holy-day, before Evening Prayer' 'for half an hour or more' to 'examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons' of their parishes 'in the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Belief and in the Lord's Prayer,' on pain of sharp reproof upon the first complaint for neglect of duty, suspension for the second offence, and, 'there being little hope that the minister will be therein reformed', of excommunication for the third, to continue until reformation; and see also the Rubrics subjoined in the Prayer Book to the Church Catechism.