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Palm Sunday

Christ into Jerusalem when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way The event is commemorated in Christian churches by distribution of blessed palm leaves

Pastorium

A parsonage so called in some Baptist churches

Pax

of peace also the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches

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Pericope

or extract from a book especially Theol a selection from the Bible appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon

of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling Also used

Provost

of other cities the provost of a college answering to president the provost or head of certain collegiate churches

Sanctus

A part of the Mass or in Protestant churches a part of the communion service of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus sanctus sanctus Holy

Act of uniformity

14 Car. 2, c. 4 (1662), which enacts that the Prayer Book, scheduled thereto, shall be used in churches, and applies as to such Book the penalties of the earlier Acts of Uniformity, 2 & 3 Edw.

Wax Scot

Wax Scot [fr. cerarium, Lat.], duty anciently paid twice a year towards the charge of wax candles in churches.

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