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Uniformity, Act of
Uniformity, Act of, (English) 14 Car. 2, c. 4, 'for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19, 1662 and came into operation on August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History).After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King, its approval by the two Convocations, and stating that 'nothing more conduceth to the peace of this nation, nor to the honour of our religion and the propagation thereof, than an universal agreement in the public worship of Almighty God.' The Act directs that:All and singular ministers in any cathedral, collegiate or parish church or chapel or other place of public worship within this realm of England, d...
Liturgy
Liturgy [fr., Gk., a public service], the Book of Common Prayer used in the Established Church, as confirmed by the (English) Act of Uniformity (14 Car. 2, c. 4). Consult Wheatleyon the Book of Common Prayer.The (English) Prayer Book (Table of Lessons) Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 37), passed 'to amend the law relating to the Table of Lessons and Psalter contained in the Prayer-Book,' provides a new Table of Lessons, and the Act of (English) Uniformity Amendment Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 35), provides 'a shortened form of Morning and Evening Prayer.' An alternative Table of Lessons has been provided by the (English) Revised Tables of Lessons Measure, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo.5, No. 3). See ACTOF UNIFORMITY....
Ornaments rubric
Ornaments rubric, that rubric of the Prayer Book which directs just before the Order for Morning Prayer that--Such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all times of their Ministration shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England by the Authority of Parliament in the Second Year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth.The meaning of this rubric has been declared by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to be that 'vestments' of ministers as celebrates cannot be worn, though prescribed by the First Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth, which had the authority of the First Act of Uniformity (2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 1; see Clifton v. Ridsdale, (1877) 2 PD 276; but that judgment has been the subject of much contro-versy. See Whitehead's Church Law, tit. 'Vestments'; Talbot on Ritual; Encyclop'dia of the Laws of England, tit. 'Vestments'; Lely on the Church of England Position, p. 148....
Banns of marriage
Banns of marriage. 'Banns' is the plural of 'Bann' or 'Ban,' an edict or prohibition. The Prayer Book of 1662 directed banns of marriage to be published in church 'three several Sundays or Holy Days immediately before the sentences for the offertory' (this was in the Rubric prefixed to the Form of Solemnisation), but also after the Nicene Creed, together with many other notices separated from those sentences by the sermon (this direction was in the Rubric following the Nicene Creed, and the two directions do not seem quite consistent). In 1753 (English) Lord Hardwicke's Act (26 Geo. 2, c. 33), directed publication during morning service, or evening service if there be no morning service, immediately after the Second Lesson; and about 1809 the Rubrics were altered by the king's printers of their own motion to bring them into agreement with Lord Hardwicke's Act, which, however, may possibly have referred in its alteration to the evening service only. The (English) Marriage Act, 1823 (4 G...
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
Lessons, table of
Lessons, table of, see the (English) Prayer Book (Table of Lessons) Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 37), whereby the use of a revised table of Lessons to be read in church was authorised and directed to be inserted in the Prayer Book in lieu of the existing table; and the Revised Tables of Lessons Measure, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, No. 3), which provides an alternative table....
Catechise
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....
Act of uniformity
Act of uniformity, means any of several 16th and 17th Century acts mandating uniform religious practices in England and Ireland, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 35.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. 6, c. 1 (1548), 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 1 (1551), and 1 Eliz. C. 2 (1558). See UNIFORMITY....
Rubric
Rubric, directions printed in books of law and in prayer-books, so termed because they were originally distinguished by red ink.1. The title of a statute or code 2. A category or designation 3. An authoritative rule for conducting a public worship service, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1330....
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