Rites Of Ordination

Paul Bradshaw, one of the world's foremost scholars on the history of Christian liturgy, has shared this expertise in several works that have become standard texts for students of liturgy. In Rites of Ordination, Bradshaw turns his attention to the ways that Christians through the ages have understood what it means to ordain someone as a minister and how that has been expressed in liturgical practice. Bradshaw considers the typological background to ordained ministry some have drawn from the Old Testament and what ministry meant to the earliest Christian communities. He explores the ordination rites and theology of the early church, the Christian East, the medieval West, the churches of the Reformation, and the post-Tridentine Roman Catholic Church. Rites of Ordination promises to serve as an enriching resource for seminary students, students of liturgy and church history, and anyone fascinated by the history and theology of Christian liturgy and ministry.

A unique situation exists in the Nordic countries where there is a Lutheran majority living in ecumenical cooperation with other churches and ecclesiastical communities. This book attempts to shed light on what the churches have discovered they hold in common and on areas where they recognise that there are divergencies between them, both in relation to ordination and ministry, and in particular to the theology and terminology of ordination. The book brings together the research and insights of 23 researchers from all the Nordic countries studying more than 200 different kinds of 'ordination' rites from the Orthodox and Roman Catholic as well as Lutheran and non-Lutheran protestant traditions. After an introduction to the churches in the Nordic countries, the book presents 19 case studies from the Nordic countries. The last part includes some general ecumenical and liturgical perspectives on ordination and rites presented by international researchers.

A study of the early texts in ordination to the offices of greatest antiquity in the Christian churches of East and West. These offices include bishop, presbyter, deacon, deaconess, subdeacon, acolyte and reader. The author introduces the primary sources of the texts and outlines the nuclear structure of the ordination ritual and comments on the prayers and ceremonies proper to each order. Then in the second part of the book, he offers English translations of the texts available.

First published in 1877, this book provides the ordination rites for all the minor orders and major orders up to priesthood. Also included are insights into where each ordination occurs during the Holy Mass.

The Process of Admission to Ordained Ministry: A Comparative Study Volume I

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...potest, esse deberent. Quo facto, tam Pontifex, quam Sacerdotes, tenent manus dexteras cxtensas super illos. Et Pontifex stans cum mitra, dicit: OREMUS, fratres carissimi, Deum Patrem omnipotentem, ut super hos famulos suos, quos ad Presbyterii munus elegit, ccelestia dona multiplicet; et quod ejus dignati6ne suscipiunt, ipsius consequantur auxilio. Per Christum D6minum nostrum. R-Amen. Tum Pontifex tum sacerdotes qui adstant, vix facta impositione utriusque manus, statim dexteras manus extendunt easque sic extensas tenent donee Episcopus orationem absolvent. S. R. C. 31 Augusti 1872. Vide aliam Not am in Appendice. that neither we may be condemned by the Lord for promoting you to so high an office, nor you for receiving it, but both may rather be deemed worthy of a reward; which may He Himself grant us through His grace. R. Amen. If no Subdeacons or Deacons are to be ordained, the Litany is said, as in the ordination of Subdeacons, (p. 30). Then all arise, the candidates come forward, two by two, and while they kneel, the Bishop standing before the faldstool with his mitre on, and without saying any prayer whatsoever, lays both hands on the head of each one. After this, all the priests who are present, three or more of whom, if convenient, should wear chasubles or at least stoles, do the same. Next, the Bishop and all the priests raise their right hands and hold them extended over the candidates, while the Bishop standing with his mitre on, says: LET us, dearly beloved brethren, beseech God the Father Almighty to multiply His heavenly gifts on these His servants, whom He has chosen for the office of Priesthood and enable them to fulfil by His help, what they undertake through His favor. Through Christ our Lord. R. Amen. Both the Bishop..