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Originally posted by Ecclesiastical Flip-flop:
I am a long-standing member of GSS; the pejorative reference to Serpents is a new one on me.

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I think it's closely related to its Roman cousin, the sanctuary lizard

Thank you

Triple
 

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Posted by Manipled Mutineer (# 11514) on :
 
I've seen it (the "serpents" reference) used on another board but may have misunderstood how common it was - I hope I haven't caused any offence.

I'm holding off proposing any more definitions so as not to add to the hosts' job if the thread is closed and added to DJ_Ordinaire's, but I'd like to have a crack at a few more at some point; the FCP, for example, to go with DJ_O's reference to the SCP, SSPX, SSPV and so on.

[ 08. November 2007, 11:09: Message edited by: Manipled Mutineer ]
 

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Posted by Audry Ely (# 12665) on :
 
Will these definitions be stored on the site alphabetically, or will one be obliged to search this discussion?

The former would be ideal.

Thank you,

Audrey
 

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Posted by Triple Tiara (# 9556) on :
 
Are you volunteering to do the alphabetical sorting?

Thank you

Triple
 

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Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :
 
FiF/Forward in Faith: A movement within Anglicanism (primarily Anglo-Catholic) that cannot accept the ordination of women to the priesthood or the episcopate and seeks a structural provision within the Church

1970 Missal is something I tend to use to mean the Ordinary Form of the Mass

Thank you

Thurible
 

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Posted by Manipled Mutineer (# 11514) on :
 
AE - I suspect the latter, but if the former proves possible I will be happy to help out.
 

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Posted by Archimandrite (# 3997) on :
 
Further to reference works (no, I can't believe I'm posting this either):

Monsignor (now Bishop) Peter J Elliot, Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite

- An updating of Fortescue (cf) for the Ordinary (1970) form of the Roman Rite.

Further to Priestly Societies (Anglican)

FCP Federation of Catholic Priests. Established in 1917, with a particular emphasis on promoting Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament. To-day, not unlike SSC, but somewhat smaller. Restricted to male priests of Traditional Integrity.

SCP Society of Catholic Priests. Founded in 1994, and considered as the priestly arm of Affirming Catholicism. Open to men and women. The current Archbishop of Canterbury is a member and patron.

OGS Oratory of the Good Shepherd. Founded in 1913 at the University of Cambridge. Open to celibate men, ordained and lay, bound by a common rule and discipline, who do not normally live together, but meet regularly. There is a sister organisation, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, open to women, ordained and lay.
 

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Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 
People might like to know that Mystery Worshipper dictionary still exists in Oblivion.

Jengie
 

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Posted by Carys (# 78) on :
 

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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
People might like to know that Mystery Worshipper dictionary still exists in Oblivion.

Jengie

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SCP Society of Catholic Priests. Founded in 1994, and considered as the priestly arm of Affirming Catholicism.

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Originally posted by Saint Chad:

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Originally posted by Archimandrite:
SCP Society of Catholic Priests. Founded in 1994, and considered as the priestly arm of Affirming Catholicism.

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Considered as such by whom?

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Originally posted by Archimandrite:

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Originally posted by Saint Chad:

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Originally posted by Archimandrite:
SCP Society of Catholic Priests. Founded in 1994, and considered as the priestly arm of Affirming Catholicism.

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Considered as such by whom?

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Whoever wrote the Wikipedia article I nicked all the other information from.

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SCP has many members who also belong to Affirming Catholicism,
and the two societies are seen as complimentary. Affirming Catholicism
has a broad membership, both lay and ordained, and sometimes engages
in campaigning upon issues which are at the heart of Anglican controversy,
for example the consecration of women and questions of human sexuality.
While SCP members belong to a variety of organisations which undertake
campaigning this is not currently felt to be the raison d’etre of SCP, which
focuses on priestly support and formation for its members. There is a
reciprocal agreement between SCP and Affirming Catholicism, with an
executive member of each being nominated by the other group. Thus two
people are members of both executives.

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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
People might like to know that Mystery Worshipper dictionary still exists in Oblivion.

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Originally posted by Late Paul:

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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
People might like to know that Mystery Worshipper dictionary still exists in Oblivion.

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Sadly, it appears the links are all dead though.

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Originally posted by Manipled Mutineer:

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Originally posted by Archimandrite:

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Originally posted by Saint Chad:

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Originally posted by Archimandrite:
SCP Society of Catholic Priests. Founded in 1994, and considered as the priestly arm of Affirming Catholicism.

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Considered as such by whom?

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Whoever wrote the Wikipedia article I nicked all the other information from.

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To quote from the Short History of SPC, downloadable from its website:

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SCP has many members who also belong to Affirming Catholicism,
and the two societies are seen as complimentary. Affirming Catholicism
has a broad membership, both lay and ordained, and sometimes engages
in campaigning upon issues which are at the heart of Anglican controversy,
for example the consecration of women and questions of human sexuality.
While SCP members belong to a variety of organisations which undertake
campaigning this is not currently felt to be the raison d’etre of SCP, which
focuses on priestly support and formation for its members. There is a
reciprocal agreement between SCP and Affirming Catholicism, with an
executive member of each being nominated by the other group. Thus two
people are members of both executives.

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It sounds - to an outsider - not unlike the relationship between FinF and the SSC.

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Originally posted by Saint Chad:
As an insider ie, as one of the members of SCP who is also a member of AffCath, I'd say to infer from this that SCP is the "priestly arm of Affirming Catholicism" is getting 5 from 2+2. I can think of one or two of my sisters and brothers in SCP who would be out like a shot if they thought that this was the case.

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Originally posted by Carys:
Talking to my new DDO this evening I was reminded of why I view SCP as the priestly wing of AffCath -- it was the effect of attending the AffCath Vocations conference last year which was run by members of SCP.

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Originally posted by Late Paul:

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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
People might like to know that Mystery Worshipper dictionary still exists in Oblivion.

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Sadly, it appears the links are all dead though.

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The trouble with the links is that they were links to posts in the same thread, but because the thread has moved from MW/Eccles to Oblivion its address has changed.

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Originally posted by Archimandrite:

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Originally posted by Saint Chad:

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Originally posted by Archimandrite:
SCP Society of Catholic Priests. Founded in 1994, and considered as the priestly arm of Affirming Catholicism.

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Considered as such by whom?

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Whoever wrote the Wikipedia article I nicked all the other information from.

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Originally posted by Liturgy Queen:
what precisely constitutes a sodality?

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Its a little bit smaller than a moiety, a little bit bigger than a camarilla
 

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Posted by Hare today (# 12974) on :
 

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Originally posted by ken:

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Originally posted by Liturgy Queen:
what precisely constitutes a sodality?

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Its a little bit smaller than a moiety, a little bit bigger than a camarilla

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Originally posted by dj_ordinaire:
And how big does it have to be before it can become an archsodality?

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Originally posted by Hart:
Motivated by my use of it in Purg just twenty minutes earlier, or are great minds thinking alike at the mo?

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Originally posted by Hart:
Of course, "middle of the road" itself requires a huge amount of definition. It often means either something like, "nowhere near anything I'd like, but nowhere near the things the people I don't like like either," or just "nowhere near the things the people I don't like like."

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Originally posted by Manipled Mutineer:
Thus amply demonstrating why I didn't attempt a more ambitious definition [of MOTR]...

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Originally posted by ken:
... every single one of them is addicted to at least one egregiously weird liturgical practicet that 98% of all known Anglicans would find at best innovative and more likely actively heretical.

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At the Cathedral in the Market Place we have a service of 'Compline and "Eucharistic Devotions"'. We're not allowed to call it Benediction as that would be illegal, despite there being little (or no) difference between the two.
 

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Posted by Carys (# 78) on :
 
On his thread What is a sursum corda and why should I wear one? Radical Whig posted:

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Originally posted by RadicalWhig:
Reading through various Mystery Worshipper reports, I have noticed that high-church folks seem to have an ecclessiastical vocabulary which is lost on me.

Take the following as an example:

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I would call it a missa cantata. The Kyrie, gloria, collects, creed, sursum corda and preface, sanctus, and Lord's Prayer were chanted to unfamiliar tunes (well, the sursum corda and preface were familiar, but with embellishments). During a long, chant-like hymn between gospel and sermon, the minister removed his chasuble, preaching only in alb and stole. The sacred elements were elevated at the consecration and again at the great amen. At communion no one sipped from the chalice, but rather everyone intincted, including the minister.

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I can work out "missa cantata" (sung mass?) and I have a vague idea what Kyrie and Gloria are (songs about mercy and glory?). Collects and creeds I know, and the Lord's Prayer speaks for itself. But what on earth are a "sursum corda", a "preface" and a "sanctus"?

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The Sursum Corda is the series of response at the start of the Eucharistic prayer which includes Lift up your hearts/We lift the to the Lord. It is from the Latin for the first part of that. The preface is the part of the Eucharist prayer between that and the Sanctus (from the Latin again). The proper preface is that part which is `proper' to the day -- so for instance there's a part you use at Christmas which is different from the one used at Easter etc.

The Kyrie (from the Greek) is for the Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy/Lord have mercy (Kyrie being the Gk for Lord). The Gloria[i] is either the [i]Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the Highest) a hymn of praise sung near the start of the Communion service (or at the end if you're following the 1662 BCP) or the Gloria Patri (Glory be to the Father Son & Holy Ghost etc) used at the end of psalms and canticles (like psalms but from other biblical books). Context usually determines which. The Sanctus is the Holy Holy Holy again from its first word in Latin.

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• Kyrie Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy Lord have mercy[/i]. Can be 3, 6 or 9 fold (i.e say each line once, twice or thrice).
• Gloria [in exclesis] Glory be to God on high (See this entry from Yale
• Credo The [Nicene] Creed -- We/I believe in one God, the Father Almighty etc etc.
• Sanctus Holy Holy Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest (Modern version as that's what I remembered first!)
• Benedictus [qui venit] Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the Highest (usually sung immediately after the Sanctus.
• Agnus Dei Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us (x2) Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace.

This are the `movements' you'll find in a choral Latin Mass. There are often sung (congregationally or chorally) in church today, although in my experience the Credo is rarely sung in Modern language. Settings are generally referred to by their composer and if they wrote more than one the Key or the place for whom it was commissioned. So Merbecke is the `trad' Anglican setting for the BCP texts. Darke in F is another setting and one might also talk about Howells Coll Reg (written for King's College, Cambridge).

*I.e. those texts which stay the same week by week rather than being proper to the day
 

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Posted by Matt Black (# 2210) on :
 
Is 'Central' another way of saying 'MOTR'?

[PS - I thought the Sanctus included the Benedictus? ]

[ 30. November 2007, 11:44: Message edited by: Matt Black ]
 

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Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :
 
Central tends to be more old-fashioned that MOTR, I'd say, and more theologically conservative.

The Sanctus and the Benedictus are sung together and, indeed, appended to each other but aren't actually the same thing.

Thurible
 

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Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :
 

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Originally posted by Thurible:
Central tends to be more old-fashioned that MOTR, I'd say, and more theologically conservative.

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Originally posted by Angloid:
If anything it's the difference between 'old-fashioned' central (surplice and stole, Mattins at 11.00) and more modern (Parish Communion, 1970s style vestments).

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Originally posted by Liturgy Queen:

(See, for example, St Paul's, Bloor Street, which is closest to what's being described here as "central", but is one of the bastions of Protestantism in the diocese).

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Originally posted by Carys:

• Benedictus [qui venit] Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the Highest (usually sung immediately after the Sanctus.

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Originally posted by Martin L:

2. Benedictus as in Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel, a New Testament canticle found at Luke 1: 68-79; appointed to be sung at Morning Prayer. In the office, it is closed with the Gloria Patri, and often preceded and followed by antiphons such as the Great O Antiphons.

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Originally posted by Angloid:
Surely the Great O's are used with the Magnificat at Evening Prayer?

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Originally posted by Liturgy Queen:
Ahh. Whereas over here, if it doesn't, it usually isn't Anglican.

But then affirming_thurifer is always telling me that Canada is a liberal catholic province.

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Originally posted by TheMightyMartyr:

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Originally posted by Liturgy Queen:
Ahh. Whereas over here, if it doesn't, it usually isn't Anglican.

But then affirming_thurifer is always telling me that Canada is a liberal catholic province.

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I don't think you could say we are a liberal catholic province... liberal yes, not so sure about the catholic part, parish communion movement did well here, I'll give you that, but I always thought the Church of Ireland had a good sized influence over here??

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The ACC is probably on the whole a MOTR denomination. There is generally only one outwardly Anglo-catholic parish in each diocese and most parishes generally in my limited experience, have a churchmanship similar to Lutheran and Methodist churches, generally chasuble/stole for Communion, incense rare, and theology mainstream liberal.
 

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Posted by Sober Preacher's Kid (# 12699) on :
 
What Methodist Church are you benchmarking the ACC to? Unless you mean the Free Methodists or that Phillipine UMC Church in Surrey, do you mean the UMC in the US?
 

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Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :
 

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Originally posted by ken:
Every CofE parish believes that they are liturgically MOTR, central, mainstream.

And every single one of them is addicted to at least one egregiously weird liturgical practicet that 98% of all known Anglicans would find at best innovative and more likely actively heretical.

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Originally posted by Archimandrite:
Further to reference works (no, I can't believe I'm posting this either):

Monsignor (now Bishop) Peter J Elliot, Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite

- An updating of Fortescue (cf) for the Ordinary (1970) form of the Roman Rite.

Further to Priestly Societies (Anglican)

FCP Federation of Catholic Priests. Established in 1917, with a particular emphasis on promoting Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament. To-day, not unlike SSC, but somewhat smaller. Restricted to male priests of Traditional Integrity.

SCP Society of Catholic Priests. Founded in 1994, and considered as the priestly arm of Affirming Catholicism. Open to men and women. The current Archbishop of Canterbury is a member and patron.

OGS Oratory of the Good Shepherd. Founded in 1913 at the University of Cambridge. Open to celibate men, ordained and lay, bound by a common rule and discipline, who do not normally live together, but meet regularly. There is a sister organisation, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, open to women, ordained and lay.

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Originally posted by Manipled Mutineer:
How about:

"Traditional Integrity: (Of priests in the Church of England) those who do not in conscience believe that women can be ordained to the priesthood (or can currently be ordained to the priesthood) and act accordingly. Usually implies that they take whatever options are available to them to avoid their ministry, such as encouraging their parish to pass Resolutions."

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I'd prefer
"(Of priests in the Church of England) those who do not in conscience believe the Church of England has the authority to ordain women to the priesthood. Usually implies they have passed Resolutions (cf)." - should cover the impossibilists and the authority-ists that way.

Resolutions PCCs may pass resolutions which mean: Res. A: no woman may celebrate the Eucharist within that parish; Res. B: no woman may be appointed as parish priest. Res. C. (more correctly, the Episcopal Ministry Act Synod, 1993) the parish has petitioned the diocesan bishop for extended episcopal care from a bishop who does not ordain women, generally a PEV (cf).

PEVs "Flying Bishops" The Bishops of Ebbsfleet and Richborough for the south of England and the Bishop of Beverley for the north are suffragans of the Archbishops. The job of each is to provide extended episcopal care to those parishes who have petitioned for it and to act as ombudsman for those who cannot accept OoW. The Bishop of Fulham performs a similar role in the dioceses of London, Southwark and Rochester.

Thurible
 

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Posted by Saint Bertelin (# 5638) on :
 
Thanks, MM. I'm not sure how to do this without it coming out as an encyclopaedia rather than dictionary entry but I'll try my best.

ROCOR/ROCA - The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, also the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, commonly abbreviated in speech but less so in writing to simply "The Church Abroad", and still occasionally referred to by its very old name of the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, (ROCiE - not to be confused with the episcopi vagantes group of the same name). Now an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church, ROCOR was originally formed by exiled Orthodox clergy and laity who fled Russia at the time of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. A number of factors, including the political situation in Russia and a resultant shift towards conservativism in the Church Abroad, gradually led to ROCOR existing in relative isolation from the rest of the Orthodox world. Despite this, there was no official severing of communion and Sacraments in ROCOR were generally open to all Orthodox, (allowing for varying local practice). Understanding the basis of its irregular separate existence only ever to have been a temporary arrangement, and with a mellowing of its conservativism, moves began within ROCOR some years after the fall of the Soviet state to restore normal relations with the Church in Russia and thereby the rest of the Orthodox world. This came to its climax on the Feast of the Ascension (17th May), 2007, when all of the marks of full canonical communion were restored. While this was not universally welcomed, most of the more rigorist elements of ROCOR who opposed this move have now left, leaving a mainstream yet still traditional ROCOR.

There are a few ROCORite Shipmates, including a few of the regulars here in Ecclesiantics.

Have we had an entry on vagantes? I don't think we have. Here's my attempt. Others may wish to chip in.

Episcopi Vagantes (often simply vagantes) - the plural form of episcopus vagans, which is a Latin term meaning wandering bishop. An episcopus vagans is somebody - usually, but not always, a man - who has received ordination to the episcopate, (office of bishop), but is not attached to any particular church. He may have been regularly ordained and then left his church or simply been a layman who sought irregular ordination. The 20th century saw a rise in this phenomenon, with such bishops ordaining numerous other bishops and priests outside of any church structure, and performing rites and ceremonies of varying degrees of elaborateness, often with more clergy than laity present. The sacramental nature of these ordinations is a matter of contention, and they are usually not recognised by any of the mainstream churches, although vagantes go to great lengths to prove their authenticity, often maintaining websites tracing their tactile apostolic succession, usually to one or more of a number of well-known episcopi vagantes of the early 20th century. A small minority have gone on to form stable churches which have been subsumed into some of the mainstream churches but, by and large, characteristic of vagantes is a colourful series of peculiar events, many of which are recounted in Peter Anson's [i]Bishops At Large[i], among other volumes to which Manipled Mutineer will happily direct you.
 

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Posted by Manipled Mutineer (# 11514) on :
 
Thanks both!
 

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Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :
 

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"Flying Bishops" The Bishops of Ebbsfleet and Richborough for the south of England and the Bishop of Beverley for the north are suffragans of the Archbishops. The job of each is to provide extended episcopal care to those parishes who have petitioned for it and to act as ombudsman for those who cannot accept OoW. The Bishop of Fulham performs a similar role in the dioceses of London, Southwark and Rochester.

Thurible

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That I didn't know (about +Fulham in Rochester). Strange, because isn't Ebbsfleet in the Rochester diocese?
 

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Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :
 
No, both Ebbsfleet and Richborough are in Canterbury, with Beverley being in York.

+Fulham ministers in London under the London Plan and in Rochester and Southwark under the Act of Synod (i.e., he is the one whom the diocesan bishops ask to provide the eec rather than the PEV, who would be Richborough).

Thurible
 

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Posted by Manipled Mutineer (# 11514) on :
 
The Ecclesiantics Dictionary, being a compendium of liturgical and ecclesiastical and other terms and references old and new, copiously revised and updated by our honoured guest editors and constantly under review, etc., etc. 4th edition.

Nihil Obstat: S. Bertelin. Imprimatur: JLG.

Ecclesiastical Terms and Tendencies

AC, A/C: Anglo-catholic. Anglicans who emphasise continuity of doctrine between Anglicanism and the historic churches to which they are related. Usually High Church in ritual.

Alt. Worship: alternative worship

BVM: The Blessed Virgin Mary (also her IC - Immaculate Conception - and her GA - Glorious Assumption, and see SMV)

Confraternity, Archconfraternity: A pious association, often Roman Catholic. See also Sodality

DDO: Diocesan Director of Ordinands (UK Anglican)/Diocesan Deployment Officer (US Episcopalian)

English Use: a movement or party within the Anglican Communion looking to pre-Reformation and Caroline precedents for liturgical practices to enrich the Book of Common Prayer. Often in opposition to the Western Use.

Episcopi Vagantes (often simply vagantes):- the plural form of episcopus vegans, which is a Latin term meaning wandering bishop. An episcopus vegans is somebody - usually, but not always, a man - who has received ordination to the episcopate (office of bishop), but is not attached to any particular church. He may have been regularly ordained and then left his church or simply been a layman who sought irregular ordination. The 20th century saw a rise in this phenomenon, with such bishops ordaining numerous other bishops and priests outside of any church structure, and performing rites and ceremonies of varying degrees of elaborateness, often with more clergy than laity present. The sacramental nature of these ordinations is a matter of contention, and they are usually not recognised by any of the mainstream churches, although vagantes go to great lengths to prove their authenticity, often maintaining websites tracing their tactile apostolic succession, usually to one or more of a number of well-known episcopi vagantes of the early 20th century. A small minority have gone on to form stable churches which have been subsumed into some of the mainstream churches but, by and large, characteristic of vagantes is a colourful series of peculiar events, many of which are recounted in Peter Anson's Bishops At Large, among other volumes to which Manipled Mutineer will happily direct you.

High Church: Having a high/elevated view of the nature of the church; can be associated with strong sacramental doctrines and (often) with a developed system of liturgical ritual and ceremonial.

MBS: The Most Blessed Sacrament of OLJC.

MBSA: Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar; a variant on MBS

MOTR: "Middle of the Road"; bears a range of meanings according to writer. May mean (positively) a line somewhere between (for example) Catholic and Evangelical in worship or (negatively) being neither one thing or another. Bears a disputed relationship to the term “central.”

Old Catholic: Term for a range of churches, often close to the Roman Catholic church in faith and practice, which split from that church over a range of matters principally but not exclusively relating to dogma, over the last two hundred years. [DN – I’d be grateful for help in improving this one.]

OLJC: Our Lord Jesus Christ. Also OLSJC ('Saviour').

OoW: Ordination of Women.

PEVs "Flying Bishops": (Church of England) The Bishops of Ebbsfleet and Richborough for the south of England and the Bishop of Beverley for the north are suffragans of the Archbishops. The job of each is to provide extended episcopal care to those parishes who have petitioned for it and to act as ombudsman for those who cannot accept the ordination of women. The Bishop of Fulham performs a similar role in the dioceses of London, Southwark and Rochester.

Resolutions: (Church of England) PCCs may pass resolutions which mean: Res. A: no woman may celebrate the Eucharist within that parish; Res. B: no woman may be appointed as parish priest. Res. C. (more correctly, the Episcopal Ministry Act Synod, 1993) the parish has petitioned the diocesan bishop for extended episcopal care from a bishop who does not ordain women, generally a PEV

Sedevacantist: A position adopted by some traditional Catholics, believing that the successors of Pope Pius XII (or, in some cases, of Blessed John XXIII) are not true popes, and that the Holy See is therefore vacant.

SMV: S. Mary the Virgin. The Blessed Virgin Mary; usually used with reference to churches of that name.

Sodality: A pious association, often Roman Catholic. See also Confraternity, Archconfraternity.

Traditional Integrity: (Of priests in the Church of England) those who do not in conscience believe the Church of England has the authority to ordain women to the priesthood. Usually implies they have passed Resolutions.

Western Use: A movement or party within the Anglican Communion looking to Roman Catholic precedents for liturgical practices to enrich the Book of Common Prayer.


Liturgical Terms

Benedictus: (if qui venit) Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord – part of the Ordinary of the Mass

Gloria [in excelsis]: Glory be to God on high/ Glory to God in the Highest. A hymn of praise sung as part of the Mass/eucharist in certain seasons. Also Gloria Patri – Glory be to the Father Son & Holy Ghost - doxology used at the end of psalms and canticles (like psalms but from other biblical books).

Kyrie: Part of the Ordinary of the Mass. Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy/Lord have mercy (From the Greek), Kyrie being the Gk for Lord). Can be 3, 6 or 9 fold (i.e say each line once, twice or thrice).

Ordinary of the Mass: Those texts which stay the same week by week rather than being proper to the day, as follows:

Kyrie Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy Lord have mercy[/i]. Can be 3, 6 or 9 fold (i.e say each line once, twice or thrice).
Gloria [in exclesis] Glory be to God on high (See here for more.)
Credo The [Nicene] Creed -- We/I believe in one God, the Father Almighty etc etc.
Sanctus Holy Holy Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest
Benedictus [qui venit] Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the Highest (usually sung immediately after the Sanctus.)
Agnus Dei Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us (x2) Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace
preface: the part of the Eucharistic prayer between that and the Sanctus (from the Latin again). The proper preface is that part which is `proper' to the day e.g. propers for Christmas or Easter etc.

Proper of the Mass: Those texts which are proper to the day and thus changeable.

Rite: a body of liturgical tradition from a specific centre, e.g. Roman Rite, Sarum Rite.

Roman Rite, Ordinary Form: The Rite followed by the majority of Catholics within the Catholic Church, also known [arguably pejoratively] as the Novus Ordo, derived from the Roman Missal as reformed according to the decrees of the Second Vatican Council. The Missal of Pope Paul VI/1970 Missal.

Roman Rite, Extraordinary Form: The Rite followed by the majority of Catholics within the Catholic Church until the promulgation of the Missal of Pope Paul VI and still licit. Also known [unofficially] as the Tridentine Rite, Traditional Rite, etc. The Missal of Blessed John XXIII/1962 Missal.

Sarum Rite: a mediaeval development of the Roman Rite as practised at Salisbury Cathedral and in many places throughout the British Isles. Suppressed at the Reformation, except for a time under Mary I of England, it provided some material for Archbishop Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer, and later was a source of inspiration for those seeking to enrich the provisions of that book. See also English Use and The Parson's Handbook.

Snog and Bendy/Benders: Evensong and Benediction. Typical AC evening worship, involving a blessing with the MBSA.

Sursum Corda:the series of response at the start of the Eucharistic prayer which includes Lift up your hearts/We lift the to the Lord. From the Latin.


Miscellaneous Terms

IANACL: I am not a Canon Lawyer. Popular disclaimer.

Jezebel’s Trumpet: Affectionate name for the Church Times, an Anglican newspaper.


Organisations/Lay and Priestly Societies, etc.

Catholic League (Unitas): An ecumenical society promoting the Unity of all Christians with and through the ministry of the Bishop of Rome as successor to St Peter the Apostle.

CBS/Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament : An Anglo-catholic society dedicated to fostering devotion to Our Lord in His MBS.

CSF/Community of St Francis: occurs after the name of a sister of the Anglican first order of Franciscans.

FCP/Federation of Catholic Priests: Established in 1917, with a particular emphasis on promoting Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament. To-day, not unlike SSC, but somewhat smaller. Restricted to male priests of Traditional Integrity.

FiF/Forward in Faith: A movement within Anglicanism (primarily Anglo-Catholic) that cannot accept the ordination of women to the priesthood or the episcopate and seeks a structural provision within the Church.

FSSP/Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter: a traditional catholic priestly society in full communion with the Holy See. Its members have the right to use all the liturgical books in use in 1962. See also ICK/Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest.

FSSPX/Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X : official name of the SSPX/Society of Saint Pius X. Not to be confused with the FSSP.

GSS/Guild of Servants of the Sanctuary: An Anglican association of altar servers and the like, also known [pejoratively] as the "Guild of the Serpents of the Sanctuary." Associated with the Anglo-Catholic party within that Communion.

ICK/Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest: a traditional catholic priestly society in full communion with the Holy See. Its members have the right to use all the liturgical books in use in 1962. See also FSSP/Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter

OGS/Oratory of the Good Shepherd: Founded in 1913 at the University of Cambridge. Open to celibate men, ordained and lay, bound by a common rule and discipline, who do not normally live together, but meet regularly. There is a sister organisation, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, open to women, ordained and lay.

OHP/Order of the Holy Paraclete: An Anglican order of nuns whose mother house is at Whitby. (Not to be confused with the OHP used by some in worship, the Overhead Projector!)

OSC/Order of St Clare : 2nd Order (contemplative) nuns of St Francis (Anglican)

PNCC/Polish National Catholic Church[/n]: An [b]Old Catholic church, principally North American, serving Polish communities there, but also with some presence in Poland itself.

ROCOR/ROCA - The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia: also the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, commonly abbreviated in speech but less so in writing to simply "The Church Abroad", and still occasionally referred to by its very old name of the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, (ROCiE - not to be confused with the episcopi vagantes group of the same name). Now an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church, ROCOR was originally formed by exiled Orthodox clergy and laity who fled Russia at the time of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. A number of factors, including the political situation in Russia and a resultant shift towards conservatism in the Church Abroad, gradually led to ROCOR existing in relative isolation from the rest of the Orthodox world. Despite this, there was no official severing of communion and Sacraments in ROCOR were generally open to all Orthodox, (allowing for varying local practice). Understanding the basis of its irregular separate existence only ever to have been a temporary arrangement, and with a mellowing of its conservatism, moves began within ROCOR some years after the fall of the Soviet state to restore normal relations with the Church in Russia and thereby the rest of the Orthodox world. This came to its climax on the Feast of the Ascension (17th May), 2007, when all of the marks of full canonical communion were restored. While this was not universally welcomed, most of the more rigorist elements of ROCOR who opposed this move have now left, leaving a mainstream yet still traditional ROCOR.

SCP/Society of Catholic Priests: A broadly Anglo-catholic priestly fraternity, founded in 1994, and closely linked with Affirming Catholicism (considered by some as its priestly arm.) Open to men and women. The current Archbishop of Canterbury is a member and patron.

SPB/ Sodality of the Precious Blood: A priestly sodality connected to the Catholic League. It is open to male priests in the Church of England. Its members observe celibate chastity and use the ordinary-form of the Roman Rite for the Divine Office

SSC/Societas Sanctae Crucis/ Society of the Holy Cross : An Anglo-catholic priestly fraternity.

SSF/Society of St Francis: occurs after the name of a brother of the Anglican first order of Franciscans

SSPV/Society of Saint Pius V: A traditionalist catholic priestly society, deriving from the larger SSPX but splitting from it owning to the requirement upon members of that society to use the 1962 Missal. Like the SSPX, it opposes the liturgical and other changes attendant upon the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), but goes further than the SSPX in treating the sedevacantist position - that the successors of Pope Pius the XII were not true popes and that therefore the Holy See is vacant (sede vacante) - as a probable opinion.

SSPX/Society of Saint Pius X: A traditionalist catholic priestly society, opposing the liturgical and other changes attendant upon the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). Also known as FSSPX. Also known as Lefebvrists after their founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

TSSF/Tertiary of the Society of St Francis: Members of the Third Order of SSF. These are those who live out their vocation and rule of life in the world. The order is open to lay and ordained, male and female, single or married.


People and places

+[Name], +[Place]: Indicates that the person referenced is a bishop

++[Name], ++[Place]: Indicates that the person referenced is an archbishop

ASMS/ All Saints Margaret Street: Rather grand AC church just off Oxford Street in London.

B16, Benny, the Rat: More-or-less affectionate terms for His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Servant of the Servants of God

BVM: The Blessed Virgin Mary
(also her IC - Immaculate Conception - and her GA - Glorious Assumption, and see SMV)

Fortescue: see under "reference works"

Lefebvre, Archbishop Marcel: Former Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers and founder of the SSPX.

OLJC: Our Lord Jesus Christ. Also OLSJC ('Saviour').

OLW: Our Lady of Walsingham. The national Marian devotion in England, focussed upon the RC, Anglican and Orthodox Shrines at the Norfolk village of that name.

SMV: S. Mary the Virgin. The Blessed Virgin Mary; usually used with reference to churches of that name.

SMVPH: The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill - the first church of which Percy Dearmer was incumbent; a flagship for English Use/Parson's Handbook ceremonial.

St. Percy, Blessed Percy: Affectionate terms for Percy Dearmer, Anglican clergyman and author of the Parson's Handbook


Reference works

Bishops at Large: A famous survey of the Episcopi Vagantes phenomenon by Peter F. Anson, recently reprinted by the Apocryphile Press. Other works on the same topic include Henry Reynaud Turner Brandreth’s Episcopi Vagantes and the Anglican Church, A.J. MacDonald’s Episcopi Vagantes in Church History and Mellon/Pruter’s Old Catholic Sourcebook

Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite (Monsignor (now Bishop) Peter J Elliot): An updating of Fortescue (cf) for the Ordinary (1970) form of the Roman Rite.

Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described: A Roman Catholic liturgical manual relevant to celebrations of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

Fortescue/Fortescue-O'Connell: A reference to the book "Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described" referred to above. Description of someone as a "Fortescue man" would imply that they follow the liturgical prescriptions in this book, or the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite more generally.

The Parson's Handbook: An Anglican liturgical manual, authored by Percy Dearmer and drawing on details of pre-Reformation English ceremonial for its liturgical directions. Description of someone as a "Parson's Handbook man" would imply that they follow the liturgical prescriptions of this book, and are a proponent of the "English Use" more generally.

Ritual Notes: an Anglican liturgical manual authored by a number of clergymen over different editions seeking to enrich the services of the Book of Common Prayer with liturgical practices drawn from the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and Roman Catholic ("Western") sources more generally (see Western Use.) The last edition was in 1964, coincident with the moves towards liturgical reform in the Catholic Church resulting in the Missal of Pope Paul VI.

Also see the Mystery Worshipper Dictionary
 

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Posted by filius clavi (# 10527) on :
 
"B16, Benny, the Rat..."

I've not seen the term here, hence it might not belong in this dictionary, but a number of people I know refer to His Holiness as Darth Benedictus.
 

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Posted by Saint Bertelin (# 5638) on :
 
Nihil Obstat!
 

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Posted by Manipled Mutineer (# 11514) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Saint Bertelin:
Nihil Obstat!

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Much obliged...

Nihil obstat - "nothing hinders" or "nothing stands in the way": official approval that a work dealing with faith or morals does not contradict Catholic teaching.

Imprimatur - "let it be printed": an official declaration (generally by a bishop) that a work is free from error in matters of Roman Catholic doctrine and morals.
 

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Posted by Manipled Mutineer (# 11514) on :
 
The Ecclesiantics Dictionary, being a compendium of liturgical and ecclesiastical and other terms and references old and new, copiously revised and updated by our honoured guest editors and constantly under review, etc., etc. Fifth edition.

Nihil Obstat: St. Bertelin
Imprimi Potest: Thurible
Imprimatur: DJ_Ordinaire

Ecclesiastical Terms and Tendencies

AC, A/C: Anglo-catholic. Anglicans who emphasise continuity of doctrine between Anglicanism and the historic churches to which they are related. Usually High Church in ritual.

Alt. Worship: alternative worship

BVM: The Blessed Virgin Mary (also her IC - Immaculate Conception - and her GA - Glorious Assumption, and see SMV)

Confraternity, Archconfraternity: A pious association, often Roman Catholic. See also Sodality

DDO: Diocesan Director of Ordinands (UK Anglican)/Diocesan Deployment Officer (US Episcopalian)

English Use: a movement or party within the Anglican Communion looking to pre-Reformation and Caroline precedents for liturgical practices to enrich the Book of Common Prayer. Often in opposition to the Western Use.

Episcopi Vagantes (often simply vagantes):- the plural form of episcopus vegans, which is a Latin term meaning wandering bishop. An episcopus vegans is somebody - usually, but not always, a man - who has received ordination to the episcopate (office of bishop), but is not attached to any particular church. He may have been regularly ordained and then left his church or simply been a layman who sought irregular ordination. The 20th century saw a rise in this phenomenon, with such bishops ordaining numerous other bishops and priests outside of any church structure, and performing rites and ceremonies of varying degrees of elaborateness, often with more clergy than laity present. The sacramental nature of these ordinations is a matter of contention, and they are usually not recognised by any of the mainstream churches, although vagantes go to great lengths to prove their authenticity, often maintaining websites tracing their tactile apostolic succession, usually to one or more of a number of well-known episcopi vagantes of the early 20th century. A small minority have gone on to form stable churches which have been subsumed into some of the mainstream churches but, by and large, characteristic of vagantes is a colourful series of peculiar events, many of which are recounted in Peter Anson's Bishops At Large, among other volumes to which Manipled Mutineer will happily direct you.

High Church: Having a high/elevated view of the nature of the church; can be associated with strong sacramental doctrines and (often) with a developed system of liturgical ritual and ceremonial.

Imprimatur: "let it be printed": an official declaration (generally by a bishop) that a work is free from error in matters of Roman Catholic doctrine and morals. See also Nihil Obstat.

Imprimi Potest: “it may be printed”: certifying that a book by a Religious had been examined and approved by the religious superior or head of the religious order (or their representative.) Subsequent to the Nihil Obstat, a precursor to the Imprimatur.

MBS: The Most Blessed Sacrament of OLJC.

MBSA: Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar; a variant on MBS

MOTR: "Middle of the Road"; bears a range of meanings according to writer. May mean (positively) a line somewhere between (for example) Catholic and Evangelical in worship or (negatively) being neither one thing or another. Bears a disputed relationship to the term “central.”

Nihil obstat: "nothing hinders" or "nothing stands in the way": official approval that a work dealing with faith or morals does not contradict Catholic teaching. A necessary precursor to receiving an Imprimatur.

Old Catholic: Term for a range of churches, often close to the Roman Catholic church in faith and practice, which split from that church over a range of matters principally but not exclusively relating to dogma, over the last two hundred years. [DN – I’d be grateful for help in improving this one.]

OLJC: Our Lord Jesus Christ. Also OLSJC ('Saviour').

OoW: Ordination of Women.

PEVs "Flying Bishops": (Church of England) The Bishops of Ebbsfleet and Richborough for the south of England and the Bishop of Beverley for the north are suffragans of the Archbishops. The job of each is to provide extended episcopal care to those parishes who have petitioned for it and to act as ombudsman for those who cannot accept the ordination of women. The Bishop of Fulham performs a similar role in the dioceses of London, Southwark and Rochester.

Resolutions: (Church of England) PCCs may pass resolutions which mean: Res. A: no woman may celebrate the Eucharist within that parish; Res. B: no woman may be appointed as parish priest. Res. C. (more correctly, the Episcopal Ministry Act Synod, 1993) the parish has petitioned the diocesan bishop for extended episcopal care from a bishop who does not ordain women, generally a PEV

Sedevacantist: A position adopted by some traditional Catholics, believing that the successors of Pope Pius XII (or, in some cases, of Blessed John XXIII) are not true popes, and that the Holy See is therefore vacant.

SMV: S. Mary the Virgin. The Blessed Virgin Mary; usually used with reference to churches of that name.

Sodality: A pious association, often Roman Catholic. See also Confraternity, Archconfraternity.

Traditional Integrity: (Of priests in the Church of England) those who do not in conscience believe the Church of England has the authority to ordain women to the priesthood. Usually implies they have passed Resolutions.

Western Use: A movement or party within the Anglican Communion looking to Roman Catholic precedents for liturgical practices to enrich the Book of Common Prayer.


Liturgical Terms

Benediction: A rite in which the consecrated host, contained in a monstrance is exposed for veneration and then used to bless the congregation.

Benedictus: (if qui venit) Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord – part of the Ordinary of the Mass

Gloria [in excelsis]: Glory be to God on high/ Glory to God in the Highest. A hymn of praise sung as part of the Mass/eucharist in certain seasons. Also Gloria Patri – Glory be to the Father Son & Holy Ghost - doxology used at the end of psalms and canticles (like psalms but from other biblical books).

Kyrie: Part of the Ordinary of the Mass. Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy/Lord have mercy (From the Greek), Kyrie being the Gk for Lord). Can be 3, 6 or 9 fold (i.e say each line once, twice or thrice).


Monstrance: a liturgical vessel, often shaped like a sun, used to contain a consecrated host and employed in the rite of Exposition and Benediction


Ordinary of the Mass: Those texts which stay the same week by week rather than being proper to the day, as follows:

Kyrie Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy Lord have mercy[/i]. Can be 3, 6 or 9 fold (i.e say each line once, twice or thrice).
Gloria [in exclesis] Glory be to God on high (See here for more.)
Credo The [Nicene] Creed -- We/I believe in one God, the Father Almighty etc etc.
Sanctus Holy Holy Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest
Benedictus [qui venit] Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the Highest (usually sung immediately after the Sanctus.)
Agnus Dei Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us (x2) Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace
preface: the part of the Eucharistic prayer between that and the Sanctus (from the Latin again). The proper preface is that part which is `proper' to the day e.g. propers for Christmas or Easter etc.

Proper of the Mass: Those texts which are proper to the day and thus changeable.

Rite: a body of liturgical tradition from a specific centre, e.g. Roman Rite, Sarum Rite.

Roman Rite, Ordinary Form: The Rite followed by the majority of Catholics within the Catholic Church, also known [arguably pejoratively] as the Novus Ordo, derived from the Roman Missal as reformed according to the decrees of the Second Vatican Council. The Missal of Pope Paul VI/1970 Missal.

Roman Rite, Extraordinary Form: The Rite followed by the majority of Catholics within the Catholic Church until the promulgation of the Missal of Pope Paul VI and still licit. Also known [unofficially] as the Tridentine Rite, Traditional Rite, etc. The Missal of Blessed John XXIII/1962 Missal.

Sarum Rite: a mediaeval development of the Roman Rite as practised at Salisbury Cathedral and in many places throughout the British Isles. Suppressed at the Reformation, except for a time under Mary I of England, it provided some material for Archbishop Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer, and later was a source of inspiration for those seeking to enrich the provisions of that book. See also English Use and The Parson's Handbook.

Snog and Bendy/Benders: Evensong and Benediction. Typical AC evening worship, involving a blessing with the MBSA.

Sursum Corda:the series of response at the start of the Eucharistic prayer which includes Lift up your hearts/We lift the to the Lord. From the Latin.


Miscellaneous Terms

IANACL: I am not a Canon Lawyer. Popular disclaimer.

Jezebel’s Trumpet: Affectionate name for the Church Times, an Anglican newspaper.


Organisations/Lay and Priestly Societies, etc.

Catholic League (Unitas): An ecumenical society promoting the Unity of all Christians with and through the ministry of the Bishop of Rome as successor to St Peter the Apostle.

CBS/Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament : An Anglo-catholic society dedicated to fostering devotion to Our Lord in His MBS.

CSF/Community of St Francis: occurs after the name of a sister of the Anglican first order of Franciscans.

FCP/Federation of Catholic Priests: Established in 1917, with a particular emphasis on promoting Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament. To-day, not unlike SSC, but somewhat smaller. Restricted to male priests of Traditional Integrity.

FiF/Forward in Faith: A movement within Anglicanism (primarily Anglo-Catholic) that cannot accept the ordination of women to the priesthood or the episcopate and seeks a structural provision within the Church.

FSSP/Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter: a traditional catholic priestly society in full communion with the Holy See. Its members have the right to use all the liturgical books in use in 1962. See also ICK/Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest.

FSSPX/Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X : official name of the SSPX/Society of Saint Pius X. Not to be confused with the FSSP.

GSS/Guild of Servants of the Sanctuary: An Anglican association of altar servers and the like, also known [pejoratively] as the "Guild of the Serpents of the Sanctuary." Associated with the Anglo-Catholic party within that Communion.

ICK/Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest: a traditional catholic priestly society in full communion with the Holy See. Its members have the right to use all the liturgical books in use in 1962. See also FSSP/Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter

OGS/Oratory of the Good Shepherd: Founded in 1913 at the University of Cambridge. Open to celibate men, ordained and lay, bound by a common rule and discipline, who do not normally live together, but meet regularly. There is a sister organisation, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, open to women, ordained and lay.

OHP/Order of the Holy Paraclete: An Anglican order of nuns whose mother house is at Whitby. (Not to be confused with the OHP used by some in worship, the Overhead Projector!)

OSC/Order of St Clare : 2nd Order (contemplative) nuns of St Francis (Anglican)

PNCC/Polish National Catholic Church: An Old Catholic church, principally North American, serving Polish communities there, but also with some presence in Poland itself.

ROCOR/ROCA - The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia: also the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, commonly abbreviated in speech but less so in writing to simply "The Church Abroad", and still occasionally referred to by its very old name of the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, (ROCiE - not to be confused with the episcopi vagantes group of the same name). Now an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church, ROCOR was originally formed by exiled Orthodox clergy and laity who fled Russia at the time of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. A number of factors, including the political situation in Russia and a resultant shift towards conservatism in the Church Abroad, gradually led to ROCOR existing in relative isolation from the rest of the Orthodox world. Despite this, there was no official severing of communion and Sacraments in ROCOR were generally open to all Orthodox, (allowing for varying local practice). Understanding the basis of its irregular separate existence only ever to have been a temporary arrangement, and with a mellowing of its conservatism, moves began within ROCOR some years after the fall of the Soviet state to restore normal relations with the Church in Russia and thereby the rest of the Orthodox world. This came to its climax on the Feast of the Ascension (17th May), 2007, when all of the marks of full canonical communion were restored. While this was not universally welcomed, most of the more rigorist elements of ROCOR who opposed this move have now left, leaving a mainstream yet still traditional ROCOR.

SCP/Society of Catholic Priests: A broadly Anglo-catholic priestly fraternity, founded in 1994, and closely linked with Affirming Catholicism (considered by some as its priestly arm.) Open to men and women. The current Archbishop of Canterbury is a member and patron.

SPB/ Sodality of the Precious Blood: A priestly sodality connected to the Catholic League. It is open to male priests in the Church of England. Its members observe celibate chastity and use the ordinary-form of the Roman Rite for the Divine Office

SSC/Societas Sanctae Crucis/ Society of the Holy Cross : An Anglo-catholic priestly fraternity.

SSF/Society of St Francis: occurs after the name of a brother of the Anglican first order of Franciscans

SSPV/Society of Saint Pius V: A traditionalist catholic priestly society, deriving from the larger SSPX but splitting from it owning to the requirement upon members of that society to use the 1962 Missal. Like the SSPX, it opposes the liturgical and other changes attendant upon the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), but goes further than the SSPX in treating the sedevacantist position - that the successors of Pope Pius the XII were not true popes and that therefore the Holy See is vacant (sede vacante) - as a probable opinion.

SSPX/Society of Saint Pius X: A traditionalist catholic priestly society, opposing the liturgical and other changes attendant upon the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). Also known as FSSPX. Also known as Lefebvrists after their founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

TSSF/Tertiary of the Society of St Francis: Members of the Third Order of SSF. These are those who live out their vocation and rule of life in the world. The order is open to lay and ordained, male and female, single or married.


People and places

+[Name], +[Place]: Indicates that the person referenced is a bishop

++[Name], ++[Place]: Indicates that the person referenced is an archbishop

ASMS/ All Saints Margaret Street: Rather grand AC church just off Oxford Street in London.

B16, Benny, the Rat: More-or-less affectionate terms for His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Servant of the Servants of God. Also Darth Benedictus, a reference to the character Darth Sidious in the Star Wars series.

BVM: The Blessed Virgin Mary
(also her IC - Immaculate Conception - and her GA - Glorious Assumption, and see SMV)

Fortescue: see under "reference works"

Lefebvre, Archbishop Marcel: Former Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers and founder of the SSPX.

OLJC: Our Lord Jesus Christ. Also OLSJC ('Saviour').

OLW: Our Lady of Walsingham. The national Marian devotion in England, focussed upon the RC, Anglican and Orthodox Shrines at the Norfolk village of that name.

SMV: S. Mary the Virgin. The Blessed Virgin Mary; usually used with reference to churches of that name.

SMVPH: The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill - the first church of which Percy Dearmer was incumbent; a flagship for English Use/Parson's Handbook ceremonial.

St. Percy, Blessed Percy: Affectionate terms for Percy Dearmer, Anglican clergyman and author of the Parson's Handbook


Reference works

Bishops at Large: A famous survey of the Episcopi Vagantes phenomenon by Peter F. Anson, recently reprinted by the Apocryphile Press. Other works on the same topic include Henry Reynaud Turner Brandreth’s Episcopi Vagantes and the Anglican Church, A.J. MacDonald’s Episcopi Vagantes in Church History and Mellon/Pruter’s Old Catholic Sourcebook

Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite (Monsignor (now Bishop) Peter J Elliot): An updating of Fortescue (cf) for the Ordinary (1970) form of the Roman Rite.

Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described: A Roman Catholic liturgical manual relevant to celebrations of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

Fortescue/Fortescue-O'Connell: A reference to the book "Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described" referred to above. Description of someone as a "Fortescue man" would imply that they follow the liturgical prescriptions in this book, or the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite more generally.

The Parson's Handbook: An Anglican liturgical manual, authored by Percy Dearmer and drawing on details of pre-Reformation English ceremonial for its liturgical directions. Description of someone as a "Parson's Handbook man" would imply that they follow the liturgical prescriptions of this book, and are a proponent of the "English Use" more generally.

Ritual Notes: an Anglican liturgical manual authored by a number of clergymen over different editions seeking to enrich the services of the Book of Common Prayer with liturgical practices drawn from the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and Roman Catholic ("Western") sources more generally (see Western Use.) The last edition was in 1964, coincident with the moves towards liturgical reform in the Catholic Church resulting in the Missal of Pope Paul VI.


Vestments and other Ornaments:


Crozier: the Episcopal staff or crook.

Humeral veil: a shawl or scarf-like vestment principally used by the celebrant to hold the monstrance at benediction and (formerly) by the sub-deacon when holding the sacred vessels at a solemn high mass

Mitre: Episcopal headgear. In Roman Catholic use it comes in up to three variants, depending upon the occasion upon which it is worn – simplex, auriphrygiata, and pretiosa, being of white linen or silk, cloth of gold or white silk with gold/silver bands, and gold with jewels or similar decoration, respectively.

Offertory Veil (also sudary): in certain Uses (e.g. Sarum, also features in Ordo Romanus Primus), a veil of cloth used to cover the chalice as it is brought to the altar at Mass.

Vimpa: a veil or shawl used by altar servers when holding a bishop’s crozier or mitre


Also see the Mystery Worshipper Dictionary
 

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Posted by Manipled Mutineer (# 11514) on :
 
The Ecclesiantics Dictionary, being a compendium of liturgical and ecclesiastical and other terms and references old and new, copiously revised and updated by our honoured guest editors and constantly under review, etc., etc. Sixth edition.

NB: Please feel free to use this thread to ask for definitions of unfamiliar terms or to suggest your own terms and/or definitions; it doesn't have to be high-tat or from a liturgical tradition.


architectural terms

Ambo: (predominantly Western use) a structure from which the Gospels are proclaimed and the scriptures read; may also be used for delivery a sermon or homily.

Ecclesiastical Terms and Tendencies

AC, A/C: Anglo-catholic. Anglicans who emphasise continuity of doctrine between Anglicanism and the historic churches to which they are related. Usually High Church in ritual.

Alt. Worship: alternative worship

BVM: The Blessed Virgin Mary (also her IC - Immaculate Conception - and her GA - Glorious Assumption, and see SMV)

Confraternity, Archconfraternity: A pious association, often Roman Catholic. See also Sodality

DDO: Diocesan Director of Ordinands (UK Anglican)/Diocesan Deployment Officer (US Episcopalian)

English Use: a movement or party within the Anglican Communion looking to pre-Reformation and Caroline precedents for liturgical practices to enrich the Book of Common Prayer. Often in opposition to the Western Use.

Episcopi Vagantes (often simply vagantes):- the plural form of episcopus vagans, which is a Latin term meaning wandering bishop. An episcopus vegans is somebody - usually, but not always, a man - who has received ordination to the episcopate (office of bishop), but is not attached to any particular church. He may have been regularly ordained and then left his church or simply been a layman who sought irregular ordination. The 20th century saw a rise in this phenomenon, with such bishops ordaining numerous other bishops and priests outside of any church structure, and performing rites and ceremonies of varying degrees of elaborateness, often with more clergy than laity present. The sacramental nature of these ordinations is a matter of contention, and they are usually not recognised by any of the mainstream churches, although vagantes go to great lengths to prove their authenticity, often maintaining websites tracing their tactile apostolic succession, usually to one or more of a number of well-known episcopi vagantes of the early 20th century. A small minority have gone on to form stable churches which have been subsumed into some of the mainstream churches but, by and large, characteristic of vagantes is a colourful series of peculiar events, many of which are recounted in Peter Anson's Bishops At Large, among other volumes to which Manipled Mutineer will happily direct you.

High Church: Having a high/elevated view of the nature of the church; can be associated with strong sacramental doctrines and (often) with a developed system of liturgical ritual and ceremonial.

Imprimatur: "let it be printed": an official declaration (generally by a bishop) that a work is free from error in matters of Roman Catholic doctrine and morals. See also Nihil Obstat.

Imprimi Potest: “it may be printed”: certifying that a book by a Religious had been examined and approved by the religious superior or head of the religious order (or their representative.) Subsequent to the Nihil Obstat, a precursor to the Imprimatur.

MBS: The Most Blessed Sacrament of OLJC.

MBSA: Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar; a variant on MBS

MOTR: "Middle of the Road"; bears a range of meanings according to writer. May mean (positively) a line somewhere between (for example) Catholic and Evangelical in worship or (negatively) being neither one thing or another. Bears a disputed relationship to the term “central.”

Nihil obstat: "nothing hinders" or "nothing stands in the way": official approval that a work dealing with faith or morals does not contradict Catholic teaching. A necessary precursor to receiving an Imprimatur.

Old Catholic: Term for a range of churches, often close to the Roman Catholic church in faith and practice, which split from that church over a range of matters principally but not exclusively relating to dogma, over the last two hundred years. [DN – I’d be grateful for help in improving this one.]

OLJC: Our Lord Jesus Christ. Also OLSJC ('Saviour').

OoW: Ordination of Women.

PEVs "Flying Bishops": (Church of England) The Bishops of Ebbsfleet and Richborough for the south of England and the Bishop of Beverley for the north are suffragans of the Archbishops. The job of each is to provide extended episcopal care to those parishes who have petitioned for it and to act as ombudsman for those who cannot accept the ordination of women. The Bishop of Fulham performs a similar role in the dioceses of London, Southwark and Rochester.

Resolutions: (Church of England) PCCs may pass resolutions which mean: Res. A: no woman may celebrate the Eucharist within that parish; Res. B: no woman may be appointed as parish priest. Res. C. (more correctly, the Episcopal Ministry Act Synod, 1993) the parish has petitioned the diocesan bishop for extended episcopal care from a bishop who does not ordain women, generally a PEV

Sedevacantist: A position adopted by some traditional Catholics, believing that the successors of Pope Pius XII (or, in some cases, of Blessed John XXIII) are not true popes, and that the Holy See is therefore vacant.

SMV: S. Mary the Virgin. The Blessed Virgin Mary; usually used with reference to churches of that name.

Sodality: A pious association, often Roman Catholic. See also Confraternity, Archconfraternity.

Traditional Integrity: (Of priests in the Church of England) those who do not in conscience believe the Church of England has the authority to ordain women to the priesthood. Usually implies they have passed Resolutions.

Western Use: A movement or party within the Anglican Communion looking to Roman Catholic precedents for liturgical practices to enrich the Book of Common Prayer.


Liturgical Terms

Ad orientem: manner of celebrating Mass; the celebrant faces East, standing on the same side of the altar as the people, facing the same way (often described as “backs to the people”; cf versus populum)

Benediction: A rite in which the consecrated host, contained in a monstrance is exposed for veneration and then used to bless the congregation.

Benedictus: (if qui venit) Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord – part of the Ordinary of the Mass

Daily Office: a set round of liturgical prayers said in the course of a day; an example would be the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours or Roman Brevuary.

Evensong: Anglican office of Evening Prayer.

Gloria [in excelsis]: Glory be to God on high/ Glory to God in the Highest. A hymn of praise sung as part of the Mass/eucharist in certain seasons. Also Gloria Patri – Glory be to the Father Son & Holy Ghost - doxology used at the end of psalms and canticles (like psalms but from other biblical books).

Kyrie: Part of the Ordinary of the Mass. Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy/Lord have mercy (From the Greek), Kyrie being the Gk for Lord). Can be 3, 6 or 9 fold (i.e say each line once, twice or thrice).

Magnificat: a Gospel hymn or canticle, sung as part of the Roman Catholic office of Vespers and the Anglican office of Evensong or Evening Prayer.

Monstrance: a liturgical vessel, often shaped like a sun, used to contain a consecrated host and employed in the rite of Exposition and Benediction

Office: A liturgical activity such as the Office of Readings from the Liturgy of the Hours or the office of Evensong from the Book of Common Prayer for example. See also Daily Office.

Ordinary of the Mass: Those texts which stay the same week by week rather than being proper to the day, as follows:

Kyrie Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy Lord have mercy[/i]. Can be 3, 6 or 9 fold (i.e say each line once, twice or thrice).
Gloria [in exclesis] Glory be to God on high (See here for more.)
Credo The [Nicene] Creed -- We/I believe in one God, the Father Almighty etc etc.
Sanctus Holy Holy Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest
Benedictus [qui venit] Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the Highest (usually sung immediately after the Sanctus.)
Agnus Dei Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us (x2) Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace
preface: the part of the Eucharistic prayer between that and the Sanctus (from the Latin again). The proper preface is that part which is `proper' to the day e.g. propers for Christmas or Easter etc.

Proper of the Mass: Those texts which are proper to the day and thus changeable.

Rite: a body of liturgical tradition from a specific centre, e.g. Roman Rite, Sarum Rite.

Roman Rite, Ordinary Form: The Rite followed by the majority of Catholics within the Catholic Church, also known [arguably pejoratively] as the Novus Ordo, derived from the Roman Missal as reformed according to the decrees of the Second Vatican Council. The Missal of Pope Paul VI/1970 Missal.

Roman Rite, Extraordinary Form: The Rite followed by the majority of Catholics within the Catholic Church until the promulgation of the Missal of Pope Paul VI and still licit. Also known [unofficially] as the Tridentine Rite, Traditional Rite, etc. The Missal of Blessed John XXIII/1962 Missal.

Sarum Rite: a mediaeval development of the Roman Rite as practised at Salisbury Cathedral and in many places throughout the British Isles. Suppressed at the Reformation, except for a time under Mary I of England, it provided some material for Archbishop Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer, and later was a source of inspiration for those seeking to enrich the provisions of that book. See also English Use and The Parson's Handbook.

Snog and Bendy/Benders: Evensong and Benediction. Typical AC evening worship, involving a blessing with the MBSA.

Sursum Corda:the series of response at the start of the Eucharistic prayer which includes Lift up your hearts/We lift the to the Lord. From the Latin.

versus populum: manner of celebrating the Mass; the celebrant faces the people over the altar. Cf Ad orientem

Vespers: the evening part of the Roman Catholic office of daily prayer.


Miscellaneous Terms

IANACL: I am not a Canon Lawyer. Popular disclaimer.

Jezebel’s Trumpet: Affectionate name for the Church Times, an Anglican newspaper.


Organisations/Lay and Priestly Societies, etc.

Catholic League (Unitas): An ecumenical society promoting the Unity of all Christians with and through the ministry of the Bishop of Rome as successor to St Peter the Apostle.

CBS/Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament : An Anglo-catholic society dedicated to fostering devotion to Our Lord in His MBS.

CSF/Community of St Francis: occurs after the name of a sister of the Anglican first order of Franciscans.

FCP/Federation of Catholic Priests: Established in 1917, with a particular emphasis on promoting Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament. To-day, not unlike SSC, but somewhat smaller. Restricted to male priests of Traditional Integrity.

FiF/Forward in Faith: A movement within Anglicanism (primarily Anglo-Catholic) that cannot accept the ordination of women to the priesthood or the episcopate and seeks a structural provision within the Church.

FSSP/Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter: a traditional catholic priestly society in full communion with the Holy See. Its members have the right to use all the liturgical books in use in 1962. See also ICK/Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest.

FSSPX/Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X : official name of the SSPX/Society of Saint Pius X. Not to be confused with the FSSP.

GSS/Guild of Servants of the Sanctuary: An Anglican association of altar servers and the like, also known [pejoratively] as the "Guild of the Serpents of the Sanctuary." Associated with the Anglo-Catholic party within that Communion.

ICK/Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest: a traditional catholic priestly society in full communion with the Holy See. Its members have the right to use all the liturgical books in use in 1962. See also FSSP/Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter

OGS/Oratory of the Good Shepherd: Founded in 1913 at the University of Cambridge. Open to celibate men, ordained and lay, bound by a common rule and discipline, who do not normally live together, but meet regularly. There is a sister organisation, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, open to women, ordained and lay.

OHP/Order of the Holy Paraclete: An Anglican order of nuns whose mother house is at Whitby. (Not to be confused with the OHP used by some in worship, the Overhead Projector!)

OSC/Order of St Clare : 2nd Order (contemplative) nuns of St Francis (Anglican)

PNCC/Polish National Catholic Church[/n]: An [b]Old Catholic church, principally North American, serving Polish communities there, but also with some presence in Poland itself.

ROCOR/ROCA - The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia: also the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, commonly abbreviated in speech but less so in writing to simply "The Church Abroad", and still occasionally referred to by its very old name of the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, (ROCiE - not to be confused with the episcopi vagantes group of the same name). Now an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church, ROCOR was originally formed by exiled Orthodox clergy and laity who fled Russia at the time of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. A number of factors, including the political situation in Russia and a resultant shift towards conservatism in the Church Abroad, gradually led to ROCOR existing in relative isolation from the rest of the Orthodox world. Despite this, there was no official severing of communion and Sacraments in ROCOR were generally open to all Orthodox, (allowing for varying local practice). Understanding the basis of its irregular separate existence only ever to have been a temporary arrangement, and with a mellowing of its conservatism, moves began within ROCOR some years after the fall of the Soviet state to restore normal relations with the Church in Russia and thereby the rest of the Orthodox world. This came to its climax on the Feast of the Ascension (17th May), 2007, when all of the marks of full canonical communion were restored. While this was not universally welcomed, most of the more rigorist elements of ROCOR who opposed this move have now left, leaving a mainstream yet still traditional ROCOR.

SCP/Society of Catholic Priests: A broadly Anglo-catholic priestly fraternity, founded in 1994, and closely linked with Affirming Catholicism (considered by some as its priestly arm.) Open to men and women. The current Archbishop of Canterbury is a member and patron.

SPB/ Sodality of the Precious Blood: A priestly sodality connected to the Catholic League. It is open to male priests in the Church of England. Its members observe celibate chastity and use the ordinary-form of the Roman Rite for the Divine Office

SSC/Societas Sanctae Crucis/ Society of the Holy Cross : An Anglo-catholic priestly fraternity.

SSF/Society of St Francis: occurs after the name of a brother of the Anglican first order of Franciscans

SSPV/Society of Saint Pius V: A traditionalist catholic priestly society, deriving from the larger SSPX but splitting from it owning to the requirement upon members of that society to use the 1962 Missal. Like the SSPX, it opposes the liturgical and other changes attendant upon the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), but goes further than the SSPX in treating the sedevacantist position - that the successors of Pope Pius the XII were not true popes and that therefore the Holy See is vacant (sede vacante) - as a probable opinion.

SSPX/Society of Saint Pius X: A traditionalist catholic priestly society, opposing the liturgical and other changes attendant upon the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). Also known as FSSPX. Also known as Lefebvrists after their founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

TSSF/Tertiary of the Society of St Francis: Members of the Third Order of SSF. These are those who live out their vocation and rule of life in the world. The order is open to lay and ordained, male and female, single or married.


People and places

+[Name], +[Place]: Indicates that the person referenced is a bishop

++[Name], ++[Place]: Indicates that the person referenced is an archbishop

ASMS/ All Saints Margaret Street: Rather grand AC church just off Oxford Street in London.

B16, Benny, the Rat: More-or-less affectionate terms for His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Servant of the Servants of God. Also Darth Benedictus, a reference to the character Darth Sidious in the Star Wars series.

BVM: The Blessed Virgin Mary
(also her IC - Immaculate Conception - and her GA - Glorious Assumption, and see SMV)

Fortescue: see under "reference works"

Lefebvre, Archbishop Marcel: Former Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers and founder of the SSPX.

OLJC: Our Lord Jesus Christ. Also OLSJC ('Saviour').

OLW: Our Lady of Walsingham. The national Marian devotion in England, focussed upon the RC, Anglican and Orthodox Shrines at the Norfolk village of that name.

SMV: S. Mary the Virgin. The Blessed Virgin Mary; usually used with reference to churches of that name.

SMVPH: The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill - the first church of which Percy Dearmer was incumbent; a flagship for English Use/Parson's Handbook ceremonial.

St. Percy, Blessed Percy: Affectionate terms for Percy Dearmer, Anglican clergyman and author of the Parson's Handbook


Reference works

Bishops at Large: A famous survey of the Episcopi Vagantes phenomenon by Peter F. Anson, recently reprinted by the Apocryphile Press. Other works on the same topic include Henry Reynaud Turner Brandreth’s Episcopi Vagantes and the Anglican Church, A.J. MacDonald’s Episcopi Vagantes in Church History and Mellon/Pruter’s Old Catholic Sourcebook

Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite (Monsignor (now Bishop) Peter J Elliot): An updating of Fortescue (cf) for the Ordinary (1970) form of the Roman Rite.

Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described: A Roman Catholic liturgical manual relevant to celebrations of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

Fortescue/Fortescue-O'Connell: A reference to the book "Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described" referred to above. Description of someone as a "Fortescue man" would imply that they follow the liturgical prescriptions in this book, or the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite more generally.

The Parson's Handbook: An Anglican liturgical manual, authored by Percy Dearmer and drawing on details of pre-Reformation English ceremonial for its liturgical directions. Description of someone as a "Parson's Handbook man" would imply that they follow the liturgical prescriptions of this book, and are a proponent of the "English Use" more generally.

Ritual Notes: an Anglican liturgical manual authored by a number of clergymen over different editions seeking to enrich the services of the Book of Common Prayer with liturgical practices drawn from the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and Roman Catholic ("Western") sources more generally (see Western Use.) The last edition was in 1964, coincident with the moves towards liturgical reform in the Catholic Church resulting in the Missal of Pope Paul VI.


Vestments and other Ornaments:

Biretta: A form of clerical headgear, traditionally worn liturgically by Roman Catholic priests but now rare. Still used in some Anglo-Catholic circles. Cf Canterbury Cap

Canterbury Cap: clerical headgear in the form of a soft black four-pointed cap, traditionally associated with proponents of the English Use.

Crozier: the Episcopal staff or crook.

Gremial:a vestment laid across the Bishop's lap when seated at Pontifical functions.

Humeral veil: a shawl or scarf-like vestment principally used by the celebrant to hold the monstrance at benediction and (in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) by the sub-deacon when holding the sacred vessels at a solemn high mass.

Mitre: Episcopal headgear. In Roman Catholic use it comes in up to three variants, depending upon the occasion upon which it is worn – simplex, auriphrygiata, and pretiosa, being of white linen or silk, cloth of gold or white silk with gold/silver bands, and gold with jewels or similar decoration, respectively.

Offertory Veil (also sudary): in certain Uses (e.g. Sarum, also features in Ordo Romanus Primus), a veil of cloth used to cover the chalice as it is brought to the altar at Mass.

Vimpa: a veil or shawl used by altar servers when holding a bishop’s crozier or mitre


Also see the Mystery Worshipper Dictionary
 

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Could I suggest Binate, bination. To celebrate, the practice of celebrating the Eucharist more than once in the course of the day?

Or did you already have that, and I missed it?
 

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Could I suggest Binate, bination. To celebrate, the practice of celebrating the Eucharist more than once in the course of the day?

Or did you already have that, and I missed it?

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Originally posted by Liturgy Queen:
I'm familiar with the use of "PP" for parish priest, but an RC forum I belong to frequently uses "PV". Help?

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I would really appreciate Troparion and Kontakion.

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The Ordinary of the Mass*

• Kyrie Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy Lord have mercy[/i]. Can be 3, 6 or 9 fold (i.e say each line once, twice or thrice).
• Gloria [in exclesis] Glory be to God on high (See this entry from Yale
• Credo The [Nicene] Creed -- We/I believe in one God, the Father Almighty etc etc.
• Sanctus Holy Holy Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest (Modern version as that's what I remembered first!)
• Benedictus [qui venit] Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the Highest (usually sung immediately after the Sanctus.
• Agnus Dei Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us (x2) Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace.

This are the `movements' you'll find in a choral Latin Mass. There are often sung (congregationally or chorally) in church today, although in my experience the Credo is rarely sung in Modern language. Settings are generally referred to by their composer and if they wrote more than one the Key or the place for whom it was commissioned. So Merbecke is the `trad' Anglican setting for the BCP texts. Darke in F is another setting and one might also talk about Howells Coll Reg (written for King's College, Cambridge).

*I.e. those texts which stay the same week by week rather than being proper to the day

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• Kyrie - recent worship song Empty, broken, here I stand/Kyrie-e-e Eleison...
• There are THOUSANDS of current praise songs that use the "Holy, Holy" opener...
• Credo - I remember Petra's "Creed" (their album "beyond Belief" - anyone else remember that?), GK's take back in the 1989 March for Jesus...

Not sure where the one Gerry Latty usually leads (and we used at The Call back in 2002 at the Madejski Stadium) fits... runs (to a Celtic backing) "Alleluia/Alleluia, for the Lord God Almighty reigns... (repeat).../Alleluia.../(belted) HOLY, HOLY, ARE YOU LORD GOD ALMIGHTY/WORTHY IS THE LAMB, WORTHY IS THE LAMB/YOU ARE HOLY/HOLY.... (repeated until you want to stop)/a-a-men (and round again if desired".

Please don't let it be said that us charismatics decry the liturgical heritage... you wouldn't have Stuart Townend and Keith Getty writing current hymnody otherwise...
 

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I thought I'd bump this thread - as I had asked a few questions..
 

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GLE: Good Little Evangelical

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The Temple is divided into four parts: 1. The Sanctuary (Altar), beyond the Image-screen (Ikonostás). 2. The prolongation of the Sanctuary platform outside the Image-Screen, call the Soleá, which consists of: (a) the Amvón or Tribune, which is the portion immediately in front of the Holy Doors, in the centre of the Screen and (b) the railed Klíros, or places for the two choirs, on either side of the Amvón. 3. The Body of the Church. 4. The Porch (Pritvór).

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