The Legal Position of the Clergy

CHAPTER V

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DIVINE SERVICE

1. Duty of clergy as to uniformity of service--Divergence by lawful authority--Liberty under Act of 1872. 2. Morning and Evening Prayer--Litany--Bishop may order two full services, and a third service, with sermon. 3. Notices during Divine service--Notices on church door--Banns. 4. Offertory--Other collections in a church or chapel--Duty of incumbent as to money entrusted to him. 5. Questions as to the legality of various church ornaments, vestments, and ceremonies--Legal decisions as to (_A_) Stone Holy Table--Crucifix--Cross--Candlesticks-- Flower-vases--Pictures--Sculptures--Credence table--Second Holy Table-- Chancel gates--Baldacchino--Voice of parishioners in vestry--(_B_) Attire of clergy at Holy Communion--Surplice--Hood--Albe--Vestment or chasuble--Tunicle--Stole--Chaplain's scarf--Biretta--Black gown--(_C_) Incense--Processions with lighted candles--Lighted candles at Holy Communion--Mixed chalice--Wafers--Agnus Dei and other hymns--Position of minister--Genuflexions--Elevation--Sign of the Cross--Ablutions--Reservation. 6. Baptism not to be refused--Time for the ceremony--Private baptism in urgent cases--Godparents--Reception in church after private baptism--Conditional baptism--Immersion or affusion--Notice to bishop in cases of adult baptism--Deacon may baptize--Lay baptism. 7. Times for and notice of Holy Communion--Communion not to be unlawfully refused--Who are to be repelled from it--Procedure in such cases--Jenkins _v_. Cook--Persons coming from other parishes--Persons attending dissenting places of worship--Persons baptized in another communion and not confirmed. 8. Sermons and homilies--Provisions of rubrics, Canons, and Acts of Parliament. 9. Catechising. 10. Churching of women pages 80-99