 | 1921 - 362 pages
...City, nor the work which will be assigned you to do. But I know that today you are to be consecrated to the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God. The necessities of jurisdiction and the needs of men have found it desirable to make distinctions and... | |
 | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - 1908 - 868 pages
...bishop, when laying his hands upon him, say: "Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained?"... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1008 pages
...the words, " Receive the Holy Ghost," these words were added " for the Office and Work of a Pnest (or Bishop) in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands." (*) The ornaments rubric, regulating the vesture of fhc clergy was thrown into its present shape, referring... | |
 | Church of England. House of Bishops - Religion - 1988 - 156 pages
...hands on the head of the ordinand he prays: Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.... | |
 | Church of England. Archbishops' Group on the Episcopate - Religion - 1990 - 380 pages
...kneeling priest under the hands of the archbishop and other bishops present, the responsibilities of the office and work of a bishop in the Church of God. 175. This was not wholly an uncontroversial element in the sixteenth century liturgy. There was an... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Religion - 2010 - 422 pages
...episcopal hands on Cheney and uttered his own words of consecration, "Take thou authority to execute the office and work of a bishop in the church of God. . . ."*' The next morning, the reaction of the Episcopal press, and the newspapers sympathetic to the... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - Church and state - 1995 - 534 pages
...the name," &c. And the priesthood thus: "Receive the HOLY GHOST, for the office and work of a Priest, in the Church of GOD, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.... | |
 | J. F. Puglisi - Religion - 1996 - 260 pages
...pronounced during the imposition of hands: "Receive the Holy Ghost, for the Office, and iwrk of a Priest, in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands.'"-" There is no longer any doubt as to which order is meant. The bestowal of the Bible then follows, as... | |
 | Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 392 pages
...that receiveth the Order of Priesthood; the receivers humbly kneeling upon their knees, and the Bishop saying, RECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou... | |
 | John E. Booty, Stephen Sykes, Jonathan Knight - Religion - 1998 - 542 pages
...ordaining, finally, the imperative formula at the imposition of hands was also amended so that it now read: 'Receive the Holy Ghost, for the office and work of...imposition of our hands. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. And remember that thou stir up the grace of God which is given... | |
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Receive the Holy Ghost [for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God, now committed unto Thee by the imposition of our hands.] Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained. 
