New officers of the church will be ordained and installed at the 7:30 p.m. service.

My lords, the law of nature moves me to sorrow for my sister ; the burden that is fallen upon me makes me amazed, and yet, considering I am God's creature, ordained to obey His appointment, I will thereto yield, desiring from the bottom of my heart that I may have assistance of His grace to be the minister of His heavenly will in this office now committed to me.

For Catholics, it is typical in the year of seminary training that a man will be ordained to the diaconate, called by Catholics in recent times the " transitional diaconate ".

Normally, after six months or more as a transitional deacon, a man will be ordained to the priesthood.

Normally, all pastors are also ordained priests ; occasionally an auxiliary bishop will be assigned that role.

( This was similar to what happened with Saint Augustine of Hippo, who had been ordained against his will in the year 391 by a crowd cooperating with Bishop Valerius in the north African city of Hippo Regius.

This may be interpreted as meaning that, following the restoration of the Sanhedrin and the line of ordained scholars, the work will be completed and " out of Zion shall go the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem ".

30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

The origins of this sport is claimed to be derived from the Athenians when Themistocles, marching his army against the Persians, chanced upon two cocks fighting and charged his army saying “ Behold, these do not fight for their household gods, for the monuments of their ancestors, for glory, for liberty or the safety of their children, but only because one will not give way to the other .” Inspired, his army defeated the Persians and after ordained by law, cockfighting was annually practiced as " an institution partly religious and partly political at Athens, and continued there for the purpose of improving the seeds of valour in the minds of the Athenian youth ".

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“ In his will of 28 July 1504 he ordained masses for the souls of himself, his wives, parents, ancestors, children, siblings, and, ever the good lord, ‘ them that have died in the service of my lord my father or of me ’”.

Ferguson, a devout Presbyterian, resolved the apparent paradox by placing both developments in the context of a divinely ordained plan that mandated both progress and human free will.

" With reference to Dallin Oaks, I should like to say that while we nominate and sustain him today, he will not be ordained to the apostleship, nor will he be set apart as a member of the Council of the Twelve, nor will he begin his apostolic service, until after he completes his present judicial commitments, which may require several weeks.

" In Islam, according to eminent theologians such as Al-Ghazali, although events are ordained ( and written by God in al-Lawh al-Mahfūz, the Preserved Tablet ), humans possess free will to choose between wrong and right, and are thus responsible for their actions ; the conscience being a dynamic personal connection to God enhanced by knowledge and practise of the Five Pillars of Islam, deeds of piety, repentance, self-discipline and prayer ; and disintegrated and metaphorically covered in blackness through sinful acts.

They will be ordained to the episcopacy as Auxiliary Bishops of Quebec on February 25, 2012. ordinations, and details were not clear on their backgrounds.

After living the novitiate monastic life for some time, the boy, now considered to have " come of age ," will either take higher ordination as a fully ordained monk ( a bhikkhu ) or will ( more often ) return to lay life.

In Southeast Asian countries, where most pracitioners of Theravada Buddhism reside, women will often refuse to marry a man who has not ordained temporarily as a Samanera in this way at some point in his life.

Roman Catholic priests will often receive chalices from members of their families when first ordained.

At the present rate, the number of Cumberland Presbyterian clergy ordained without a seminary degree will surpass seminary-trained clergy within a few years.

The Cappadocian was ordained a priest against his will, and he reportedly avoided practicing his priesthood in fear that this would ruin his chances for a return to power.

At the 1850 annual conference, Roberts was admitted to full membership and ordained a deacon.

He was an ordained priest of the Church of England who preached regularly while living in Greenwich, and his works include the annual address for 1875 to the Philosophical Society at the Victoria Institute ( entitled Modern Philosophic Scepticism Examined ) and a sermon on I Corinthians 1: 22-24 given to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in the same year.

By the time of Lindsay's retirement in 1999, the church had a Sunday morning attendance of about 7, 000, eighteen ordained ministers, an annual budget of over $ 9 million, full-time staff of 142, and land and other assets valued at about $ 6 million.

They are governed by the basic unit of the United Methodist Church, the annual conference ; ordained ministers are appointed by their annual conference to serve Wesley Foundations as campus minister in a similar manner to their usual appointment to a church or charge.

During a videotaped memorial entitled Malachi Martin Weeps For His Church, Rama Coomaraswamy, a sedevacantist cleric, claimed that Martin had told him that he had been secretly ordained a bishop during the reign of Pius XII in order to travel behind the Iron Curtain ordaining priests and bishops for the underground churches of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Only in churches which have no ordained person except one priest, and in which high Mass is thus impossible, is it allowed to celebrate the Mass ( on Sundays and feasts ) with most of the adornment borrowed from high Mass, with singing and ( generally ) with incense.

) stated: " Only in churches which have no ordained person except one priest, and in which high Mass is thus impossible, is it allowed to celebrate the Mass ( on Sundays and feasts ) with most of the adornment borrowed from high Mass, with singing and ( generally ) with incense.

However, there are certain limitations: they may not administer the sacraments and related functions whose celebration is reserved to bishops, priests, deacons, or seminarians ( the male clergy ), namely, Holy Orders ( they may make provision for an ordained cleric to help train and to admit some of their members, if needed, as altar servers, Eucharistic ministers, or lectors-the minor ministries which are now open to the non-ordained ).

On the other hand, they may not preside over Adoration or Benediction, give a speech that is a homily, or read the Gospel during a Mass or serve as instituted acolytes, a ministry which is now reserved for those preparing for ordained service ).

In 1905 he ordained the first Ismā ' īlī Constitution for the social governance of the community in East Africa.

Similar objections are voiced by Harvey who comments that there is a " strong and ancient tradition " that the presence of an ordained man is necessary for the celebration of the Eucharist.

John Wesley held that, as a presbyter, though not a bishop, he had the power to transmit apostolic succession to others and himself ordained ministers for the United States.

Article 25 of the Thirty-Nine Articles, speaking of the sacraments, says: " Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures ; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Old Catholic and some Lutheran bishops ( for example, Sweden ) claim to be part of the continuous sequence of ordained bishops since the days of the apostles referred to as apostolic succession.

They are elected for life from among the ordained elders ( presbyters ) by vote of the delegates in regional ( called jurisdictional ) conferences, and are consecrated by the other bishops present at the conference through the laying on of hands.

While the precepts for monks and nuns differ somewhat depending on which tradition one has ordained in ( Tibetan, Thai Theravadan, etc.

For example, in the 16th century, Reginald Pole was a cardinal for 18 years before he was ordained a priest.

Some Christian authorities say that the New Testament regards marriage as instituted and ordained by God for the lifelong relationship between one man as husband and one woman as wife.

Essentially all Protestant denominations hold marriage to be ordained by God for the union between a man and a woman.

Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles believed was divinely ordained.

This was a particularly issue for rural congregations that periodically " called " a congregation member to conduct communion services in the absence of ordained clergy.

They have taken responsibility for the nurture and support of those individuals seeking to discern God ’ s call to service as ordained or licensed ministers.

consider how excellent this office preaching is, because it is apostolic ; how useful, because it is directly ordained for the salvation of souls ; how perilous, because few have in them, or perform, what the office requires, for it is not without great danger.

His Basilikon Doron, a manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old son Henry Frederick king " acknowledgeth himself ordained for his people, having received from the god a burden of government, whereof he must be countable.

In contrast, the Holy See has not questioned the validity of the consecrations that the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre performed in 1988 for the service of the relatively numerous followers of the Traditionalist Catholic Society of St. Pius X that he had founded, and of the bishops who, under pressure from the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, " have been ordained without the Pontifical mandate and who have not asked for, or have not yet obtained, the necessary legitimation ", and who consequently, Pope Benedict XVI has declared, " are to be considered illegitimate, but validly ordained ".