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 ).

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

The Legion of Merit ( Commander degree ) is one of only two United States military decorations to be issued as a neck order ( the other being the Medal of Honor ) and the only United States decoration which may be issued in award degrees ( much like an order of chivalry or certain Orders of Merit ).

The only sacrament which may be celebrated only by a bishop is that of Ordination ( cheirotonia, " Laying-on of Hands "), or Holy Orders.

The Society's Bylaws state that " the Crown may elevate subjects to the Peerage by granting membership in one of the Orders conferring a Patent of Arms, after consultation with the members of the Order within the Kingdom, and in accordance with the laws and customs of the kingdom.

According to biographer McFeely, this discontent may have been responsible for Grant's ill-considered issuance of General Orders No. 11 on December 17, 1862.

Often in times of emergency, a government may issue legislation directly through Orders in Council, forgoing the usual parliamentary procedure though most Orders of this sort are eventually formalized according to the traditional lawmaking process, if they are not revoked at the end of the emergency.

British Orders in Council may occasionally be used to effectively reverse court decisions applicable to British Overseas Territories without involving Parliament.

That said, the use of Orders in Council has been extended recently, as the Scotland Act 1998 provides that draft Orders in Council may be laid before the Scottish Parliament in certain circumstances in the same way as they would have been laid before the Westminster Parliament.

The Privy Council meets once a month, wherever the Sovereign may be residing at the time, to give formal approval to Orders in Council.

Only such Orders of Service as have been authorized by this Church shall be used in Public Worship ; provided, however, that the Diocesan Bishop or Supreme Council of Bishops may authorize Orders of Service for special occasions.

The Government of Russia can also issue decrees formally called Decisions ( Постановления ) or Orders ( Распоряжения ) and may not contradict the constitution / laws or presidential decrees.

Persons in Holy Orders may wear clerical dress instead of subfusc.

According to Parliament's Standing Orders, the Minister of Finance may veto any parliamentary bill which would have a significant impact on the government's budget plans.

* 4-8 chosen " factions ," to which a character may belong based on his / her beliefs ; a character does not usually need to belong to any of these groups ( 5 Vampire Covenants ; 5 Werewolf Tribes ; 5 Mage Orders ; 5 Promethean Refinements ; 4 Changeling Courts ; 8 Sin-Eater Archetypes ; 5 Mummy Guilds ).

Orders may range from being supervised by the provincial director ; remain within the territorial jurisdiction of one or more courts ; attending school ; or having to reside at a place specified by the provincial director.

The term Lord of Parliament may also be used to refer to any member of the House of Lords: in particular, the Standing Orders of the House of Lords state " Bishops to whom a writ of summons has been issued are not Peers but are Lords of Parliament.

The Fundamental Orders may have been drafted by Roger Ludlow of Windsor, the only trained lawyer living in Connecticut in the 1630s, and were transcribed into the official record by the secretary, Thomas Welles.

The court may make Maintenance and lump sum orders, Orders for Sale, Pension Sharing Orders or Property Adjustment Orders.

The law also provided penalties for those who tried to re-establish the Orders.

Today the term " priest " is used in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and some branches of Lutheranism to refer to those who have been ordained to a ministerial position through receiving the sacrament of Holy Orders, although " presbyter " is also used.

The Council by itself also has a delegated authority to issue Orders of Council, which are mostly used to regulate certain public institutions.

In Australia they are also called Community Treatment Orders and last for a maximum of twelve months but can be renewed after review by a tribunal.

Knights, Dames, and holders of other non-hereditary Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom are also not peers.

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He also gained political experience through his participation in the local Assembly of the Three Orders.

After the Second Vatican Council and the introduction of the New Rite Mass, use of plainsong in the Catholic Church declined and was mostly confined to the Monastic Orders and to ecclesiastical Societies celebrating the traditional Latin Mass ( also called Tridentine Mass ).

The affirmation needs sign and ministerial countersign but also the older Royal Order has to be signed and countersigned, ordering to publish the law in a special publication, the Staatsblad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ( Bulletin of Acts, Orders and Decrees of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, also called Bulletin of Acts and Decrees ).

:: See also Priesthood, Presbyterianism, Methodism, Holy Orders

Sykes also made his first screen appearance at this time in the army film comedy Orders Are Orders ( 1954 ), which also featured Sid James, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Bill Fraser and Donald Pleasence.

The New Zealand government report into the Church of Scientology ( the Dumbleton-Powles Report of 1969 ) quoted from a number of disconnection letters and also reproduced some " Ethics Orders " which identified Suppressive Persons who were " not to be communicated with in any way.

In the Catholic Church, members of religious institutes, unless they are also deacons or priests in Holy Orders, are not members of the hierarchy, but belong to the laity.

He was also appointed as a Knight of the Orders of St Andrew ( 1810 ), of St. Alexander Nevsky ( 1807 ), of the St Vladimir, 1st class ( 1809 ), of the St Anna, 1st class ( 1800 ), the St George 2nd class ( 1805 ) and as a Commander of Justice of the Order of St John of Malta ( 1800 ).

Bagration's foreign awards also included the Prussian Orders of the Red Eagle ( 1807 ) and the Black Eagle ( 1807 ), the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa, 2nd class ( 1799 ) and the Sardinian Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, 1st Class ( 1799 ).

Het Loo also now houses the Museum van de Kanselarij der Nederlandse Orden ( Museum of the Chancery of the Netherlands Orders of Knighthood ), and books and other material concerning decorations and medals form a separate section in the library.

He is also the author of Last Orders at the Liars ' Bar, the official biography of The Beautiful South, and Stay Sonic, a book giving background history for the Sega character Sonic the Hedgehog.

Traditionally, Orders in Council are used as a way for the Prime Minister to make political appointments, but they can also be used to issue simple laws as a sort of decree.

He was also awarded the two Orders of Lenin and the title of Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR.

Orders also specified that Section Two of the General Headquarters of the Romanian Army and the Special Intelligence Service ( SIS ) of Romania were to spread rumors of Jewish treachery in the press, including ones that Jews were guiding Soviet military aircraft by placing lights in their houses ' chimneys.

" The clergy whom they ordain therefore conserve valid Holy Orders, and the other sacraments that require a priest as minister ( in particular the Eucharist ) are also considered valid.

Orders were issued for each ship to attach strong cables to the bow and stern of their neighbours, which would effectively turn the line into a long battery forming a theoretically impregnable barrier.

Every cleric in Holy Orders and every member of a religious order must publicly join in or privately read aloud ( i. e. using the lips as well as the eyes — it takes about two hours in this way ) the whole of the Breviary services allotted for each day.

In a letter, published after the election, Grant sought to unequivocally distance himself from General Orders No. 11: " Grant's self-serving explanation ", notes Jonathan Sarna, " did not actually bear close scrutiny ," but Jews nonetheless generously accepted his attempt at self-extrication: " I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

To prevent this particular tactic to be used again, changes were eventually made to the Standing Orders to limit the time allocated each day to the introduction of bills to 30 minutes.

To celebrate, GOLO launched another easy way to buy GOLOs each month — Standing Orders.

In Roman architectural practice, capitals are briefly treated in their proper context among the detailing proper to each of the " Orders ", in the only complete architectural textbook to have survived from classical times, the Ten Books on Architecture, by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, better known just as Vitruvius, dedicated to the emperor Augustus.

He gives some tales about the invention of each of the Orders, but he does not give a hard and fast set of canonical rules for the execution of capitals.

Under the Standing Orders, the Speaker, after consulting with each of the party leaders, nominates a candidate for Deputy Speaker to the House, which then votes on that nomination.

In 1639, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were adopted, which changed the spelling to " General Court ;" formalized its executive, judicial, and legislative authority ; and changed its membership to consist of the governor and six magistrates ( each elected for one year terms ) and three or four deputies per town ( elected for six month terms ).

Pseudo-Dionysius ( The Celestial Hierarchy ) and Thomas Aquinas ( Summa Theologica ) drew on passages from the New Testament, specifically Ephesians 1: 21 and Colossians 1: 16, in an attempt to develop a schema of three Hierarchies, Spheres or Triads of angels, with each Hierarchy containing three Orders or Choirs.

Members are elected annually via a postal ballot, and current Standing Orders mean that at least ten seats must change hands each year.

As required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act and other laws and Executive Orders, this agenda includes indices showing segments of the public and levels of government that are expected to be affected by each of these coming regulations.

* in Orders, Orders in Council and Orders of Council, each clause is called an article.

* in Directions, and in the Schedules of Orders, Regulations and Rules, each clause is called a paragraph.

In the first two sessions he was Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Parliamentary Reform, Ethical Conduct, Standing Orders and Private Bills, which met once in each session to review private bills.

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, adopted in 1639, replaced the committees with deputies ; each town would elect three or four deputies for six-month terms.

Orders are executed in a specific order, with each player alternating executing an order of a particular type.

" completion of the Six Orders the Talmud ") is the celebration of the completion of the Daf Yomi ( daily Talmud folio ) program, a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries, in which each of the 2, 711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud are covered in sequence.

To discharge the detail of this administration, Charles V instituted a special ministry, the Council of Orders, composed of a president named by the king, whom he represented, and six knights, two delegates from each order.

They consider other orders using the name of Saint John to be merely imitative, and the Alliance and the SMOM have jointly formed a False Orders Committee ( now renamed and reorganized as the Committee on Orders of St. John ), with representatives of each of the five orders, for the purpose of exposing and taking action against such imitations.

There are a number of Orders who claim they are OSMTH and the order exists in each country under different jurisdictions.