The Calendar Of The Prayer Book Illustrated With An Appx Of The Chief Christian Emblems From Early And Medieval Monuments

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ISBN 13 : 9780365394952
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book The Calendar of the Prayer-Book written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Calendar of the Prayer-Book: Illustrated; With an Appendix of the Chief Christian Emblems, From Early and Medieval Monuments IT is a matter of considerable interest at the present era, when the principles of the Church are so anxiously scrutinized by friends and fees, to recollect how and in what manner our present Calendar of Festivals and Saints' days was formed. Our Reformers truly and reverently proceeded upon the principle of honouring antiquity. They found a number of dead men's names, not over eminent in their lives either for sense or morals, crowd ing the calendar, and jostling out the festivals of the saints and martyrs.' The mediaeval Church, as the Romanists still do, distinguished between the days of Obligation and days of Devotion. Now, under the Reformation only some of the former class, the feasts of Obligation, were and are retained, being such as are dedicated to the memory of our Lord, or to those whose names are pre-eminent in the Gospels - the Blessed Virgin, the Apostles, the Baptist as the Precursor, and S. Stephen as the Proto-martyr: S. Mark and S. Luke as Evangelists: S. Paul and S. Barnabas on account of their extraordinary call: the Holy Innocents, as the earliest who suffered on Christ's account; the Feast of S. Michael and all Angels, to remind us of the benefits received by the ministry of angels; and All Saints, as the memorial of all those who have died in the faith. Surely no better method could have been devised for making time, as it passes, a perpetual memorial of the Head of the Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.