 | Church of England. House of Bishops - 1988 - 156 pages
...intention of ordination is to show beyond doubt that the person so ordained has authority to exercise the office and work of a priest in the Church of God. We are all agreed therefore that it is a grave step to ordain someone knowing that their ministry is... | |
 | Church of England. Archbishops' Group on the Episcopate - 1990 - 380 pages
...intention of ordaining him to the episcopate: 'Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands'. The laying on of hands occurs within a context which defines its purpose. That is to say, it would... | |
 | Gillian Rosemary Evans, G. R. Evans - 2002 - 356 pages
...bishop lays hands on the candidate with the declared intention of ordaining him to the priesthood; 'Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thcc by the imposition of our hands. ' The bishop does this as one acting within the universal Church... | |
 | John W. Carlton - 1993 - 140 pages
...it came, I know not where." The charge in the ordination service of the Book of Common Prayer says: "Be thou a faithful dispenser of the Word of God and of his holy sacraments." This coupling of the Word and of the sacraments is common in the churches of the Reformation. Both... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 pages
...office of a Deacon in the Church of GOD committed unto thee: In the name," &c. And the priesthood thus: "Receive the HOLY GHOST, for the office and work of...of GOD, and of His Holy Sacraments: In the name," &c. These, I say, were words spoken to us, and received by us, when we were brought nearer to God than... | |
 | Michael Chandler - 1995 - 260 pages
...in the prayer at the laying on of hands, the bishop says to those being ordained priest, the words 'Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven;...and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.' The Tractarians and their followers laid great emphasis on these statements which give such unequivocal... | |
 | J. F. Puglisi - 1996 - 260 pages
...prayers 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... | |
 | Ivan Clutterbuck - 1996 - 228 pages
...through the ages. The Book of Common Prayer continues this authority at the ordination of a priest - 'Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God... whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven.' So within our Church of England we have the means... | |
 | 1997 - 392 pages
...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...his holy Sacraments; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 1 Then the Bishop shall deliver to every one of them kneeling... | |
 | Gillian Rosemary Evans - 1998 - 180 pages
...priest in the Church of England clearly intends a passing on of the 'binding and loosing' authority. Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of...Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and those sins thou dost retain, they are retained. But it has remained a disputed question whether this... | |
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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. 
