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Deacon :: Deacon (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and

Gloria :: Gloria (n.) A portion of the Mass (Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Glory be to God on high), and also of the communion service in some churches. In the Episcopal Church the version in English is used..

Partnership :: Partnership (n.) A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure..

Self-commune :: Self-commune (n.) Self-communion.

Noncommunion :: Noncommunion (n.) Neglect or failure of communion.

Chancel :: Chancel (v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed..

Commune :: Commune (n.) Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.

Epistoler :: Epistoler (n.) One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.

Altar :: Altar (n.) In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table..

Incommunicating :: Incommunicating (a.) Having no communion or intercourse with each other.

Recusant :: Recusant (n.) One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.

Particle :: Particle (n.) The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity.

Excommunicate :: Excommunicate (v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence..

Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To administer the communion to.

Schismatic :: Schismatic (n.) One who creates or takes part in schism; one who separates from an established church or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion.

Tersanctus :: Tersanctus (n.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word Holy -- in its Latin form, Sanctus -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion..

Self-communion :: Self-communion (n.) Communion with one's self; thoughts about one's self.

Eucharist :: Eucharist (n.) The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion..

Intercommunion :: Intercommunion (n.) Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities..

Excommunion :: Excommunion () A shutting out from communion; excommunication.

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