History
This is the year the Book of Common Prayer was written.
What is 1979?
This term describes one way of receiving the Eucharist -- by dipping the communion wafer into the wine.
What is intinction?
This is the official book of worship of The Episcopal Church.
What is the Book of Common Prayer?
A long band of fabric -- usually matching the liturgical color of the season -- worn by a bishop, priest or deacon.
What is a stole?
Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Marriage, Ordination, Reconciliation and Unction
What are the 7 sacraments?
This is the year the Hymnal was written.
What is 1982?
This word comes from a Greek word meaning "one who serves."
What is Acolyte?
Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline
What is the daily office?
From the Latin word for ship, this is the large central space between the narthex and the chancel.
What is the nave?
The group of people responsible for organizing and managing an individual parish.
What is the Vestry?
The war that necessitated the creation of the Episcopal Church from the Church of England.
What is the American Revolution?
This word means 'bishop' or 'overseer'
What is Episcopal?
This state's the Episcopal Church's basic beliefs about God and is recited at all Sunday Eucharist services.
What is the Nicene Creed?
The round plate used to hold the bread of the Eucharist.
What is the paten?
Scripture, Tradition, Reason
What is the 3-legged stool?
He was the first bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Who is Samuel Seabury?
A lidded container used to hold the unconsecrated wafers as they are brought to the altar.
What is a ciborium?
Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost
What are the liturgical seasons?
From the Latin word for red, the italicized directions in the Book of Common Prayer for the way a worship service should be conducted.
What are rubrics?
A Latin phrase meaning "the middle way" referring to the Anglican quest to find a middle ground between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
What is via media?
In this year, the Philadelphia Eleven were the first women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church during an "irregular" ceremony led by retired bishops before church law allowed it.
When is 1974?
This is the official business name of the Episcopal Church
What is the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America)?
From a Greek word meaning "work of the people," this is the standardized or customary order of public worship.
What is liturgy?
This is a special large candle lit from a new fire at the beginning of the Easter Vigil, representing Christ's gift of light to the world.
What is the Paschal Candle?
We believe in divine inspiration. We do not believe in divine dictation.
What is the Episcopal view of scripture?