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  • New Liturgical Movement: Tonsure of IBP Seminarians in Rome skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Tonsure of IBP Seminarians in Rome 2009

  • Here is my very simple recipe for the Tonsure Cake, use any sort of ring cake mould you may have.

    Tonsure of St Francis Cake aussieannie 2009

  • Catholic Cuisine: Tonsure of St Francis Cake skip to main skip to sidebar

    Tonsure of St Francis Cake aussieannie 2009

  • Pitru Paksh Religious Tonsure, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

    Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009

  • • Shriek says she cannot recall some of the descriptions of the underground that Duncan quotes as being in the Journal of Samuel Tonsure—another copy, or substituted his own experiences.

    Flushing Out Shriek: An Afterword–Notes, Fragments, Research, Alternate Scenes 2009

  • Tonsure, and wear small crowns; he even conferred minor orders on them, and deacon's orders on Francis, whom he constituted Superior General of all the Religious of the Order of Friars Minor, present and to come.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

  • The grades by which one ascends to the priesthood are (1) Tonsure, or the clipping of the hair by the bishop, by which the candidate for priesthood dedicates himself to the service of the altar; (2) The four minor orders, Porter, Reader, Exorcist, and Acolyte, by which he is permitted to perform certain duties that laymen should not perform; (3)

    Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) Anonymous

  • And, in fact, even as "The Tonsure" or shaving of the crown, became by fashion and mendicity a feature of priesthood and monastic piety, so has the slaughter of the Tonsils come to be regarded by fashion and mendacity as a feature of childhood and medical expediency and ineptitude.

    Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

  • Tonsure is to be given by a candidate's ordinary, though mitred abbots can bestow it on their own subjects.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Tonsure is necessary for all benefices, and higher orders must be received by aspirants to important charges; thus cardinals are obliged to receive within the year the order corresponding to their rank in the sacred college; archbishops and bishops must have been subdeacons for at least six months; parish priests must receive the priesthood within a year.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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