The Parson's Handbook (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Percy Dearmer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331843766 ISBN 13 : 9781331843764

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Practical guidance for running a church’s everyday life with care and order.

This book offers clear, doable steps for organizing sacred spaces, duties, and helpers so worship runs smoothly. It emphasizes thoughtful preparation, responsible leadership, and methods that keep the focus on worship. The guidance centers on the sacristan’s important role and how to distribute tasks among trusted laypeople. It stresses that the parson should delegate to capable hands, with women often well suited to specific duties when clearly defined. The text explains how to plan for weekly services, manage vestments and linens, and keep the church clean and ready five minutes before service. It also covers practical routines for washing, airing, and maintaining altar textiles, brass, candles, and church furnishings.

• Assign a capable sacristan to oversee daily preparations and coordinate helpers.
• Put named roles in place for laundering, mending, polishing, and dusting.
• Establish a simple schedule for washing linens, purificators, towels, and altar cloths.
• Outline practical care for brass, candles, purificators, and other church objects.

Ideal for readers seeking a down-to-earth, duty‑focused approach to church services and sacred space management.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Parson's Handbook: Containing Practical Directions Both for Parsons and Others as to the Management of the Parish Church and Its Services According to the English Use, as Set Forth in the Book of Common Prayer

I Should like to take this opportunity of making clear two points, which have been missed by nearly all those who have criticised this book. As these criticisms have been unexpectedly fair and kindly, I feel that the failure to understand my meaning must have been due to an insufficient insistence on these points in the Introduction. Yet I tried to anticipate them on page 36, and indeed in other places also.

The first point is that this Handbook is not meant only for the extreme, still less is it meant to hound any parsons on to extravagances, or to provide a 'ritualistic' manifesto to swell the discordant noises which the newspapers are just now calling 'the crisis.' It would have been written, in the same way and at the same time, if the Philistine giant had never uplifted his head and shouted the war-cry of persecution. The reason why The Parson's Handbook contains as much ceremonial as it does is because I have tried to make it suitable for all parsons.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331843766
• ISBN 13: 9781331843764
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 243
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