acolyte

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• With no Sunday school program for the five or so children present, we were invited to be part of the Sunday morning service. I served as an acolyte, a lay reader, and even led liturgical dance.
• True Christianity is about judgment, atonement and forgiveness and NOT unreciprocated outreach contrary to what the beardie-weirdie and his acolytes might say. How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
• I can foresee a long cult career for Andrew W.K., devoted acolytes swearing he is the best thing ever, and everybody else ignoring him because they don't know how to do anything else.
• Tavara was the one who had mended Gordon, and she'd also resewed a couple of the acolyte's shifts so that Glory would have something to change into besides her jeans. The Warslayer
• Not a single fact in that plagiarised thesis was untrue, a former Campbell acolyte averred in coy defense of his one-time master.
• And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte. Wilde in the Stacks
• The services are very simple with the priest celebrating and two acolytes serving.
• The deacon ascends to the altar with the burse in hand, and extends the corporal; at the same time, an acolyte places the Missal on the Gospel side, with a purification vessel and purificator for the purification of the priest's fingers after Communion. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
• the acolyte standing next to the priest called out, and she felt hands pulling her gently out of the way of the old man behind her.
• To his acolytes, he is known simply as 'the Boss'.