How To Use Deaconess In A Sentence

  • Mission, is in all respects a synonym for "deaconess," as the name is understood in the large deaconess establishment at Mildmay. Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America
  • The assembly also set aside money to help deaconesses develop their ideas into new ministries.
  • Deaconesses ministered primarily to women, and their role was catechetical and philanthropic.
  • A deaconess is about to become the first Church of England clergywoman to marry a divorced man.
  • Is it not hurtful that the apostle Junia was renamed Junias and called a man to suit the male translators and that Phoebe was not called a minister as the Greek implies but a "deaconess" instead? Women's Space
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  • Despite the lack of clarity on the term and its origin, it is clear that, by the 4th century, there were women in the Church exercising definite functions and styled with the term "deaconess". National Catholic Reporter
  • deaconess" of the church which is at Cenchrea -- The word is "Cenchreae," the eastern part of Corinth (Ac 18: 18). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • If females felt called to ministry within the church, many Anglicans argued, they should eschew the quiet life and devote their energies to the less fortunate in the manner of the deaconesses.
  • Both authors raise the issue of restoring the long disused order of deaconesses.
  • The titles of these ministries are varied: deacons and deaconesses, diaconal ministers, associates in ministry; some even lack titles or rostered status.
  • Sometimes she went back to Holland to see her family, who regarded her visits with repugnance because she talked of her outlandish adventures, wore strange comitadji-cum-deaconess clothes, smoked big black cigars, and was still a believing Christian of the ecstatic sort. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
  • At any rate the synods of the sixth and seventh centuries, while fully recognizing the position of these former wives and according them even the formal designation of bishopess, priestess, deaconess, and subdeaconess (episcopissa, presbytera, diaconissa, subdiaconissa), laid down some very strict rules to guide their relations with their former husbands. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Harnack further holds that the gentle treatment of sinners is an interpolation intended against Novatianism, and that the deaconesses as well as the subdeacon are a later addition, He dates the original form in the first half of the third century, and the additions in the last quarter of it; but the reasons given are very weak. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • The titles of these ministries are varied: deacons and deaconesses, diaconal ministers, associates in ministry; some even lack titles.
  • Deacons and deaconesses were appointed as needed to run the kitchen, the housekeeping, the garden, the farm, etc.
  • The very interesting article from which the quotation has just been made seems to think the term "deaconess" a misnomer for the Kaiserswerth deaconess, as she belongs to a community, whereas the deaconess of the early Church was attached to a congregation and belonged to a single church as an officer; but it may well be questioned whether the class of duties assigned to the deaconess of the early Church and of modern times alike, that is, the nursing of the sick, the care of the infirm in body and mind, the succoring of the unfortunate, and the education of children, are not the main characteristics of the office of a deaconess, while the fact of her connection with a number of like-minded women in community life is merely an external feature of the office as it has developed in the nineteenth century. Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America
  • The ‘Conclusions’ of the symposium express a clear recognition that the deaconess was in fact ordained in a rite similar in structure to that of the male deacon.
  • What duties did early English Baptist churches assign to deaconesses?
  • Deaconesses had some limited liturgical functions, but their most important work seems to have been to instruct women in the faith. The Times Literary Supplement
  • At any rate the synods of the sixth and seventh centuries, while fully recognizing the position of these former wives and according them even the formal designation of bishopess, priestess, deaconess, and subdeaconess (episcopissa, presbytera, diaconissa, subdiaconissa), laid down some very strict rules to guide their relations with their former husbands. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Huszagh is among church members advocating the reinstitution of women deaconesses in Orthodoxy.
  • Not until the more affluent 1950s, with the introduction of deaconesses, would Baptist women gain formal recognition for home mission purposes and a Baptist Maori mission begin.
  • To further support the position of the woman deacon being ordained, it is especially important to consider that deaconesses were ordained during the course of the Eucharistic liturgy.
  • A deaconess is a member of a deaconess institution, actively engaged in charitable deeds, but, like the deaconess on the Continent, she can sever her connection with it when adequate cause presents itself, and return to her family and friends. Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America
  • After a short introduction on the role of deacons and deaconesses, Swan relates the brief stories of sixteen such female ministers.
  • In the old days there were some incredibly high quality images, " said radiologist Ron Eisenberg of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and the author of 20 books on radiology.
  • They are the primary carers of children, collectors of food like coconuts and fruit, and also act as deaconesses in the church.
  • POOLE -- Mildred Joyce Gibson Bridwell, 77, Poole, died at 2: 37 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, 2010, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. Courierpress.com Stories
  • Behr-Sigel asks whether the ancient order of the deaconess could be restored since it has never been formally abolished in Orthodoxy.
  • I was a deaconess in my church for goodness sakes! Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
  • She has also proposed a creative revival of the order of deaconesses that once existed in the Eastern Church.
  • She was among the first group of Church of England deaconesses to be ordained as deacons. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
  • At this time she decided to become a deaconess in the Methodist Church and worked towards that end.
  • In the early 1970s, while in seminary, I wrote a seminar paper for Professor Glenn Hinson on the roles of deaconesses in the early church.
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, where Dr. Halamka is a practicing emergency room physician, was one of thefirst hospitals in the nation to adopt electronic health records, a decade ago.
  • (virgo presbytera, by which he very probably means not a virgin advanced in years, but a deaconess) was held in high esteem. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • In the case of Phoebe, they usually translate it "deaconess". Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • He arranged for several deaconesses to work abroad, not only in North America but also in Russia, Estonia, and Bessarabia.
  • Because my grandmother was active in the church and had been a deaconess, she knew a lot of people.
  • He summarized the state of deaconess issue as follows: The possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate is still an unsettled question in the Catholic Church. Milwaukee News Item #1: Married Catholic Priests « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
  • An elderly deaconess who refused to denounce her faith during a riot against Christians.
  • Churches have a difficult time finding elders, deacons or deaconesses to serve.
  • Because my grandmother was active in the church and had been a deaconess, she knew a lot of people.
  • He then said farewell to loyal deaconesses and priests and left through a side door. Christianity Today
  • Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center completed the study.
  • So she calmly sat down with deaconess Pat Phillips to plan the funeral.
  • The organizing of an association of Lutheran deaconesses with their charitable work for the weakest members of society required an increasing amount of attention.
  • Kaiserwerth was a new type of hospital operated by Lutheran deaconesses and was reported to be like no other hospital in all of Europe or the United States.
  • The strongest developments regarding deaconess sisterhoods among Baptists in America occurred among the German Baptists.

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