Deacon

Then, there is the sola scriptura non-application to this problem. This would consist of one going to the Bible as all sufficient. In this case, there is no way to determine when a woman is exercising “authority over a man.” The second issue is defining when and where “in the churches” occurs. The words used in this text can be defined and redefined, but the end result is that the Word is not sufficient to answer these questions that are in addition to the scripture. There is a different…

By the age of 25 Rodrigo had been ordained as a Deacon. Soon after he was appointed cardinal deacon of San Nicolain, Carcere. It is important to know that appointments of authoritarian positions of family members also known as nepotism was highly common in the era. However, these acts of nepotism are certainly not positive…

he talked to him even though he did not know who this old man was. He found out that the old man was not a pleasant man along with many other familiar people. “Goodman Brown recognized a very pious and exemplary dame…jointly with the minister and deacon Gookin” (171). She was discovered to be a witch…

Women-owned ‘houses churches' that were often gathered by early Christians to worship. The early Christian communities met in the women's houses because there were no churches yet. The act of providing the venue for the congregation for worshiping is viewed as a role. The main purpose of women was not to be married but if married they were to lead lives of abstinence and sexual renunciation and in that they will be fulfilling the will of God (Paul, 2015). Women also seemed to be part of…

While Sebastian was a guard, two twin brothers, Marcus and Marcellian, went to jail for refusing to make public sacrifices to the Roman gods. The twins were both deacons of the Christian church. While they were in jail there parents came to visit them and try to persuade them to renounce their faith; however, Sebastian convinced both parents to convert to Christianity. St. Sebastian also converted several other prominent individuals, including the local prefect. This led to his discovery and he…

And not to mention the important findings that Elaine Pagel’s point out about Mary Magdalene. Although a women did not have an important role in Christianity that changed in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, only men may serve as priests or deacons and only males serve in senior leadership…

Our tradition of setting up nativity scenes began with Saint Francis of Assisi and the first creche. In the year 1223 AD, Saint Francis, a deacon, was in the Italian town of Greccio to celebrate Christmas with the Franciscans. However, the Franciscan chapel was deemed too small by Francis and so he would find an area in a rock to construct his own altar and hold the Midnight Mass. There, Saint Francis worked to construct a nativity scene, after receiving clearance from the Pope, such that his…

Perpetua, a wealthy Roman and young mother, was a catechumen who was thrown into prison because she refused to make a sacrifice to the Emperor's prosperity. During her time in prison, before her trial, Perpetua was baptised and had fully converted to Christianity against the objections of her father. After her baptism, her brother told her that she had the right to ask God for a vision to show her whether her imprisonment is a passion or a deliverance. The next day, according to her vision,…

Losing Faith: The Unforeseen Corruption Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is the classic horror tale of a young man, Brown, who takes a surreptitious journey into a forest where he is met by a strange man whose intentions are just as mysterious and the young man’s journey. Simple as this short story may seem to some, there is a rather blatant and complex allegory confronting the fundaments and moral standings of religion. While Brown is to stand as representative to those who struggle…

“RUFF!” My dogs barking kept ringing in my head after my best friend had recently passed. After Deacon died I could not wait ready to have a new dog! I could die I flattened on the days that I did not have any after school activities, I had absolutely no friends to hang out with and I really needed a new friend. I could not be the only one who wanted a new dog! My mom went over the top desperate to get a new dog. She’s looking on every dog website to find dogs up for adoption. Every time…