Considerations for Becoming a Deaconess
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The Role of Women in the Church by The Rt. Rev. Daniel R. Morse
History of Deaconesses
- Alice Maxwell: Deaconess by Mrs. Horatio MacRae
- Apostolic Constitutions on Deacons and Deaconesses
- Deaconesses in Europe by Jane Bancroft
- Deaconesses in the Early Years of the Church by Edmund Dehault de Pressensé
- Excursus on the Deaconess of the Early Church by Philip Schaff
- History of the Deaconess Movement in the Christian Church by Christian Golder
- The Deaconess by National Conference, Deaconesses of the Church
- The Deaconess and Her Ministry in the Episcopal Church (1949) by the Executive Committee of the National Conference of Deaconesses
- Deaconess Gilmore by Deaconess Elizabeth Robinson
- Deaconesses in the Church of England (1880)
- Does the Church Want Deaconesses?
- Isabella Gilmore, Deaconess
- Woman’s Work in the Church by John Malcolm Ludlow
- What is a Deaconess? by Royden Keith Yerkes
Recent Anglican Publications on the Ministry of Women
- Women and Men in Ministry by Barbara Gauthier and Gerald McDermott in The North American Anglican
- Godly Men and Women in the Church and in the World – a Reformed Episcopal Church Publication
Devotional Aids
- The REC Book of Common Prayer (PDF)
- The Collects for the Liturgical Year
- Online Daily Prayer– Cradle of Prayer
- Lectionary Central
- “Martin Luther on Prayer” (PDF)
- Praying for the Persecuted Church
The Order of Deaconesses 