Deaconess Brochure – added 7/01/2022

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The Role of Women in the Church by The Rt. Rev. Daniel R. Morse

History of Deaconesses

• 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
• 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

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

Digital Libraries

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Project Canterbury (Anglican History)
• Project Gutenberg
• Saints’ Lives