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If a person is a lay canon and is then later ordained, does he or she retain the title and automatically become “the Revd Canon”?
I suppose a decision in such a case would rest with the bishop, and might depend on there being a vacancy among the priest canons.
This situation occurred at Leicester Cathedral many years ago. One of the lay canons took holy orders and resigned his stall shortly before he was made deacon. He remained in the diocese as a curate and an incumbent until he retired some years later, but was never appointed to one of the priest canons’ stalls. It may be, of course, that he was at some time offered one, but declined. He was not designated “Canon”.
Terence Cocks
(Lay Canon of Leicester Cathedral)
Your questions
In Lyndwood’s Provinciale, edited by J. V. Bullard and H. Chalmer Bell, I read: “The words of the Canon shall be plainly spoken and whole, specially in the Sacraments of the Body and Blood of Christ: also if the priest, after he have received the Lord’s Body and Blood, must celebrate again the same day, let him not receive the wine that is poured into the chalice or upon his fingers” (Faith Press, 1929, page 94; Bk III, Tit. 23, Ch. I). Can anyone explain “upon his fingers” and what was going on with the wine if neither the priest nor people could receive it during a second celebration? A. B.
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