y behind the altar.

RESIDENTIARY CANONS. These Cathedral officers have to _reside_ in
the Cathedral Close for three months in the year, in their
respective turns, and take their part in the services of the
Cathedral. (See Canon.)

RESPONSE. In the Church Service an answer made by the people
speaking alternately with the minister. This has always been
a fundamental feature in every liturgy. The practice has been
handed down from the Jewish Church.

RESURRECTION. Both the resurrection of our Lord and our own future
resurrection are articles of the Christian faith. What the
resurrection body will be like we do not know, but we believe
that our mortal, corruptible body, which is laid in the grave,
will rise again immortal and incorruptible. The principal passages
of Scripture bearing on the resurrection are--1 Thess. iv. 14-16;
1 Cor. xv. 20-52; Rev. xx. 13; Phil. iii. 21; Rom. viii. 11.

RING. _see_ Matrimony, Solemnization of.

RITES. Religious observances prescribed by competent authority.
This "competent authority" is described to be the Church in that
portion of the preface of the Prayer Book which treats of
"Ceremonies;" and the claim of this right for the Church accords
with Art. xxxiv., which says: "Every particular or national Church
hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish ceremonies or rites
of the Church ordained only by man's authority, so that all things
be done to edifying."

RITUAL. The name given before the Reformation to that book or
_manual_ (sometimes it was so called) which comprised all those
occasional offices of the Church which a Presbyter could administer.
The word is now often used of the mode or manner in which Divine
Service is conducted.

RITUALIST. (1) A writer on the rites of Churches. (2) A name given
of late to the school which has revived disused ceremonial in the
Church of England. (See _Church Parties_.)

ROCHET, _see_ Vestments.

ROOD SCREEN. A screen separating the chancel from the nave, on
which the _rood_ (_i.e._, the figure of our Lord on the Cross)
was placed, and on either side the Blessed Virgin and St. John. The
place of the _rood_, where the screen was sufficiently substantial,
as in cathedrals, has been almost universally converted into an
organ loft.

RUBRICS. Rules for the ordering of Divine Service. They were
formerly written or printed in a _red_ character, and therefore
called _Rubrics_, from a Latin word signifying _red_.

The most controverted rub