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 rubric in the Church of England is the well-known "_Ornaments Rubric_" (which see.) The Rubrics dealing with the position of the Priest at Holy Communion are examined in the articles on _Communion_ and _Eastward Position_. RURAL DEAN. As each Province is divided into Dioceses, and each Diocese into Archdeaconries, so each Archdeaconry is divided into Rural Deaneries, consisting of a certain number of Parishes. Over this Rural Deanery some beneficed clergyman, usually appointed by the Bishop, presides. In the Diocese of Exeter the clergy elect their own Rural Deans. His duties are to call together the clergy in his Deanery at certain times for the discussion of ecclesiastical matters. These meetings are called Ruri-decanal Chapters. It is also the duty of the Rural Dean to see that the churches in his Deanery are in fit order for public worship, and supplied with those things by law required. He is to report any immorality or crime among the clergy of his Deanery.